"I just had an urge to shoot at women," Taylor told Lang.Īccording to author Michael Newton's book, "Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers," Taylor spent more than a decade in psychiatric hospitals before being released. Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor William Lang said Taylor confessed to the shootings, the paper reported. None of the women died, and Taylor was arrested in February of 1957, after "a wild shooting spree," according to coverage in The Herald Press. It's believed that Gary Addison Taylor, now 85 and incarcerated at Washington State Penitentiary, didn't start killing women until 1972, but he started attacking them when he was a teenager. Miller was last denied parole in the spring, his ninth chance since he was first incarcerated. A jury convicted him of possessing a weapon in prison, adding another 20 to 40 years to Miller's sentence. In 1994, prison officials found a garrote, a strangling device made from a shoestring and barrel buttons, in Miller’s cell at Kinross Correctional Facility in Chippewa County. There was nothing linking Miller to the only body they'd found, Choquette's, he said. Peter Houk, a retired Ingham County Circuit Court Judge who was an Ingham County prosecutor in the 1970s, said there simply wasn't enough evidence to get a conviction. He later revealed details of Choquette's and Bush’s deaths. Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in exchange for leading police to Young's and Stuart’s bodies. Miller also raped 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and attempted to kill both her and her 13-year-old brother Randy in their family's Delta Township home.Īn indictment against Miller in Ingham County on second-degree murder charges in the deaths of two of his victims never made it to trial. How does a serial killer who murdered four women and assaulted a 14-year-old girl and her brother end up with a prison release date of May 2031 and multiple chances for parole over the years? Take in Michigan's fall colors and grab a bite at these 4 eateriesĪn inside look at 6 of the most haunted places in Greater Lansing Don Miller New Grand Ledge shop opens with vintage costumes just in time for Halloween In 2008, he was convicted of killing two women and assaulting another. Theirs.," Macon told police, according to March 2010 article in the State Journal. "What he used, how he did it, why he did it, if there was a why." Macon confessed to killing six women during an eight-hour interview with police, which Carpenter obtained through a records request and watched in preparation for a podcast episode about Macon's crimes. The seven women he killed between 19, most in and around Ypsilanti, became known as "the Michigan Murders."Ĭlaude McCollum, an LCC student, was charged and convicted for the crime but later exonerated. Some know John Norman Collins, now 74 and serving a life sentence at Ionia Correctional Facility, as "the Ypsilanti Ripper," or "the Co-Ed Killer."Ĭollins grew up in Michigan. "There was a point where she thought the camera was off and she admitted to the director that she really did kill them out of self defense, but she was so tired of being on death row." John Norman Collins Wuornos spent more than a decade on death row, later insisting during the filming of a documentary that she didn't kill in self defense but with the intention of robbing the men.Ĭarpenter said there's reason to doubt the change in Wuornos' story. One of the men she killed, Richard Mallory, had previously served more than a decade in prison for sexual assault, according to.
She killed them between 19.Īt trial, Wuornos claimed she committed the murders in self defense. She met the men she killed along the state's highways while offering to exchange sex for money. Wuornos traveled the country and ended up in Florida. "And she was living in the woods behind the house and doing sex work as a teenager to support herself, Carpenter said. Wuornos was raised by her grandparents, who were abusive, Carpenter said, and kicked her out of their house when she was still a teenager.
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