20 American Killers Who Still Haven't Been Caught

that's that it's my father's old straight razor do you want it thank you I have a barber welcome to watch Mojo and today we're discussing 20 American Killers who still haven't been caught I think the Tylenol murder is still out there dancing in the streets for this list we're looking at perpetrators from around the United States who never face Justice which of these tragic stories impacts you the most be sure to tell us in the comments the freeway Phantom it was after the deaths of four young girls throughout 1971 that the Washington Daily News deemed the perpetrator the freeway Phantom if you wanted to be a criminal this was the time to do it because all the police were pretty much tied up the killer would then take on the moniker with one more murder the same year this was thought to be the fifth and final victim but the Phantom struck again almost one year later when he killed Diane Williams the murders all of which involved African-American victims were investigated by many task forces including the FBI but the search amounted to little in the end unfortunately the case files were improperly handled and remain incomplete to this day I'll admit the others if you catch me if you can freeway Phantom the Cleveland torso killer throughout the 1930s Cleveland was besieged by a vicious criminal known as the Cleveland torso killer or the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury run both names which were based on the location the killer operated in they were brutal in their methods often dismembering victims and disposing of remains in public once these grisly remnants were placed in full view of Cleveland City Hall as a means to taunt the failing investigation twelve victims have been ostensibly traced to the Cleveland torso killer but it's believed they may have killed as many as 20. despite a massive Manhunt over 9 000 interrogations and two primary suspects the perpetrator was never verifiably identified or caught the Axeman of New Orleans they've never caught me and they never will they have never seen me invisible on March 13 1919 a letter said to be from the Axeman of New Orleans was published in the city's newspapers and it was uh postdated from hell and went on at length about how the X-Men would never be caught no one could find him the first sentence was quote they have never caught me and they never will unfortunately this has continued to be true active between May 1918 and October 1919 the ax man took the lives of six people throughout the city and injured another six he would often break into homes belonging to Italian immigrants and kill the female occupants it was speculated that men would only be killed if they interfered or attempted to defend the women the violence randomly stopped in the fall of 1919 and the ax man of New Orleans quickly disappeared from the public Consciousness when I see fit I shall come again and claim other victims I alone know whom they shall be the Bible Belt Strangler also known as the redhead murders the case of the Bible Belt Strangler remains unsolved the perpetrator of these crimes received the moniker of the Bible Belt Strangler due to the crimes being committed in States like Tennessee Arkansas Kentucky and Mississippi between the years of 1978 and 1992. Jane knows bad because that means you don't know who they are which means you don't know who their family is you don't know their enemies were the case Bears similarities to the New Bedford Highway murders as the victims were usually either hitchhikers or sex workers and their bodies were dumped on the side of local highways pretty much he's a white truck driver I would say he's around five eleven six two uh between the ages of his mid-20s to his 40s a trucker named Jerry Leon Johns is considered today as a likely suspect in at least one of the murders but he died in prison before he could be indicted oh and that is her is a major part but I don't think that's going to be fully on my closure the I-70 killer Interstate 70 spans the central United States running from Maryland to Utah the major highway which this murderer is named after it's believed that during the months of April and May in 1992 the I-70 killer would enter small specialty shops close to the interstate and kill the female employees a shoe store in Indianapolis a ceramic shop in Terre Haute a bridal shop in Wichita an herbal medicine store outside Kansas City six clerks died during this crime spree but the perpetrator may have taken the lives of three others between 1992 and 2001. that man you see there in the black police believe might be our serial killer investigators produced a composite sketch of the suspect who was said to have lazy eyelids and dark blonde hair unfortunately the sketch did not amount to anything and the man was never caught however the police are still on the lookout and as of 2021 the sketch has been updated with age progression Harry Edward Greenwell was accused of killing three women along the I-65 Corridor in the 1980s years before the I-70 Killers first murder Delphine lalory the story of Delphine lalaurie is legendary in the City of New Orleans she was a prominent Louisiana socialite in her time and remarried after being widowed twice she also owned a very beautiful mansion in the city's famous French Quarter and it's here where she conducted her crimes did you all miss me lalaurie was known for being cruel to her servants and the city's gossip was proven on April 10 1834 a fire started in her French Quarter mansion and responders found numerous maimed servants who had been violently abused by Lottery a furious mob destroyed the lottery Mansion but the owner fled to France escaping any punishment that awaited her in the U.S the skid row stabber this serial killer should not be confused with the skid row slasher AKA Von Greenwood we're discussing the skid row stabber who reportedly had 11 victims to his or her name during their Rampage in the late 1970s the crimes all took place in or around Los Angeles's downtown Skid Row neighborhood and targeted the area's substantial homeless population bodies were usually dumped or disposed of within various Skid Row alleys and to this day no one knows the true identity of the stabber Bobby Joe Maxwell was arrested tried and convicted of the skid row stabber crimes but the investigation was marred by corruption and circumstantial evidence resulting in the ruling being overturned in 2010. Bradford Bishop this man married his high school sweetheart parented three children with her and found a job with the U.S state department but this seemingly idyllic life was met with horror on the night of March 1st 1976. Bishop returned to his home after work and killed his mother his wife and his three sons disposing of their bodies in a nearby swamp the anger that he showed when he committed these murders is beyond even comprehension Bishop's motives are unknown but they may be linked to marital or financial problems and possibly the rejection of a promotion he'd been anticipating no one knows for sure however because Bishop was never caught his car was found weeks later all the way out in Tennessee but there was no trace of him of the supposed sightings of him all of them have been in Europe what he did was so heinous and I feel like if I ever really met him it was because he probably wanted to be found the Atlanta ripper in 1911 the Atlanta Ripper began his killing Streak by Year's End anywhere from 15 to 21 women's deaths were connected to the murderer or murderers the victims of the Ripper were all dispatched in the same way their throats deeply slit each of the female victims was black and in her 20s however it wasn't until the sixth murder the police began to consider the possibility of a serial killer some speculate that the lack of a lead as well as racial Prejudice of the time led to the delay of the investigations and they're ultimately being dismissed while several men were arrested no charges were ever brought to court and the case remains unsolved the servant girl Annihilator occupation with the exception of the white women everybody is a servant three of them are cooked between 1884 and 1885 the people of Austin Texas were reeling in shock from a seemingly endless string of brutal murders each murder took place while the victims were in the so-called safety of their own beds the servant girl annihilator's name was devised by writer O Henry in a letter penned to a friend remarking quote town is fearfully dull except for the frequent raids of the servant girl annihilators who make things Lively in the dull hours of the night she was dragged outside and the job was finished out out in the yard well that's one way to discuss an Ax Murderer Wendy I'm home the murders ended suddenly on Christmas Eve 1885. some believe they only stopped as he boarded a ship to begin his reign of terror elsewhere I promise I will kill again the Borden family killer Lizzie Borden is a prominent name in the lore and history of Massachusetts back in 1892 Borden's father and stepmother were violently killed in their Fall River home I think I'm gonna throw up you're surrounded by doilies they're everywhere investigators immediately took note of Borden's Behavior disliking her calm demeanor and the bizarre inconsistencies in her story she was eventually arrested and tried for the deaths of her family but ended up being acquitted of all charges despite this Borden remained the primary suspect throughout her life and was ostracized from the local population the killings remain unsolved with the main suspects being boredom herself her uncle John Morse and the families live-in made Bridget Sullivan gave her mother 40 whacks when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41. the New Bedford highway killer New Bedford Massachusetts is known for its thriving fishing industry and for being a setting in Hermann Melville's classic work Moby Dick it's also Infamous for having been the hunting grounds of the New Bedford highway killer in the late 1980s the targets were all women with drug dependency issues or who worked in the city's sex industry and their bodies were all found along major highways in the surrounding New Bedford area the hottest thing for me is the families and particularly the families of the two girls that we never recovered the remains of a number of suspects have come up over the years as potential candidates for the New Bedford highway killer including a hypothesis that the Portuguese criminal known as the Lisbon Ripper perhaps could have done double duty after leaving the area I'll never give up on her never to this day families of the victims remain desperate for answers I believe someone knows something I never promised I would never give up and I won't the Chicago Tylenol poisonings the Food and Drug Administration is now urging consumers Nationwide to stop taking Tylenol Chicago experienced what sounds like a Halloween Urban myth throughout the fall of 1982. someone was tampering with the city's supply of Tylenol poisoning capsules with potassium cyanide this incident resulted in seven deaths and Johnson and Johnson was forced to recall over 30 million bottles throughout the country a man named James William Lewis was arrested after he sent a letter to Johnson Johnson demanding one million dollars in exchange for ceasing the poisonings he was sentenced to prison for extortion but there was no hard evidence linking Lewis to the actual crime and he has continuously denied his involvement reason who is the talent of killer I think that's fairly obvious the real perpetrator seems to have gotten away with it but the incident did lead to many positive changes in the pharmaceutical field like the introduction of tamper-resistant packaging time is running out um you know Witnesses are dying memories are fading Charlie chop off this vicious killer was known for targeting African-American boys exclusively he earned his ghoulish moniker from the brutal injuries he would inflict upon his victims one of Charlie's victims did however survive his attack and in 1974 police apprehended a suspect Arno Soto caught in the act of kidnapping a Puerto Rican boy Soto was brought in for questioning what do you think about that I think that would be a very unprofessional thing for me to do in my business the surviving boy said he thought he looked like his attacker but he couldn't be sure give me an answer how about him despite confessing to one of the murders the Manhattan State Hospital a psychiatric institution at which soda was a patient claimed Soto could not be guilty but did say it was possible he could have slipped out on their watch the Phantom killer the Texarkana Moonlight murders have spawned several urban legends and films but in 1946 for the residents of the Twin Cities of Texarkana Texas and Texarkana Arkansas it was all too real the first attack came against Jimmy Hollis and his girlfriend Mary Larry who had parked their car on a secluded stretch of road known as Lovers Lane Sammy move your hand sound familiar both survived though Hollis sustained skull injuries and Larry was assaulted about a month later another couple wasn't so lucky three weeks later two teens were shot and killed after that a married couple was attacked but only the husband died Hollis and Larry were the best lead for the Killer's appearance stating that he wore a white Hood but when the killing stopped so did investigations the alphabet murders this series of killings is very unique throughout the early 1970s in Rochester New York the perp or perps targeted people whose first and last names began with the same letter three people were killed Carmen colon Wanda walcowitz and Michelle mayanza their remains were then disposed of in places that began with the corresponding same letter cologne was found in Churchville walkowitz in Webster and mayansa in Macedon as such the case was labeled the alphabet or double initial murders it's is unclear if one person was solely responsible and over 800 suspects were brought forward despite intense public interest and a large investigation none of the cases were ever solved so sorry Carla I can't find him the Oakland County killer over the course of about a year in the late 1970s two boys and two girls went missing in Oakland County Michigan their bodies were later discovered in public areas these crimes led to the largest murder investigation in U.S history up to that time several witnesses came forward but provided no concrete leads one witness claimed to have seen one of the boys talk to a man in a blue AMC Gremlin prompting investigators to inquire after every Gremlin owner in the county if he was involved you should have been in jail and he shouldn't have been out tonight Timmy was abducted but answer is about the killer or Killers remain elusive is that good enough for the family no it's not the Long Island serial killer this killer has been added a while in 2010 a police dog in training located the first body it wasn't long before investigators found more in the area alerting them to the possibility of a serial killer as the area was probed further bits and pieces of bodies were found up and down Gilgo Beach in Suffolk County New York all of the victims disposed of over a 20-year period were associated with the sex trade several of them soliciting Services over Craigslist almost nothing is known about this killer except that they are morbidly prolific the investigation is ongoing there are thousands of exploited servers on the Internet so he's not going to run out of victims anytime soon black Dahlia's killer it's the killing that rocked Hollywood and inspired countless Noir stories in January of 1947 a Woman by the name of Betty burstinger came across the bisected body of what she believed to be a mannequin this was quickly debunked and reveal feel to be the body of Elizabeth Short eventually dubbed the Black Dahlia by the media in the aftermath of Beth shorts murder it was a time of mass hysteria there was a sense that around any corner there could be a killer the crime attracted national attention and an enormous Manhunt was launched to catch the killer I can guarantee you this killer will be caught said Manhunt produced over 150 suspects one of whom was Bugsy Siegel a prominent mobster however the investigation failed to produce concrete results and the Black Dahlia is now one of the most notorious unsolved True Crime cases in America before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications the Zodiac Killer I'm not the zodiac undoubtedly the most elusive killer in American history the Zodiac Killer is like something straight out of a Hollywood nightmare also one to pen letters to the police he did so by way of puzzles and complex cryptograms boasting about his Feats and demanding that his letters be published on page one of the newspapers or else the body count would rise this killer would hunt his victims usually young couples in secluded areas before carrying out his work similarities in method and physical description have led some to postulate that the Zodiac and Phantom killer may be one and the same regardless the Zodiac has left a grisly Legacy all his own this man was a terrorist and a terrorist that was American grown

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Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 01 2023