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A task force made up of nine South Louisiana parish sheriff's offices, the Louisiana State Police and the FBI, was formed in March 2005, to investigate the murders. Investigators knew the 23 victims were mostly homeless men, many who led high-risk lifestyles, which included drug use and prostitution. The victims had been asphyxiated or strangled, some raped and several were barefooted. After receiving a tip, authorities armed with forensic evidence, arrested Ronald Dominique, 42, and charged him with the murder and rape of 19-year-old Manuel Reed and 27-year-old Oliver Lebanks. Just days before his arrest, Dominique had moved from his sister's home into the Bunkhouse shelter in Houma, LA. Residents of the home described Dominique as odd, but no one suspected he was a killer.
Soon after his arrest, Dominique confessed to murdering 23 southeast Louisiana men. His tactics in capturing, sometimes raping then murdering the men was simple. He would lure homeless men with the promise of sex in exchange for money. Sometimes he would tell the men he wanted to pay them to have sex with his wife, and then show a picture of an attractive woman. Dominique was not married, he then lead the men to his home, asked to tie them up, then raped and eventually murdered the men to avoid arrest. In his statement to the police, Dominique said the men who refused to be tied up would leave his home unharmed. Such was the case with one unnamed man who a year ago, reported the incident to the task force, a tip that eventually led to Dominique's arrest.
Ronald Dominique spent much of his youth in the small bayou community of Thibodaux, LA. Thibodaux sits between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and is the type of community where everyone knows a little about each other. He attended Thibodaux High School where he was in the glee club and sang in the chorus. Classmates who remember Dominique say he was ridiculed about being homosexual during his teen years, but at the time he never admitted he was gay. As he got older he seemed to live in two worlds. There was the Dominique who was helpful to his neighbors in the small trailer parks where he lived. Then there was the Dominique who cross-dressed and did bad impersonations of Patti LaBelle at the local gay club. Neither world embrace him and among the gay community, many remember him as someone who was not particularly well liked. Through most of his adulthood, Dominique struggled financially and would end up living with his mother or other relatives. In the weeks before his arrest, he was living with his sister in a singlewide trailer. He was suffering from declining health, having been hospitalized for a severe heart condition and forced to use a cane to walk. Outwardly, there was side to Dominique who enjoyed helping people. He joined the Lions Club just months before his arrest, and spent Sunday afternoons calling out Bingo numbers to senior citizens. The membership director said he was well liked by everyone he had met through the Lions Club. Maybe Dominique had finally found a place he felt accepted. What sparked Dominique to move from the comfort of his sister's home to the dismal surroundings of a shelter for the homeless is uncertain. Some suspect the family grew uncomfortable by the 24-hour police surveillance and Dominique, knowing he was soon to be caught, moved away to avoid getting his family involved in his arrest.
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Kearney became known as the “trash bag murderer” for his method of putting body parts and corpses into large plastic trash bags and leaving them on the side of the road. The crimes took place in five Southern California counties. The case began in Los Angeles County on Jan. 24, 1977, when a highway worker tripped over a tightly wrapped object in the Lennox Boulevard tunnel under the San Diego Freeway near LAX. It turned out to be the corpse of 28-year-old Nicolas Hernandez-Jimenez of Los Angeles. Kearney, a necrophile, used to pick up his victims in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He would befriend hitchhikers, troubled teenagers and younger children, perhaps offering to take them camping or to Lake Elsinore, a favorite haunt of his, before killing them, having sex with their corpses and discarding their remains in the plastic bags.
When Sett and his partner Roger Wilson questioned friends of John LaMay, 17, of El Segundo, after his corpse was found stuffed inside a trash bag in a 55-gallon drum in Riverside on March 18, 1977, they were told that LaMay liked to hang out with “Pat and Dave” – Pat Kearney and Dave Hill. The detectives met with the pair at their house. Samples of hair from the suspects and their poodle and threads from a blue rug matched those found by police investigators on LaMay’s body. A search warrant was issued. When Sett and Wilson called to notify Kearney and Hill, the two men fled to Hill’s family home in Texas. The family urged them to give up, and the pair returned to California, turning themselves in at the Riverside County Sheriff’s station on July 1, 1977. Kearney decided to talk following his arrest. First, he cleared Hill of any wrongdoing. He had kept the murders from him, and committed them while Hill was away from their home.
He talked about his first victim in Culver City. He told investigators the address and where the body was buried. Detectives went there and recovered the skeleton, and found that the details of the crime matched Kearney’s description. Over the next few months, Kearney gradually confessed to 21 murders that detectives could confirm, ranking him among the ten most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. Police said he might have committed as many as 43 killings. Because the crimes were committed before California reinstated the death penalty law in 1978, the maximum sentence Superior Court Paul Breckenridge Jr. could give him when he pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 1978 to the 21 murders was concurrent life sentences for all the crimes. “I would only hope that the Community Release Board will never see fit to parole Mr. Kearney because he appears to be an insult to humanity,” Breckenridge said during the sentencing. The judge got his wish.
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“There aren’t many jobs around and most people just keep livestock or do odd jobs in the village or town,” said Nomfundiso Mpontshane, an activist whose house was used as a victim support centre for traumatised relatives and other frightened villagers during Mabhayi’s reign of terror. There are abandoned and dilapidated buildings interspersed with brightly painted houses. The deserted houses belonged to Mabhayi’s victims or their relatives, an eerie reminder of his trail of destruction. It was in June 2010, after the murder of Sinazo Mbeki and her two grandchildren, that Hanise was tasked with tracking the perpetrator behind a string of murders now believed to be linked. The three killings brought to eight the tally of murders that were believed to have been committed by the same perpetrator. Authorities were for the first time admitting that they were looking for a serial killer. Hanise and his team of detectives initially put up a R250 000 reward for an arrest leading to a conviction, but nobody came forward with any helpful information. “We called the psychologists’ office to help determine if we had a serial killer on our hands. They confirmed that,” said Hanise. DNA samples were also collected from some of the village residents with previous rape convictions in the hope of finding a link. It came to naught.
The case stalled and so provincial police management initiated a strategy called Operation Good Hope, drawing on police from various units including the organised crime unit, the dog unit and forensic divisions. The joint operation made its first move on May 17, 2010, when hundreds of males over the age of 16 were rounded up in an early-morning blitz in the area. They were taken to a local church, where they had their DNA samples and fingerprints taken. Mabhayi was among them, but his fingerprints could not be lifted as he did not have an ID document. The police focus did not deter Mabhayi. He continued with his killing spree, murdering five more people over the next 13 months. The breakthrough, when it was finally made, came as a result of Mabhayi’s indiscretion rather than good detective work. On August 11 last year, Mabhayi murdered Nophumzile Florence Lubambo and accidentally left his shoe at the crime scene. It was a mistake that led to his arrest.
“We were looking for another person, who happened to be his (Mabhayi)’s brother, the late Siyabonga. Incidentally, we got him because of the shoe we found on the crime scene. It matched the one he was wearing,” said Hanise. The saliva that had been drawn from Mabhayi during Operation Good Hope proved indispensable. His DNA test results linked him to the string of murders. “It was a huge relief when he was arrested. I can gladly go on pension now,” laughed Hanise. As Mabhayi began serving his life sentence in prison on Tuesday, residents of the village he terrorised for so long said they continued to live in fear. Many believe Mabhayi was not working alone when he committed his crimes. “When he testified in court, he (Mabhayi) always said ‘we’ when he answered questions. Who else was he referring to?” asked Mpontshane.
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His murder spree began in Siberia in 1991 and lasted until 1996. His mother, Lyudmila, would lure the children into their apartment with her motherly look, where Spesivtsev would torture, rape and kill the children. Later, his mother would cook the victim and they would sit down and have dinner. He began discarding body parts in the Aba river in the summer of 1996. Police began to suspect that there was a serial killer, but since the victims were homeless and children, not a lot of weight was put into the investigation. If police had acted on complaints by Spesivtsev’s neighbors they may have been able to save some of the children. One of Spesivtsev’s neighbors continuously complained to police of the stench coming from the apartment and the incredibly loud rock music. No officer went to investigate or even look up the man in question. Ever. After his arrest, one of Spesivtsev's victims, Olga Galtseva, told prosecutors how Lyumilda lure her and 2 of her friends, 13 year old girls, into the apartment. They were asked to help with grocery bags. The 3 girls were beaten and raped. After the first girl was killed, the remaining 2 had to cut her into pieces in the bathtub. Olga was forced to eat soup made out of one of her friends.
At the time of his arrest, in 1996, Spesovtsev was an unemployed black marketeer living in the Siberian town of Novokuznetsk. A pipe breakage in his apartment forced the neighbors to call a plumber. Since no one ever answered the knock, the door was opened by force. As the police entered, they noticed blood on all walls. Human pieces were found in the kitchen. A mutilated headless body was found in the bathtub. A rib cage in the living room. On the sofa, there was a 15 year old girl, still alive, but with deadly wounds. Olga Galtseva would die a few hours later. Evading police, Spesivtsev escaped through his balcony. He was later captured in a woman's apartment while he tried to rape her. During his interrogation, Mr Spesivtsev, confessed to over 80 murders and during the investigation, authorities found over 82 different pieces of bloody clothing and jewelry. Although suspected of over 80 murders, he was only found guilty in 19 cases. Mainly because he wrote detail descriptions in his diary (of course he had a diary!). Ruled insane by a court. Spesivtsev, now resides in a psychiatric hospital writing poetry and philosophy. His mother was released after 13 years, (even thought she was sentenced to life in prison). To this day, however, she has not uttered a word since her arrest.
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And to the families, Eyler's word was sufficient to at last close the book. There was comfort, too, in that Eyler-though he escaped execution-was now himself dead, succumbing to AIDS-related complications Sunday at Pontiac Correctional Center. Indianapolis Police Lt. Steven Garner spoke for them all: "It's not for the police; it's for the families. When your son, your brother, has been dead for years, you want some sort of finality to it: `Just tell me the truth, no matter how grotesque it is.' All of these families can now put their children to rest."
Police and prosecutors, however, are challenged anew-obligated to attempt their own closure from the clues and details left behind by Eyler. Seven victims, for example, remain unidentified. There also is Eyler's claim that in four of the murders he had an accomplice-a disturbing assertion that must be pursued urgently. Indeed, a companion was acquitted of an Indiana murder in 1991. And there is the irony that Eyler insisted that someone else, not he, committed the one murder for which he was sentenced to die-the 1984 slaying of 15-year-old Daniel Bridges of Uptown. It is not sufficient for the office of Cook County State's Atty. Jack O'Malley to summarily dismiss this possibility. The victims and families may rest. Justice cannot.
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During investigation Ryakhovsky cooperated with officials and investigators, willingly indicating crime scenes and describing methods of killing. According to his confessions, most murders were not planned and were rather an effect of a sudden impulse forcing him to “clean the world of homosexuals and prostitutes”, the same explanations were used to explain motivation behind the murder of 70-year old woman and 78-years old man Ryahovski accidentally met in the forest. There was an exception however, as the murder of three homosexuals met in Izmailovski Park in 1988 were thoroughly planned and the murder of 45-years old woman that, according to Ryakhovsky, was a result of his sexual urge. Most victims were people over 40 and around 50 years of age, three of his were over 60.
According to psychiatrists from the Moscow Serbsky Institute, Ryakhovsky’s necrophiliac tendencies were caused by a malfunction in his central nervous system, however Ryakhovsky was evaluated as sane, competent for trial and fully responsible for his actions. After being informed of his diagnosis, Ryakhovsky ‘s behaviour changed dramatically. The accused, at first complacent and fully cooperating with the investigators, suddenly became obtrusive, stopped his cooperation and began demanding punishment for the experts. He also revoked his previous confessions. This may suggest that he planned to avoid death penalty through an insanity plea. Ryakhovsky was sentenced to death by firing squad in July, 1995. After hearing the verdict he said: ‘I will be back’. However, in 1996 Russia imposed moratorium on executions and the sentece was changed to lifetime imprisonment in the maximum-security penal colony IK1.
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