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11-26-2006, 07:40 AM
Serial Killer News Briefs From Around the World
By David Lohr
Monday, October 23, 2006
WICHITA, Kan. - A jury awarded $ 1.1 million to a Kansas man after they ruled a Wichita television station had defamed him two years ago, when they named him as a possible suspect in the BTK serial murders. According to court records, authorities took DNA from Roger Valadez after they arrested him on an unrelated matter. Reporters from KSNW-TV picked up on the arrest and the station named Valadez as a possible suspect in the BTK murders. Valadez was quickly ruled out as a suspect and four months later Dennis Rader was arrested.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — In a case eerily similar to that of John Wayne Gacy, a 41-year-old man accused of castrating and killing at least 42 boys, confessed to the December 2003 murder of a 15-year-old boy during the first day of his trial. The International Herald Tribunereported Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito was arrested in 2004 and charged with the murders of two young boys whose remains were found buried under his home. Following his arrest, Chagas confessed to the killings of 42 boys, between 1991 and 2003. He later retracted the confession. If convicted of all murders, Chagas would be Brazil's most prolific serial killer
LOS ANGELES, CA. - The trial of suspected serial killer Ivan Hill is underway. According to authorities, Hill, 45, murdered at least six women during a three-month span in 1993 and 1994. He was originally connected to the killings in 2003, when his information was entered in a DNA database. If convicted, Hill could face the death penalty.
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/1106/0303_serial_column.html
By David Lohr
Monday, October 23, 2006
WICHITA, Kan. - A jury awarded $ 1.1 million to a Kansas man after they ruled a Wichita television station had defamed him two years ago, when they named him as a possible suspect in the BTK serial murders. According to court records, authorities took DNA from Roger Valadez after they arrested him on an unrelated matter. Reporters from KSNW-TV picked up on the arrest and the station named Valadez as a possible suspect in the BTK murders. Valadez was quickly ruled out as a suspect and four months later Dennis Rader was arrested.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — In a case eerily similar to that of John Wayne Gacy, a 41-year-old man accused of castrating and killing at least 42 boys, confessed to the December 2003 murder of a 15-year-old boy during the first day of his trial. The International Herald Tribunereported Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito was arrested in 2004 and charged with the murders of two young boys whose remains were found buried under his home. Following his arrest, Chagas confessed to the killings of 42 boys, between 1991 and 2003. He later retracted the confession. If convicted of all murders, Chagas would be Brazil's most prolific serial killer
LOS ANGELES, CA. - The trial of suspected serial killer Ivan Hill is underway. According to authorities, Hill, 45, murdered at least six women during a three-month span in 1993 and 1994. He was originally connected to the killings in 2003, when his information was entered in a DNA database. If convicted, Hill could face the death penalty.
Next Page:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/1106/0303_serial_column.html