Confirmed: Body is Virginia co-ed Hannah Graham's

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA -- The human remains found in rural Virginia have confirmed everyone's worst fears: it's Hannah Graham. Graham, 18, vanished Sept. 13 after a night of partying with pals. The remains were discovered 12 miles from the University of Virginia campus. The state's medical examiner confirmed the body was Graham's.
The man Graham was last seen with, 32-year-old suspected serial killer Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. who has been charged with abduction with intent to defile Graham.
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Cops: serial killer Darren Vann killed for $300, crack

GARY, INDIANA -- Accused serial killer Darren Deon Vann told cops that a hit man paid him $300 and gave him two eight balls of crack cocaine to murder an Indiana woman. So far, the suspected serial killer who preyed on sex workers in Chicago's southern suburbs has been charged with two slayings. Cops say Vann was asked to "disappear" Anith Jones, 35  -- her body was found last Saturday.
The Chicago Sun-Times said: But the document does offer a grim account of how Vann groomed Jones for weeks to build trust, lured her to a Gary home under the guise of pay-for-sex, and then strangled her with a cord.
It also details how Vann stuffed her body in a garbage can and drove it to a vacant home and hid it in the basement under a pile of teddy bears and tires.
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Serial killer Darren Vann's ex: 'He wasn't violent'

HAMMOND, INDIANA -- The former wife of suspected serial killer Darren Deon Vann said her ex-hubby was never violent when they were together.
"This is all unbelievable to me," the unidentified woman said. "A total shocker. I never knew him to be violent, never.  He was so protective of those around him. He was a real friendly person, that's why all this is a shock to me. He had a job all the time; if he lost one, he would quickly get another one."

'Serial killer' Darren Vann confesses to 7 murders

UPDATE!   HAMMOND --  Cops in Indiana say convicted sex offender Darren Deon Vann, 43, of Gary is expected to be charged with murdering seven women -- and detectives fear there could be more. The women's bodies were found around northwestern Indiana. Vann has allegedly confessed to the killings.
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Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell wants new trial

CLEVELAND, OHIO -- Evil Anthony Sowell is bizarrely going for it. He thinks he deserves a new trial. Here's a refresher: the serial killer butchered 11 women and hid the remains in his rundown Cleveland house. As it stands, evil Tony has date with the executioner but his lawyers think "a judge wrongly closed a portion of jury selection and a hearing where attorneys argued about his police interrogation", the Associated Press reports. The prosecution ain't fooled by the 55-year-old monster.

"It's important to note that everything the judge did in this case he did to protect Anthony Sowell's right to a fair trial," assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor Chris Schroeder said . "That was the reason why he closed the courtroom." MORE FROM ABC NEWS

BTK serial killer Denis Rader to write a new book

A notorious serial killer who murdered 10 people is cooperating with a new book about his heinous crimes to help the victims families financially.
Denis Rader, who dubbed himself the BTK killer, which stood for "bind, torture, kill" terrorized Wichita, after beginning his killing spree in with the murder of the Otero family in 1974.
He went on to slaughter six more women, killing two in 1977 and three more in 1985, 1986 and 1991.  
Now he claims he want to help their relatives.

Graham suspect Jesse Matthew eyed in 5 slayings

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINA -- Jesse Matthew Jr. is looking more and more like a potential serial killer. The man charged with kidnapping missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham -- who disappeared Sept. 13 -- is being eyed in a number of other unsolved homicides. Already, cops have linked Matthew to the 2009 slaying of co-ed Morgan Harrington, 20, who vanished after a Metallica concert and was later found dead.
Now, the Washington Post is reporting that he was also accused of two counts of sexual assault at other Virginia universities while he was a student. The first was at Liberty University in Lynchburg, and then at Christopher Newport University in Newport News. Both reports were investigated by police, but Matthew was never charged.

DYING NIGHT STALKER RAMIREZ TURNED GREEN

What secrets did notorious serial killer Richard Ramirez --AKA The Night Stalker-- take to the grave? Detectives have never completely closed the book on the maniac even though he's been on death row at San Quentin since 1989.
Ramirez, 53, died Friday morning of liver failure but when his body was found, his skin was a fluorescent green, the New York Post reports. Ramirez was the sinister conductor of an orchestra of bloodshed and mayhem that terrorized southern California in the 1980s. And there is another mystery to be solved: Why was his skin green? The day before, the Satan-loving madman had a shocking green hue to his skin, a source told The Post.

COPS ID KILLER JOHN WAYNE GACY'S 19TH VICTIM

UPDATE: He is a number no more. Chicago law enforcement officials have identified the remains of  another of twisted serial killer John Wayne Gacy's victims. DNA evidence revealed that the corpse known for decades as Victim No. 19, found in the monster clown's basement, is William George "Bill" Bundy, 39. Bundy had been reported missing Oct. 27, 1976, and his family always believed that he might have been a Gacy victim. But the only identification tool available at the time was dental records, and Bundy's records had been destroyed by

GARY RAY BOWLES: FLORIDA'S GAY BAR KILLER

THEY CALLED him The Gay Bar Killer. And for a time Gary Ray Bowles, a violent bisexual, preyed on gay men in Florida's posh resort communities. The motive was always the same: he seduced them, sponged off them, robbed them and then murdered them.
By the time his reign of terror was over, Bowles had murdered six men. Today his residence is Florida's death row.  CRIME LIBRARY HAS THE STORY

SERIAL KILLER CORAL EUGENE WATTS MURDERED 80

CORAL EUGENE WATTS was one of the most prolific and evil serial killers in American history. Known as the Sunday Morning Slasher he confessed the murders of 80 women before he was finally caught. Watts--who died of prostate cancer in prison in 2006--left a trail of bloodshed and heartache from Canada to Texas.
Worst of all: he nearly was released from prison. CRIME LIBRARY HAS THE TERRIBLE TALE

DANNY HEMBREE KILLED HOOKERS AFTER "SEX PARTY"

A NORTH CAROLINA court heard the chilling confession of a suspected serial killer as he detailed a sex party gone awry. Danny Hembree Jr. is accused of the sex slayings of Heather Catterton and Randi Saldana. He said: "It just seemed like the best thing to do at the time, I mean I wasn't mad at her, we wasn't fussing."
A DNA expert also testified to matching Saldana's DNA  with blood found in the basement of Hembree's mother's house.
Catterton's DNA was not found in the home.
Hembree, also a suspect in third woman's death, admitted to suffocating Catterton in the basement of his mother's house on

COPS USING DNA TO ID JOHN WAYNE GACY VICTIMS

THEY were the eight without names and for 30 years their identities have been a mystery. Now, cops are hoping that DNA may put names to the eight unnamed victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has obtained a court order to exhume the bodies--and asking for the public's help. Anyone who believes they may be related to the unidentified victims should call a sheriff’s hotline at (800) 942-1950. DNA tests can confirm whether they’re related.

Dart said: “These were eight young men with futures. These are eight people who deserve

SERIAL KILLER CLIFFORD OLSON DEAD! KILLED 11 KIDS

ONE OF the world's most notorious serial killers is dead. Canadian monster Clifford Olson died Friday in a hospital in Quebec after a long battle with cancer. The 71-year-old killer preyed on the young during his reign of terror in the late 1970s and early '80s in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia. And even after he was captured and incarcerated for life, he continued to torment his victim's families with his sinister manipulations of court process.

SERIAL KILLER CLIFFORD OLSON NEARING DEATH (YEAH!)

CANADA'S MOST notorious serial killer, Clifford Olson, will be dead of cancer in days and people are cheering. A vile beast who murdered 11 children in British Columbia during the late 1970s and 80s , taunted their families and manipulated the justice system to his own sick ends, his death can't come fast enough for some. Terry Bizeau's daughter Terri Lyn Carson was 15 when she was strangled to death by the life long criminal.
She said of man who called himself the Beast of B.C.': “I’ve waited 30 years for this. Once he is dead, justice will be done."
Other families of the 11 slain children expressed similar sentiments after learning earlier this week

WOMAN-HATING TRUCKER JOHN BOYER: SERIAL KILLER?

A WOMAN-HATING trucker is suspected of murdering prostitutes around the south. John Boyer, looks as the AP says, like a kindly grandfather. He is anything but. Now, Boyer is accused of murdering three hookers and suspected in a fourth killing. He has already pleaded guilty to murdering one woman North Carolina and now faces charges he killed in Tennessee and South Carolina.
Investigators probing the slew of murdered women that litter America's interstates are asking local authorities to look into any cases

'SERIAL KILLER' DMITRIY YAKOVLEV JAILED FOR 30 YRS.

A FORMER Russian surgeon turned cold-blooded killer is a twisted plot to steal their identities was hammered with 30 years in prison. Dmitriy Yakovlev was convicted of killing translator Irina Malezhik in 2007 and jewel importer Viktor Alexseyev, right. His body was found a year later in a New Jersey forest:

MOM FEARS SON WASN'T JOHN WAYNE GACY VICTIM

SHERRY MARINO has always had doubts that her son Michael was one of sick serial killer John Wayne Gacy's 33 victims. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times she reveals that she hopes a DNA test may at last reveal the truth and put her mind to ease. Michael vanished on Oct. 24, 1976 when he was 14. Almost four years later he was identified as one of Gacy's 33 victims, stuffed under the floors of his Chicago area home. On Thursday, her lawyer, Robert M. Stephenson, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court seeking to allow her to have the body exhumed from Queen of Heaven Cemetery. New evidence has raised questions about whether investigators had

SON OF SAM DAVID BERKOWITZ: I WON'T SEEK PAROLE

HE IS ONE OF America's most notorious serial killers. For a brief time in the late 1970s, the monster known as Son of Sam, terrorized New York City, leaving bodies in his wake with six dead and more wounded. Now, David Berkowitz has said he will not seek parole next May. In a letter to FoxNews.com, the killer said "he has no interest in parole" thanks to being forgiven by Jesus Christ.
He has previously been shot down for parole five times.
Berkowitz writes: "I have no interest in parole and no plans to seek release. If you could understand

SERIAL KILLER CREEPY ANTHONY SOWELL WILL DIE

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SERIAL killer, creepy Anthony Sowell will die for the vicious murders of 11 women, the judge has ruled.
The 51-year-old was found guilty of luring 11 women to his Cleveland, OH apartment often with the promise of booze or crack cocaine.
But after smoking the drug he turned, repeatedly raping them and beating them to death.
When he ran out of the room to bury the body's in his back garden, he kept them lying around his apartment, causing an almighty stink in the neighborhood.  
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Dick Ambrose upheld a jury's recommendation earlier in the week that he be put to death.