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Serial Killer News Briefs from Around the World:

By David Lohr

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Closing arguments will begin today in the trial of suspected serial killer Chester D. Turner, 40, who police say murdered 10 women and a fetus between 1987 and 1998.  Turner was arrested in 2003, when his DNA was linked to the murders.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Angel Maturino Resendiz
Angel Maturino Resendiz

TYLER, Texas The Smith County Victim's Conference began today.  The two-day event will cover a large range of topics, including discussions on domestic violence, victim compensation and drug and gang crime.  Key speakers will include Mark Klaas, from the KlaasKids Foundation and Holly Dunn-Pendelton, the lone survivor of Angel Maturino Resendiz, the media dubbed "Railroad Killer."  The event is being held at Green Acres Baptist Church, 1607 Troup Highway, Tyler, Texas 75701.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Jamie Harper & Heather Zimmerman
Jamie Harper & Heather Zimmerman

PAXTON, IL. — Two women who vanished nearly a decade apart may be linked together.  There are several similarities in the two disappearances, and police say the same man is considered a person of interest in both cases.  Is there a serial killer slowly preying on women in Paxton?  You be the judge — read Crime Library's feature article on this baffling case here. Disappearace of Jamie Harper Mysitifies Police

Friday, April 27, 2007

John Patrick Tomkins
John Patrick Tomkins

DUBUQUE, Iowa Federal authorities have arrested a Unabomber copycat — sort of.  Investigators say John Patrick Tomkins, 42, is the man behind a series of bomb threats dating back to 2005.  Tomkins allegedly mailed threatening letters and unarmed pipe bombs to several Midwest investment firms.  Police say in his correspondences Tomkins would refer to himself as "The Bishop" and that he would demand certain stocks be dropped to a specific price.  In one letter he sent to Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell & Co. of Chicago, he allegedly wrote, "The only reason you're alive is I didn't attach one wire."  Authorities say they traced the letters to Tomkins, a U.S. Postal Service employee, by tracing bomb-making materials he had purchased with his credit card.

Serial Killer Story Of The Week:

CRIME LIBRARY — Marybeth Tinning was a familiar sight in Schenectady's trauma centers. She usually came running into one of the city's emergency rooms, confused and hysterical, typically with one of her eight children cradled in her arms, either dead or near dead.

The medical staff knew Marybeth well. Some hated her. Others felt great sorrow and pity for her. That's because from January 3, 1972, the day her daughter Jennifer died, until December 20, 1985, when Tami Lynne was found dead in her home, all eight of Marybeth Tinning's children died suddenly and usually without any rational explanation. 

Marybeth, now sixty-four, faced the parole board in New York with some support from very unusual sources.

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