Elias Abuelazam, Israeli-Arab, is accused of stabbing 18 people in three states, killing five. He was arrested at 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, where he was attempting to board a Delta flight to Tel-Aviv, Israel, where it’s believed he was born. Abuelazam has been charged one count of assault with intent to murder in connection with a July 27 attack in Flint, Mich. Though that charge can carry a life sentence, further charges are expected as the investigation continues.

Abuelazam worked at the Kingwater Market in Mt. Morris Township, was last at work Aug. 2. He told coworkers that he had to go to Virginia, where he has family. Authorities received a tip Wednesday that Abuelazam had not returned to work and had gone to Virginia. Police watched surveillance tapes and saw he matched the physical description of the suspect. Earlier this month he was charged for an assault against his brother-in-law. His green Chevy Blazer, colored green over gold – matching the suspect’s vehicle description – was impounded and police there found a knife and a hammer.

Police believe he came to Michigan in May, just days before the attacks began. Most of the stabbing victims were black men, but police declined to say the attacks were racially motivated: “We don’t have a motive yet but, as you know, many times the motive doesn’t appear until later in the investigation,” Leyton said. “Jury instructions don’t require us necessarily to have a motive.”

Those who knew him here say he was a serious flirt, and a quiet, “regular” guy, but his ex-wife’s family, former neighbors in Israel and court records show he was rough around the edges — and no stranger to the law. Not much is known about how Abuelazam made a living. Over the years, he moved around from Michigan to Virginia to Florida, and held multiple jobs, including mental health technician at a psychiatric facility. On July 5 of this year, he walked into Kingwater Market and asked for a job. Though he only worked at the party store for less than a month, regular customers said he was an OK guy who didn’t show any aggression or unusual behavior toward black customers. No one suspected a thing until an anonymous tip led to his arrest, and everyone — from his ex-mother-in-law to his buddies in Israel to his boss — is floored Abuelazam is suspected of being the internationally notorious Flint serial stabber.

-articles by Melissa Burden and Ron Fonger, and form abcnews.com, rewritten and adapted by admin-

On the photo on the left, you can see a sex murderer Peter Tobin as a man of 27, who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of 23-year-old Polish student Angelika Kluk and is linked to unresolved disappearances of several other young women in Sussex. Police are hoping the image will jog people’s memories if they knew Tobin as a young man and give officers a clearer view of his past.

There are fears that he may have killed many more and could have been carrying out gruesome sexual attacks in the county undetected throughout the seventies and eighties. Among those suspected of being Tobin’s victims is student Jessie Earl who disappeared from her Eastbourne bedsit in 1980 and whose remains were found at Beachy Head nine years later. Police are also listing Louise Kay, who was last seen in 1988 dropping a friend home from an Eastbourne club, as a potential Tobin victim.

Police have been gathering information about Tobin’s life in Brighton and Hove since three people came forward saying they knew about his time in the city. Tobin is thought to have been a member of a Biker Gang called the Rising Sun and officers are hoping to trace members of that group as well as a woman possibly called Lesley who lived at a seafront hotel in the city in 1986 and whose parents are believed to have attempted to legally prevent her from seeing Tobin.

They are also trying to trace items of women’s jewelry that Tobin owned which could help identify more victims and reveal the full extent of the vile acts of one of Britain’s most evil men.

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To contact the Operation Anagram team about Tobin call 0845 6070999.

-article from www.theargus.co.uk rewritten and adapted by admin-