Lustmord in Los Angeles - Authorities believe there are two killers hunting black prostitutes in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles. The victims have been mostly crack-addicted prostitutes who were strangled and/or bludgeoned to death and left inside abandoned buildings. Since 1993 the killers - identified by their DNA profiles - have claimed at least 13 lives. Serial Killing in Chicago - Chicago authorities issued a citywide warning about four separate predators stalking the windy city's South Side. The three victims had dark hair and slim, athletic builds, and lived within a ten-mile radius of each other. Authorities believe the girls were victims of a local serial killer.
Spotsylvania Child Killer - In the summer of 1997 three girls from Spotsylvania, a small town 30 miles north of Richmond, Virginia, disappeared from their homes after school, leaving behind no signs of a struggle. The other is awaiting his release from custody after an investigating officer was caught planting evidence against him. One, a police officer, was released for lack of evidence and put on temporary leave from the department. To date, two suspects have been arrested. After much debate local business leaders decided to donate cell phones to the prostitutes and asked to them call in occasionally to let authorities know they were still breathing.Ĭluster Killings in New Orleans - Authorities suspect one or several serial killers are responsible for the abductions and brutal strangulation of 24 women whose bodies have been found dumped in swamp areas outside New Orleans. In an attempt to keep track of local sex-trade workers, two agencies started recording personal details of the prostitutes that would give police clues if the women disappeared. Police, stumped by the disappearances, have been reluctant to acknowledge the existence of killer. Possible Vancouver Serial Killer - Though they have no bodies or hard evidence, civic leaders in Vancouver suspect a serial killer is responsible for the disappearance of more than 29 local sex-trade workers. Currently, authorities are investigating the possibility that he may be linked to the recent rash of killings in San Diego, Spokane, Vancouver and Portland. But no one involved in this case believes the perpetrator has "retired" from murder. Experts believe he may be dead, may have relocated, may be incarcerated for an unrelated crime, or institutionalized for mental illness. The Green River Killer - Between 19 the Green River Killer tallied 49 kills in the Seattle-Tacoma area, then vanished without a trace. The task force is looking into possible links with 17 other unsolved killings of women in the area since 1984 - the year the Green River Killer vanished. According to the special task force assigned to the case, eight women have been slain in the Spokane area and two others with similar profiles have been murdered in Tacoma. Spokane Serial Killer - A "high-risk" lifestyle involving prostitution, drugs, or both, has characterized the victims of the suspected Spokane Serial Killer. Several men have been arrested and confessions have been beaten out of them. However, up to 35 killings are unexplained and police have no suspects. Authorities suspect the majority of the women were killed by known assailants, including pimps, drug dealers, husbands and boyfriends. Still, we will pursue the partnership with Amazon only because it's the most convenient way to sell books online.Ĭiudad Juarez, City of the Dead - This baffling case involving the deaths of more than 187 female victims in Ciudad Juarez, a border town next to El Paso, has Mexican Federales on the lookout for one or more serial killers.
I guess it's a badge of honor to be deemed unworthy by the online giant. Presently Amazon feels that it would not be "mutually beneficial" to be partnered with Mayhem.Net. "Killers on the Loose" - and other crime titles from Virgin - will be available at this web site through Amazon or some other online book distributor. Here's the Table of Content so you can get a taste of the cases at hand. This is the first book written by me, Antonio Mendoza, and first to come out of the Internet Crime Archives. Still, there is plenty of new information in the book for all serial crime aficionados. With the Mayhem web site will recognize several cases in the book that have been featured here in The Morgue pages and in more detail in the Killers at Large section. "Killers on the Loose" is a worldwide look at unsolved cases of serial murder published by Virgin Books. KOTL will be available in the US starting February 2, 2002.īe the first one in your block to own a copy by purchasing it fromĪmazon.Com or Barnes & Noble, or in the TrueĬrime section of your favorite bookstore.
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