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From the Giggling Granny to the Killer Clown, America has birthed some of history's most notorious murderers. Join us as we explore the most infamous serial killer from each US state, examining their horrific crimes and the dark paths that led them there. From small-town monsters hiding in plain sight to predators who terrorized entire regions, these are America's deadliest killers.
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00:00Watts would have been the first serial killer in this country's history ever to be legally
00:04released through the several quirks in Texas law. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today is the first of
00:10two parts exploring the most infamous serial killer connected to each U.S. state. We'll be
00:15looking at those who were either born in or committed their terrible crimes within each
00:19state's borders. Do you remember killing her? Yeah, possibly. I'm not going into details
00:29here. Alabama, Nanny Doss. From her track record, it looks that anyone who got on her wrong
00:47side, they signed their own death warrant. With the moniker of the giggling granny, Doss
00:53sounds like she'd be a sweet woman. However, she was anything but. Born and raised in Alabama,
00:57a childhood head injury may have led to her descent into darkness. Doss was married five
01:02times, but only her first husband survived the union. Finding subsequent husbands through
01:07lonely hearts, columns, and clubs, she'd take life insurance out on them before poisoning them.
01:12Yet it wasn't just the husbands who were Doss' targets, so were other family members,
01:17including two of her children. When final husband Samuel Doss died in 1954, it was discovered that
01:23arsenic was the cause, and this was traced to his wife. After confessing to 11 murders,
01:29Doss was sentenced to life in 1955. To sit back and watch someone who's slowly being eaten away from
01:38the inside out is vicious. Alaska, Robert Hansen. He crossed the line out of desperation.
01:54And any kind of resistance, that just made him want to punish them more.
01:58Born in Iowa, Hansen moved to Alaska to set up a bakery after serving time for arson and being
02:05diagnosed with several mental health disorders. He brought his criminal impulses with him,
02:10eventually abducting, assaulting, and murdering numerous women starting in 1972. In 1983,
02:17Cindy Paulson was abducted but managed to escape, which later led to Hansen's arrest.
02:22I thought, what the hell is Bob Hansen doing on national news? And I turned it up and it said,
02:28this is the greatest mass murder in the history of Alaska. Well, you could have knocked me over
02:33with a feather. I had no idea. During the investigation, it was discovered that he'd
02:38been kidnapping women, taking them to a remote cabin, assaulting them, and often releasing them
02:44to hunt them in the wilderness. After pleading guilty to four murders, Hansen made a deal to lessen
02:49his sentence by showing the authorities 17 graves. However, it's expected he might have taken many
02:56more lives. Hansen received 461 years in prison before dying in 2014.
03:02He demanded that he be imprisoned outside of Alaska when the trial was over.
03:08In exchange for only four convictions, he agreed to show the troopers where more bodies were buried.
03:21Arizona, Mark Goodo.
03:23For 10 months, you acted as a terrorist in our community.
03:26I'm an innocent man. I do not commit these crimes.
03:30In 2006, Phoenix, Arizona was in a state of fear as the baseline killer was taking lives.
03:36Most of the murder victims were found near Baseline Road, hence the moniker.
03:40The killer had taken nine lives and had committed various assaults and robberies, too.
03:45DNA evidence taken from the victims matched another case involving Goodo assaulting two sisters in 2005.
03:51The last victim murdered in June, 37-year-old Carmen Miranda was abducted from a car wash at 29th Street in Thomas, just blocks from where Goodo lives.
04:02The construction worker who was born in the city was soon arrested.
04:06His wife stated that he was innocent, despite Goodo's previous conviction for violent assault.
04:11In 2011, Goodo was found guilty of all nine murders and many other charges, earning him the death penalty nine times over and 1,762 years in jail.
04:23Keep in mind, police already had Mark Goodo's DNA in the system from a previous felony conviction.
04:28So when the technicians finally did test everything...
04:31Bam! Match right to Mark Goodo from that left breast swap.
04:35Arkansas. Frederick Jackson.
04:45After we review all of the evidence, including the grand jury's deliberations, as well as speaking to those people involved,
04:52we'll make a decision as to whether this will be a capital case or not.
04:56Even as a child, Jackson was known to the cops in Little Rock, Arkansas.
05:00After all, on top of several violent episodes, theft, and possessing illegal substances that earned him probation,
05:07his uncle was fatally shot by police, and his pregnant mother was murdered.
05:11In 2020, Jackson began his spree.
05:14By 2022, he'd taken the lives of four people when he was aged 15 to 17 years old.
05:20After being arrested, Jackson pleaded guilty to the murders, earning him 50 years in jail.
05:25However, due to being a minor when the killings were committed, instead of needing to serve 70% of the sentence before parole,
05:32he'll become eligible after 25 years.
05:42California. Edmund Kemper.
05:44Leading detectives to the scenes of his crimes, he would explain his murders in chilling detail to anybody who'd listen.
05:52Many serial killers harmed animals as children, and Kemper fits that profile.
05:57After a dysfunctional upbringing, in 1963, he went to live with his grandparents in the state of his birth, California.
06:04The next year, the 15-year-old took their lives, earning him five years in a state hospital for mentally ill criminals.
06:12Yet Kemper had a high IQ and an imposing size, which combines to make him a serious threat.
06:17In 1972 and 73, he morphed into the co-ed killer, murdering six female students who were hitchhiking.
06:25Then, after taking the lives of his mother and her friend, Kemper handed himself in to the police.
06:31Including his grandparents, he'd taken 10 lives.
06:34While he requested execution, Kemper was sentenced to eight concurrent life sentences.
06:39I've never been much to look at myself, but I've always gone after the pretty girls, but you're the same.
06:53Colorado. Scott Lee Kimball.
06:55He was a bad guy catching worse guys.
07:00But there's a problem. He was on the run.
07:04After a troubled childhood and being the victim of abuse,
07:08Kemper began committing fraud and other crimes in his home state of Colorado and other nearby areas.
07:13He was sent to jail, and while there, Kemper became an FBI informant,
07:18earning a paycheck for telling the authorities about what other inmates may have been up to.
07:23Following his release in 2002, Kemper moved on to murder.
07:26It's hard to be involved in a case and not know the whys, why this happened.
07:32It's hard to forget these kind of cases.
07:34I mean, it's somebody's child, a human being, you know, and so those are questions you really want answered.
07:41Most of which took place as he was operating as an informant.
07:44Between 2003 and 2004, on top of allegedly attempting to kill his own son,
07:50Kemper took the lives of at least four people.
07:52In 2006, after he was arrested for fraud, his murders came to light.
07:57In 2009, Kemper was sentenced to 70 years in jail.
08:00What we wanted him marked for, of course, is the violent, you know, murderer that he is.
08:06Connecticut, Michael Bruce Ross.
08:15His two-year Connecticut rampage started in January of 1982, driving along busy Route 6 in Danielson, Connecticut.
08:24In 2005, Ross became the first person since Joseph Taborski in 1960 to be executed in Connecticut.
08:31After graduating from college and working in insurance, Ross began his killing spree in New York and his home state of Connecticut.
08:38Between 1980 and 1984, he took the lives of at least eight women and girls, most of whom he assaulted, too.
08:45A serial killer is like the strangler victims, and that is, I guess, the most common form of killing,
08:50because there's more of a connection there. It's more real, and it's not as quick.
08:54While awaiting his sentence, the killer nicknamed the Roadside Strangler found religion inside.
09:00He spent years fighting his fatal punishment, but in his final months, welcomed it.
09:04After the execution, a psychiatrist who fought for Ross not being competent enough to waive his appeals,
09:10received a posthumous letter from the killer stating, quote,
09:14Check and mate, you never had a chance, end quote.
09:17For some of us, death is not a punishment. Living is what the punishment is.
09:30Delaware, Stephen Bryan Pennell.
09:32These eyes, they were almost like a shark's eyes, you know?
09:36I mean, they were almost emotionless.
09:39He testified as if he was like an automaton.
09:41I mean, we spent hours preparing his cross-examination.
09:45At the current time, Pennell has the distinct honor of being Delaware's only recognized modern serial killer.
09:51Known as the Route 40 killer due to most of his victims being taken from that highway,
09:56Pennell targeted women between 1987 and 1988 within his home state.
10:01The police sent an officer undercover on his hunting grounds,
10:05eventually coming into contact with Pennell when he tries to pick her up in his car.
10:09We have, so the individual has killed two people in a very similar manner.
10:13DeBaro had more torture.
10:15So right away, he realized that the level of violence taken on these victims was increasing.
10:23Following the jury's verdict, the Delaware native fired his lawyer and represented himself.
10:28Instead of fighting the prosecution, Pennell requested capital punishment, which was granted.
10:34He was convicted by jury of two murders and pleaded no contest to two more.
10:39In 1992, Pennell's execution was carried out.
10:42If this ordinary-looking electrician is secretly a serial killer stalking local prostitutes,
10:49he has done nothing to give himself away.
10:51Losing custody of his children completely devastated John.
11:08It made him angry and depressed.
11:11In Lee Malvo, John saw someone that lacked a father figure,
11:15someone he could teach and mold,
11:17someone he could ultimately turn into a killing machine.
11:19While not technically a state, instead being a federal district,
11:23we couldn't ignore the nation's capital.
11:25In 2002, U.S. Army veteran Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Malvo began their killing spree.
11:32Over the space of several months, the duo, usually with a sniper rifle,
11:36fatally shot people in D.C. and many other states, including Virginia, Washington, and Maryland.
11:41During their rampage, 17 people were murdered and 10 were injured.
11:54Following several trials across various states,
11:57Muhammad was sentenced to death, which was enacted in 2009.
12:00Malvo received 10 consecutive life sentences without parole.
12:04However, due to being a minor at the time of the killings,
12:07his convictions have been reduced in recent years.
12:10Since his arrest, Lee Malvo has told police that all the shootings were carried out jointly
12:15and he pulled the trigger on the boy.
12:18Allegedly, it is Malvo's writing in the letters,
12:21voice on the police tapes,
12:23and print found on the murder weapon.
12:33Florida, Eileen Wuornos.
12:35I intend to expose the crooked cops to the people all over the world,
12:42not just America, not just Florida, all over the world before I die.
12:47After an abusive upbringing in Michigan, Wuornos became a sex worker,
12:51eventually moving to Florida.
12:53After committing several crimes, she moved on to killing in 1989.
12:58Wuornos would execute her male clients and then rob them.
13:01Nearly exactly a year after her spree began, she'd taken the lives of seven men.
13:07She's been called the damsel of death and the hooker from hell.
13:12But embellishment aside, the story of history's first female serial killer is macabre enough,
13:19even without its supporting cast of characters.
13:22Originally, Wuornos claimed it was self-defense after being assaulted by the victims.
13:27However, she later changed her motives to desiring to steal from them and leave no witnesses.
13:32Yet, when speaking to documentarian Nick Broomfield later, Wuornos changed to self-defense again.
13:39She was sentenced to death for her crimes.
13:41In prison, Wuornos found religion and stated she deserved capital punishment as she rejected appeals.
13:47The sentence was carried out in 2002.
13:50Thank you, Judge.
13:52And may you rot in hell.
14:00Georgia. Paul John Knowles.
14:03The Anderson sisters are on the list of at least 18 victims murdered by Paul John Knowles.
14:09But it's clear that list is probably incomplete.
14:14In 1974, Knowles escaped from jail after being arrested for attacking someone in his home state
14:20of Florida.
14:21That night, he began his spree that led him to be labeled as the Casanova Killer.
14:26From July to November, Knowles robbed and took 18 lives in several states, including Nevada,
14:32Florida, and Georgia.
14:34In the latter, after committing two more murders, he got into a car chase with the police, but
14:39was eventually arrested with help from an armed citizen.
14:42Some weeks later, while in a car with two officers, Knowles attempted to grab one of the cop's
14:48weapons, leading to the other officer fatally shooting the killer.
14:52Knowles is known to have admitted to murdering up to 35 people, although many believe this
14:56is an exaggeration.
14:57The two murders seemed to be a finale to Paul John Knowles' murderous spree.
15:04But no one could imagine he wasn't finished.
15:12Hawaii, Eugene Barrett.
15:17Born in California and then relocated to Hawaii during childhood, Barrett would become the
15:21first identified serial killer in Hawaii.
15:24In 1959, the Army veteran was angry that his girlfriend had dumped him.
15:29So Barrett, who had an alcohol use disorder, took her life.
15:32While he was sentenced to life, he was mysteriously paroled by Hawaii Governor John A. Burns in 1967.
15:39He married, but in 1972, after his wife left him, Barrett killed her too.
15:54He pled guilty and was handed a 10-year sentence, getting out by 1976.
15:59Some years later, Barrett became obsessed with his neighbor, leading him to admit himself into
16:05a psychiatric hospital.
16:07In 1995, shortly after his release, Barrett killed her, earning him life imprisonment before
16:13dying in 2003.
16:21Idaho, Thomas Eugene Creech.
16:23After a life of crime in 1974, Creech and his girlfriend, Carol Spaulding, were hitchhiking
16:43in Idaho when a car offered a ride.
16:45During the trip, he killed the two people who pulled over.
16:48After being accused of further murders, the Ohio native was arrested.
16:52During the trial, Creech claimed to have killed 42 people in various states as far back as
16:571966.
16:59However, many details didn't always match up.
17:01Regardless, Creech was found guilty of four murders and received multiple life sentences.
17:07However, in 1981, he killed an inmate, earning him the death penalty.
17:11Creech was serving time for two murder convictions in Idaho.
17:14He was convinced to attack and did, in fact, murder David Jensen, a 22- or 23-year-old young
17:23man who was in prison as a car thief.
17:26In 2024, Creech's execution was halted due to issues with an intravenous line.
17:31While another date was set, a judge postponed it to allow Creech to legally challenge it.
17:36In our opinion, Creech was a psychotic, and he didn't like inmates, and he would probably
17:42kill someone if they didn't supervise him very closely around other inmates.
17:47A pillar of his Illinois community, Gacy seemed on the surface to be a good person.
18:13After all, he owned his own business, participated in politics, and entertained children as a
18:19clown.
18:20Yet in reality, he was a monster.
18:22Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy lured boys and young men to his home, typically with the promise
18:28of work only to assault and take their lives.
18:32Gacy continues to accumulate bodies, and claiming they are drainage ditches, he even
18:37has his employees dig trenches in his crawlspace, trenches he will use as graves.
18:42However, after being seen with his last victim, the police eventually searched Gacy's property
18:48to find human remains in the crawlspace.
18:51In 1980, the Illinois native, nicknamed the Killer Clown, was found guilty of 33 counts
18:56of murder, earning him the death penalty.
18:59The sentence was carried out in 1994.
19:02What happened to the body afterwards?
19:04Was one that was, that body was put into the river.
19:07It was taken to the river and dumped in the river.
19:08Did you help do that?
19:09Yes, I'm in complicity with that.
19:12I've always, I've always contended.
19:13Don't, don't look at me as an innocent babe of the woods.
19:22Indiana, Belle Gunness.
19:24Born in Norway, Gunness relocated to Illinois, where she got married.
19:28However, she seemed to have horrible luck.
19:30As well as her home and candy store burning down, Gunness' husband perished.
19:35With the insurance money, she purchased a pig farm in Indiana.
19:38Yet still, her string of bad luck continued as her next husband died mysteriously, earning
19:44her more cash.
19:45Strangely, several men who responded to Gunness' marriage advertisements vanished after moving
19:51to the farm.
19:52Sure is nice of you to put me up like this, Mrs. Gunness.
19:55Oh, it's our pleasure, Mr. Helgelheim.
19:58You write the most charming letters.
20:00In 1908, the truth was discovered when a fire destroyed her home.
20:04As well as the bodies of her three children and the remains of 11 people being found, so
20:10was a headless body purported to be Gunness.
20:13However, there's speculation, she faked her death.
20:15Some say she killed more than 20 people and buried them.
20:19In April 1908, there was a fire at Bell's home.
20:23It's where the bodies of her three children were discovered.
20:32Iowa, Gano Smith.
20:35In 1962, Smith took three of his cousins to a nearby dance in Iowa.
20:40At the time, he was living with his uncle, aunt, and their children.
20:43Smith vanished for several hours, then returned and took his cousins back home.
20:48However, the kids found that the power was out, and as they searched, they discovered
20:52their mother and father's bodies.
21:02Smith suddenly appeared with a firearm and fatally shot two while the third escaped.
21:07She found a third sibling also killed, but managed to get help.
21:11When Smith was arrested, he admitted to taking his family's lives, as well as his stepmother's,
21:16who vanished in 1961, taking his victim count to six.
21:21No known motive was discovered, and he was sentenced to life in jail.
21:24Kansas, Dennis Rader.
21:33Why aren't there more virus at all?
21:36It seemed like as I got older, I started making, well, physically, I just wasn't up to it.
21:42From 1974 to 1979, a serial killer known as BTK was terrorizing Kansas.
21:48However, while the police believed the case was cold, the killer continued his fatal crimes
21:53until 1991.
21:55In 2004, the local newspaper, The Wichita Eagle, published an article on the case.
22:01Shortly after, the paper and TV station K.A.K.E. began getting letters from BTK.
22:07BTK haunts treasured memories.
22:12Please don't go public with this just yet.
22:14We want to control this information.
22:16However, the killer wanted to send a floppy disk of his writings,
22:20so he asked the police if it could be traced.
22:23They told him it was fine.
22:24Unfortunately for him, the metadata showed it was created in a church
22:28and by its council president, Rader, who was arrested.
22:32The Kansas native pled guilty to 10 counts of murder, earning him 10 consecutive life sentences.
22:38Sir, I have been advised, as your desire, to enter a plea of guilty in this case.
22:44Is that correct?
22:44Yes, sir.
22:45Then, BTK was finally locked up forever.
22:56Kentucky, Donald Harvey.
22:57I don't wish anybody dead, but if you had to, he'd be probably at the top of the list.
23:04After an abusive childhood in Ohio, Harvey seemingly found his feet working as an orderly in a Kentucky hospital.
23:11However, in 1970, after getting angry at a patient, he took her life.
23:16For the next 17 years, Harvey worked at several medical facilities in Kentucky and Ohio.
23:21While he claimed he killed them to end their suffering, the orderly admitted that sometimes it was from anger.
23:26The deaths came on too suddenly, and what was worse, the deaths were becoming more frequent.
23:33Something's wrong.
23:34Harvey also murdered those close to him who weren't ill.
23:38It came to an end in 1987, when an autopsy of one of Harvey's victims showed cyanide in his system.
23:45He pleaded guilty to 37 murders, earning him multiple life sentences, as he confessed to at least 50 killings.
23:52In 2017, Harvey was murdered by a fellow inmate.
23:55As Harvey described killing one patient after another, the portrait of a serial killer emerged.
24:01He was convicted of murdering 34 patients.
24:05His confession detailed a murderous life spanning nearly two decades in three different hospitals in two states.
24:18Louisiana.
24:19Derek Todd Lee.
24:20This guy right here, every time, kept coming up.
24:24A man in his 20s named Derek Lee was well known to law enforcement in the area.
24:29From 1998 to 2003, Louisiana experienced a murder spree by the Baton Rouge serial killer, who attacked in the city and nearby areas.
24:38Time was wasted when a profile and eyewitnesses pointed towards a white man.
24:43In reality, Lee, who was black, was behind the violent crimes.
24:47After one victim survived and managed to get a description to a sketch artist, another police station realized the similarities to Lee, whom they'd previously arrested.
24:56DNA samples from the murders matched his sample from his arrest.
25:00In 2004, while he was found guilty of two murders, Lee had been tied to other incidents since 1992, bringing his counts to over seven.
25:10Lee died in 2016 before he could be executed.
25:13She stated, quote, Derek, he's still my brother, and he's been there for me, and I miss him.
25:25Maine.
25:26Arthur Shawcross.
25:27He has a steady job.
25:28He worked the overnight shift at G&G Food Service on East Main Street.
25:32He's lived in this apartment building at 241 Alexander Street for at least three years.
25:37Despite committing his violent crimes in New York, earning him the moniker the Genesee River Killer, Shawcross was born in Maine before his family moved.
25:45In 1972, he claimed his first victims after assaulting them, earning him a maximum of 25 years in jail.
25:52By 1987, Shawcross was released and began his rampage.
25:57You meet a prostitute on the street, you know, like a kid in a candy store, right?
26:04He's using his bare hands to strangle them.
26:08Not only is this intimate, but this shows his absolute rage.
26:13From 1988 to 1989, he took the lives of 12 more people.
26:18However, the last one would lead to Shawcross's downfall.
26:21After the body was discovered in early 1990 by police, the killer was seen by aerial surveillance watching the event while on a nearby bridge.
26:30In 1991, Shawcross was found guilty of 10 murders, earning him a combined 250 years in jail.
26:38In 2008, he passed away.
26:40Is somebody who kills a person mentally ill?
26:44Probably.
26:45Is somebody who kills 11 people here and has killed two kids before?
26:51Got issues?
26:53Absolutely.
26:53Maryland, Joseph Metheny.
27:02Metheny was serving two life sentences for kidnapping, sexual assault and murder.
27:07He was charged with killing several Baltimore-area prostitutes in the 90s.
27:11Every so often on social media, the infamous image of Metheny appears to creep out everyone who sees it.
27:18Born and raised in Maryland, he said he became hooked on illegal substances following his stint in the army.
27:24Metheny used his imposing size to his advantage against his victims.
27:28In 1996, he contacted a friend to help him dispose of a body he'd been hiding.
27:33However, the friend went to the cops.
27:35After his arrest, while Metheny did show evidence of one additional murder, he confessed to several more.
27:42He even claimed to sell remains to unsuspecting restaurants.
27:46Metheny was sentenced for two murders, earning him life imprisonment, but he claimed he'd taken up to 13 lives.
27:53In 2017, he died in jail.
28:01Massachusetts.
28:02Jane Toppen.
28:03Typically, killer medical staff are known as angels of mercy, who take patients' lives to end their suffering.
28:10However, Toppen seemed to have found a more intimate connection with her killing.
28:14Born and living in Massachusetts, in the late 1800s, she became a nurse at general hospitals before working privately for patients.
28:22Known as Jolly Jane to staff, Toppen would often administer lethal medications and poisons to patients and their families.
28:30A toxicology report from one victim led to Toppen's arrest in 1901.
28:35She later admitted to taking 31 lives, but could only be tied to 12.
28:40After being declared not guilty by reason of insanity, she was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where she remained until her passing in 1938.
28:49Michigan, Carl Watts.
28:57Apparently, he still saw evil in women's eyes.
29:02They found he had newspaper clippings in his cell, female photos in the paper with their eyes cut out.
29:09Following his parents' split, Watts moved to Michigan.
29:13As a teenager, he attacked at least one woman.
29:15After spells in mental health facilities, Watts soon moved from attacking women to taking their lives in 1974, although it's speculated he started earlier.
29:25In 1982, after an attempted victim escaped, Watts was arrested and confessed to 13 murders in Texas and Michigan.
29:34The man ID'd by Melinda is Carl Watts, the same man suspected of three unsolved slayings in Michigan.
29:42Watts agrees to plead guilty to a charge of burglary with intent to commit murder.
29:47Due to a plea deal, he wasn't charged with them, but was sentenced to 60 years.
29:51In 2004, due to a technicality, Watts was nearing a possible release.
29:57After the police pleaded publicly for more information, Watts was then found guilty of two Michigan murders, earning him life inside before dying in 2007.
30:07Police think he may have killed dozens more.
30:09The chilling part about Watts is his own words that he used in 1982 after he was brought before the court.
30:20And as he was walking out of the courtroom, he turned around and said, you know, if they ever release me, I'm going to kill again.
30:33Minnesota, Joseph Turry Jr.
30:35With a guilty verdict all but certain in the case of Diane Edwards, Joe Turry is once again looking for a way around doing hard time.
30:44From 1978 to 1980, police in Minnesota were desperately searching for a violent attacker and killer.
30:51During this time, he'd taken the lives of six people, including four from the same family, during a robbery.
30:56In 1980, multiple women and teenagers went to the authorities to disclose their assaults by Turry, who they swiftly arrested.
31:04Before either Nancy or Cheryl was attacked, police stopped Joe Turry in a stolen car.
31:10And they find all these papers.
31:12Inside, they found hundreds of names, license tags, and telephone numbers of women.
31:18Born and living in Minnesota, he was sentenced to 30 years for the assaults.
31:22However, Turry was soon tied to one of the shocking murders.
31:25Over the years, Turry had been found guilty of the other remaining murders, including the family in 2000, earning him multiple life sentences.
31:35You would write down women's names.
31:37You would take down their license plates.
31:39Don't make me a killer.
31:40But you were a stalker.
31:48Mississippi.
31:49Nathaniel Burkett.
31:50Switching between his birth state of Mississippi and Nevada, Burkett had a long criminal history.
31:55In 1978, after being found intoxicated near a murder scene in Las Vegas, he was sent away, with no evidence to tie him to the deed.
32:04Five years later, Burkett was sentenced to 20 years after murdering his mother.
32:08Upon his release in 1992, he continued his violent crimes, killing several people.
32:14One finally resulted in a conviction of manslaughter in 2003, but he was released in 2009.
32:20However, Burkett's DNA was tested and matched the evidence from the 1978 murder.
32:26After DNA evidence linked Burkett to Cox, the family says they thought they would finally have their day in court.
32:33Tonight, they are angry after prosecutors offered Burkett a deal and he pled guilty to second-degree murder.
32:39In 2018, after pleading guilty to two murders, he was given 10 years to life in prison.
32:45And it's believed he'd taken upwards of five lives.
32:48In 2021, Burkett passed away.
32:51More importantly, what I'm here talking to you about today is Nathan Burkett may have never been identified without the usage of DNA today.
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33:21Missouri. John Edward Robinson.
33:24I could not think of a man that deserved to suffer the ultimate punishment than John Robinson.
33:32Sometimes a person may appear to be a friendly grandpa, but is actually responsible for horrific deeds.
33:38Case in point, Robinson.
33:40Born in Illinois, he was a Boy Scout before descending into crime, often into fraud.
33:46However, he showcased himself as a good community person.
33:49Yet, by 1984, he had moved on to murder.
33:53After being released in 1993 following a conviction for fraud, Robinson began using the internet.
33:59With a lot of serial killers, you hear the cliche about them living double lives.
34:04This guy had five lives.
34:06Under the alias Slave Master, he frequented adult websites for victims, making him believed to be the first internet serial killer.
34:14After being accused of battery, the police investigated Robinson and found human remains on his property.
34:20By 2003, he had been found guilty of eight murders and sentenced to capital punishment.
34:26Finally, he has returned to death row.
34:28The investigation over.
34:30The killing finally stopped.
34:33Would you have selected a different serial killer for a particular state?
34:37Let us know below.
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