The Doodler

$250,000 Reward for 50-year-old Murders

The Doodler A team of San Francisco PD cold case detectives are examining new leads and hoping that the offer of a £250,000 reward will lead to revealing the identity of a serial killer nearly 50 years after his first murder. On 25th June 1975 the body of 27-year-old Joseph Stevens was discovered in bushes…

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Ex-Karate Instructor arrested for 1981 Killings

Victims Lisa Gondek & Rachel Zendejas Ventura County Sheriff’s Department in California, USA, have charged 68-year-old Tony Garcia for two counts of first degree murder. In 1981 Rachel Zendejas and Lisa Gondek were strangled in separate events. Police investigated the murders as two separate cases until 2004 when DNA evidence linked the cases together. Rachel…

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Female Serial Killers Motivated by Money

New research shines a light into some of the differences between the motivations of male and female serial killers. The study by Dr Marissa Harrison, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Harrisburg, USA. They found that male serial killers are often motivated by sex whereas females tend to kill for financial gain usually targeting…

BTK Killer Dennis Rader

BTK Killer Questioned over 1976 Disappearance

BTK Killer Dennis Rader BTK Killer Dennis Rader has been questioned by police regarding an unsolved disappearance in 1976. June 23rd 1976 16-year-old Cynthia Kinney went missing in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Rader was questioned by Osage County Sheriff, Eddie Virden and three other detectives at the end of January 2023 at El Dorado Correction Facility in…