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Show and Tell: The
Baton Rouge Serial Killer (Take 2) Continued
from:
On July 9, 2002, the man attacked a 45-year-old Breaux Bridge woman in her home. He wore jeans and a white shirt, and drove a gold Mitsubishi Mirage. Although DNA testing of evidence was inconclusive, police believe the assaults are related to the serial killer investigation. The assailant talked his way into the victims’ homes, asking to use a telephone and phone book. He was described as friendly and non-threatening, a muscular, good-looking guy. Once inside, he made small talk, eliciting information about others who might live in the residence, or be expected to arrive there. When he determined the women were alone, and when he was reasonably assured he would not be interrupted, he attacked.
This sketch was submitted to the Task Force, but was not released. It quickly developed a cult following, however, surfacing on a few car windshields, and making a brief Internet appearance before being unceremoniously relegated to the trash heap of underappreciated visual aids. It is brought back by popular demand, and for your perusal. Should any of these exhibits strike your fancy, please do call one of the numbers below. LSU Police -- 225-578-3231 (Exhibit 3 only) Baton Rouge Multi-Agency Task Force -- 1-866-389-3310 (All others)
© John Philpin, 2003 All Rights Reserved -- Do not reproduce in any form or circulate without permission. News archives on the Baton Rouge Serial Killings More about Criminal Profiler and author John Philpin More about Serial Killers Kari & Associates Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2006 |
The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien -- For weeks in the fall of 1977, as the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated, the Los Angeles newspapers headlined the increasingly alarming deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. But it would take more than another year and the mysterious disappearance of two young women in Seattle before the police would arrest one man-the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi-and discover that the strangler was actually two men. O'Brien, an experienced investigator brings the story of Bianchi and his animally magnetic cousin Angelo Buono. First exploring the symbiotic relationship between these two men who shared a lust as insatiable as their hate for women, the crimes themselves and the lives of the victims. Perfect
Poison |
as they are published!
At a news
conference on the afternoon of Friday, May 23, 2003,
the Baton Rouge area Multi-Agency Task Force released a
sketch of a man suspected in assaults on three St. Martin Parish
women. The suspect is described as a clean-cut, light-skinned black
male in his late twenties to early thirties, with short black hair
and brown eyes. 
Following
the homicide of Trineisha Dene Colomb in December
2002, police released their first sketch. Waxing Ashcroftian,
Chief Pat Englade referred to the composite as a person of interest
(POI), that nebulous area that is neither suspect nor witness, but
hints at being more of the former. The sketch appears nearly human,
and quite possibly male. He was seen in a white truck near where
Colomb disappeared.
The final
exhibit is something of an historical artifact. On May 31, 2002,
Murray Pace was murdered in her Sharlo Avenue apartment. Early in
the investigation, Pace’s neighbors told police about a man
they had seen watching the victim’s apartment in the days and
hours preceding her murder. No composite sketch of this potential
person of interest (PPOI) was done. The four witnesses did however
work with a volunteer who, at her own expense, had purchased the
same software police use to develop their composites.