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lover from medical school

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Confessed three murders in custody; DATE(S): 1970–72 VENUE: Queens, N.Y. VIC-disposition unknown

TIMS: Four

MO: Home invader, stabbed young women in bed

Barbeault, Marcel
(1941– ) AKA: Killer from the DISPOSITION: 25 years to life, 1975; parole denied Shadows

1997

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

specific

Ballard, Billy Ray, Jr.
(?– )

DATE(S): 1969–76 VENUE: Nogent, France VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

TIMS: Eight

DATE(S): 1985 VENUE: Wash./Wyo. VICTIMS:

MO: Random shooter of victims age 20–49, mostly Two confessed

female

MO: Rape-torture slayer of victims chosen at random; DISPOSITION: Life term, 1982; reduced to 20 years arrested for two rapes in Wyoming, linked by finger-on appeal

prints to the murders of two Seattle victims dumped in Grant County, Wash.

Barber, Danny Lee
(1956–99)

DISPOSITION: Life prison term in Wyoming

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./PC

DATE(S): 1978–79 VENUE: Dallas, Tex. VIC-

Baltis, Yiannis
(1970– )

TIMS: Four suspected

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

MO: Thrill-killer of victims including both genders; specific

tried to rape corpses of two female victims; shot a DATE(S): 1995–2004 VENUE: Salonika, Greece

man “just to have some fun with him”

VICTIMS: Four

DISPOSITION: Executed on Feb. 11, 1999

MO: Killed three Albanian immigrants he employed as shepherds, 1995–96; kidnapped a girlfriend and
Barbosa, Daniel Camargo
(1941– )

shot her two brothers, killing one, 2004

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DISPOSITION: Confessed four murders; disposition DATE(S): 1974–88 VENUE: Colombia/Ecuador

unknown

VICTIMS: 72

MO: Pedophile “ripper” of young girls

Bankston, Clinton, Jr.
(1971– )

DISPOSITION: 16-year term in Ecuador, 1989 (the SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

legal maximum)

DATE(S): 1987 VENUE: Athens, Ga. VICTIMS:

Five

Barboza, Joseph
(1932–76) AKA: The Animal MO: Killed/mutilated five victims in two home invaSEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony

sions

DATE(S): 1950s–1971 VENUE: New England/Calif.

DISPOSITION: Five life terms, May 1988

VICTIMS: 27 confessed

MO: Mafia contract killer who turned state’s evidence
Banovic, Predrag
(1970– )

in 1968

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-

DISPOSITION: Confessed 26 murders and received a extremist

one-year prison term in exchange for testimony in
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various trials; helped frame four innocent men for killing his daughter (1994); received three consecu-one of his own murders in Boston; released in

tive life terms on April 15, 2000

March 1969; pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in California, 1971, and received a five-year sen-Barton, “Kid” (?–?)

tence; murdered in San Francisco soon after his SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

release, on Feb. 11, 1976

DATE(S): 1860s VENUE: N. Mex. VICTIMS: “Sev-

eral”

Barfield, Margie Velma
(1932–84)

MO: Old West outlaw leader

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DISPOSITION: Hanged “in late 1860s”

DATE(S): 1969–78 VENUE: N.C. VICTIMS: Five

MO: “Black widow” slayer of husbands/others, mostly
Bartsch, Juergen
(1950–76)

by poison

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DISPOSITION: Executed Nov. 2, 1984

DATE(S): 1967 VENUE: Bonn, Germany VIC-

TIMS: Four

Barker, Glenn
(1959– )

MO: Pedophile who tortured young boys to death SEX: M RACE: ? TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1967; died Apr. 28, DATE(S): 1982/96 VENUE: Va. VICTIMS: Three

1976, during voluntary surgical castration

suspected

MO: Killed 12-year-old girl; named by police as prime
Bashor, Donald
(1929–57)

suspect in murders of his girlfriend and her daughter SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

(child raped)

DATE(S): 1955–56 VENUE: Los Angeles, Calif.

DISPOSITION: 18 years on one count, 1982 (paroled VICTIMS: Two

1991); no charges filed in later crimes despite police MO: Home invader; bludgeoned women

announcement

DISPOSITION: Executed Oct. 11, 1957

Barone, Cesar Francesco
(1960– ) BORN: Rode,
Bateson, Paul
(1939– )

Adolph James

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1977–78 VENUE: New York City VIC-

DATE(S): 1979–80/91–92 VENUE: Fla./Wash./Ore.

TIMS: Seven confessed

VICTIMS: Seven+ suspected

MO: Dismembered gay men “for fun”

MO: Rape-slayer of women

DISPOSITION: 20 years to life on one count, 1979

DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts in Ore. +

45 years on third count, 1995

Batten, William
(?– )

Barrera, Marco
(1963– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC/Sad.

DATE(S): 1969–75 VENUE: Aberdeen, Wash. VIC-

DATE(S): 1997–98 VENUE: San Bernardino, Calif.

TIMS: Three

VICTIMS: Two

MO: Confined to asylum as a child molester, 1967; MO: Fathered 14 children by two sisters, fatally tortur-linked to disappearance of a girlfriend, 1969; ing two of them

stabbed two teenage hitchhikers in 1975

DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, July 2001; DISPOSITION: Two consecutive life terms for murder, one “wife” received 12-year sentence for child with additional prison time for use of a deadly abuse, Aug. 2001; second “wife” turned state’s evi-weapon in his crimes

dence

Baughman, John Earl
(1942– )

Barron, Jack
(1961– )

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE-felony

domestic

DATE(S): 1992–95 VENUE: Sacramento, Calif.

DATE(S): 1970–95 VENUE: Ill./Antigua VICTIMS:

VICTIMS: Three or four

Three

MO: Profit-motivated slayer of his wife, son and MO: Ex-cop; killed wives and one wife’s lover

mother for life insurance payments; only suspect in DISPOSITION: Condemned in Antigua, 1996

death of his four-year-old daughter

DISPOSITION: Convicted of killing his wife (1992),
Baumeister, Herbert Richard
(1947–95)

son (1993), and mother (1995), but acquitted of SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

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DATE(S): 1980–95 VENUE: Ind./Ohio VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1932–36 VENUE: Liege, Belgium VIC-

16 suspected

TIMS: 12+ estimated

MO: Lust killer of gay men; some buried near his MO: Poisoned husband, male lover, and female cus-home, others dumped in rural areas spanning two tomers (who were also robbed)

states

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1936; died in prison dur-DISPOSITION: Suicide while a fugitive, July 2, 1995

ing World War II

Baxter, Patrick
(1969– )

Beets, Betty Lou
(1937–2002)

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1987–90 VENUE: White Plains, N.Y.

DATE(S): 1981/83 VENUE: Dallas County, Tex.

VICTIMS: Three

VICTIMS: Two

MO: Rape slayer of females aged 14–25

MO: “Black widow” slayer of husbands for life insur-DISPOSITION: Convicted on three counts, 2002;

ance

received three consecutive terms of 75 years to life DISPOSITION: Condemned on one count, 1985; executed Feb. 24, 2000

Beach, Gary
(1942– )

SEX: M RACE: Unk. TYPE: S MOTIVE: PC-non-

Beggs, William
(1963– )

specific

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1999 VENUE: Kansas City, Mo. VIC-

DATE(S): 1987–99 VENUE: England/Scotland VIC-

TIMS: Five

TIMS: Three suspected

MO: Shot victims, including a step-nephew, and left MO: Mutilation-slayer of gay men, using razors their decomposing bodies at his home

DISPOSITION: Three convictions for assaults with DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty on five murder counts; razors; cleared of one murder count on a legal tech-received life sentence, March 2002

nicality; convicted on a second count, 1987; life sentence on a third count, October 2001

Beagle, Billy Ray
(1947–98)

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC-non-

Belcastro, James
(?–?) AKA: King of the Bombers specific

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1993 VENUE: Baker Country, Fla. VIC-

DATE(S): 1918–29 VENUE: Chicago, Ill. VIC-

TIMS: Two

TIMS: 100+ suspected

MO: Shot sportsmen in random attacks

DISPOSITION: Suicide during shoot-out with police, MO: “Black Hand” extortionist; later chief bomber for Mar. 25, 1998

ALPHONSE CAPONE gang

DISPOSITION: Acquitted on one count, 1927; died of
Beardslee, Donald Jay
(1943–2005)

natural causes

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex./CE

DATES: 1969/1981 VENUE: Mo./Calif. VICTIMS:

Bell, Larry Eugene
(d. 1996)

Three

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex.

MO: Fatally stabbed a 52-year-old woman after sex; DATE(S): 1985 VENUE: Lexington County, S.C.

killed two women aged 19 and 23 in a bungled drug VICTIMS: Three

transaction

MO: Lust killer of girls age nine to 17

DISPOSITION: Served seven years of an 18-year sen-DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts, 1986; exetence in Missouri for first murder; condemned on cuted Oct. 4. 1996

two counts in 1984; executed Jan. 19, 2005

Bell, Mary Flora
(1957– )

Beck, Dieter
(?– )

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sad.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

DATE(S): 1968 VENUE: Newcastle, England VIC-

DATE(S): 1961–68 VENUE: Rehme, Germany VIC-

TIMS: Two

TIMS: Three

MO: Killed/mutilated boys age three and four

MO: Rape-slayer of women

DISPOSITION: Imprisoned as juvenile on two

DISPOSITION: Life sentence, 1969

manslaughter counts

Becker, Marie Alexandrine
(1877–194?)

Bell, Michael Bernard
(1970– )

SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC/CE

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: PC

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DATE(S): 1989–93 VENUE: Duval County, Fla.

MO: Nurse charges with killing or attempting to kill VICTIMS: Five suspected

18 patients at three area hospitals

MO: Killed in personal disputes; victims included DISPOSITION: Convicted of four murders and three mother’s boyfriend, his own lover, and their child attempted murders; life sentence imposed, March DISPOSITION: Condemned on two counts + 25 years 24, 2003

on third count, 1995

Bermudez, Manuel Octavio
(?– )

Bellen, Michel
(1946– )

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

DATE(S): 2002–03 VENUE: Valle del Cauca

DATE(S): 1964/82 VENUE: Belgium VICTIMS:

Province, Colombia VICTIMS: More than 30

Three

MO: Ice cream vendor linked by police to slayings of MO: Rape-strangler of nurses attacked in their homes numerous young boys; 12-year-old victim found

DISPOSITION: Condemned, 1965 (commuted to life); dead at his home, with evidence of other slayings paroled 1982; condemned 1983 (commuted to life, DISPOSITION: Unknown

1984)

Bernard, Norman
(1951– )

Beniquez, Jorge Adam
(1969– )

SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

SEX: M RACE: H TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE

DATE(S): 1983 VENUE: N.C./Calif. VICTIMS:

DATE(S): 1990–91 VENUE: Puerto Rico/N.Y. VIC-

Three

TIMS: Nine suspected

MO: “Mercy” shootings of homeless men

MO: Career criminal; “most wanted man in Puerto DISPOSITION: Life without parole in Calif., 1984

Rico”

Bernson, Stanley
(?– )

DISPOSITION: Convicted on one count of second-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: Sex.

degree murder in N.Y., 1992

DATE(S?) 1970s VENUE: U.S. Pacific Northwest

VICTIMS: 30 alleged

Bennet, Robert Eugene
(1938– )

MO: Rape-slayer of females, charged with murders in SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: PC

Washington and Oregon

DATE(S): 1978/89 VENUE: Ore./Utah VICTIMS:

DISPOSITION: Life prison term for stabbing a 15-Two

year-old girl at Richland, Wash.; charges filed but MO: Wife killed in Ore.; male victim dismembered in never prosecuted for the slaying of a teenager at Utah

Umatilla, Ore.

DISPOSITION: Pleaded guilty to second degree in Utah; five years to life

Besnard, Marie
(1896–?) AKA: Queen of poisoners SEX: F RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE/PC

Berdella, Robert A.
(1949– )

DATE(S): 1927–49 VENUE: Loudon, France VIC-

SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: T MOTIVE: Sex./Sad.

TIMS: 13

DATE(S): 1984–87 VENUE: Kansas City, Mo. VIC-

MO: Poisoned husbands and relatives for inheritance TIMS: Seven suspected

DISPOSITION: Acquitted despite confessions, Dec. 1961