In 1999, he was convicted of Cheryl's murder and sentenced to life in prison. However, investigators later discovered that he was in Ohio at the time of Delores's murder, so the charges in that case were dropped. He reportedly had been seen with her several times prior to her murder. He also was found hanging around the area that Cheryl's body was found a year prior. He later confessed to an investigator that he had taken a black female and "placed" her in the water.Įllwood's ex-girlfriend testified that he had taken her to two of his victims' bodies. While in jail on unrelated charges, he described in graphic detail how he drugged and choked prostitutes before dragging their naked bodies away. In the past, he had made several statements alluding to the fact that he had murdered prostitutes. He was later charged with second-degree murder and is suspected in a total of eight murders. However, in 1998, another suspect named Russell Ellwood was arrested for the murders of Cheryl Lewis and Delores Mack, two of the suspected victims who were found murdered in February 1993. He has never been charged and some believe that investigators may have covered up his involvement because he was a fellow officer. Sharon was Gant's ex-girlfriend and she previously claimed that he had abused her. A shoe-print tread next to Karen's body matched Sharon's shoe. Victor Gant, a New Orleans police officer, is suspected in the 1995 murders of Karen Ivester and Sharon Robinson, who were believed to have been murdered on the same night by the same killer. Local police and the FBI suspect that they may have also been victims of the same killer. From 1992 to 1995, at least eighteen more women have been killed in the New Orleans area. He has never been identified.Įxtra Notes: This case first aired on the Octoepisode. He was driving a blue Regal or Monte Carlo. On the night of Danielle's murder, he was seen with her outside of a bar called Neva's Rendezvous. He is described as clean cut, well dressed, and 5'10" with a muscular build. The killer strikes once a month, always strangling his victims and always leaving them nude and face down, in or near illegal dump sites. Seven were found within a three mile radius. Three other victims would later be found dead. She was found under the greater New Orleans bridge, very close to police headquarters. On January 14, 1992, twenty-nine-year-old Lydia Madison was found murdered and was the fifth victim.
She was in her early 20s, was 5'2", weighed 125 pounds, and had protruding front teeth. The fourth victim was found on Decemshe has never been identified. She awoke the next morning and described her attacker to police.Ī third victim, Charlene Price, was found on September 22, 1991, dumped just one mile from where Danielle was found. He tried to strangle her and then left her for dead. He then abducted her and took her to the same trash site where Danielle would be found.
He insisted on giving her a ride, but she refused. He began following her one night while she was going to a friend's house.
This victim, "Brenda," survived but was severely injured by the unknown man. She had been strangled and possibly raped approximately twelve hours earlier.Īs the investigation began, Detective Elizabeth Wigginton was approached by a neighbor who told her about an attack that had occurred nearby two weeks earlier. The first one, seventeen-year-old Danielle Britton, was found on August 4, 1991, covered in trash at an illegal dump site. He chooses victims that he believes are prostitutes. The Lizzie Borden House where her parents were found murdered is now a popular tourist attraction and was featured on an episode of "Supernatural.(Above: Various sketches of possible suspect(s) photo credits: Unsolved Wiki)ĭetails: The New Orleans Police are searching for an unknown man that is believed to be responsible for at least eight murders throughout the city. But the townsfolk of Fall River never stopped believing that she was guilty and ostracized her for the rest of her life. Police could find no evidence of who committed the crime, but arrested their daughter Lizzy and charged her with murder.īecause the evidence against her was purely circumstantial, she was acquitted after the jury deliberated for less than an hour. On August 4, 1892, Andrew Jackson Borden and his second wife, Abby, were bludgeoned to death with an ax, New England Today reports. That might not be how the original rhyme goes, but it is more accurate since Lizzie was acquitted of her parents' murder in 1893. Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done she allegedly gave her father 41. The Borden home in Fall River, Massachusetts.ĭonna Hageman/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
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