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Mark Rowntree
Mark Rowntree
Born	Mark Andrew Rowntree; 1956; Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Occupation	Bus conductor
Motive	Paranoia; Revenge; Infamy;
Conviction(s)	Manslaughter (x4)
Criminal penalty	Indefinite detention within a psychiatric hospital
Details
Victims	4
Span of crimes	31 December 1975; – 7 January 1976
Date apprehended	7 January 1976

Dolores Della Penna
Dolores Della Penna
	Della Penna, c. 1972
Born	December 13, 1954
Died	July 12, 1972 (aged 17); Kensington, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Cause of death	Undetermined. Possible stabbing and/or mutilation
Body discovered	July 22, 1972; Tom's River, New Jersey 39°59′39″N 74°09′58″W / 39.994264°N 74.166154°W (approximate); July 29, 1972; Cedar Glen West, New Jersey 40°00′55″N 74°10′13″W / 40.0153°N 74.1703°W
Resting place	Resurrection Cemetery, Bensalem, Pennsylvania; 40°07′18″N 74°55′24″W / 40.12170°N 74.92330°W (approximate)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Student
Known for	Victim of unsolved murder

Willie Luther Steelman
Willie Luther Steelman
Born	March 21, 1945; San Joaquin County, California, U.S.
Died	August 7, 1986 (aged 41); Maricopa County Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Cause of death	Liver cirrhosis
Criminal status	Died in prison while awaiting execution
Motive	Robbery; Eyewitness elimination; Braggadocio; Revenge; Possible sadism;
Conviction(s)	California; First degree murder (x9); Robbery (x5); Arizona; First degree murder (x2); Kidnapping (x1); Robbery (x2); Burglary (x1)
Criminal penalty	California; Life imprisonment; Arizona; Death
Details
Victims	17 (11 convictions)
Span of crimes	October 18 – November 7, 1973
Country	United States
State(s)	California, Arizona
Date apprehended	November 8, 1973
Imprisoned at	Florence State Prison

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Isabella Ruxton, c. 1932

The Ruxton children, seen with the maid of a family friend in 1935

A late 1970s model Chevrolet Malibu. A dark-colored model of vehicle was observed by Everett Mann close to the crime scene on September 10

A 1980 model Chevrolet Malibu. The Dowalibys owned a light blue model of this vehicle

A 1970s model Greyhound bus. McCoy was last seen by family members aboard a vehicle similar to this model on January 2, 1972.

Chicago's Greyhound bus terminal, seen here as the terminal appeared in the 1950s.

Wheaton, Maryland

Taylor's Mountain, Virginia

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Geographical locations of Wheaton, Maryland, and Taylor's Mountain, Thaxton, Virginia.

Crockett

Underkofler

Block

Roberts

Bruce

John Doe

Bridges

Gibson

Herrera

Calise

John Doe

Johnson

Lake Village (x4)

Lewis

Agan

Roach

McNeive

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Map of Illinois and western Indiana, depicting the approximate murder locations of twenty of the twenty-two victims whose deaths Eyler posthumously confessed.

Rawle Street, Tacony

Jackson Township

Manchester Township

Franklin Mills Mall

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Map of New Jersey, depicting recovery locations of Della Penna's body. The approximate abduction location within eastern Pennsylvania is depicted by a blue icon; the yellow icon depicts the location her head is believed to have been discarded.

Coldstream (Maxwell)

Uttoxeter (Maxwell)

Portobello (Hogg)

Twycross (Hogg)

Morley (Harper)

Nottingham (Harper)

Ballinderry (Cardy)

Hillsborough (Cardy)

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Abduction and recovery locations of Black's victims. Abduction locations are denoted by red icons; recovery recovery locations by blue icons.

Fingerpost Field (McFall)

Midland Road (C. West)

Letterbox Field (Costello)

Cromwell Street

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Map of Gloucestershire, depicting the burial locations of all known victims of Wests as recovered in February and March 1994.

Houston Heights

Boat shed

Lake Sam Rayburn

High Island Beach

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Map of Texas, depicting the location of the Heights, and the locations where Corll's known victims were recovered in 1973.

Rostov-on-Don

Novocherkassk

Novoshakhtinsk

Shakhty

Krasny Sulin

Bataisk

Gukovo

Semikarakorsk

Donskoi

Kamenolomni

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Geographical locations within the Rostov Oblast where several victims liked to the manhunt had been murdered by 1985. Almost all locations were accessible via the oblast's mass transportation network.

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Wikipedia should have stricter rules against unnecessary deletion and removal of content from articles.

Summary

Name	Age	Date of murder	Recovery number	Location recovered	Cause of death
Timothy Jack McCoy	16	January 3, 1972	Body 9	Crawl space	Stabbing
John Butkovich	18	July 31, 1975	Body 2	Garage	Suffocation
Darrell Julius Samson	18	April 6, 1976	Body 29	Dining room	Suffocation
Randall Wayne Reffett	15	May 14, 1976	Body 7	Crawl space	Suffocation
Samuel G. Dodd Stapleton	14	May 14, 1976	Body 6	Crawl space	Undetermined
Michael Lawrence Bonnin	17	June 3, 1976	Body 18	Crawl space	Strangulation
William Huey Carroll Jr.	16	June 13, 1976	Body 22	Crawl space	Suffocation
James Byron Haakenson	16	August 5, 1976	Body 24	Crawl space	Suffocation
Rick Louis Johnston	17	August 6, 1976	Body 23	Crawl space	Undetermined
Kenneth Ray Parker	16	October 24, 1976	Body 15	Crawl space	Undetermined
Michael M. Marino	14	October 24, 1976	Body 14	Crawl space	Undetermined
William George Bundy	19	October 26, 1976	Body 19	Crawl space	Suffocation
Francis Wayne Alexander	21	c. December 1, 1976	Body 5	Crawl space	Suffocation
Gregory John Godzik	17	December 12, 1976	Body 4	Crawl space	Undetermined
John Alan Szyc	19	January 20, 1977	Body 3	Crawl space	Undetermined
Jon Steven Prestidge	20	March 15, 1977	Body 1	Crawl space	Undetermined
Matthew Walter Bowman	19	July 5, 1977	Body 8	Crawl space	Strangulation
Robert Edward Gilroy Jr.	18	September 15, 1977	Body 25	Crawl space	Suffocation
John Antheney Mowery	19	September 25, 1977	Body 20	Crawl space	Strangulation
Russell Lloyd Nelson	21	October 17, 1977	Body 16	Crawl space	Suffocation
Robert David Winch	16	November 10, 1977	Body 11	Crawl space	Strangulation
Tommy Joe Boling	20	November 18, 1977	Body 12	Crawl space	Strangulation
David Paul Talsma	19	December 9, 1977	Body 17	Crawl space	Strangulation
William Wayne Kindred	19	February 16, 1978	Body 27	Crawl space	Suffocation
Timothy David O'Rourke	20	June 16–23, 1978	Body 31	Des Plaines River	Strangulation
Frank William Landingin	19	November 4, 1978	Body 32	Des Plaines River	Asphyxiation
James Mazzara	20	November 24, 1978	Body 33	Des Plaines River	Strangulation
Robert Jerome Piest	15	December 11, 1978	Body 30	Des Plaines River	Suffocation

10 - Undetermined. 13 - Undetermined. 21 - Undetermined. 26 - Suffocation. 28 - Suffocation.

Eyler summary

Name	Age	Date of murder	Date of discovery	Location of murder
Steven Crockett^[1]	19	October 23, 1982	October 23, 1982	Kankakee County, Illinois
Edgar Underkofler^[2]	26	October 30, 1982	March 4, 1983	Vermilion County, Illinois
John Johnson^[3]	25	November 1982	December 25, 1982	Lake County, Indiana
William Lewis^[4]	19	November 20, 1982	October 15, 1983	Jasper County, Indiana
Steven Agan^[5]	23	December 19, 1982	December 28, 1982	Vermillion County, Indiana
John Roach^[6]	21	December 22, 1982	December 28, 1982	Putnam County, Indiana
David Block^[7]	22	December 30, 1982	May 7, 1984	Lake County, Illinois
Ervin Gibson^[8]	16	January 24, 1983	April 15, 1983	Lake County, Illinois
John Bartlett^[9]	19	March 2, 1983	October 18, 1983	Newton County, Indiana
Michael Bauer^[10]	22	March 8, 1983	October 18, 1983	Newton County, Indiana
Richard Wayne^[11]	17	March 20, 1983	December 7, 1983	Hendricks County, Indiana
Jay Reynolds*^[12]	29	March 22, 1983	March 22, 1983	Madison County, Kentucky
Gustavo Herrera^[13]	28	April 8, 1983	April 8, 1983	Lake County, Illinois
Jimmie Roberts^[14]	18	May 4, 1983	May 9, 1983	Cook County, Illinois
Daniel McNeive^[15]	21	May 7, 1983	May 9, 1983	Hendricks County, Indiana
Richard Bruce^[16]	25	May 18, 1983	December 5, 1983	Effingham County, Illinois
John Brandenburg Jr.^[17]	19	c. May 29, 1983	October 18, 1983	Newton County, Indiana
Ralph Calise^[18]	28	August 31, 1983	August 31, 1983	Lake County, Illinois
Eric Hansen*^[19]	18	September 27, 1983	October 4, 1983	Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Daniel Bridges^[20]	16	August 19, 1984	August 21, 1984	Cook County, Illinois

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and stays inside when they occur

Casualties

Killed upon first floor:

Alyssa Miriam Alhadeff (14)

Martin Duque Anguiano (14)

Nicholas Paul Dworet (17)

Aaron Louis Feis (37)

Christopher Brent Hixon (49)

Luke Thomas Hoyer (15)

Gina Rose Montalto (14)

Alaina Joann Petty (14)

Helena Freja Ramsay (17)

Alexander Logan Schachter (14)

Carmen Marie Schentrup (16)

Killed upon third floor:

Scott J. Beigel (35)

Jaime Taylor Guttenberg (14)

Cara Marie Loughran (14)

Joaquin Oliver (17)

Meadow Jade Pollack (18)

Peter Wang (15)

Injured:

Ashley Baez (15)

Anthony Borges (15)

Isabel Chequer (16)

Justin Colton (14)

Alexander Dworet (15)

Samantha Fuentes (18)

Samantha Grady (17)

Marian Kabachenko (14)

Kyle Laman (15)

Samantha Mayor (17)

William Olson (14)

Stacey Lynn Lippel (50)

Kheshava Mangapuram

Daniela Menescal (17)

Genesis Valentin

Benjamin Wikander (17)

Madeleine Wilford (17)

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John Straffen, who has died in Frankland Prison .. will always be remembered as one of the country's most notorious child murderers, though he was also the victim of one of the most shaming trial processes in the history of English criminal justice.

Guardian columnist and investigative journalist Robert Woffinden, reflecting of Straffen's death. 22 November 2007.^[24]

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, seen here in the 1920s

Spilsbury (foreground), pictured conducting the forensic examination of Officer's House, Eastbourne. 4 May 1924.

^ "1983 Indiana Remains ID'd as Chicago Victim of Serial Killer". Northwest Indiana Times. April 25, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
^ Cite error: The named reference Dover Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference newspapers.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference Lewis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Robinson 2006, p. 140.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 11.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 12.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 189.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 220.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 150.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 205.
^ Cite error: The named reference Reynolds was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Closing Book on Murders". Chicago Tribune. March 10, 1994. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
^ "Eyler Charged in Dismemberment". Park Forest Star. August 26, 1984. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
^ "Profiles". The Indianapolis Star. June 12, 1983. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference ReferenceT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Chicago Man ID'd Through Genetic Genealogy Nearly 40 Years After Four Human Remains Discovered in Shallow IN Grave". ABC7. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
^ Foreman 1992, p. 113.
^ Kolarik 1990, p. 122.
^ "People v. Eyler: 133 Ill. 2d 173 (1989): Supreme Court of Illinois". justia.com. June 16, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
^ Where Sadness Breathes: The True Story of Willie Steelman and Douglas Gretzler and the 17 People they Murdered in the Autumn of 1973 ASIN B07MX4VW4K pp. 184-185
^ "Police Believe Skull Might Be of '72 Victim". Asbury Park Press. March 14, 1980. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ "Probers Turn to Manchester". Asbury Park Press. July 30, 1972. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
^ Woffinden, Robert (November 22, 2007). "John Straffen: Notorious Child Killer Whose Case Fell Foul of a Legal Fiasco". The Guardian. Retrieved October 30, 2024.

[1] "1983 Indiana Remains ID'd as Chicago Victim of Serial Killer". Northwest Indiana Times. April 25, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.

[Dover_Times-2] Cite error: The named reference Dover Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[newspapers.com-3] Cite error: The named reference newspapers.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Lewis-4] Cite error: The named reference Lewis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[FOOTNOTERobinson2006140-5] Robinson 2006, p. 140.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik199011-6] Kolarik 1990, p. 11.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik199012-7] Kolarik 1990, p. 12.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik1990189-8] Kolarik 1990, p. 189.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik1990220-9] Kolarik 1990, p. 220.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik1990150-10] Kolarik 1990, p. 150.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik1990205-11] Kolarik 1990, p. 205.

[Reynolds-12] Cite error: The named reference Reynolds was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[13] "Closing Book on Murders". Chicago Tribune. March 10, 1994. Retrieved August 6, 2019.

[14] "Eyler Charged in Dismemberment". Park Forest Star. August 26, 1984. Retrieved August 5, 2019.

[15] "Profiles". The Indianapolis Star. June 12, 1983. Retrieved August 28, 2019.

[ReferenceT-16] Cite error: The named reference ReferenceT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[17] "Chicago Man ID'd Through Genetic Genealogy Nearly 40 Years After Four Human Remains Discovered in Shallow IN Grave". ABC7. Retrieved April 25, 2021.

[FOOTNOTEForeman1992113-18] Foreman 1992, p. 113.

[FOOTNOTEKolarik1990122-19] Kolarik 1990, p. 122.

[20] "People v. Eyler: 133 Ill. 2d 173 (1989): Supreme Court of Illinois". justia.com. June 16, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2021.

[21] Where Sadness Breathes: The True Story of Willie Steelman and Douglas Gretzler and the 17 People they Murdered in the Autumn of 1973 ASIN B07MX4VW4K pp. 184-185

[Eyewitness-22] "Police Believe Skull Might Be of '72 Victim". Asbury Park Press. March 14, 1980. Retrieved February 22, 2024.

[23] "Probers Turn to Manchester". Asbury Park Press. July 30, 1972. Retrieved February 25, 2024.

[24] Woffinden, Robert (November 22, 2007). "John Straffen: Notorious Child Killer Whose Case Fell Foul of a Legal Fiasco". The Guardian. Retrieved October 30, 2024.

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