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Perhaps more bizarrely was that all of the victims acted as police informants, several of whom actually reported on other Jeff Davis victims before their own murders. The investigation into murders of the Jeff Davis 8 never identified a legitimate suspect, but it led to wild allegations of misconduct amongst Louisiana police. Muddling the case further, an investigative reporter later stated the person or people responsible for these killings were most likely part of law enforcement.

The fact that the perpetrator or perpetrators could be investigating their own crimes makes the Jeff Davis 8 a particularly disturbing case. Today, the case is known as a possible example of police corruption.

In February , a woman out for a walk with her dog discovered what she believed to be human bones on a mesa near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police soon investigated, and to their shock, they subsequently discovered the remains of eleven women in total along the same stretch of land.

The women ranged between ages and were all involved in the sex trade. Most were of Hispanic descent and one of the women was pregnant at the time of her murder. While the case remains unsolved, police do have two major suspects. However, one of them is in prison on an unrelated charge and the other is dead.

Lorenzo Montoya lived in a trailer a few miles from where the victims were found, but was killed in by a sex worker and most likely his next victim.

The case is still open today. The Rainbow Maniac was a serial killer in Carapicuiba, Brazil who targeted gay men. Over the span of 18 months between and , the Rainbow Maniac killed 13 people execution-style with bullets to the head, all of whom were killed in Paturis Park and then dumped in nearby bushes with their trousers around their ankles.

One of his victims he beat to death and his twelfth victim was shot a grand total of twelve times. However, at the time of the murders, several ultra-conservative groups were highly vocal of their intolerance towards homosexuality.

In , a suspect was arrested and trialed in relation to the killings, but was found not guilty by the deciding jury. Back in , a curious motorcyclist made his way into Soka forest in Ibadan , Oyo State, Nigeria, and what he found was like something from a HP Lovecraft story. He found a small colonized area of decrepit buildings, and inside there were over twenty rotten corpses and severed human skulls, and most terrifyingly, ten live people chained to slaughter benches.

Other buildings had piles of clothes, boots and passports inside them. Police have attempted to trace the owners of the passports but have been unable to find them. Photo via thenationalonlineng. Exactly who might be responsible for such horrors is still unconfirmed, but rumors state that the place may have been a den for religious zealots to indulge in ritual sacrifice and flesh-eating.

Nigeria is a very religious country, and such cannibalistic acts have deep primal associations. Since the discovery of the forest, many Nigerians with missing relatives have flocked to the area to search for their loved ones.

All drowned after getting intoxicated. However, the kicker is that these drownings happening in 11 different states. Despite the distance between them, some detectives think that drownings are actually the work of a serial killer or group of serial killers.

This is dubbed the Smiley Face Murder Theory. Allegedly, detectives claim that smiley faces have been found near the sites where at least twelve of the men have drowned.

Firstly, date-rape drugs were found in the systems of some of the victims — enough to render them completely unconscious. The victim profile is very similar in every case — male, white, athletic, successful, popular. Lastly is the condition of the bodies. One victim had been missing for 40 days, but the deterioration of his corpse was nowhere near consistent with someone who had been in water for 6 weeks. This was also the case for multiple other victims.

Pedro Lopez was born Columbia in He was the son of a prostitute and as a child, was forced to watch his mother partake in extreme sexual acts. He himself was often molested too, and Lopez claimed that these events significantly affected his psyche. By the early s, Lopez had begun to rape and kill young girls across South America.

When an attempted abduction went wrong in , Lopez was apprehended by locals and handed over to police in Peru. Once in custody, Lopez spewed out his colorful life story, including being captured by a native tribe and sentenced to execution for killing a young girl. Police were naturally skeptical of such a claim, but Lopez led police to a mass grave where they found the remains of 53 of his victims. The details then a little hazy after this, with different sources reporting different stories, but what is confirmed is that Pedro Lopez was set free from prison in , despite racking up one of the highest body counts in known history.

He was sent to a mental home for three years and was then set free. In , Lopez was suspected of being responsible for a new murder. However, no one has been able to find him since There are five million vending machines across the country, making an average of one vending machine per every 23 people. Between April and November in Hiroshima, 12 people were killed as a result of paraquat poisoning and a further 35 were seriously injured.

Around the same time, the company behind Oronamin C had launched a marketing campaign offering free bottles of the drink from vending machines whenever someone made a purchase. Police soon pieced things together and found that someone had been lacing these Oronamin C drinks with paraquat and placing them back on top of the vending machine. It was almost impossible for the police to track down the person responsible since it was difficult to narrow down where a person had originally picked up the drink.

Most of the vending machines responsible were in quiet back streets with no CCTV around. Also known as the Danilovsky Maniac, the Maniac with Dull Eyes was a Russian serial killer responsible for at least seven murders between and Over in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast , Russia, various bodies were found around the city, dumped in construction sites and in abandoned buildings.

Perhaps most creepily, however, is that with each scene the killer left a calling card. Police found crude pornographic drawings on the walls near where every body was found. After establishing that a serial killer was likely responsible for these seven murders, police also linked the Maniac with a series of murders dating back to He was also suspected in the murder of a young woman in His total assumed victim count is An ever-elusive bunch, serial killers are perhaps the most unsettling phenomenon of modern life.

Each was a young woman with long hair. Their killer was never caught. The first victim that is thought to be the work of the Frankford slasher was found in August of The North Philadelphia, PA, victims were all women, aged between Most, if not all, of the victims were raped and found in various states of undress.

One poor victim had been raped with a 3-ft. The cause of death was invariably stabbing. One of the victims had been stabbed 74 times.

At the same time these murders were being committed, police uncovered and arrested two other serial killers in the area. Oddly enough, the killings were not connected.

The police were obviously very busy, but they followed up every lead they got in the slasher case. A man was arrested for the killings in While he was awaiting trial, the final murder took place. The man stood trial anyway and was convicted of the killing of one of the victims. In all, there were seven victims. If the man was truly guilty of the crime that meant that there must have been two killers with the same M.

Nonetheless, the killings stopped. Some believe that is because the killer is behind bars. Others believe that he is still out there somewhere. In the beginning, the killer attacked servant girls and whoever was with them when he entered their cabins. It is assumed that he would enter the home and strike its occupants with an axe. However, there were at least three cases where the killer used a different weapon. Despite this fact, no concrete evidence has tied Naso to the crimes and he has not been charged with these murders so technically it remains unsolved.

This killer seems to target only people with double initials, meaning their first name and their last name start with the same letter. Read More About the Alphabet Killer. There is something especially disturbing about someone that victimizes innocent children, even more so when that someone is never brought to justice. Location: Whitechapel, London Active: Known Victims: 5 Signature: no known survivors Suspects: many suspects supported by circumstantial evidence and unproven theories Jack the Ripper is probably the most famous unknown serial killer in history.

Everyone even remotely familiar with the case has their theories about who did it but no one was ever brought to justice and this long after the fact, no one ever will be. The real person responsible for this crime died long ago, going to his or, based on recent speculation, her grave knowing he got away with some of the most vicious, twisted murders in history. Read More About Jack the Ripper. Location: Arkansas, Texas Active: February 22, May 3, Known Victims: 5 Survivors: 3 The Phantom Killer took five lives between February and May of and injured three more people before the known killings linked to him stopped.

If this is the work of The Zodiac Killer, the body count would be at least ten maybe closer to 50 and the killings would be spread across three, maybe four, states. Read More About the Phantom Killer.

Location: Various locations in California possibly extending to Nevada Active: late s early s Known Victims: 5 killer confessed to 37 murders in letters but there is currently no evidence to support the confession Survivors: 2 Suspects: Arthur Leigh Allen, Don Cheney Lots of people have lots of theories on who the Zodiac Killer is so, if you believe the Zodiac Killer and The Phantom Killer are the same person, lots of people have lots of theories on who The Phantom Killer is as well.

Read More About the Zodiac Killer. Location: Washington, D. Active: April September Known Victims: 6 Survivors: no known survivors Suspects: Robert Elwood Askins The Freeway Phantom kidnapped, raped and strangled six young African American girls between April and September but despite credible suspects, no one has ever been convicted of the murders. Perhaps the most viable suspect was Robert Elwood Askins, a man responsible for multiple murders but who denied having any involvement in the murders attributed to the Freeway Phantom.

Many have viewed this denial with great skepticism considering Askins was in prison for two abductions and rapes committed around the same time when he died at age 91 but no concrete evidence was ever uncovered to tie Askins to the Freeway Phanton slayings.

Despite the fact that many connected to the case believe Askins was responsible for the murders, the case remains open as a cold case. Read More About the Freeway Phantom. That is not a typo. A concrete number of victims on this one is difficult to determine because there are at least two other murders investigators believe should be attributed to the Stripper but that lack the concrete evidence to connect the crimes definitively.

In any event, there have been many possible suspects tied to this crime but no one has ever been convicted in the slayings and the case therefore remains unsolved. Read More About Jack the Stripper.

Location: Chicago Active: September-October Known Victims: 7 Survivors: no known survivors although it would be difficult to determine due to the nature of the killings Suspects: James William Lewis, Ted Kaczynski The Unabomber This is one of the most perplexing and frightening unsolved serial killings on this list for me simply because it really is random in the truest sense of the word.

There were no intended targets here aside from innocent people with general aches and pains. Read More About the Tylenol Murders. Many names have been dragged through the mud, as so often happens, and as yet no one has been able to say definitively who Jack the Stripper was. See more on our British Serial Killers guide. It began in when the remains of 4 sex workers were found.

All of them were thought to have offered their services on Craigslist, where it is believed the killer found them. More bodies would later be discovered, some of which had been missing since This implies that the killer, if indeed it was the work of a single person, had been committing these vile acts and getting away with them for over 15 years. Deserving of an inclusion on any top list of unsolved serial murders, this is a case that is not yet cold and could still be solved in the near future.

This is one of those serial killers that might not actually be a serial killer, but a gang or even multiple serial killers operating at different times. It involves a stretch of highway where bodies of women have been dumped, beginning in and happening as recently as