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    African-American Serial Killers

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    Howard Allen (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Allen
    Birth name Howard Arthur Allen
    Born February 10, 1949 (1949-02-10) (age 62)
    Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
    Killings
    Number of victims: 3
    Span of killings 1974–1987
    Country United States
    State(s) Indiana
    Date apprehended August 4, 1987

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    Terry A. Blair (Black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_B...serial_killer)
    Born 16 September 1961 (1961-09-16) (age 49)
    Sentence Life imprisonment
    Killings
    Number of victims: 8
    Span of killings 1982–2004
    Country U.S.
    State(s) Kansas City, Missouri
    Date apprehended September 14, 2004

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    The Briley Brothers (Anthony Ray Briley, James “J.B.” Briley, Jr. and Linwood Briley) (Black)
    were responsible for a series of killings in Richmond, Virginia in 1979 that lasted seven months before their arrest.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briley_Brothers
    Orline Christian, Michael McDuffie, Mary Gowen, Christopher Philips,John “Johnny G.” Gallaher, Mary Wilfong, Blanche Page and Charles Garner,
    Harvey Wilkerson his 23-year-old wife Judy Barton (who was five months pregnant at the time) and her 5-year-old son Harvey

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    Charlie Chop-off (black)
    Background information
    Birth name Unknown (possibly Erno Soto)
    Also known as Unknown
    Conviction Never convicted
    Sentence Never sentenced
    Killings
    Number of victims: 6
    Span of killings March 9, 1972–May 15, 1974
    Country United States
    State(s) New York
    Date apprehended Unapprehended
    (the only surviving victim who is black said Soto, who is black, looked like the killer)

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    Posteal Laskey Jr. (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Strangler
    Posteal Laskey Jr., the man believed to be the “Cincinnati Strangler”
    Birth name Posteal Laskey Jr.
    Also known as The Cincinnati Strangler
    Born 1938
    Died May 29, 2007
    Cause of death Natural causes
    Killings
    Number of victims: 7
    Span of killings 1965–1966
    Country USA
    State(s) Ohio
    Date apprehended December, 1966

    8
    Alton Coleman (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Coleman
    Also known as Robert Knight
    Born November 6, 1955(1955-11-06)
    Waukegan, Illinois, United States
    Died April 26, 2002(2002-04-26)
    Cause of death Execution by lethal injection
    Sentence Death
    Killings
    Number of victims: 7
    Span of killings 1984–1984
    Country United States
    State(s) Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky
    Date apprehended July 20, 1984

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    Juan Covington (black/mulatto)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Covington
    Born March 3, 1962
    Killings
    Number of victims: 3
    Span of killings 1998–May, 2005
    Country USA
    State(s) Pennsylvania
    Date apprehended 2005

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    Andre Crawford (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Crawford
    is an American convicted serial killer, who killed 11 women between 1993 to 1997. Many of the women were prostitutes or drug addicts. He would smoke crack after killing them and also had sex with their corpses.

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    Paul Durousseau (black/mulatto)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Durousseau
    Durousseau’s mug shot
    Birth name Paul Durousseau
    Born August 11, 1970(1970-08-11)
    Beaumont, Texas
    Killings
    Number of victims: 9+ (suspected of murders in Germany)
    Span of killings January 6, 1997–January 20, 2003
    Country U.S., possibly Germany
    State(s) Georgia, Florida
    Date apprehended June 17, 2003

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    Kendall Francois (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Francois
    Mug shot of Kendall Francois
    Also known as The Poughkeepsie Killer
    Stinky
    Born July 26, 1971 (1971-07-26) (age 40)
    Poughkeepsie, New York
    Conviction Murder
    Sentence Life Imprisonment without parole
    Killings
    Number of victims: 8-10+
    Span of killings October, 1996–August 26, 1998
    Country U.S.
    State(s) New York
    Date apprehended September 2, 1998

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    Lonnie David Franklin Jr (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_sleeper
    Grim Sleeper
    Also known as Strawberry Murders
    Killings
    Number of victims: 10 charged, 1 suspected, 1 survivor
    Span of killings 1985–2007
    Country United States
    State(s) California
    Date apprehended July 2010

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    Carlton Gary (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Gary
    Birth name Carlton Michael Gary
    Also known as Carl Michaels
    Michael David
    The Stocking Strangler
    Born December 15, 1952
    Columbus, Georgia
    Conviction Assault
    Murder
    Property Damage
    Sentence Death
    Killings
    Number of victims: 7
    Span of killings 1977–1978
    Country U.S.
    State(s) Georgia
    Date apprehended May 3, 1984

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    Lorenzo Gilyard (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Gilyard
    Birth name Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr.
    Born May 24, 1950(1950-05-24)
    Killings
    Number of victims: 12-13
    Span of killings 1977–1993
    Country USA
    State(s) Florida, Missouri, Nevada
    Date apprehended 2004

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    William Henry Hance (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Hance
    Birth name William Henry Hance
    Born c. 1952
    Died March 31, 1994
    Cause of death Execution by electric chair
    Killings
    Number of victims: 4 (known)
    Span of killings 1977–1978
    Country United States
    State(s) Georgia, Indiana
    Date apprehended 1978

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    Michael Hughes (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...serial_killer)
    Killings
    Number of victims: 4+ (suspected of 4 more)
    Country United States
    State(s) California
    Date apprehended 1993

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    Vincent Johnson (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Johnson
    Also known as The Brooklyn Strangler
    Born January 6, 1969 (1969-01-06) (age 42)
    Conviction Murder
    Sentence Life imprisonment without parole
    Killings
    Number of victims: 5-6
    Span of killings August 26, 1999–June 7, 2000
    Country U.S.
    State(s) New York
    Date apprehended August 5, 2000

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    Derrick Todd Lee (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Todd_Lee
    Birth name Derrick Todd Lee
    Also known as The Baton Rouge Serial Killer
    Born November 5, 1968 (1968-11-05) (age 42)
    St. Francisville, Louisiana
    Conviction Assault,
    Burglary,
    Murder,
    Misdemeanor trespassing,
    Stalking,
    Trespassing,
    Voyeurism
    Sentence Death
    Killings
    Number of victims: 7+
    Span of killings August 23, 1992–March 3, 2003
    Country USA
    State(s) Louisiana
    Date apprehended May 27, 2003

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    Christopher Peterson (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo...serial_killer)
    (later changed his name to Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl),
    dubbed the “Shotgun Killer”
    Number of victims: 8
    Span of killings Oct.-Dec 1990
    Country USA
    State(s) Indiana

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    Craig Price (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Price
    Birth name Craig Price
    Also known as The Warwick Slasher[1]
    Born August , 1974(1974-08-00)
    Killings
    Number of victims: 4
    Span of killings 1987–September 1, 1989
    Country USA
    State(s) Warwick, Rhode Island
    Date apprehended 1989

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    Cleophus Prince Jr. (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleophus_Prince_Jr .
    Birth name Cleophus Prince Jr.
    Also known as The Clairemont Killer
    Born July 24, 1967
    California
    Conviction Attempted burglary,
    Burglary,
    Murder,
    Rape,
    Robbery
    Sentence Death
    Killings
    Number of victims: 6
    Span of killings January 12, 1990–September 13, 1990
    Country United States
    State(s) California
    Date apprehended March 3, 1991

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    Robert Earnest Rozier (black, former NFL player)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rozier
    (born July 28, 1955)
    victims 7
    he became involved with “The Brotherhood”, a Black Supremacist cult led by Yahweh ben Yahweh.
    Rozier would admit to killing seven White people to please Yahweh.
    arrested and charged with murder on October 31, 1986.
    After agreeing to testify against Yahweh’s organization, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
    After serving ten years in prison, Rozier was set free in 1996.[2]
    Rozier was placed in the witness protection program under the name Robert Ramses.
    On February 5, 1999, he was arrested for passing a bad check for $66 to pay for a car repair.
    After finding Rozier’s true identity, police discovered a trail of 29 bounced checks totaling more than $2,000, and charged him with a felony.[4] He was convicted, and under a third strike law, Judge Eddie T. Keller sentenced Rozier to serve 25 years to life.[5]
    He is currently serving 25 years to life on a conviction for check kiting under a third strike law.

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    Lemuel Smith (Black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Smith
    Birth name Lemuel Warren Smith
    Born 23 July 1941 (1941-07-23) (age 70)
    Amsterdam, New York
    Killings
    Number of victims: 6
    Span of killings January 21, 1958–May 15, 1981
    Country U.S.
    State(s) New York
    Date apprehended August 19, 1977

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    Morris Solomon Jr. (Black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Solomon,_Jr.
    Solomon with his attorney Kenneth Wells, Sacramento County Public Defender
    Born 1944
    Albany, Georgia
    Killings
    Number of victims: 6-7
    Span of killings June 1986–April 1987
    Country U.S.
    State(s) California
    Date apprehended April 22, 1987

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    Anthony Edward Sowell (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell
    Sowell in the wanted flyer issued by the Cuyahoga County sheriff office, November 2009
    Also known as The Imperial Avenue Murderer
    Born August 19, 1959 (1959-08-19) (age 51)
    Killings
    Number of victims: 11
    Span of killings c. May 2007–c. Sept 2009
    USA, Ohio
    Date apprehended October 31, 2009

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    Timothy Spencer (Black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Wilson_Spencer
    Also known as The Southside Strangler
    Cause of death Execution
    Killings
    Number of victims: 5
    Span of killings 1984–1987
    Country United States
    State(s) Virginia
    Date apprehended January, 1988

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    Edward Surratt (black/mulatto)
    No Wiki page (?)
    http://www.post-gazette.com/regionst...024serial4.asp
    18+ victims
    Date apprehended 2005

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    James Edward Swann, Jr.,(Black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Swann
    a.k.a. “The Shotgun Stalker”, (born 1964),
    Washington, DC in 1993
    Victoms 4 killed, 5 injured (20ga shotgun)
    apprehended by the Metropolitan Police on April 19, 1993.[

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    John Floyd Thomas, Jr. (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Floyd_Thomas,_Jr.
    Birth name John Floyd Thomas, Jr.
    Also known as The Westside Rapist
    The Southland Strangler
    Willie Eugene Wilson[1]
    Born July 26, 1936 (1936-07-26) (age 75)
    Los Angeles
    Sentence Seven consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole
    Killings
    Number of victims: 7-15+
    Span of killings November 1972–June 1986
    Country United States
    State(s) California
    Date apprehended March 31, 2009

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    Maury Travis (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Travis
    Birth name Maury Troy Travis
    Born October 25, 1965
    Died June 10, 2002
    Cause of death Suicide
    Killings
    Number of victims: 12-17
    Span of killings 2000–2002
    Country USA
    State(s) Missouri
    Date apprehended 2002

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    Chester Turner (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Turner
    Birth name Chester Dewayne Turner
    Born November 5, 1966
    Warren, Arkansas
    Killings
    Number of victims: 13
    Span of killings 1987–1998
    Country U.S.
    State(s) California
    Date apprehended April 30, 2007

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    Henry Louis Wallace (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Wallace
    Birth name Henry Louis Wallace
    Also known as The Charlotte Strangler
    Born October 4, 1965 (1965-10-04) (age 45)
    Barnwell, South Carolina
    Conviction Murder
    Rape
    Sentence Death
    Killings
    Number of victims: 10
    Span of killings Early 1990–March 8, 1994
    Country United States
    State(s) North Carolina
    Date apprehended March 13, 1994

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    Carl “Coral” Eugene Watts (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Eugene_Watts
    Birth name Carl Eugene Watts
    Also known as Coral
    The Sunday Morning Slasher
    Born November 7, 1953(1953-11-07)
    Killeen, Texas
    Died September 21, 2007(2007-09-21) (aged 53)
    Jackson, Michigan
    Cause of death Prostate cancer
    Conviction Murder
    Sentence 60 years in prison, commuted to life
    Killings
    Number of victims: 12–suspected to be 100
    Span of killings 1974–May 23, 1982
    Country United States
    State(s) Michigan
    Texas
    Date apprehended May 23, 1982

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    Nathaniel White (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_White
    (born July 28, 1960) is an African American serial killer.
    Active in the Hudson Valley region of New York during the early 1990s,
    White confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death while on parole.

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    Nicholas Wiley (black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Wiley
    Nicholas Wiley is an American serial killer who murdered three women in Syracuse, New York in 2004.

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    Wayne Williams (Black)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Williams
    Birth name Wayne Bertram Williams
    Also known as The Atlanta Monster
    The Atlanta Child Killer
    The Atlanta Child Murderer
    Born May 27, 1958 (1958-05-27) (age 53)
    Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Killings
    Number of victims: 2-31
    Span of killings July 21, 1979–May 22, 1981
    Country U.S.
    State(s) Georgia
    Date apprehended June 21, 1981

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    Serial Killers Come In All Colors

    The F.B.I. describes serial killers as a person who murders three or more people usually with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break between them. They make a distinction that serial killing is not the same as mass murdering, nor is it spree killing, where murders are committed in two or more locations in a short time. Former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of “Mind Hunter, John Douglas says, “A very conservative estimate is that there are between 35 and 50 active serial killers in the United States” at any given time.”

    There seems to be a widespread misconception that serial killers are all deranged or socially awkward white males. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In actuality, there are serial killers of all races and ethnicity and most are found competent to stand trial.

    When I started my research on African-American serial killers I knew of about 10, as I researched I learned more that I had never heard of. I researched for hours, murderer after murderer, method after method until I was so disgusted I concluded my list was as complete as it could be for my own sanity.

    Sometimes it seems that African-American serial killers go undetected longer, or totally because of their choice of victims. It’s more common for African-American serial killers to target victims in urban neighborhoods where the crime rate is higher to begin with. Black on Black crime has become so an idea of normal violence that some wonder how hard the police investigate. In some of the cases where the victims were predominately white, the killer went undetected longer because the police were focused on a Caucasian perpetrator. Somehow it took the D.C. Sniper killings and attacks to bring mass awareness to the idea of an African-American serial killer though many had been prosecuted long before these killings.

    A 2014 Radford/FGCU Serial Killer Database annual statistics report showed that for the decades 1900–2010, the percentage of White serial killers was 52.1% while the percentage of African-American serial killers was 40.3%.

    There have been a plethora of African-American serial killers throughout the decades. Just a few are

    Jake Bird who in 1947, after a three-day trial was found guilty of first-degree murder and given the death penalty. While on death row he confessed to committing or being involved in at least 44 murders during his travels across the country. He was hanged at the Washington State Penitentiary in 1949.

    Lonnie David Franklin Jr, nicknamed “The Grim Reaper” because he appears to have taken a 14-year slumber from his crimes, from 1988 to 2002. He is believed to be the culprit behind at least 10 murders. Jury selection for Franklin’s trial was scheduled for December 15, 2015.

    Nathaniel White is a convicted serial killer who was active in Hudson Valley region of New York during the early 1990s. White confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death while on parole. He was charged with six counts of second-degree murder and was convicted on all counts on April 14, 1993. He was sentenced to 150 years to life.

    Anthony Edward Sowell Jr was also known as the Cleveland Strangler. In 2011, he was charged with eleven counts of aggravated murder and over 70 counts of rape, kidnapping, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. To date, he currently resides on death row at Chillicothe Correctional Institution.

    Milton Johnson is responsible for 17 murders in June, July and August of 1983 in Joliet, Illinois. Although he was sentenced to death he was spared in January 2003 when the Governor of Illinois commuted the death sentence of 167 inmates including Johnson.

    Alton Coleman along with a 21-year-old female accomplice Debra Brown committed a string of vicious attacks and murders during a six-state killing spree in 1984. By the time the couple was caught, Coleman was charged or wanted for questioning in sexual assaults on at least 20 people in 13 separate attacks, including seven murders. Almost all of the victims were African-American. One of their victims was the 21-year-old Debra Brown 7-year-old niece who they killed in the process of raping and torturing her 9-year-old sister. He was executed by the state of Ohio.

    Paul Durousseau (murdered seven young women (including two who were pregnant) between 1997 and 2003. He is also suspected of multiple murders while stationed overseas in the American Military. All of his known victims were young, single African-American women. Charged with five counts of murder, on December 13, 2007, he was sentenced to die by lethal injection.

    Kendall Francois from Poughkeepsie, New York was convicted of killing eight women, from 1996 to 1998. Originally on trial for murder, a month later he was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder, eight counts of second-degree murder, and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole until his death.

    Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard, Jr.is alleged to have raped and murdered 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993. He was convicted of six counts of murder on March 16, 2007. All were strangled and showed signs that they were involved in a struggle, Gilyard was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

    Michael Hughes was convicted and sentenced to life without parole for the murders of four women and girls in California. In a separate trial, he was sentenced to death for the murders of three other women.

    Derrick Todd Lee nicknamed the Baton Rouge Serial Killer was initially overlooked by authorities because they believed the killer was of the white race. Lee is awaiting execution in Louisiana. He was linked by DNA to the deaths of seven women in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas in Louisiana, and in 2004 was convicted, in separate trials, of the murders of two women. One of the trials resulted in a death sentence.

    “The Hitch-Hike Murderer” Anthony J Jackson rapist targeted college women near Boston University. On December 22, 1976, he was convicted of murder in the first degree, kidnapping, rape, and unarmed robbery, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

    Gerald Parker raped and murdered five Orange County, California women, attacked a sixth, and killed her unborn child during the 1970s although he wasn’t arrested for his crimes until 17 years later when a DNA link was established. Parker was sentenced to death in January 1999.

    There is too much evidence of serial killers around the globe of all races to believe the myth that all serial killers are white. While the majority of sensationalized serial killer murders in the United States are perpetrated by Caucasian males there are many African-American ones operating in the U.S. as well.

    http://theurbantwist.com/2016/01/12/...in-all-colors/
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