Eventually, he began providing details on other slayings. Browne wrote a number inside each state and the total was 48.Īuthorities responded, but Browne clammed up for a while, then agreed to more discussions.
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This picture was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades. The letter included a map traced from an atlas, and it showed outlines of Colorado, Washington, California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi. Unsolved Mysteries of Castle Cristamont Murder Mystery Activity Book: Fun Variety Crime. The Berdella family was Catholic, but Robert left the church when he was in. Berdella was born in 1949 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. history who participated in despicable acts of sexual torture and murder in Kansas City, Missouri, between 19. "Seven sacred virgins entombed side by side, those less worthy are scattered wide," the letter says. Robert Berdella was one of the most brutal serial killers in U.S. It was Browne who spurred investigators to take another look at his past when he sent an unsolicited letter to prosecutors in 2000. "Does he have a conscience? Is that what motivated him? I really have no idea and I'm not sure he knows," Hess said. Investigator Charlie Hess said he believes the killer himself doesn't even know why he is confessing. On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Rocio Sperry, a girl who was about 15 at the time of her death 19 years ago. The other claims include 17 murders in Louisiana, nine in Colorado, seven in Texas, five in Arkansas, three in Mississippi, two each in California, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and one in Washington state, Maketa said.īrowne pleaded guilty in 1995 to kidnapping and murder in the 1991 death of Heather Dawn Church, 13, of Black Forest, a town north of Colorado Springs. Maketa said that claim has not been verified. He wasn't one that had a lot of friends, but he had friends," the teacher said.īrowne, a high school dropout who got kicked out of the Army for drug use, said his killing spree began during a bar fight with a soldier in South Korea in 1970. He was married six times, Miller reports, and authorities said all his ex-wives are still alive.īrowne's former high school teacher told CBS News that Browne was competitive and had a temper, but wasn't too different from most kids. Norman, the sheriff, said the Browne family ran a dairy in the 1960s and had hard times. He was the oldest surviving member of the first family serial killer BTK murdered on January 15th, 1974. In one case, Browne allegedly used ether to knock out a drunken woman he was seducing and then "used an ice pick on her." In another, authorities said he used ant killer to subdue a woman he later stabbed repeatedly with a screwdriver.Īuthorities said Browne grew up the youngest of nine children in the northern Louisiana town of Coushatta, about 40 miles southeast of Shreveport. Unlike other serial killer documentaries, this one centers on a survivor: Charlie Otero. A 44-page affidavit paints a picture of a killer who met his victims, sometimes men but mostly women, in everyday situations: a motel bar, an apartment complex, even a convenience store where he worked. Robert Nixon was an African-American serial killer who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults in Chicago and Los Angeles from 1936 to 1938.