San diego serial killers

He was charged with the killings on June 25, , while he was serving a year sentence for sexual assault at Corcoran State Prison. The suspected serial killer was returned to San Diego where he was arraigned on four counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and single counts of rape and sodomy. Jones is believed to have left his four victims in dumpsters within a two-block area in East San Diego.

MO: Rape-slayer of prostitut e s; bodies left in dumpsters. Murderpedia Juan Ignacio Blanco. The San Diego throat slasher continued his crime spree for the next five years. By the time David Allen Lucas was caught he had almost decapitated five more people. Luckily, one of his victims left for dead, survived to tell her tale. Serial Killer David Allen Lucas. All Episodes. Years Active : Number of Victims : 8 Perhaps one of the most infamous serial killers in California, Charles Manson and the cult he led murdered actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends in her home at Cielo Drive in August of Manson, who had a long history of crime and imprisonment, led a quasi-community nicknamed the Manson Family, who viewed Manson as a Jesus-like figure.

Although Tate and her guests which included hair stylist Jay Sebring, screenwriter Wojchiech Frykowski, heiress Abigail Folger, and year-old Steven Parent were not in any way connected to the Manson family, Manson purposefully targeted the inhabitants of Cielo Drive.

Prior to Tate and her husband Roman Polanski, the address on Cielo Drive had belonged to Terry Melcher, a record producer who had failed to sign Manson to a record deal. When California suspended the death sentence in only to reinstate it in the s , he was sentenced to life in prison. After being denied parole numerous times since the s, Manson died in prison in November of A series of at least seven murders in the North Bay, California area, the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders occurred between and The female victims of these murders were all found nude in rural areas near steep embankments, or in creek beds along a roadside.

Originally, it was thought that there were only seven victims in the case, who ranged in ages from 12 to approximately 23 years old. However, the FBI released a report in claiming that there were a series of fourteen connected homicides, which included the original seven Santa Rosa Hitchhiker murders.

The cause of death for victims was typically asphyxiation due to being strangled with a cord of some nature. Many possible murder suspects were proposed, ranging from The Zodiac Killer to Ted Bundy, but no one was ever prosecuted, and the case has gone cold in Sonoma County. DNA from the crime scenes was submitted to a national DNA database to search for matches in , but the case has seen no significant development.

Randy Kraft in Kraft had been on a murder spree since early , and was known for drugging young Marines typically in their late teens or early 20s , before sexually abusing and then killing them. However, Kraft was not arrested at the time because his alibi could not be proven false. Kraft continued to kill various young men after this interrogation, and was not positively identified as the Scorecard Killer until being pulled over for erratic driving, and was found to have a dead body in his vehicle.

Unfortunately, a great deal of these names have never been decoded. The police sketch of the Zodiac Killer. Guerrero wore a surgical mask due to an illness. Police inspect the scene where Guerrero's fifth and final victim, Michael Papadelis, was attacked with rail spikes driven into his eyes on July 15, Court records show Guerrero is diagnosed with schizophrenia and has a history of arrests and mental competency hearings, including one judge's order that sent him to a state hospital for treatment.

The only clue to a motive for the assaults came from Guerrero's first victim, who survived a knifing and asked his attacker, 'Why did you do this to me? One assault victim who survived, Michael Papadelis, attended the Monday hearing and afterward said of Guerrero's guilty plea, 'I think he did the right thing. Guerrero was arrested just two hours after attacking his final victim on July 15, pictured at the time of his arrest.

Arresting officers found rail spikes and a mallet inside Guerrero's backpack. I know there are a lot of mentally ill on the streets. I don't hate Jon,' Papadelis, 58, who was left blind in one eye, told the newspaper.

In , Guerrero was declared mentally competent - meaning he could understand the charges filed against him and assist in his defense - and the criminal case against him went forward. Guerrero, who is from San Diego's affluent Coronado district, began his spree on February 8, , when he stabbed a man sleeping on a sidewalk.

That victim survived. After a months-long hiatus, Guerrero resumed his attacks on the city's homeless population on July 3, when he doused Angelo DeNardo, 53, with gasoline and set him on fire, killing him. The next day, year-old Shawn Mitchell Longley was found stabbed to death with a railroad spike at a park in Ocean Beach. A witness told the Daily Beast Longley's eyes and face had been spiked with a sharp object and his skull crushed by a heavy rock. Guerrero attacked Manuel Nunez Mason, 61, the same day.

Mason survived but was rendered blind after a railroad spike was driven into his sinus cavity. On July 6, Dionicio Derek Vahidy, 23, was mortally injured when his attacker dropped a burning towel on his face while he slept in downtown San Diego. The victim died in a hospital four days later.