Lawrence Bittaker, along with partner Roy Norris, used to drive around with a toolbox looking for victims to torture during a heinous five-month stretch in 1979.
Yvonne Pointer made one last heartbreaking promise to her daughter as she gazed at 14-year-old Gloria Pointer’s broken and battered body — to find her killer.
After the "mangled" body of Rachel Siani, 21, was found in New Jersey after being thrown from a bridge, police tracked down a patron at the Pennsylvania club she worked at.
Shannon Schieber, a 23-year-old Wharton School doctoral student, was found raped and strangled to death in her Philadelphia apartment. Her attacker was then linked to multiple crimes in two states.
The body of Alice Hufnagle, 67, was found in an upstairs bedroom of her suburban Philadelphia home, and a blood-stained Scream mask was among clues found at the killer's home.
Rhonda Smith, 42, was found face down and shot twice in a church office in Springfield Township when a close friend stumbled upon the horrifying scene.
Alberto Martino, 54, was found lying in a pool of blood outside the radio station where he was a disc jockey after wrapping his show. He had "serious wounds around the head."
Authorities discovered a "horrendous scene" after rushing to the Bensalem, Pennsylvania apartment of Christian Rojas, whose friend found him dead in a bathtub.
After the lifeless body of Elaine Goldberg, 21, was found in a vacant lot in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, two other women were found dead in similar, brutal fashions.
Authorities scrupulously worked to identify a woman found brutally murdered in the dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts, a case that would haunt New England for decades.