r/serialkillers

As I understand it, there is one I most suspect we'll see breakthroughs on in the next few years, being the I-70 Killer. From his identification at the Terre Haute liquor store murder in 2001 to casings found at each of his killings, a quarter of a century is not that strained of a stretch to assume preserved DNA evidence won't link together with an analysis of familial DNA as was the case for the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo.

One I believe we may never know about is the Zodiac. 25 to 30 years is feasible in the case of the I-70 Killer, but the Zodiac has spent 58 years since his last confirmed murder in 1969 in relative silence from the many he committed in the 60s. If there is something led up to in the case after a half-century of speculation, it would end at a grave. At the least, that would be closure for the case.

From local waterways and bayous in Houston over 200 bodies have been found since 2017 after this phenomenon people took to social media to spread the news only making it more popular and making more believe in the theory.

In September 2025 five bodies where found in a single week bringing the total to 34 for the year at that point this brought even more people to share their opinions with some calling the so called serial killer the bayou butcher this only fuelled interest.

Experts do say that the human brain will always look for patterns like this especially when it comes to tragic events that people have a morbid curiosity in rather than just accepting the unrelated circumstances.

Here are the main reasons officials rule out a serial killer:

1. Although some killers don’t most go for one demographic but the people found in the waterways range from 14-69 and vary in genders and ethnicities.

2. All the different cause of death ranging from drowning to suicide and medical emergencies some of the bodies found were murdered but are unrelated.

3. Steep concrete slopes would make it very difficult for a person to climb out of the waterways especially if they are a weaker individual or intoxicated.

4. Along the bayou banks there are multiple homeless facilities homeless people will have higher risk of illness and accidents near water.

In Austin there was a similar thing where men where found in lady birds lake online the so called killer was titled the Rainy street ripper but local authorities quickly squashed the claims for similar reasons.

I am looking for a serial killer that is not named on one of their podcast. Season 3 Ep 55 phone interview with Laura Brand. They didn’t disclose his name to avoid giving him clout. I’ve been searching everywhere and haven’t found who he is! I will give details of him and what I heard from the podcast if interested!

There is this thing I find a little weird whenever I watch true crime documentaries and YT videos about serial killers...

The documentaries sometimes try to push the idea that we CAN'T tell someone is a psychopath and a potential serial killer. Simply put - killers kill someone and people are very surprised. "Wow, he was always such a nice guy, friendly and smiling all the time. How could he??" And then some experts start explaining how serial killers are manipulative, great actors and simply put no one sees trough their mask.

At the same time, many of these documentaries, sometimes even the same people in them who are being interviewed seem to push the idea that it's "obvious" that someone is a psychopat. "See, how he has no real emotions! We shoved him a photo of his victim and there is no response... Still the stone cold face." and "Look at him and his soulless empty eyes!"

Sorry, I feel like they are contradictions. I am confused. So it's obvious that someone is a psychopath or not? It's weird that the same documentary can say that, for example, Ted Bundy had this friendly face that convinced all his victims to enter his car and five minutes later they are describing how he had these weird black eyes of an evil predator.

For those who have watched capturing the ki**er nurse. Amy Loughren proved herself to be a necessity to the police force. Does anyone else believe she should have had to go back to work at that hospital just for healthcare or do you think the police force should have paid for it? I believe based on how essential she was to their case especially being a single mother and her cardiomyopathy they should have paid her ongoing medical care!!

Does anyone agree?

Stephen port would meet men on grindr hence the name over a one-two year period he killed four men he would invite them round to his flat in barking and would drug them with a fatal dose of GBH (gamma-hydroxybutyrate) he would sexually assault his victims once they were drugged and dump their bodies close to his flat two victims were found by the same dog walker near a church and another was found in a sitting position near the entrance to his block of flats.

He remains as one of the most recent known uk serial killers other than Lucy letby there has not been many known killers.

It is believed the police were at fault for Stephen’s spree of killing as they didn’t originally connect the bodies even though they were close together and all known gay men some do dispute if some of the victims were actually out as gay.

Port was initially arrested in June 2014 for perverting the course of justice after he lied about finding his first victim, Anthony Walgate, outside his flat. He was convicted and jailed for this, but police failed to examine his laptop or link his escort-hiring habits to other local deaths.

The fourth victim jack Taylor was found a year later and his own family investigated his murder as they did not believe their son overdosed they researched the other deaths and personally found cctv footage of jack taylor meeting a man that ended up being port so they pushed police to release this footage.

This footage made homicide detectives take over especially after pressure from families they finally landed on port after matching the description on the cctv and been spotted with gay men so he was arrested October 2015 and charged of all four murders in June 2016.

It’s just unbelievable to think that if not for jack taylors family the dots may of never connected.

List of victims:

Anthony Walgate (23) - met port on june 17 2024 and was discovered a couple days later on the 19th left in a sitting position.

Gabriel Kovari (22) - he was killed either 26th or 27th of August 2014 he was found by a dog walker the next day port called his sister on the 27th saying a body was in his bed but she didn’t take him seriously.

Daniel Whitworth (21) - was killed 19th September 2014 and went missing on the 18th when he met port he was found by the same dog walker in a similar position just on a different day port planted a fake suicide note in his hand.

Jack Taylor (25) - was killed 13th September 2015 he was found the next day over the walk where kovari and Walgate were found.

Between 2011-2015 58 people died from GBH overdoses some people believe port was responsible for some as some were gay men but police never found any evidence like dna in the other four to link him to the murders.

Known interchangeably as the "Scarborough Rapist" and the "Schoolgirl Killer," Paul Bernardo and his then-wife Karla Homolka were responsible for the kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of multiple schoolgirls in the early 1990s.

Between 1986 and 1990, Bernardo committed a series of brutal rapes and sexual assaults in Scarborough, Ontario. Later, alongside Homolka, he sexually assaulted and murdered two teenagers, Leslie Mahaffy (14) and Kristen French (15), videotaping their depraved acts.

Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison with a dangerous offender designation.

Bernardo remains in federal custody serving his life sentence. In late 2024, he was denied parole for a third time after a parole board determined he still poses an undue risk to the public.

Hi all,

Long time lurker of this sub, first time writer-in. I wanted some opinions on the seemingly 'normal' or banal relationships (male) serial killers often have with girlfriends or spouses. I'm writing a short fictional story about the wife of a serial killer and wondered if anyone might have some insight or can point in the direction of a woman who has shared that experience publicly. I've been looking up some well known killers but would be interested to hear some thoughts or theories on how these men act in courtship vs their married life.

Obviously I know serials are often experts at masking inner thoughts and their crimes even to their loved ones but I often wonder how they would date and how would they convince someone to marry them. Do you think any of their true colours leak out?

everyone always says with serial killers that there were signs throughout their childhood like unaliving animals or just creepy stuff like that in general. but what do you actually do when you see them? the obvious answer is therapy or things of that nature but can you really prevent a person from acting on those feelings? been super curious about this.

edit: also just to be clear i’m only curious, im not currently seeing these traits in someone!

Per the trailer (link above) it seems that law enforcement may now be looking in to another/a different accomplice besides Mark Goodyear.

It also mentions that Goodyear agrees to a second interview for this new season. Whether or not he actually kept that agreement is ambiguous at this stage.