African-American Serial Killers
We always think that most serial killers are white, while that’s true, over the course of time there have been a few that weren’t.
Henry Louis Wallace: He restricted himself to victims of his own race, like most typical serial killers. One way he was different though was that while most serial killers pick random targets, he picked people he knew. Between September of 1992 and March of 1994, Wallace raped and strangled nine young black women in Charolette, North Carolina. They were all people he knew. One was his girlfriends roommate, others were friends with his sister. His first six murders happened over a 20 month span but his last three were within 72 hours. He was arrested in January on 1994 and confessed to all nine killings. He was sentenced to death.
Carlton Gary: He killed outside his race. His combination of intelligence, charm and cunningness made him extremely dangerous. He was arrested in May of 1970 as a suspect in a rape-murder of an 85 year old woman from New York. He managed to shift the blame to someone who knew. After escaping prision, where he was being held on lesser charges, Gary made is back to his hometown of Columbus, Georgia. Between September 1977 and April 1978, the city was hit by a number of murders. The victims were seven white women, the oldest victim was just shy of 90 years old. He was later arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 20 years in jail but after just four years he escaped. In 1984 he was charged with the murders and sent to die in the electric chair.
Celeophus Prince Jr: He too preyed on victims outside his own race. Between January and September of 1990, he murdered six women in San Diego. He stabbed one of his victims over 50 times and left bloody circles around his victims breasts. This would become his signature. Prince even killed a mother and daughter and bragged about it to a friend. He would even wear the woman’s wedding ring around his neck on a chain. He was called the “Clairemont Killer” during his nine month killing spree. He was arrested in September of 1991 and convicted of six counts of 1st degree murder, twenty counts of burglury and one count of rape. He was sentenced to death and is being held at San Quentin.
You need to get out a bit more!
I’m curious, why have you omitted Wayne Williams?
And yes people continually deny that there are Black serial killers. Such denial emboldens such crimes to continue without any outrage of any kind.
I was watching forensic files or investigators . Cant remember which one . It was about the most prolific serial killer in american history. He was a black man. [recently] I only caught a small portion, but it said he killed more than Bundy and the green river killer. I wanted to look him up but cant find anything of him. It wasnt Wayne williams. The story said “and you’ve never even heard of him” Anybody know who this guy is . Or did anyone see the story? I’m curious .
I think I found him. It was Coral Eugene Watts. He is suspected of killing 80 people. That must be him
Yes, That’s him. I witnessed the killing.
There are actually 35 African-American serial killers. See the book “Serial Murderers and their victim” -by Eric W. Hickey for more information. See also “Profilers” -by John Campbell and Don DeNevi
The reason we don’t hear so much about Aferican American serial killers such as Maury Travis is that the media doesn’t consider them or their victims worth mentioning in a true crime book or article unless the victims happen to be white. This is a shame but it’s true. I plan to write about several and will point this out as I already have to Anne Rile and Crime Library.
that carlton guy really knows how to escape
there was a story on A&E about a black male who was killing prostitutes and video taping his murders. I cant remember his name though.
what is this guys name .im trying to look him up ,but don’t know name.tell me at mallymal69@yahoo.com
There are a whole lot more than 35! More like 12% here in America. You left out the worse ones to boot! Coral Eugene Watts (100+, Texas) pleaded to 14 and was almost paroled! And what about Kendall Francois, as big as Edmond Kemper and killed prostitues and kept their bodies in his house while living with his parents and sisters in Pouskeepskie! Many more than 35. Many more!
It intrigues me to notice how many people are so narrow minded to the fact that African-American people are incapable of being serial killers. I am a Criminal Justice student in North Carolina and we had this topic today in class. Serial killers are stereotyped as mhite males somewhere between 30 and 35 years of age if I remember correctly. The justice system has misled the public with this theory. Although, on average, most serial killers ARE white males. White….Black…….it doesn’t matter to me. They all deserve the death penalty. Who cares if they didn’t get enough hugs as a child?
all i have to say is OBAMA 08!!
idiot now!
With healthcare reform Obama will become biggest mass murderer
Really, Who is the real idiot? You or “President” Obama. Lies and hatred kill more than serial killers.
contessa, the death penalty would only make someone else a murderer. how can the death penalty work when you are then punishing death with another death. if you can beleive that death is the right thing to do then do you beleive in abortion. the unborn child by choosing the right to live has apparently made a wrong choice just as the murderer made the wrong choice to kill. both murderer and child are unwanted and therefore able to be cast away and killed. it could be considered an injustice to let one live and the other die. justice is a two sided sword.
the reason most serial killers in the u.s. are white is that most PEOPLE in the u.s. are white. in fact, blacks make up about 12% of the population, yet commit about 22% of the serial murders, doing double-duty. it has become so p.c. to say that serial killing is a white man’s crime that, in many minds, the definition of serial killing includes a white perp, thus completely discounting the many instances of black and hispanic serial murderers.
pregunta,when a person forces you to give them your money it is called extortion, but when the state does it it is called taxes, same thing when a person kills it is called murder, but when the state does it it is called the death penalty. get that right.
THe reason why there seems to be more caucasian serial killers is because of the media coverage. It is considered sensational for a caucasian male to commit atrocities whereas it is considered normal response for african americans to kill. Except when its caucasian women as the victims. All races are equal in its actions, but where are not all portrayed equally in media coverage. I had a class where a professor said it is believed that an african american male was more proned to commit a murder than a caucasian american male. I find that funny because my hypothesis says that the majority of people in a race commit the biggest share of murders. If you listen to the news it will say there is always killings in the lesser incomed neighborhoods. That is not where the majority of the people live. Most live in middle class areas. Like everything nothing is 100 percent absolute.
Thank you for explaining this with such clarity!
thanks for the names i need one for my black history project!
The black killers seem to be protected from exposure to the general public in the old media. There should be more web sites and books showing people the factual evil extent of americas african american killers and there heinous crimes.
Our society is not perfect, and know people are perfect be it the white, black, yellow, red or the green.
We should judge people not from their race but what they have in the gut, soul and the mind.
If our society continues to be biaise we will not progress.
We will say whites are serial killers and blacks are drug dealers.
Killing is wrong be it the government or the killers.
We see our own countries problem, look at other nations, people and races and see a comparison between crime here and other places around the world.
We realize that its not different from here.
Think twice before judging others due to their race and nation.
Man is suffering because we have put God aside from our lives.
Good luck everybody
and let justice continue to prevail around the world.
It really does seem as though black serial killers are not talked about as much as the other races.Their also hispanic ,latin, mexican,and asian serial killers
I think the question Americans should ask oneselfs is why the US produces the most serial killers and modern time canibals. That is a far more interesting question than how many were white and how many were black.
Im european, live in the netherlands and my girlfriend is a psycologist studying serial killers and modern time canibals.
Ask yourselves why the us produces so much more serial killers than any other civilised country rather than the race they have.
The reason there are not as many Black Serial Killers as white Serial Killers is because many Blacks got caught after their first Kill, and he is charged with Murder. Look into prison stats and you will see a disproportionately large number of black men up for murder vs. white men. Not to mention black men make up a very small portion of the united states population.
Good point, How many African Americans would have been serial killers if they wouldn’t have got caught after only one killing ????
Unfortuantely, many of us are perturbed when it comes to looking back at history. The malevelonce which was heaped on to the African community by caucasians, these are things which must not be researched…or looked upon in anyway.
A new president has emerged, who has not erased this from his mind…Read his biography !!!
Wow you people are a piece of work responding as if the pain of the victims family changes because the killing was done by blacks it still is horrific no matter who does it. Race is still so strong in america that if you are a white killer you get sympathy from your own kind stating things like awww he had such a hard up bringing he was treated bad as a kid awwwww but when it comes to other races killing it sounds more like this DAM fucking nigger killer should send them all to HELL. I think all bad people are going to HELL in GODS eyes and he doesn’t discriminate.
Soo this seems to be more about race and or religion than the facts. I am looking for facts not more race slingging BS, what is the actual porportions of serial killers to race and age? Then we can look at the reasons for this. As For God and the death penelty well ask Moses!
Howard Arthur Allen. Indianapolis. 3 or more victims.
Jake Bird. Tacoma, Washington. He offed two in the Tacoma area in the 1940s and a total of 44 nationwide.
Terry A. Blair. Kansas City area. 8 victims. 2003-4.
Arthur Bomar. Philadelphia and Nevada. 4 or 5 victims.
Daniel Andrew Bowler. Richmond, Virginia. 3 victims.
Eugene Britt. Gary, Indiana. 10 or more victims.
Maurice Byrd. St. Louis area. 20 victims.
Reginald and Jonathan Carr. Wichita, Kansas. 5 victims.
Jarvis Catoe. New York City. 13 victims. 1941-42.
Leonard Christopher. Philadelpha. 7 victims. 1980s.
Alton Coleman. Midwestern USA. 8 victims.
Andre Crawford. Southside Chicago. 10 victims.
Paul Durousseau. Jacksonvile, Florida; Georgia. 6 victims, two of which were pregnant women.
Lorenzo Fayne. East St. Louis, Illinois. 5 victims, all children.
Kendall Francois. Poughkeepsie, New York and environs. 8 victims, all women.
Carlton Gary. Columbus, Georgia. 3 victims.
Lorenzo J. Gilyard. Kansas City, Missouri. 12 victims, all women.(May be Missouri’s worst serial killer ever, according to the Kansas City Star.)
Mark Goudeau. Valley of the Sun, Arizona. “Baseline Killer.” 9 kills, along with 15 sexual assaults and 11 kidnappings during his year-long spree.
Harrison Graham. North Philadelphia city. 7 victims, possibly more.
Vaughn Greenwood. Louisiana. 11 victims.
Kevin and Reginald Haley. Los Angeles. 8 victims. 1979-84.
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Ralph Harris. Southside Chicago. 6 victims, along with 13 armed robberies and 6 sexual assaults. The first four murders in 1992 and the final two in 1995 sandwiched a prison stint for armed robbery.
Clarence Hill. Bucks County, PA. “Duck Island Killer.” 6 victims, three pairs of “lovers lane” couples. 1939-42.
Ivan Hill. Los Angeles. “60 Freeway Slayer.” 6 women. 1993-4.
Elton M. Jackson. Norfolk, Virginia area. 12 victims.
Calvin Jackson. New York State. 9 victims, possibly more.
Edward James. Las Vegas. 3 victims.(He and Troy Sampson [see below] were both “thrill” serial killers, who brutally murdered random, innocent white people — EPH)
Richard “Babyface” Jameswhite. New York State; Georgia. 15 victims.
Milton Johnson. Joliet, IL. 4 victims.
Devine Jones. St. Louis area. 3 victims, possibly more.
Henry Lee Jones. Southern Florida; Bartlett, Tennessee. 4 victims, possibly more.
Arhon Kee. Harlem, New York City, New York. 3 girls. Late 1990s.
Gregory Klepper. Southside Chicago. 8 victims.
Derrick Todd Lee. Southern Louisiana. 5 victims.
Matthew Macon. Central Michigan. 7 victims.
Hulon Mitchell, a.k.a. Yahweh Ben Yahweh. Florida. 20 victims, possibly more.
John Allan Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo. Washington, D.C. and suburbs in Maryland and Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Tacoma, Washington; Georgia; Tucson, Arizona. 13 to 19 victims, and probalby many many more.
Edward Lee Mosley. Southern Florida. 25 to 30 victims, all women.
Mohammed Alan Omar. Country of Yemen. 16 victims, all women.(Omar is Sudanese.)
Gerald Parker. “The Bedroom Basher.” 6 white women, Southern CA.
Craig Price. Warwick, Rhode Island. 4 victims.
Cleophus Prince. San Diego, California. 6 victims.
Richmond Trio. Ricky Jovan Gray, Ashley Baskerville and Ray Joseph Dandridge. Richmond, VA. 8 victims among the three of them in several loosely related serial murder incidents.
Robert Rozier. Miami, Florida. 6 victims.
George Russell. Washington State. 3 victims, all women.
Troy Sampson.(See Edward James, above.)
Lemuel Smith. Upstate New York. 4 victims.
Timothy W. Spencer. Arlington, Virginia and Richmond, Virginia. 5 victims.
Maury Travis. St. Louis area; Atlanta area (?). 17 victims, possibly more.
Chester Dewayne Turner. Los Angeles. 12 victims, all women.
Unidentified. Indianapolis. 15 victims.
Michael Vernon. The Bronx, New York. 7 victims.(Five of his victims he killed in a shoe store because the store did not have shoes in his size. He later offed one pizza delivery man and one gypsy cab driver.)
Henry Louis Wallace. Charlotte, North Carolina. 9 victims.
Coral Eugene Watts. Texas; Michigan; Canada. He has confessed to 13 killings, but is suspected in as many as 80 killings.)
John Williams, Jr. Raleigh, North Carolina. 5 victims. 1990s.
Wayne Williams. Atlanta area. 33 victims.
Donald E. Younge, Jr. East St. Louis, Illinois; Salt Lake City, Utah. 4 victims.
Zebra Killers. Three convicted in San Francisco. 78 victims.
The current aggregate running total using the above list is 65 perpetrators and at least 615 documented serial murder victims. In comparison, about 2900 perished in the September 11 attacks at the WTC, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania, and 168 died in the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995.
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is this enough?
Considering that Ted Bundy escaped from prison twice, I’d rather have the death penalty just in case the authorities make another mistake with a worse serial killer. Just like cancer needs to be excised from the body, so too do these cancers of society need to be excised from the body. Ted Bundy had no remorse for any of his victims, but he sure experienced the same victimization he inflicted on others at the time of his own death. That is what needs to be televised over and over again. The victimization of Ted Bundy is the justice the victims needed to heal their wounds.
Bundy received 200 love letters a day from women during his incarceration. Are these the same demented people spewing against the death penalty? I think so. I just wonder why none of those women offered Bundy to visit while he was free. I suspect they miss their hero.