Transcript Serial Killers

SERIAL KILLERS
By: Sarah Winder
Gerald Gallego
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Born 1946 and died 2002
He was known as the “Sex Slave Killer”
There was 10 victims.
His method of murder was shooting and beating. He was also rape
his victims before hand
He worked with his wife Charlene and she would drive around while
he did the acts.
Location of killings were in California, Oregon, and Nevada
He had fantasies that made him build a secret hideaway where
hostages(sex slaves) would be kept.
Weapons were tire iron, 25-Caliber pistol, and shovel
Killed his victims near a ditch and then would put their bodies in the
ditch after.
Gerald Gallego’s Victims
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Rhonda Scheffler, 17
Kippi Vaught, 16
BrendaJudd, 14
Sandra Colley, 13
Stacey Redican
Karen Chipman Twiggs
Linda Aguilar,21, unborn child
Virginia Mochel, 34
Craig Miller, 22
And Craig’s fiancée Mary Elizabeth Sowers, 21
Gallego’s Family life and Childhood
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Gerald never met his father but his father Gerald Sr. was serving
time in prison when his son was born, nine years later Gerald Sr. was
the first man to die in Mississippi’s gas chamber for the murder of
two police officers.
At the age of 13 he had sex with a six-year old neighbor girl.
At the age of 32 he had been married 7 times twice with the same
women
Warrants called for his arrest on charges including incest and rape.
Geralds late wife Charlene who helped him with the killings had a
different childhood with a solid caring home growing up but she fell
in love with Gerald and learn to accept his doings.
Gallego’s Charges
Police found them when Gerald and Charlene
would make a call to Charlene’s parent and were
able to track the phone call.
In 1984:
 Charges in California and Nevada were sentenced
to death in both states and again a second time.
 Charlene testified against him so in exchange for
her testimony she received 16 years and 8 months
in prison.
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Benjamin Atkins
“Tony”
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Known “Woodward Corridor Killer”
Born 1968 and died on 1997 from an infection of HIV
Killed 11 women in a period of 9 months
He worked as a self-described pizza cook and a male prostitute.
He was homosexual.
Killings were in Detroit, Michigan. Most were prostitutes and they
were all raped and strangled.
His motive was because of his hatred for prostitution from his
mother being one.
He would get high off of cocaine and after sexual intercourse he
would start seeing his mother and strangle the women to death.
Women were killed in vacant buildings.
Atkin’s Victims
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Bertha Mason, 26 5 1/s months pregnant
Juanita Hardy, 23
Valerie Chalk, 34
Vickie Truelove, 39
Vicki Beasley-Brown, 43
Joann O’Rourke, 40
Brenda Mitchell, 38
Debbie Friday, 31
Patricia George, 36
Unknown Female
Atkin’s Childhood
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No mention is made of him knowing who his father
was
His mother was a heroin addict and so him and his
brother were seized by the state multiple times
partly because she would perform sex acts in the
front seat while she sat her boys in the back set.
His mother was a prostitute
When he was 10 he was sent to the St. Francis
Home for Boys and one of the male caseworkers of
Atkins was later accused of molesting the boy.
Atkin’s Charges
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They found him when a woman who survived Atkin’s
attempted murder told Police what happened to
her and they used her as bate to catch him.
When they brought him in he asked for food and he
ate five cheeseburgers and then confessed to all the
murders in detail.
Sentenced to 11 life sentences.
Joseph G. Christopher
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Known as “.22-Caliber Killer” or “Midtown Slasher”
He was an army private and his motive was because he was
racist against African Americans.
He was born in 1955
This happened from upstate New York to Southwestern
Georgia
He shot his victims with a .22 caliber and cut the heart out of
2 of his victims hearts and stabbed the other victims.
Date of murders were from September to December 1980
He had12 victims
Christopher’s Victims
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Glenn Dunn, 14
Harold Green, 32
Emmanuel Thomas, 30
Joseph McCoy
Parler Edwards, 71
Ernest Jones, 40
Luis Rodriguez, 19
Antone Davis, 30
Richard Renner, 20
John Doe
Roger Adams, 31
Wendell Barnes, 26
Christopher’s Charges
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The police found him January 18 1981 when he was
arrested at Fort Benning charged with trying to slash a
black GI. They searched his apartment and found the
gun, a gun barrel, and two sawed off rifle stocks. They
also saw that he had a bus ticket and was on leave the
same days the murders happened.
When having his trial they found him mentally
incompetent for trial but the jury rejected it so he was
convicted on three counts of first degree murder, a term
of 60 years to life.
Resources
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murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christopher-joseph.htm
http://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/atkinsbenjamin.htm
streetcrimestory.com/atkins.html