David Lohr
David Lohr is a feature writer for the Discovery Channel,
where he heads up the Criminal Report, a true crime site that gives readers a
daily dose of the latest and most probing investigations. He gained national
prominence in 2003 when a long-elusive serial murderer read one of his articles
about the decades-long mystery of Wichita, Kansas's "BTK” Killer. After reading
Lohr's account of the unsolved crimes, Dennis Rader made some key modifications
to the story-based on his first-hand knowledge and mailed his edited version to
the media, along with evidence that he was the BTK Killer. Two years later, the
seemingly upstanding Rader confessed to murdering 10 people between 1974 and
1991. For more information visit:
www.davidlohr.net
New:
Night Stalker.
(11/05/03)
Richard Ramirez was a
spineless, gutless punk who terrorized Los Angeles for five months in 1985.
His frenzied nighttime murder spree of random targets was as senseless and
pointless as his life.
Richard Speck. (08/20/03)
Speck's murders of
eight young women -- all in nurse's training and rooming together in a quiet
apartment house on Chicago's Southside -- stands as one of the most horrific
and shocking crimes in U.S. history. During the mayhem of the killings, a
ninth student nurse wedged herself under a bed and went undetected. Her
description of the intruder with the "Born to Raise Hell" tattoo on his arm,
led to Speck's capture. Her testimony at trial got him the death sentence.
Murdering women was nothing new to Richard Speck. He had done it often before.
Ted
Bundy: The Poster Boy of Serial Killers . (10/06/02)
Ted Bundy didn't have it all but he had most of it:
good looks, charm, smarts, and ambition. He could have been anything he wanted
to be. Instead he became the poster boy for serial killers, killing as many as
40 young women and girls as young as 12 years old during a four-year rampage in
the mid 1970s. He was so mainstream that the Washington State Republican Party
hired him, so cunning that twice he escaped from jail, and so dashing a figure
that women sent marriage proposals to him on death row.
Boy
Killer: John Wayne Gacy. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy
was a born salesman with a natural charm. Kids loved him, parents trusted him,
First Lady Rosalyn Carter posed in a picture with him. All the while, over a
seven-year period, he sexually assaulted and murdered 33 teenage boys and young
men, burying 28 of them under his house and garage in a Chicago suburb.
The
Molalla Forest Killer. For serial killers, prostitutes
make easy targets. Dayton Leroy Rogers bound and stabbed to death at least eight
of them before his rampage ran its course.
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