Lonnie Franklin Jr., 59 years old former car mechanic, who is already charged with murder in the slayings of 10 women whose bodies were found on the streets of South Los Angeles over two decades, using DNA evidence, ballistics and a 911 voice recording is now linked to the killings of six more victims.

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The new cases raise the tally of potential victims to 16. Detectives are still look for additional victims, taking the unusual step of releasing photographs of dozens of women found at Franklin’s home, hoping the public could help determine if they too were victims, said the sources, who spoke of the condition of annoymity becuse the case was ongoing. “Twenty-eight years is the span of Franklin’s criminal endeavor,” said LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck, at a press conference Wednesday night at the Bethel AME Church in South Los Angeles. “We may never know how many young women Lonnie Franklin killed.”

The new victims, who range in age from 22 to 43, were allegedly tied to Franklin through physical evidence, said a police source with knowledge of the investigation, who requested anonymity because the additional cases have not been made public. In two of those cases, ballistic evidence showed that the bullets used to kill the women were fired from a gun Franklin is accused of using in other killings, while DNA and ballistic tests connected him to a third woman, the source said. Los Angeles detectives discovered the additional slayings after combing through hundreds of unsolved homicide cases and missing-person reports dating back to May of 1976. Franklin’s link to the other three cases is more circumstantial. Police concluded Franklin killed one woman based on a 911 call made at the time of the slaying to report the location of the body.

At the press conference, police identified two of the new victims as Sharon Dismuke and Georgia Mae Thomas. Dismuke was discovered shot in the chest in the restroom of an abandoned gas station in January of 1984. Thomas, who was 43, was found on a sidewalk in the 1800 block of 57th Street, just a block away from where Franklin’s mother-in-law owned a house, in December of 2000. She had been shot twice in the upper torso with a small-caliber pistol. The third victim, Regina Theresa Beaty, was found dead in an alley in August of 1992. Like the other victims, she was shot in the upper torso with a small-caliber pistol. The victim identified last April was Inez Warren. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies discovered her body in an alleyway off Western Avenue on August 15, 1988. She had been shot once in the chest. An anonymous person called in to report her murder. Police said they have since matched the caller’s voice to Franklin.

Please, take a look at the 180 new photos released by LAPD and if you think you can help, please contact the police immediately.

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-articles from The Daily Beast and LA Times rewritten and adapted by admin-

A 17 year old Indiana boy,  Andrew Conley, strangled his 10 years old brother after fantasizing about murder for years. He told authorities he identified with a television serial killer and showed no remorse or emotion.

Conley, of Rising Sun, Indiana, is accused of choking his 10 years old brother Conner Conley for twenty minutes, as the two wrestled while their parents were at work Sunday. He has been charged as an adult with killing his brother. Conley described the way he murdered him and said he dragged his brother’s body to his car before driving to see his girlfriend, who told investigators the teen “seemed happy, more happy than she had seen him in a while. According to the investigators, after killing his brother, Andrew wrapped his head in plastic, tied it with electrical tape and put the body in his trunk. After visiting his girlfriend to give her a sweetheart ring he dumped the body near a park in his town of Rising Sun, about 90 miles (145 kilometres) southeast of Indianapolis.

The teen told investigators he had had fantasies about killing someone since he was in eighth grade, including cutting somebody’s throat, and felt “just like” the serial killer Dexter on the Showtime television series of the same name. “Like I had to … like when people have something like they are hungry and there is a hamburger sitting there and they knew they had to have it and I was sitting there and it just happened,” Conley said.

Andrew also told police he did not carry out his fantasy to kill his father, because he was asleep when he went to his bedside with a knife…twice in one night. “You want them to be faced with fear, react to pain, struggle. You want to demonstrate power. I hate to sound like this, the game isn’t on unless the victim is awake.” Dr Daum, a criminal psychologist said serial killers don’t have emotional attachments, and have to do something extreme to feel anything. Andrew cut himself. “For him, excited to watch blood, feel pain of cut. It was extremely stimulating for him, for us it would be a disturbing thing.” He also said if he had not turned himself in, he probably would have killed again.

County Prosecutor Negangard said he will consider seeking the maximum prison term of life without parole. Conley’s age makes him ineligible for the death penalty.

A 27-year-old German construction laborer who met around 150 women in Internet chat rooms went on trial in Germany on Wednesday charged with murdering two of them. Dubbed “Germany’s First Internet Murderer” in the press, he has confessed to the killings, but denies he’s a serial killer.

Christian Grotheer, 27, admitted he had killed two women he met online, but claimed the first death was an accident and the second was after the victim accused him of being a rapist, which resulted in an uncontrollable fit of rage that stemmed from his traumatic childhood. He used the online nicknames “Rosenboy0207″ or “Riddick300″ in the chat rooms, the latter after a fictional serial killer in the movie Pitch Black. He spent tens of thousands of hours on dating sites, going on dates with 100 of women, two of them ending dead.

“I spent whole nights in these chat rooms and I saw them as my family”, he said, “From my point of view the Internet was the ideal way to meet people because you get talking to people very quickly and almost all visitors, male and female, are looking for sexual contact.”

Mr. Grotheer is accused of stabbing to death Jessica K., 26, on June 5, 2008, and Regina B., 39, 12 days later. With the first woman, who went by the Web name “babylove,” Mr. Grotheer said he got into a heated argument, during which he only “touched her on the throat” when she suddenly dropped dead, his lawyer said. Her corpse was found 14 days later. The prosecution alleges that he stabbed her in the back.

In the second case, Spiegel Online reported that after the two had sex at her apartment, she cooked a meal for them and they went for a walk. However, Mr. Grotheer allegedly knocked her over by a field, stabbing her 12 times in the back and 14 times in the chest with a knife. Her body was discovered the next day by a passerby, Spiegel said.

Christian G. was taken into care a number of times during his childhood as a result of his father’s behavior. He then started taking drugs and claims Internet chatting helped him recover from his addiction.
“I can still remember my mother’s cries for help,” Christian G. said, adding that anger and fear had driven him to kill. He said he couldn’t remember details of the deed.
“I felt remote controlled. I can only say that if Regina hadn’t said things like that to me, and especially if she hadn’t called me a rapist, she would definitely be alive today.”

-articles by Julia Jüttner and Agence France-Presse, rewritten and adapted by admin-

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