Serial killer Peter Tobin is being investigated for his suspected part in a pedophile ring that abused children during the 1980s and 1990. A car driver (a witness who tipped police off) claims Tobin and at least two others carried out the attacks in Portsmouth.The inquiry is part of a wider probe into Tobin, 63, who has been convicted of the murder of three young women.

A police source said: “Along with Tobin, we have been given the names of two other members of this alleged pedophile ring. “The investigation is in the early stages but we are working quickly to establish whether the other members are still alive. Also whether they have convictions, did they know Tobin and if so, what can they tell us about him. We already know he raped and killed teenage girls as well as a young woman – but do we need to broaden our investigation to take in even younger victims?”

Peter Tobin, 61, was convicted in 2007 and is already serving life for three murders – Polish student Angelika Kluk, 23; Vicky Hamilton, 15; and Dinah McNicol, 18.

Police may make a fresh search of his former homes as part of their continuing probe. The source added: “Our task has been to find out as much about Tobin as possible. We established a timeline to see where he lived, worked, and who he mixed with. We still have a couple of major gaps, but these are being filled in all the time as new bits of information come in.”

In particular Tobin is now being linked to the disappearance of Louise Kay, 18, who went missing after a night out in Eastbourne, East Sussex, in June 1988. After jewelry found in Tobin’s belongings had not been claimed by his former wives, police strongly believe that they may be trophies he collected from other victims.

-articles by Laura Armstrong and Cara Sulieman rewritten and adapted by admin-

At present time, investigators with the Bureau believe there at least 15 cases along Interstate 4 could be connected to a serial killer. So a report has been issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigations offering details on a serial killing initiative the agency has been compiling since 2004.

Thanks to a highway serial database containing information from law enforcements agencies across the country, the FBI has gathered details on more than 500 victims and 200 suspects. So far, ten people have been arrested — all truck drivers — accused of more than thirty murders since 2004.

Most victims in these cases are women who lead high-risk, transient lifestyles and are often involved in drug use, the FBI said. “They’re frequently picked up at truck stops or service stations and sexually assaulted, murdered, and dumped along a highway,” according to the FBI’s report.

“The suspects are predominantly long-haul truck drivers,” reads the FBI’s website. “But the mobile nature of the offenders, the unsafe lifestyles of the victims, the significant distances and multiple jurisdictions involved, and the scarcity of witnesses or forensic evidence can make these cases tough to solve.”

In light of the new date, the FBI warns everyone to be smart when it comes to stopping along highways.
You can read the whole FBI’s report: Highway serial killings – New Initiative on an Emerging Trend

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Baikuni, Babeh a.k.a B, a 48 years old man, has confessed to be a serial killer, in Jakarta Police station. One of his victims is a mutilated boy found around the East Flood Canal last Friday. The other victims are Adi, 12, and Arif, 6, who were both street kids.

To the police, B confessed that, after murdering and sodomizing, a 12 years old Adi, his body was cut in two and dumped in Klender market, East Jakarta. This first crime happened back in 2007.
A year after, B killed again, and this time, it was a 6 years old boy – Arif. The victim’s head was dumped around Warung Jengkol bridge, in Pondok Terate, Pulogadung, East Jakarta, while the rest of the mutilated body was dumped around Pulogadung terminal. B confessed that generally the victims were sodomized and mutilated. “Only Arif wasn’t sodomized becase B pitied him,” said Rangga, his attorney.

As for the mutilated boy found around East Flood Canal, police was unable to identify the body. “When found in a carton box, the victim had been mutilated parts and his head was missing. The victim wasn’t wearing clothes,” said Yudi to Kompas.com when interviewed at the crime scene, Friday. He explained that the body was that of a boy around 8 to 12 years old, with a height around 139 to 145 cm. “The boy has been circumcised. The height is still an estimate, assuming the head was there. He has clear light brown skin. The body had old scars on the back, and a 12 cm scar of a cut on its right arm. The belly button pops out and there’s a mole on the right leg.

According to the suspects attorney, his client experienced sexual pleasure while choking and mutilating his victims. Even though B couldn’t explain why he had an urge to do that. “I only said that he couldn’t control his overwhelming pleasure while choking and mutilating his victims.” He also said that B was a victim of sodomy when he was 12 years old as well.

Jakarta Police stated that they have gathered enough evidence for conviction; among them are the sharp weapon, the wood chopping board, and DNA of all three victims. They also stated that B must be punished hard and street kids should be taken care of. “If the punishment were light, then the people would think that crime toward children, including street kids, is a tolerable thing. The law enforcers must be strict and firm about this”

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Ronald Janssen, a 38-year-old technical drawing teacher, believed to be Belgium’s latest serial killer, first confessed to the New Year’s Day murder of a young couple in his small home town of Halen. This latest confession has led both the media and the police to speculate that he might have been involved in the murders of 3 other young women, dating back to 1991, and possibly 15 other raped and murdered young women.

Ronald Janssen, described as quiet and withdrawn family type, father of 2 girls, confessed murdering a soon-to-be married young couple – 18 year old Shana Appeltans, and 22 year old Kevin Paulus. They had both been shot dead, and their car had been torched. Annick Van Uytsel, 18, went missing after a party in 2007. Janssen had attended the same party, and Annick’s bicycle was found close to an old apartment of Janssen’s. She was eventually found dead. Her body was later found dumped in a local canal, wrapped in a plastic sheet and weighted down with stones. She had been beaten to death.
Even though police suspected Janssen might be involved in the murder, they never had enough evidence to convince him, so it was not until he confessed that they could arrest him.

“Investigators fear particularly that it will not stop and that this is rather the beginning of a long list of Janssen’s crimes,” the De Standaard newspaper reported. Prosecutors across Belgium have now reopened the files for two unsolved abduction murders, of Ingrid Caeckaert, 27 stabbed in 1991 and Carola Titze, 16, murdered in 1996. Detectives have also reopened an investigation into the 2006 disappearance, and suspected murder, of Tamara Morris, 27. Media reports have linked him to up to 15 killings, usually the rape and murder of young women.

His crimes have already been compared to the notorious Marc Dutroux case, the serial killer who traumatized Belgium when he abused and murdered four girls aged between eight to 19 during the 1990s – he murdered 4 of them. Could another serial killer have been hiding behind a quiet teacher Ronald Janssen and how many people he actually killed, until further investigation remains unknown.

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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.