Serial Killers of the '80s: Stories Behind a Decadent Decade of Death Volume 5 (Profiles in Crime)

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Bruce Hammond (June 30, 1982). "Letters reveal little of shooting motive". Times-News. Archived from the original on October 29, 2021 . Retrieved October 14, 2021. Responsible for murdering at least 11 victims who were found buried on his property in Westfield, Indiana Murdered four people in Dallas County, Texas, between 1977 and 1979, having sex with the corpses of two of his victims With accomplice Doug Clark, known as "The Sunset Strip Killers"; preyed on young women in West Hollywood and Los Angeles, California When Charles Ng was apprehended for a seemingly innocuous shoplifting incident in June of 1985, authorities could not have possibly predicted what they would uncover. The northern California man would eventually lead police to a property he shared with another man namedLeonard Lake, a compound of sorts in a remote area of Calaveras County near the Sierra Nevada Foothills.

The defendant is an unlikely looking murder suspect. He is handsome, articulate and composed, a former law student who, in his blue suit, is almost indistinguishable from the defense lawyers clustered around him. Nonetheless, Bundy is suspected by police of being one of the worst mass murderers in U.S. history, responsible for a trail of up to 36 young women victims, spanning four years and four states. The most noteworthy came on September 5, 1975, when Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme pulled a gun on President Gerald Ford in a failed assassination attempt. As Time magazine wrote in “The Girl Who Almost Killed Ford,” it was a chilling reminder that not even those with Secret Service protection are safe from violence in America: Murdered between two and at least six prostitutes in Detroit; another man was wrongfully suspected of three murdersShot his parents in 1971 when he was 13, killing his pregnant mother; stabbed his wife and niece to death in 2004 Convicted of killing five teenage boys; one in Germany in 1974, another in 1981, and three he buried in his basement Responsible for the deaths of six or seven people in New Orleans and the surrounding areas from 1918 to 1919 Strangled three women to death in Dallas; after posting bail he fled the country for sixteen years before he was re-apprehended in 2019 Shipp, E. R. (November 30, 1982). "MAN WHO KILLED 6 TO GET A 'HIGH' GIVEN LIFE TERM". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018 . Retrieved November 16, 2020.

Mara Bovsun (January 7, 2012). "Justice Story: 'Queens creeper' Joseph Baldi kills 4 women - 3 after he was freed from Creedmoor". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on May 29, 2021. Known as "The Glamour Girl Slayer" and "The Lonely Hearts Killer"; posed as a professional photographer in California to lure his victims with the promise of a modeling career before binding them and sexually assaulting them and photographing then murdering them

Known as "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer"; convicted of two murders; linked by DNA evidence to five others Murdered victims selected at random in Portland, Oregon; confessed to additional murders, including one in California Union official linked with the disappearances of over 40 sailors in Aberdeen, Washington, in the early 20th century