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Ronald Janssen, described as quiet and withdrawn family type, father of 2 girls, confessed murdering a soon-to-be married young couple – 18 year old Shana Appeltans, and 22 year old Kevin Paulus.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.

Serial Killer, Anthony Sowell, who allegedly killed 11 people whose bodies were found in his house and buried in the yard, finally got arrested walking down the street near his home, after eluding police for two days.

Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell, an ex marine, appeared in a Cleveland courtroom Wednesday. His lawyer asked for bond, stating that Anthony Sowell was a Cleveland resident, had a medical condition, a pacemaker. Prosecutors argued that the man was an imminent threat to the community. Judge Ronald Adrine denied bond and called the allegations against Anthony Sowell some of the most serious he had ever seen. And although he was only being charged with six counts of aggravated murder, the judge also knew that five more bodies had been found at Anthony Sowell’s east Cleveland residence, bringing the total number of bodies recovered in the house and on the grounds to 11. Authorities are yet uncertain as to how many bodies may actually be buried or hidden on the suspected serial killer’s east Cleveland property.

It is believed that Anthony Sowell did all the killings after he got out of prison in 2005 for a rape conviction where he received a 15-year sentence. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Coroner’s Office reported that seven of the women died of strangulation, six by ligature. The last died of manual strangulation. All were black females and the bodies were in various stages of decomposition, some quite advanced, so it might not be possible to identify everyone.

The reasons for mass murder, brutal assaults and serial killings of women, are unknown and police are still trying to comprehend the magnitude of Sowell’s alleged crimes.

Darnissa Wiley, serial killer’s neighbor says, until recent weeks, there was no reason to suspect what was going on in the house: He had a block party in the summertime. He barbequed for the whole neighborhood. People were going in his house, in his backyard, and no one knew that kind of behavior was going on. Despite the fact that the a strong stench hung in the air, she never tied it to the house or suspected it was decomposing bodies. Some neighbors blamed it on a nearby sausage factory.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Scores of law enforcement officers continued their search for convicted 50 years old sex offender Anthony Sowell, while investigators temporarily ended their work at Sowell’s home after finding the body remains of as many as six people inside and outside his house.

Anthony Sowell is wanted in connection for an alleged attack on a woman in his home in September. When police arrived at the home on Thursday with a search warrant, they found two bodies on the third floor. Because the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition, the bodies have not yet been identified and their genders not yet determined. Friday afternoon a third body was uncovered in a shallow grave in the basement of the home. Cadaver dogs uncovered additional shallow graves in the home’s backyard. Investigators say they plan to continue searching the home for more evidence. At least two of the bodies were women. One body was found in the back yard, the rest in the house.

“Sowell is the most wanted man in Cleveland right now,” said police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho. He also said that the bodies “appear to be in different stages of decomposition.” He said an expert from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was at the house helping coroner employees determine when and how the victims had died – at least one of the victims died from violence.

A review of police reports and court records show Sowell struck up conversations with women, usually by offering them alcohol. Once inside his home, three women said, Sowell choked them, stripped off their clothes and raped them. A fourth woman told police Sowell offered her a beer and choked her, but she was able to run away before he could sexually assault her.

Sowell remains at large and on the run. Crime Stoppers and U.S. marshals are offering a $12,000 reward for any information leading to Sowell’s arrest. He is considered to be extremely dangerous. He is 6 feet tall and 155 pounds. He wears eyeglasses and frequently sports a mustache. He does not drive a car, and is known to collect and cash in scrap metal. He spent 15 years in prison for a rape dating back to 1989.

Anyone with information can call 1-866-4-Wanted.

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Bangladeshi police said Monday they had arrested a 40 year old man, for theft, who confessed to brutal murdering of 11 woman,  garment factory workers in the south of the country in two years, in an attempt to reach the target of 101 serial murders, in revenge bid as he was denied in love nearly 16 years ago.

Chief of the local Faridgonj Police station in Chandpur Ranjit Kumar Palit said a 40 year old Rasu Khan, was initially arrested in Tongi on September 3 for stealing fans from a mosque in Faridganj, and later on he was interrogated regarding a woman murder case in the district. “Police had been investigating the recent murder of a woman in Chandpur Sadar, having been informed of the killing by a mobile phone call. When police tried to trace the number, the SIM was found to be inactive. It was later reactivated. Police arrested the user and found that he had bought the SIM from Khan“, said the Chief.

Being linked to the murder of that woman, Khan eventually confessed that he used to take women somewhere for traveling and then kill them viciously and dump their bodies in river, or other water, he said. He said he killed 10 more women, aged 15-35, up to August this year. He also said he used to rape the women he “liked” before killing them. Others were strangled to death straightaway, before he disposed of their dead bodies.

“We became aware of this man by chance. He lived in the capital with his wife and children and would target young women who lived in Dhaka and worked in garment factories. He would make contact with them using mobile phones and pretend he was interested in them romantically. He’d meet up with them and bring them to Chandpur and then murder them”, Palit said.

Sixteen years ago, the now self-confessed serial killer was living in Tongi, Dhaka. There, he told police, he met a girl, Sharmin, of a rich family. He claims he proposed to her several times but was always rejected. He also says she suffered a severe beating at the hands of her family members, which made him “angry with women“.
“So, I vowed to kill 101 women excepting my wife (as, bizarrely, he did marry—more than once) and then pass rest of the life at a shrine. I targeted to kill 101 women as part of taking avenge against women as the girl whom I loved nearly sixteen years ago did not respond to me”, the now self-confessed serial killer was quoted as saying in his confessional statement.

Khan also said his first victim was his brother-in-law’s wife, whom he killed in early 2007. He acted very well and lured the woman to travel with him to a remote lonely place where he raped and strangled her to death and left the body at the bank of a river. Later on, he said he managed to kill 10 more women, till August this year and was looking for another woman to hunt.

Palit said Khan was remarkably unruffled during interrogation by police while he does not look insane but seemed hard-hearted. The women-hating killer also reportedly appeared oddly at ease describing the cruel murder incidents even when produced before the media.
“I hope I am not caught in any ‘crossfire’, I’d rather be punished according to the law,” Khan said during a police press briefing.

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