Robert Keller - Serial Killers Unsolved Volume 2: 18 Terrifying Serial Killers Who Got Away with Murder

18 horrific, real-life murder mysteries that have never been solved, including;

: Three savage murders, one intriguing clue. This was a killer with a penchant for wordplay.

: Theres a killer on the loose, targeting the most innocent of victims. In Oakland County, no child is safe.

: Terror walks the streets of Dayton, Ohio in this vintage tale of murder and mayhem.

: Stopping for a cold soda on a hot day should never get you killed. In this case, it just might.

: A calculating killer with a clever M.O. Dont accept his offer of help at any cost.

: Some called him The Thing, an appropriate name for a monster who bludgeoned innocent women to death.

: The city authorities had an ambitious plan to clean up the city and clear it of crime. Someone didnt get the memo.

: In the shadow of the Ripper, another killer stalks the streets of London, just as depraved and twice as lethal.

: Three young couples are attacked in their cars by a gun-wielding maniac. Making out just got deadly.

: Plastic bags start showing up around the Belgian city of Mons. What they contain is the handiwork of a madman.

: Terror stalks the freeway in this story of a road-tripping murderer with a grudge against store clerks.

: Late at night a streetcar stops, a lone woman alights, a killer waits in the shadows.

: The halls of a well-known university become the hunting ground for a deadly predator...students beware.

: He was only at his deadly business for five months, racking up a double-digit toll in that time.

: Taking a painkiller just got deadly in this scary tale of homicidal product tampering.

: In the ashes of a war-torn city, an assassin waits, stalking the rubble piles in search of prey.

: It is a scenic stretch of highway, dotted with historic sites. It also has a more nefarious claim to fame.

: The missing person cases had drawn little attention from the authorities. Then a mass grave was discovered.

It was a sight that horrified commuters making their daily drive out of Rochester, New York. In the dim, evening light of November 16, 1971, a young, dark-haired girl, not yet a teenager, was running down the breakdown lane of the 1-490 westbound, near the Chili-Riga exit. Shockingly, the child was naked from the waist down. She was frantically waving her arms, trying to get someone to stop for her. Then a vehicle pulled over and backed toward her and a man got out. The little girl cowered in fear as he grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her back to the car. Moments later, they had blended back into traffic and were racing away from the scene.

The little girl involved in this terrifying incident was named Carmen Colon. She was ten years old and a native of Puerto Rico who had moved to Rochester with her family. Earlier that day, Carmen had set off to pick up a prescription for her mother at a drugstore close to her home. Witnesses would later report her getting into a car with a man who she appeared to know. She was not seen again until her body was found three days later, lying by the side of the road near Churchville. Carmen had been raped and strangled. The last hours of her short life had been filled with terror.

For homicide investigators picking up the strands of this terrible case, one thing seemed obvious. Carmen had known her abductor. Why else would she have gotten into a car with him? That narrowed the suspect pool considerably and detectives soon homed in on one man, the little girls uncle, Miguel Colon. Brought in for questioning, Miguel vehemently denied any involvement. He was then asked to take a polygraph and passed. Released from police custody, he promptly boarded a flight back to his native Puerto Rico. That should have rekindled suspicions, but the Rochester police took no further action. They believed that theyd eliminated Colon as a suspect. They may have been right. He wasnt even in the country when the next little girl was killed.

Wanda Walkowicz was just eleven years old, a freckle-faced little girl, much loved by all who knew her. At around 5:10 p.m. on the evening of April 2, 1973, Wanda walked the few blocks to a local store to pick up some groceries for her mom. She never returned. By 8 p.m., with all other avenues exhausted, a frantic Joyce Walkowicz called the police and reported her daughter missing. Just over 14 hours later, came the news that every parent dreads. Wanda had been found, strangled to death at a rest area in Webster.

The brutal slaying of another child, just 15 months after the first, sent shockwaves through the community. It also left investigators with a puzzle to solve. Were the murders connected? The initial consensus was no. There were too many discrepancies. Both girls had been raped but Carmen was naked when she was found, and Wanda was fully clothed; both had been strangled but Carmens killer had been facing her, and Wanda was choked from behind. Any criminal profiler will tell you that this is a significant pointer to the psychology of the offender. Few stranglers kill their victims in both ways.

But for all the discrepancies between the two crimes, there was one oddity that could not be ignored. Both of the victims had alliterative names Carmen Colon / Wanda Walkowitz and both had been found in towns that matched their initials Carmen in Churchville, Wanda in Webster. Most likely, this was coincidence. But what if it wasnt? What if this was some bizarre signature that was somehow important to the killer?

That, however, was something for a psychologist to mull over. Detectives prefer to concern themselves with workable leads and there were plenty of those to keep them busy. Tips had been streaming in from the public. One tipster reported that Wanda had been forced into a Dodge Dart. Another reckoned that it had been a Ford LTD, and the driver had enticed rather than coerced her. A tearful Wanda had also been spotted in a green Pinto, with a tattooed man at the wheel. All of these leads had to be checked out but none of them went anywhere.

More promising was a tip-off about an ex-con, a man who had previously been arrested for child endangerment. This individual was hauled in and subjected to a fierce grilling, lasting over twelve hours. But he refused to buckle and eventually insisted on clearing his name via a polygraph. He passed. The police were back to square one.

Seven months passed with little progress in the investigation. Then, on November 26, 1973, another child was missing. Michelle Maenza, an 11-year-old with learning disabilities, disappeared on her walk home from school. A search was immediately launched but it would not have the outcome that everyone was praying for. Michelle was found in Macedon, New York, two days later. She was fully clothed, but an autopsy would determine that she had been raped. Shed also been strangled with a ligature, in a way that was identical to Wanda Walkowicz. The police could not help noticing, too, the alphabetic pattern that had become a feature of this series of murders.