Sketch of the “Zodiac” Killer

True Crime: Zodiac Killer, The Most Famous Unknown Serial Killer

Crime Files: Zodiac Killer, The Most Famous Unknown Serial Killer

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The FBI has a suspect in the infamous &#8220;Zodiac&#8221; killings, a cold case group claims.
Case Breakers, a volunteer group of investigators led by investigative journalist Thomas Colbert, claimed in <a href="https://thecasebreakers.org/2023/05/zodiac_killer_fbi_cover-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Thursday that the FBI has listed Air Force veteran Gary Francis Poste as a suspect in the Zodiac killings since 2016. The group said it learned the information from “a senior FBI agent.”
“The felon has been secretly listed as the Zodiac ‘suspect’ in Headquarters’ computers since 2016 – with his ‘partial DNA’ safely secured at the feds’ Quantico, Virginia lab,” Case Breakers claimed.
Case Breakers previously identified Poste, who died in 2018, as the Zodiac killer, and has questioned why the FBI hasn’t notified the victims’ families. Investigators have agreed that seven people were the victims of assaults by the Zodiac killer, five of whom died from their injuries. He is suspected of killing 20 to 28 in total, and the killer himself claimed to have killed 37 in his infamous letters to media outlets and detectives. The Zodiac operated in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1968 and 1969.
The FBI maintains that the case is still unsolved and remains open and active.
In its press release, Case Breakers claimed it had found DNA on a hiking mat Poste owned and confirmed the DNA using a living relative. The group has asked the FBI to compare that DNA to hairs found on Cheri Jo Bates, believed by the group to be one of the Zodiac’s victims. Police, however, don’t believe Bates was killed by the Zodiac.
&#8220;The Cheri Jo Bates investigation is not related to any of the Zodiac cases,&#8221; Riverside Police spokesman Ryan J. Railsback <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/did-fbi-miss-chance-arrest-suspect-zodiac-killer-gary-francis-poste-1801101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Newsweek two years ago.
More than 50 years after the Zodiac sent a cipher to the San Francisco Chronicle taunting authorities for failing to catch him, three amateur code breakers believed they cracked the cipher. The cryptic message, known as the “340 cipher,” was allegedly solved by Virginia software developer David Oranchak, Belgian computer programmer Jarl Van Eycke, and Australian mathematician Sam Blake. They believe the message contains a misspelling of the word “paradise,” but says:
<blockquote>I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me
That wasn’t me on the TV show which brings up a point about me
I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner
Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death
I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death.</blockquote>
The TV show reference is to “The Jim Dunbar Show,” a television talk show that aired in the San Francisco area. In 1969, a man claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into Dunbar’s show repeatedly, saying a few words before hanging up each time. The cipher that has been decoded was sent to the Chronicle two weeks after the show aired.
This is not the first time someone has claimed to know the identity of the Zodiac killer. Numerous people <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/us/zodiac-killer-son-book/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have claimed</a> to be relatives of someone they believe to have been the killer.

Cold Case Group Claims FBI Has ‘Zodiac Killer’ Suspect

Cold Case Group Claims FBI Has 'Zodiac Killer' Suspect

A man arrested in California late last week — who allegedly carried out a string of murders — is an illegal alien who came into the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor during the Obama administration.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer request against 21-year-old Carlos Dominguez, who illegally came into the U.S. in April 2009 from El Salvador, according to <a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/davis-stabbing-suspect-ice-detainer/103-9d65369a-5f6a-4a7c-bdd3-1f191420b093">ABC 10</a>. The report identified Dominguez as &#8220;an alleged serial killer.&#8221;
Dominguez, who attended UC Davis, is accused of stabbing two people to death and attempting to stab another person to death in the area. The three stabbings, all separate incidents, happened between April 27 and May 1. He was arrested by the Yolo County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and is now in the Yolo County jail.
The school said in a press release that Dominguez was a third-year student until April 25, &#8220;when he was separated for academic reasons.&#8221;
&#8220;We urge the community not to rush to conclusions or speculate until all facts are known,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;We are grateful for law enforcement&#8217;s quick response and resolution during an extremely difficult period for the city and campus.&#8221;
Those killed include David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, and a third victim, Kimberlee Guillory, is still in the hospital.
&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful that I&#8217;m alive and that I wasn&#8217;t killed,&#8221; Guillory <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/davis-stabbings-kimberlee-guillory-recalls-attack/43808197">said</a> from her hospital bed at UC Davis Medical Center. &#8220;I was so scared when he started punching me. I thought that&#8217;s what he was doing, was punching me. I didn&#8217;t realize he was stabbing me until afterwards. Everything just went kind of black from there.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m glad that they got him. I was praying for that, that nobody else will have to go through this,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Me and the other two victims never did anything to him. There was no reason for him to come after people that that he didn&#8217;t even know.&#8221;

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Alleged ‘Serial Killer’ Caught In California Is Illegal Alien Who Came Into U.S. Under Obama: Report

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A convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who spent time in a mental hospital was released and moved into an apartment building in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Yegor Khabarov is suspected of killing six people but was found guilty of killing only two due to a lack of evidence in the other four, The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/outed-russian-serial-killer-the-electrician-assures-neighbors-he-isnt-planning-new-murders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Residents of the apartment building only recently found out they were living next to the murderer, who insists he isn’t planning any new murders.
Khabarov was first detained in 2009, suspected of electrocuting his victims to death and gaining the moniker “The Electrician.” A retired police officer now working as a mall security guard was the first to realize that the killer had been released – because he was now a coworker.
“We were sitting there, I looked at him from all sides and I knew that this was him! But I thought he must have been imprisoned. And I say to him: ‘Are you The Electrician?’ This shocked him greatly, he was visibly frightened. He says &#8216;No, I have a different profession.&#8217; I said: ‘But your nickname is The Electrician, isn&#8217;t it?’ I told him I recognized him. He confirmed it. He said that he had undergone the required treatment and that it was all in the past,” the security guard <a href="https://www.e1.ru/text/criminal/2023/03/21/71584886/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a local news outlet.
“He talked about his inventions, how it is possible to make a shocker from a battery for a scooter. That you can electrocute a person during a thunderstorm and attribute everything to lightning,” the security guard added.
According to investigators, Khabarov had placed an ad selling computer components in 2009, and a 23-year-old student responded.
“They had agreed to meet in the garage of Khabarov, who by this time had already prepared everything for the murder,” a senior investigator for the case said at the time, according to The Beast.
The investigator said Khabarov grabbed his victim and tied him up before electrocuting him to death. Khabarov then dumped the student’s charred body on the side of a road, where it was later found.
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Khabarov was arrested and also charged with a murder that occurred a year earlier, in which investigators said he burned alive a 27-year-old computer tech.
At trial, witnesses testified that Khabarov was ecstatic as he watched his victims burn to death.
Khabarov claimed he was insane and was sent to a psychiatric facility for treatment.
Neighbors say they are concerned after learning who their neighbor actually is.
“Everyone is terribly afraid. We didn’t know this person had such a past. It’s scary to let the kids go out now, you never know what’s in his head,” one neighbor told the local outlet.
“I have often run into him in the elevator. His appearance is memorable, he looks frightening,” another said.
A friend of Khabarov, however, insisted that the killer is worried about coming into contact with the families of his victims.
“He was afraid to drive around the city, paying 3-4,000 rubles for a taxi ride. He said: ‘I’m afraid of the relatives of the people I killed,’” the friend said.
“Yegor says that he has changed his views and is not planning new murders. But I stopped communicating with him because he was a little weird. But at the same time he is a very cultured person! I’ve never heard him swear,” the friend added.

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A Suspected Serial Killer Moved In Next Door. He Insists He Won’t Kill Anyone Else.

A Serial Killer Moved In Next Door. He Insists He Won't Kill Anyone Else.

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A California man charged with serial killings in Northern California has been charged with four more slayings, bringing the total number of suspected deaths to seven.
Wesley Brownlee, 43, of Stockton, California, was arrested in October and charged with killing three people, after police fingered him as the serial killer who has been ambushing victims since April 2021, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/stockton-crime-legal-proceedings-shootings-dd90bdf065c27f006a1e1179b4903b21?fbclid=IwAR0ZJwLI5H0-kPzMRyTreFddnIXKgewf8AL17_MZPPbtWJHjrcPrnn1KoGo">reported</a>. Brownlee was arrested while he “was out hunting” for another victim, police <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-shootings-arrests-california-stockton-4f7cd8dc06d50eab1035613249c282a2">said</a> in October.
Three of the four new victims had been disclosed by authorities already, who had previously said they suspected Brownlee of the killings. Authorities initially believed Brownlee had killed six men and wounded one woman in total. Now he has been charged with seven murders.
The original three victims were Jonathan Rodriguez Hernandez, 21; Juan Cruz, 52; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54. The three men were killed in August and September. Now, an amended complaint charges Brownlee with the deaths of Paul Yaw, 35; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43; Juan Vasquez Serrano, 39; and Mervin Harmon. Yaw and Debudey were killed in Stockton over the summer while Serrano and Harmon were killed in Alameda County in April 2021.
In addition to the killings, Brownlee has been charged with the attempted murder of Natasha LaTour, 46.
During a news conference in October, Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said police used community tips and “good old-fashioned police work” to track down Brownlee.
“Based on tips coming to the department’s Stockton Crimestoppers, were we able to zero in on a possible suspect,” McFadden said, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-serial-killer-of-six-arrested-in-california-police-say">reported</a>. “Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving … watched his pattern and determined early this morning.”
“He was on a mission to kill,” McFadden added.
The police chief said officers took a man wearing dark clothes into custody around 2 a.m. after following him as he drove through parks and dark places where he would stop and look around before moving to the next location.
“He was out hunting,” McFadden said at his press conference. “We are sure we stopped another killing.”
Brownlee had a criminal history of drug and traffic violations, including a DUI, in Arizona and California.
McFadden also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/stockton-serial-killings-suspect-sunday">told</a> CNN that Brownlee’s seven victims were “alone, often caught off guard, or maybe relaxing in a vehicle or walking alone in almost pitch darkness” when they were attacked.
He added that “Just because an arrest was made does not mean the investigation stops,” saying “this is still a very active investigation.”

Northern California Serial-Killings Suspect Arrested

Suspected California Serial Killer Charged With Four More Slayings

When we think of serial killers, we think of Ted Bundy, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or John Wayne Gacy — all Americans. 
Rarely do we think about serial killers who operated in other countries, like Charles Sobhraj.
He was convicted of killing 12 people, but is suspected of killing as many as 30 across multiple countries. He may not be as prolific as Bundy or Dahmer, but he is every bit as terrifying.
Sobhraj was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, in 1944. His father reportedly denied his paternity, and Sobhraj was raised by his mother and her new husband, though Sobhraj felt neglected once the couple had additional children. Sobhraj began committing crimes as a teenager, receiving a sentence for burglary in 1963. While in prison, he manipulated the guards into giving him special privileges, including keeping books in his cell.
He continued to commit burglaries and scams once he was released, as well as stealing cars and using fake documents to travel through Europe with his pregnant fiancé, Chantal Compagnon. The coupled robbed tourists after befriending them. Sobhraj had begun amassing wealth through his crimes but developed a gambling addiction.
Sobhraj was arrested in India in 1973 after a failed robbery attempt, but escaped from prison with the help of Compagnon. He was quickly apprehended, but the couple posted bail and fled to Kabul, where they once again began robbing tourists. The couple was arrested again but, yet again, Sobhraj escaped, this time fleeing to Iran. Compagnon returned to France in an attempt to forget her criminal past.
Sobhraj spent the next two years on the run, traveling through Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and, along with his younger half-brother, committing crimes in Turkey and Greece and eventually being arrested in Athens. Sobhraj once again escaped, but his younger brother was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
While on the run, Sobhraj ran scams to make money, such as helping two former French policemen recover passports that Sobhraj had stolen himself.
Sobhraj reportedly committed his first known murder in 1975 with the help of an accomplice, Ajay Chowdhury, who was known as the serial killer’s second-in-command. The first victims reportedly recruited the pair to help them commit crimes, but later threatened to expose Sobhraj for his crimes, leading him to kill them. The first known victim was Teresa Knowlton, a young woman from Seattle, Washington, who had been drowned in a tidal pool in the Gulf of Thailand. Her death was originally believed to be an accident, but months later, her post-mortem and other evidence showed she had been intentionally drowned.
Next, Sobhraj and Chowdhury killed a young Turkish Sephardic Jew named Vitali Hakim, whom they burned. They then killed Dutch student Henk Bintanja and his fiancée Cocky Hemker, who were both poisoned, strangled, and burned in Thailand.
During this time, Sobhraj built up a cult following, and, joined by his most devoted follower, Marie-Andree Leclerc, entered Nepal using the Dutch student’s passports. There they murdered American Connie Jo Bronzich and her Canadian friend Laurent Carriere.
Next, Sobhraj traveled to Calcutta and murdered Israeli scholar Avoni Jacob. Sobhraj then used Jacob’s passport to travel with Leclerc and Chowdhury to Singapore, then India, and on to Bangkok.
During this time, police were closing in on the group, and Dutch authorities were closing in on those who killed Bintanja and Hemker. Investigators searched Sobhraj’s apartment a month after he left the country, and found the victims’ passports, poisons, and syringes.
In 1976, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Sobhraj for the four murders committed in Thailand – Knowlton, Hakim, Bintaja, and Hemker.
Even with the arrest warrant, Sobhraj and his crew continued to travel and kill. He and new followers killed Frenchman Jean-Luc Solomon in Bombay. They then poisoned a tour group of French post-graduate students in New Delhi. Three of the poisoned students figured out what was happening and took down Sobhraj. He was detained by police and spent the next 20 years in an Indian prison. During his imprisonment in India, he escaped briefly after drugging several prison guards, later claiming he did so to extend his sentence and avoid extradition to Thailand, where he was wanted for additional murders.
On February 17, 1997, Sobhraj, now 52, was released and allowed to return to France, since the warrants and evidence against him for his other crimes had been lost.
In France, Sobhraj raked in the cash by selling the rights to his life for a film and charging for interviews and photographs. In 2003, he returned to Nepal, where he was still wanted for multiple murders. A journalist saw him at a casino and wrote an article about him, which was seen by police, who raided the casino and arrested Sobhraj.
On August 20, 2004, Sobhraj was sentenced to life in prison for the 1975 murder of Bronzich. Sobhraj appealed the decision and lost, and on September 18, 2014, he was convicted of murdering Bronzich’s friend, Carriere. He was sentenced to another 20 years in prison.
By 2018, Sobhraj was in failing health and had received multiple open-heart surgeries.
A court ruling on December 21, 2022, ordered Sobhraj to be returned to France within 15 days, following a petition from his legal team arguing he should be released due to good behavior and his advanced age. The concession was granted thanks to a Nepalese law that allows inmates who have served at least 75% of their sentence with good behavior to be released.
“Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner’s human rights,” the ruling said, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64050714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the BBC</a>.
On December 23, 2022, Charles Sobhraj walked out of prison and was deported to France. He is not allowed to return to Nepal for at least 10 years.

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He Killed More People Than The Zodiac Killer. He Was Just Released From Prison.

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A notorious French <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a> known as “The Serpent” or the “Bikini Killer” has been released from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prison">prison</a> in Nepal due to his age.
Charles Sobhraj, 78, has spent the last 19 years in jail for murdering two tourists in Kathmandu in 1975, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64050714">reported</a>. He also spent 20 years in prison in India for multiple other tourist murders during the 1970s.
On Friday, Sobhraj walked out of prison.
A court ruling on Wednesday had ordered Sobhraj to be returned to France within 15 days, following a petition from his legal team arguing he should be released due to good behavior and his advanced age. The concession was granted thanks to a Nepalese law that allows inmates who have served at least 75% of their sentence and behaved to be released.
&#8220;Keeping him in the prison continuously is not in line with the prisoner&#8217;s human rights,&#8221; the ruling said, according to the BBC.
The verdict also noted Sobhraj’s regular treatment for heart disease as another factor relating to his release.
Sobhraj was known as the “Bikini Killer” because he targeted young women, who were drugged, strangled, beaten, or burned. He has been linked to more than 20 killings between 1972 and 1982 and often wore disguises to conceal his identity.
Before being convicted of murdering American Connie Jo Bronzich and her Canadian friend Laurent Carriere, Sobhraj spent 20 years in an Indian prison for poisoning a busload of French tourists in the country. During his imprisonment in India, he escaped briefly after drugging several prison guards, later claiming he did so to extend his sentence and avoid extradition to Thailand, where he was wanted for five additional murders. He is suspected of killing as man as 14 people in Thailand.
In 2003, after being released from prison in India, Sobhraj was arrested for Bronzich’s murder after he was spotted in a casino in Kathmandu. He was tried and sentenced in 2014 to two 20-year sentences for the murders of Bronzich and Carriere.
Sobhraj was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, in 1944. His father reportedly denied his paternity, and Sobhraj was raised by his mother and her new husband, though Sobhraj felt neglected once the couple had additional children. Sobhraj began committing crimes as a teenager, receiving a sentence for burglary in 1963. While in prison, he manipulated the guards into giving him special privileges, including keeping books in his cell.
He continued to commit burglaries and scams once he was released, as well as stealing cars and using fake documents to travel through Europe with his pregnant fiancé, Chantal Compagnon. The coupled robbed tourists after befriending them. Sobhraj had begun amassing wealth through his crimes but developed a gambling addiction.
Sobhraj reportedly committed his first known murder in 1975 with the help of an accomplice, Ajay Chowdhury, who was known as the serial killer’s second-in-command. The first victims reportedly recruited the pair to help them commit crimes, but later threatened to expose Sobhraj for his crimes, leading him to kill them.
This article has been updated.

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Notorious Serial Killer ‘The Serpent’ Released From Prison

Charles Sobhraj, Notorious Serial Killer, To Be Released From Prison

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&#8220;Dahmer&#8221; series creator Ryan Murphy said he disagreed with the idea that LGBTQ series/movies should be about uplifting topics in response to a backlash over his initial inclusion of the L.G.B.T.Q. tag on his show.
Murphy, who created the hit Netflix series about serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, told <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dahmer-ryan-murphy-evan-peters-backlash-lgbtq-tag-1235456098/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> he understood why people weren’t happy when the platform first used it, but said as a gay man he doesn&#8217;t agree with them. Following the backlash, Netflix removed the LGBTQ tag from &#8220;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8221; because &#8220;people were upset.&#8221;
&#8220;Many people in the community want to uplift,&#8221; Murphy explained. &#8220;I understand that. It&#8217;s [Netflix series] about homophobia.&#8221;
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In a rare interview and photo shoot for <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Variety</a>&#39;s SAG Contenders issue, Ryan Murphy &amp; Evan Peters discuss <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DahmerNetflix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DahmerNetflix</a>&#39;s incredible success, the length process and all the backlash that followed.
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&#8220;I have a saying: &#8216;My job as an artist is to hold up a mirror about what happened,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s ugly. It&#8217;s not pretty. Do you want to look at it? If you do, watch it. If you don&#8217;t, look away, and sometimes, some of this outrage is directed at the frame of the mirror instead of the reflection.&#8221;
&#8220;I try and say, I really understand why you&#8217;re upset about the inclusion of that,&#8221; Murphy continued. &#8220;I understand it, but I also disagree with it personally.&#8221;
At one point, the series creator said he thought the tag was included because of his involvement as a gay man.
&#8220;I think that it got the tag, one, because of my involvement,&#8221; Murphy shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m a gay man, so most of my stories deal with some sort of LGBTQ thing and I do that selfishly; when I was growing up, I had nothing [to look to]. My mission statement has been to talk about those stories and those characters and unearth buried history.&#8221;
Murphy previously responded to reports that the show was &#8220;exploiting&#8221; trauma suffered by the &#8220;victims’ families,&#8221; as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The series creator said he wanted to tell the story in part to shed light on the racism and homophobia in the case that he believed were pervasive. The prosecutor who secured Dahmer&#8217;s conviction, former Milwaukee County District Attorney Michael McCann, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dahmer-prosecutor-blows-up-netflix-narrative-claiming-cops-ignored-black-gay-victims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed this claim</a>.
The series focuses on serial killer, Dahmer, played by actor Evan Peters. Dahmer murdered 17 people from the 70s until the early 90s, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dahmer-series-creator-says-he-was-upset-over-lgbtq-tag-removal-says-its-a-story-about-gay-man-and-his-gay-victims">&#8216;Dahmer&#8217; Series Creator Says He Was Upset Over LGBTQ Tag Removal, Says It&#8217;s A Story About &#8216;Gay Man&#8217; And &#8216;His Gay Victims&#8217;</a>

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer – Milwaukee, USA

‘It’s Ugly. It’s Not Pretty’: ‘Dahmer’ Series Creator Says He Disagrees LGBTQ Series/Movies Should Be About Uplifting Themes

It’s Ugly. It’s Not Pretty’: ‘Dahmer’ Series Creator Says He Disagrees LGBTQ Series/Movies Should Be About Uplifting

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After a woman claimed to be the daughter of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serial killer</a> in a recent interview, a search of the supposed location of buried remains has turned up nothing.
Federal, state, and local authorities did not find any evidence or remains after scouring the earth for several days in Thurman, Iowa, a small town just 3 miles from the border with Nebraska. Abbie Petersen, a reporter for Omaha-based KETV, reported on the lack of findings. The news comes weeks after a woman spoke with <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dad-was-serial-killer-woman-says-cadaver-dogs-scour-field-nightmares-1754083?fs=e&amp;s=cl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a> in October, claiming to be the daughter of a killer.
&#8220;The Iowa Department of Public Safety says NO evidence was found after digging and collecting soil samples over the past few days in Thurman, Iowa,&#8221; Petersen reported in a Twitter thread Thursday. &#8220;This comes after a woman claimed her father was a serial killer and buried bodies on the land.&#8221;
The Iowa Department of Public Safety shared details of the effort in a <a href="https://dps.iowa.gov/no-evidence-found-fremont-county-excavation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
&#8220;Over the past three days, state, local, and federal law enforcement assisted with an investigation in Fremont County,&#8221; the press release stated. &#8220;Authorities brought in an array of experts representing several disciplines and significant assets to excavate, collect and examine soil samples from a site identified by a reporting party. After exhaustive efforts, no evidence or other items of concern were recovered.&#8221;
The Department coordinated with the FBI, DPS&#8217;s Division of Criminal Investigation, and the Fremont County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the release stated.
In October, Lucy Studey told Newsweek magazine that her late father, Donald Dean Studey, was a serial killer who used his children to bury the bodies. &#8220;I know where the bodies are buried,&#8221; she claimed.
According to Studey, her father killed between 50 and 70 women over a period of 30 years. He then instructed her and her siblings to help drag the bodies out to the alleged burial site, using a wheelbarrow in warmer weather and a toboggan during the winter snows. Once they arrived, the bodies were dumped into a well, and dirt and lye were piled on top.
&#8220;He would just tell us we had to go to the well, and I knew what that meant,&#8221; Studey said. &#8220;Every time I went to the well or into the hills, I didn&#8217;t think I was coming down. I thought he would kill me because I wouldn&#8217;t keep my mouth shut.&#8221;
Donald Studey died in 2013 at the age of 75.
The interview coincided with an initial inspection by the Fremont County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at the alleged burial site. Police used cadaver dogs to examine the site; the dogs allegedly reacted to something in the area, but the sheriff said that doesn&#8217;t prove anything definitively.
Still, the sheriff said it&#8217;s a distinct possibility that there could be something there. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a rumor around for years,&#8221; Fremont County Sheriff Kevin Aistrope told <a href="https://www.ketv.com/article/was-there-a-serial-killer-in-iowas-fremont-county/41757684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KETV</a> at the time. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to do everything we can to prove or disprove there may be a crime scene.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe her 100 percent that there&#8217;s bodies in there,&#8221; Aistrope added to Newsweek.

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana">Indiana</a> coroner’s office is seeking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dna">DNA</a> samples from relatives of young men who might have been victims of a prolific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a>.
Jeff Jellison, Hamilton County’s chief deputy coroner and coroner-elect, is looking to identify human remains found on an 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana, that once belonged to a man suspected of killing numerous young gay men, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/indiana-coroner-hopes-dna-can-id-remains-found-suspected-serial-killer-rcna59424?fbclid=IwAR2_iDsKF2HAqDpq6NysTqIi_3cJyoquuZbg_QYhpepanQnKKBzTMyfo0vE">reported</a>. The estate, known as Fox Hollow Farm, was previously owned by businessman Herbert Baumeister, who killed himself in Canada in July 1996 at the age of 49 when police were looking to question him about the remains found on his Indiana property.
More than 10,000 human bones and bone fragments have been found on the land since the mid-1990s, the AP reported.
“Some of them as small as a fingernail, some of them as large as some leg bones,” Jellison said in a press release, <a href="https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/coroner-hoping-to-identify-more-than-a-dozen-potential-serial-killer-victims/">according to Fox 59</a>. “Most of those remains were crushed before they were discarded, a lot of them were also burnt before they were discarded. Those two things right there create huge hurdles.”
Authorities have suggested that Baumeister, a married father of three, would go to gay bars and pick up young men he brought back to his home, where he killed them.
Police have linked Baumeister to the disappearance of at least 16 men since 1980 but believe the bones and bone fragments could belong to at least 25 people. In addition to the remains on his property, several bodies were found in shallow streams in Indiana and Ohio and are also believed to be linked to Baumeister.
Jellison said that 11 human DNA samples had been extracted when the investigation started 30 years ago. Eight of those samples were identified and matched, leaving three remaining. Jellison takes office in January and wants to make identifying the remaining individuals one of his first orders of business.
“These people were on a shelf for 26 years,” Jellison said. “They were forgotten, they’re no longer forgotten.”
Jellison said in the press release that he hopes advances in DNA technology could help identify additional remains but said he needs help from the community.
“If you had a relative, a loved one, that was missing from the mid-80s to middle 90s,” he said. “I need you to come forward and provide us with DNA.”
“It’s just a cheek swab,” he added. “It takes just a few seconds. You can come to us, we’ll come to you, but we need those swabs. Without those, we’re not going to go anywhere with this investigation.”

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Ryan Murphy, the man who created the hit Netflix series about serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, said he was upset when the platform removed the LGBTQ tag from the story about a &#8220;gay man&#8221; and &#8220;his gay victims.&#8221;
In a recent lengthy interview for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/style/ryan-murphy-netflix-horror.html">The New York Times</a>, Murphy said not all &#8220;gay stories&#8221; have to be happy and admitted he wasn&#8217;t pleased when the streaming site removed the LGBTQ tag from &#8220;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8221; because &#8220;people were upset.&#8221;
&#8220;The rule of my career has been: The more specific you are, the more universal you can become,&#8221; Murphy explained. &#8220;I also don’t think that all gay stories have to be happy stories.&#8221;
&#8220;There was a moment on Netflix where they removed the L.G.B.T.Q. tag from &#8216;Dahmer,&#8217; and I didn&#8217;t like it and I asked why they did that and they said because people were upset because it was an upsetting story,&#8221; the series creator added. &#8220;I was, like, &#8216;Well, yeah.&#8217; But it was a story of a gay man and more importantly, his gay victims.&#8221;
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Murphy also responded to reports that the show was &#8220;exploiting&#8221; trauma suffered by the &#8220;victims&#8217; families,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
The series creator said he did the story to shed light on the racism and homophobia in the case that were pervasive.
&#8220;It was the biggest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen that really sort of examines how easy it is to get away with things with the white privilege aspects,&#8221; Murphy shared.  &#8220;What are the rules now? Should we never do a movie about a tyrant?”
The prosecutor who secured Dahmer&#8217;s conviction, former Milwaukee County District Attorney Michael McCann, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dahmer-prosecutor-blows-up-netflix-narrative-claiming-cops-ignored-black-gay-victims">disputed this claim</a>.
&#8220;The notion that MPD officers turned a blind eye to Dahmer&#8217;s victims because of their race or sexual orientation is ludicrous, despite what &#8216;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8217; portrays,&#8221; McCann reportedly shared.
The series focuses on serial killer, Dahmer, played by actor Evan Peters. Dahmer murdered 17 people from the 70s until the early 90s, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-cruel-victims-family-member-not-happy-about-new-monster-the-jeffrey-dahmer-story-documentary">reported</a>.
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Evan Peters, the actor who played <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/serial-killer">serial killer</a> Jeffrey Dahmer in the recently released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> drama series, said he took great pains to stay in character for months in preparation for the role.
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/entertainment">Dahmer: Monster</a>” was a huge success for the streaming platform, quickly <a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/dahmer-netflix-second-most-watched-series">becoming</a> the second-most streamed show of all time by mid-October. Part of that hype comes from Peters’ performance as the notorious killer. While the 35-year-old said he was “terrified” to play Dahmer, he was also committed to making the role as realistic as possible.
“I really went back and forth on whether I should do it or not. I knew it was going to be incredibly dark and an incredible challenge,&#8221; Peters <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/actor-evan-peters-stayed-character-jeffrey-dahmer-months-prepare-role">said</a> during a panel over the weekend. He mentioned watching a 1994 Dateline interview with the real Dahmer so he could &#8220;dive into the psychology of that extreme side of human behavior.&#8221;
This included adopting Dahmer’s speech pattern and mannerisms to the extent he could. Filmmaker Ryan Murphy confirmed that Evans &#8220;basically stayed in this character, as difficult as it was, for months.”
&#8220;I wore the character shoes with lifts in them, his jeans, his glasses, I had a cigarette in my hand at all times,&#8221; Peters said. &#8220;I wanted all this stuff, these external things, to be second nature when we were shooting, so I watched a lot of footage and I also worked with a dialect coach to get down his voice. The way that he spoke, it was very distinct and he had a dialect.&#8221;
Peters also had a unique way of adopting the real Dahmer’s body posture. He said the convicted killer &#8220;has a very straight back. He doesn’t move his arms when he walks, so I put weights on my arms to see what that felt like.&#8221; 
&#8220;So I also went off and created this 45-minute audio composite, which was very helpful,&#8221; the &#8220;American Horror Story&#8221; actor said of his lengthy preparations. 
&#8220;I listened to that every day, in hopes of learning his speech patterns, but really, in an attempt to try to get into his mindset and understand that each day that we were shooting. It was an exhaustive search, trying to find private moments, times where he didn’t seem self-conscious, so you could get a glimpse into how he behaved prior to these interviews and being in prison.&#8221;
Peters’ co-star Niecy Nash recalled greeting the actor when he was working on becoming more like Dahmer. 
&#8220;I wanted to respect that and I wanted to keep him there,&#8221; she said of encountering his method acting practice. 
&#8220;I prayed for you a lot, for real, because this is weighty. And when you stay in it, and you’re tethered to the material, like bone to marrow, your soul is troubled at some point. And I could see him getting tired. I just said, &#8216;Well, I’m just gonna make sure I keep him in my prayers, because this is a lot and he wants to do it justice.'&#8221;

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