Cereal Killers
CORONA
Childhood
Work History
Criminal Behavior
Social Life
Mental Health
First Kill
Victims
Victims included:
Kenneth Whitacre, Charles Fleming, Melford Sample, Donald Smith, John J. Haluka, Warren Kelley, Sigurd Beierman, William Emery Kamp, Clarence Hocking, James W. Howard, Jonah R. Smallwood, Elbert T. Riley, Paul B. Allen, Edward Martin Cupp, Albert Hayes, Raymond Muchache, John H. Jackson, Lloyd Wallace Wenzel, Mark Beverly Shields, Sam Bonafide (also known as Joe Carriveau) and Joseph Maczak, plus four men who remained unidentified.
M.O.
Corona dug the graves days before the murders and left damning receipts and ledgers in most of the graves
*idiot*
all of his victims:
- were sodomized
- stabbed (one was shot)
- mutilated in the head with a machete
- had a deep puncture wound in the chest
- 2 slashes across the back of the head in the shape of a cross
- buried face up
- arms stretched above their heads
- shirts pulled over their heads
- pants pulled down
Organized but apathetic
Category
Signature
Capture
Trial
- Jury deliberated for 45 hours
- found guilty
- appealed, got a second trial
- was found guilty again and sentenced to 25 separate life sentences
- Now resides at Corcoran State Prison in California
Bruno Ludke
A.K.A.: "The Gross"
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape - Necrophilia - Mental retardation
Number of victims: 84 +
Date of murders: 1928 - 1943
Date of arrest: March 18, 1943
Date of birth: April 3, 1908
Victims profile: Girls / women
Method of murder: Strangulation / Stabbing with knife
Location: Germany
Status: Declared insane, he was sent to the SS-run 'Institute of Criminological Medicine' in Vienna. Died from a chemical injection on April 8, 1944