Regardless of the killer's true body count, they walked free in fact, the case remains so unsolved that it appears no suspects have ever even been arrested. If you think it's more than possible a young guy with some alcohol in his blood stream might indeed drown accidentally, well, the FBI agrees with you. U.S. serial killer Earle Nelson hanged in Winnipeg, Canada on Friday the 13th of January in 1928.. A disturbed and preternaturally balding 30-year-old, Nelson grew up in San Francisco a psychotic prodigy.He was expelled from primary school at the age of 7. The word "Insider". Unfortunately, the Rainbow Maniac may very well still be out there. It's rare to hear officials throw the term "serial killer" around before they're fairly certain that their homicide cases involve one. According to Jon Webb of the Courier & Press, the case was still unsolved as of December 2019, and some of the victims' families have essentially given up on ever finding out the truth behind the deaths. In a world that tends to frown on murdering your fellow man, serial killers are often considered the worst of the worst. What's more, it's possible that the killer may have had even more victims than anyone realizes. The Colombian serial killer and diagnosed sociopath wandered around Peru and Ecuador, targeting young girls. According to Cheryl W. Thompson of the Washington Post, this brutal serial killer operated around Washington D.C. during the ruthless early 1970s, when the homicide investigators in the area were up to their eyebrows in murder cases. Nevertheless, this particular serial killer stood out. In 1995, he was released for good behavior, and deported to his native Colombia, where he was declared insane and put in a psychiatric hospital. Over the course of a few months, the remains of no less than 10 victims were discovered scattered around the area. "Chicago Strangler" may sound like a historical villain who stalked the Windy City sometime during the Great Depression, but as Pam Zekman of CBS Chicago and Daniel Tucker of WBEZ Chicago both told us in 2019, this is one serial killer whose terrifying tale might only be beginning to unfold. He was a man of higher education whose ego and thirst for control drove his actions. In fact, apart from the 11 known victims, at least six other women from similar backgrounds went missing in the area between 2001 and 2006. It's estimated that as many as 12 people died because of the poison drinks, and many others became ill. Despite the red flags Atwell's increasingly odd behavior raised, the case remains unsolved, and the Colonial Parkway MurdersFacebook page reported his death on December 2018. In May 2020, Mosley Gerald was found and was sentenced to death in both California and Nevada, but While the Chillicothe case remains unsolved at the time of writing, and therefore it's possible that the perpetrator remains on the loose, it's worth noting that a news story from a couple of hours' drive away may or may not shed some light to the situation. For around two decades, Chicago has seen a series of eerily similar strangulation murders. According to a 179-page confidential report by a local senior coroner's officer, modern research techniques suggest that two supposedly unconnected murder-suicide cases might be considerably more terrifying than such cases already are, due to the possibility that they might not be quite that unconnected after all. Sing HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug. 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