Brooklyn Butcher

Murder Inc. Exclusive: Was Claribel Quinones murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer?

On July 3, 2007 workers found the dismembered remains of a woman wrapped in a plastic garbage bag, newspaper and duct tape in the basement of an abandoned house at 546 Lexington Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. The identity of the victim was never released to the public by the New York Police Department but was obtained by Murder Inc. The woman was Claribel Quinones, of 1065 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn.
Tanya Rush was last seen leaving her apartment at 345 Livonia Avenue in Brooklyn on June 23, 2008. According to her sister-in-law, Tanya said she was going to meet a friend. Her dismembered remains were found in a suitcase along the Newbridge Road ramp off the Southern State Parkway in Bellmore not far from the Wantagh State Parkway that leads to Jones Beach. Her murder is known to have been investigated by law enforcement in connection with the Long Island Serial Killer case.
On March 23, 2013 the skeletal remains of a female in a suitcase were discovered by construction workers inside an abandoned house at 174 Hull Street in Brooklyn. The suitcase was burned, likely during a fire that occurred at the house in May 2012, placing the murder sometime before then. The woman was identified as Erica McDaniel, a 30 year old Kansas native with ties to Long Island. Erica McDaniel lived at 1084 Bedford Avenue, directly across the street from Claribel Quinones! Both Erica McDaniel and Claribel Quinones were found murdered and hidden inside abandoned houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn

July 3 2007 Claribel Quinones Murder Brooklyn, NY






Claribel Quinones was found dismembered in an abandoned house at 546 Lexington Ave in Brooklyn

Claribel Quinones and Erica McDaniel lived across the street from each other
June 27 2008 Tanya Rush Murder Bellmore, NY



Tanya Rush lived at 345 Livonia Ave in Brooklyn, NY. She vanished after walking out of her apartment building and told her sister-in-law she was going to meet a friend. Tanya Rush lived less than a mile from where Erica McDaniel’s body was found. Both were found in suitcases and police noted the similarities between their murders to the press

Tanya Rush was found dismembered in a suitcase on Long Island
March 23 2013 Erica McDaniel Murder Brooklyn, NY





174 Hull Street in Brooklyn where Erica McDaniel was discovered

174 Hull Street is less than two miles from the abandoned house where Claribel Quinones was found dismembered

Erica McDaniel was found murdered under 1000 feet from the address shown for Andre Isaac on De Sales Place

Erica McDaniel’s relatives lived in Amityville and West Babylon on Long Island

Erica McDaniel’s relatives lived 1 mile from LISK victim Amber Costello in West Babylon

Erica McDaniel lived across the street from Claribel Quinones in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Butcher
On July 9 1997 a male and female were found dismembered in garbage bags in the parking lot of the Borinquen Plaza apartments by a cleanup crew. The NYPD claims neither victim was ever identified but they are still not in NamUS. The next day, July 10, the skull, arms and legs of a female inside of a suitcase were fished out of the water in Brooklyn. The victim also remains unidentified.
In August 1999, 16 year old Jackie Smith disappeared from Avenue N & Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. Her torso was found wrapped in plastic in Rockaway Beach, Queens on June 20, 2000.
On February 20 2002 the skull and hands of a female were found inside the refrigerator of abandoned house at 2743 Fulton Street by workers hired to clear the property. More body parts were also found in the basement. She remains unidentified. The circumstances of her murder and Claribel Quinones are eerily similar.
In November 2002, Andre Jamal Isaac, known as “Sugar Bear” disappeared from Brooklyn after getting into a red BMW-type sports car with his “secret friend”. His torso was found dismembered and wrapped in plastic bags in Rockaway Beach in December 2002 approximately one mile from where Jackie Smith’s torso had been found. His skull was found in a frozen pond in Moriches in Suffolk County on Long Island and his extremities were discovered in a wooded area near a recently constructed house in East Patchogue. In 2020, the Suffolk County Police Department “accidentally” posted Andre Isaac’s case on their Gilgo News website.
In July 2003, the dismembered torso of Jessica Taylor was found in Manorville, NY. Her skull was later recovered along Ocean Parkway in 2011 among 10+ other victims of the Long Island Serial Killer. Like Jackie Smith, Andre Isaac, Claribel Quinones, Tanya Rush and Erica McDaniel, Jessica Taylor lived in Brooklyn, NY…

July 9 1997 Jane Doe & John Doe Dismembered Brooklyn, NY






July 10 1997 Dismembered Female NamUS #UP6816 Brooklyn, NY








August 12 1999 Jacqueline Smith Missing Brooklyn, NY

In 2008, posters on the Porchlight USA missing persons forum were informed that Jacqueline Smith was “restricted” and ordered to remove any posters of her from public view. Why, if Jacqueline wasn’t identified until 2018?

Jackie Smith was last seen at Avenue N & Utica Avenue in Brooklyn

June 20 2000 Jacqueline Smith Murder Torso Discovered Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY





The NYPD sent out a tweet in 2019 with limited information about Jacqueline Smith’s murder. This appears to be the only public acknowledgement that the torso found in Rockaway Beach on June 20, 2000 was identified as Jacqueline Smith

Jacqueline Smith’s torso was found approximately 1 mile away from where Sugar Bear’s was found two years later

December 5 2001 Dismembered Male Brooklyn, NY



The dismembered remains of this John Doe were found in garbage bags at a Brooklyn housing project, echoing the murder of the male and female found dismembered in the parking lot of the Borinquen housing projects in 1997

February 20 2002 Unidentified Dismembered Female & Davon Barrell Brooklyn, NY







Jane Doe (2002) and Claribel Quinones (2007) were found approximately 2.5 miles apart and both discovered dismembered in the basement of an abandoned house

2743 Fulton where Jane Doe 2002 and 647 Belmont where Davon Barrell were found are about half a mile apart

647 Belmont Ave Brooklyn, NY where Davon Barrell was discovered

The male victim found at 647 Belmont was identified as Davon Barrell (per a Freedom of Information Law request). LISK victim Jessica Taylor lived under 1,000 feet from where Davon Barrell was found murdered

November 2002 Andre Jamal Isaac “Sugar Bear” Missing Brooklyn, NY

Andre Isaac disappeared from East New York after being seen getting into a red BMW with his “secret friend”

Andre Isaac lived on De Sales Place in Brooklyn. Long Island Serial Killer victim Jessica Taylor’s pimp Khalil White shows a previous address on De Sales Place two blocks from where Andre lived. It also appears that Khalil White’s and Andre Isaac’s relatives know each other

Khalil White’s mom knew Andre Isaac’s father

December 17 2002 Andre Jamal Isaac “Sugar Bear” Torso Rockaway Beach, NY

Andre Isaac’s murder appeared on the official Suffolk County Police Department’s Long Island Serial Killer “Gilgo News” website in 2020






Andre Isaac’s torso was discovered at Rockaway Beach 1 mile from where Jackie Smith’s torso was found in 2000

January 26 2003 Andre Jamal Isaac’s Head Recovered Moriches, NY



April 10 2004 Andre Isaac’s Arms & Legs Recovered Moriches, NY











PIX11’s Mary Murphy covered the murder of Andre Isaac and the connection to the Long Island Serial Killer case in a July 2020 investigative report







July 26 2003 Jessica Taylor Murder Manorville, NY *LISK*


Jessica Taylor was murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer in July 2003. Jessica Taylor and her pimp Khalil White lived in Brooklyn


Jessica Taylor’s Remy’s Angel tattoo was similar to Claribel Quinones’ angel tattoo








Jessica Taylor’s torso was found in Manorville, NY
March 3 2004 Lethovan Beaubrun Murder Brooklyn, NY


Lethovan Beaubrun’s identity was obtained from the NYPD by Murder Inc. through the Freedom of Information Law



Lethovan Beaubrun appears to have resided on Long Island in Jericho, NY at some point prior to his murder
Today marks 25 years since the first official Long Island Serial Killer victim’s dismembered legs were found on Fire Island. The Suffolk County Police Department continues to refuse to release the identity of LISK victim Manorville John Doe 2003…

 

Muttontown Jane Doe

Was Muttontown Jane Doe murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer?

On November 10 2001 the skeleton of a woman was discovered at the Muttontown Preserve in Nassau County on Long Island. In 2002, Billy Jensen covered the story of Muttontown Jane Doe in True Crime L.I. Confidential for the New Island Ear. For years, numerous attempts were made to get Muttontown Jane Doe entered into NamUS. Finally, www.gilgocase.com succeeded and Muttontown Jane Doe was admitted into NamUS in 2020.
On March 3, 2007 the torso of a woman was found in a suitcase in Harbor Island Park in Mamaroneck, NY. The woman had a tattoo of two cherries on her chest. Inside the suitcase were a pair of purple Champion brand sweatpants, a long sleeve t-shirt made by Voice and a red camisole made by Coconut Republic. There were also scraps of paper from a calendar that said “cinco” and “begin to live”. On March 21 a fisherman found the victim’s right leg and a foot on the rocks in Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. The next day, the victim’s left leg was found near the shoreline by a groundskeeper on Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan’s property on the North Shore of Long Island in Cove Neck, NY, not far from Cold Spring Harbor.
On January 21 2013, the female remains of a woman were found in a secluded sandy area near the beach off Sheep Lane in Lattingtown, NY. The woman was found in a plastic bag, partially buried in the sand. The bag was weathered and had vegetation and roots growing into it, indicating it had been there for some time. The victim is described as an Asian female, age 20-50, found with a bra, dark colored jeans and socks. The woman was also wearing a distinctive gold pig charm necklace. Lattingtown Jane Doe was found approximately 6 miles north of the Muttontown Preserve where Muttontown Jane Doe was discovered in 2001. To this day, Muttontown Jane Doe, Cherries and Lattingtown Jane Doe remain unidentified. Were these 3 women victims of the Long Island Serial Killer? Was the LISK dumping bodies on the North Shore of Long Island?

November 10 2001 Muttontown Jane Doe Muttontown, NY



Gold Coast Mystery by Billy Jensen True Crime L.I. Confidential New Island Ear Volume 1 Issue 5










Muttontown Jane Doe was found in a nature preserve approximately 7 miles south of Lattingtown Jane Doe

March 3 2007 Cherries Mamaroneck/Lloyd Harbor, NY
















Cherries left leg was found approximately 5 miles east of where Lattingtown Jane would be discovered
January 21 2013 Lattingtown Jane Doe Lattingtown, NY





Does the Long Island Serial Killer’s dumping ground cover not only New York City, Manorville and Ocean Parkway, but also the North Shore of Long Island?

LISK ’97

Murder Inc. Exclusive: Was the Long Island Serial Killer responsible for a series of dismemberments surrounding Peaches’ murder in 1997?

During the summer of 1997 a rash of dismemberments plagued New York. On June 13, the body or torso of a woman in a plastic bag was discovered in a wooded area of Highbridge Park between 180th Street and 181st Street in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. It’s unclear if the woman was dismembered. One report describes the discovery as a torso wrapped in plastic. The woman was identified as Nancy Flores through dental records.
On June 18 the torso of a woman was discovered in an abandoned apartment complex in Red Bank, NJ. The woman had been decapitated, her legs were removed along with the fingertips of all her fingers. It wasn’t until 2008 that she was identified as Sara Lepkofker, a 56 year old Brooklyn woman who had disappeared in May 1997.
10 days later on June 28, Long Island Serial Killer victim Peaches‘ torso was discovered in Hempstead Lake State Park. Peaches extremities and the body of her young child were later recovered along Ocean Parkway in 2011. Peaches skull was never found. The Suffolk County Police Department hid from the public the fact that Peaches’ remains were found on Ocean Parkway and she was the mother of the child for 5 years!
On July 3, Jennifer Nicole Gaine was found murdered inside a Times Square motel room. She was strangled, wrapped in a bed sheet and her hands and feet were bound with a pillowcase covering her head. The police claim Gaine was a sex worker.
Less than a week later on July 9, the dismembered remains of a male and female were found in garbage bags by a clean up crew at the Borinquen Plaza apartments in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Four garbage bags containing the torsos, heads, arms and legs of a Jane and John Doe were found against a parking lot wall. The victims were estimated to have been dead for 6 to 12 hours.
One day later on July 10, fishermen in the Gowanus Bay in Brooklyn fished up a suitcase containing dismembered body parts. A head, two arms and two legs were found in garbage bags inside the suitcase. Original news report describe the head as belonging to that of a male. NamUS now lists the sex of the victim as female and describes the victims nails as having pink nail polish with silver tips.
That’s quite a number of dismembered body parts in a very short time period. When Valerie Mack’s torso was discovered in Manorville in 2000, the remains of an unidentified male, strangled and in his underwear was discovered only four days later and a few miles west. After Jessica Taylor’s torso was found in Manorville in July 2003, the body of male homicide victim was recovered in November. He has been identified but the Suffolk County Police Department refuses to release his name to the public. His estimated postmortem interval of three to four months puts his time of death around late July when Jessica Taylor was murdered. These circumstances suggest that the Long Island Serial Killer may have killed and dumped the male victims at the same times as Jessica Taylor and Valerie Mack. Were the male and female Manorville victims killed together like the dismembered Jane and John Doe in Brooklyn? Was LISK on killing spree over the course of one month in mid-June through mid-July in 1997?
June 13 1997 Nancy Flores Murder Highbridge Park, NYC




June 18 1997 Sara Lepkofker Murder Torso Discovered Red Bank, NJ










June 28 1997 Peaches *LISK* Hempstead Lake State Park NY





Law Enforcement hid the fact that Peaches’ body parts were found on Ocean Parkway and pretended she was a separate individual from the “Jane Doe” mother of the child victim found at Gilgo Beach for 5 long years

Peaches wasn’t disclosed to be a match to the remains found on Ocean Parkway until prodding from filmmakers Josh Zeman & Rachel Mills

Peaches’ torso was found in Hempstead Lake State Park in 1997. Her extremities and the remains of her child were found along Ocean Parkway in April 2011.
July 3 1997 Jennifer Nicole Gaine Murder Sherman Hotel Times Square New York, NY



Jennifer Gaine was murdered in a hotel room about two blocks from the hotel LISK victim Maureen Brainard-Barnes was staying at before she disappeared
Jul 9 1997 Jane Doe & John Doe Dismembered Brooklyn NY






July 10 1997 NamUS #UP6816 Dismembered Female Brooklyn








Was the Long Island Serial Killer responsible for any of these 1997 murders besides Peaches & her child?

Burbank Burglar

Murder Inc Exclusive: Did the Original Night Stalker Murder Charlie Anderson & Carol Montecalvo in Burbank?

On January 24 1987 LA County Sheriff’s Deputy Charlie Anderson was shot to death by an intruder after returning to his home in Burbank, CA. Charlie Anderson had carried his sleeping son up from the car and put him into bed. He was then shot at close range and found at the top of the stairs. Anderson’s own weapon is believed to have been used to kill him and was taken by the burglar. There were signs of forced entry, reports of someone fleeing the scene hopping a fence, and Anderson’s neighbor said she had surprised a burglar in her home a year earlier. There were no fingerprints found so it is believed the burglar wore gloves. The burglar had moved items and grouped them together in the house, but overlooked more valuable items in plain sight. The day after the murder, the Burbank Police Department received a mysterious phone call from an anonymous caller who stated “I know who did the shooting”. The caller stated “I’m not playing around”, asked if he was being recorded and stated “I don’t like recordings”.
One year later on March 31 1988 Dan Montecalvo and his wife Carol were returning to their house in Burbank three blocks from where Charlie Anderson was murdered in his house. They were surprised by a burglar and both shot after entering their home. Police responded to the scene but let Carol Montecalvo bleed out and die while they waited outside. The burglars had made a slit in the screen door and jimmied open a cash box containing $800. The murder weapon was never found. Amazingly, law enforcement charged and convicted Dan Montecalvo for his wife’s murder. Carol and Dan Montecalvo lived at 315 South Myers Street. Their next door neighbor’s house may be one that was familiar to Joseph DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer. His sister’s brother-in-law Vernon Thompson had lived in the house next door.
Joseph DeAngelo was friends with Vern Thompson. Although Thompson appears to have lived in the house many years earlier in the 1950s, is it possible Joe DeAngelo was familiar with the address? DeAngelo and his family had lived nearby in Paicoma in the late 50s and DeAngelo lived in Long Beach in LA County in the 1980’s. Was Joe DeAngelo the burglar who murdered Carol Montecalvo and Charlie Anderson?
January 24 1987 Deputy Charlie Anderson Murder Burbank


A neighbor of Charlie Anderson’s surprised a burglar who fled out her back door in 1986

The East Area Rapist frequently called and taunted the police department. In one call to a counseling service, he hung up after he said “I believe you are tracing this call”

Charlie Anderson was murdered a few blocks from Carol Montecalvo in very similar circumstances

March 31 1988 Carol Montecalvo Murder Burbank





March 13 1990 Dan Montecalvo Charged with Murder Burbank *Convicted*

November 5 1990 Dan Montecalvo *Convicted*



Carol Montecalvo was murdered in her house next door to Joe DeAngelo’s sister’s brother-in-law Vernon Thompson’s former home. DeAngelo was friends with Vern and had lived in nearby Pacoima in the 1950s. Was Joseph DeAngelo familiar with the home on South Myers Street in Burbank next door to where Carol Montecalvo was murdered?

 

 

 

Jackie Smith

Murder Inc. Exclusive: Was Jacqueline Smith murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer in 1999?

On June 20, 2000 the torso of a female in plastic bags wrapped with tape was recovered at Beach 88th Street in Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY. The female torso was listed in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as NamUS #6058. In 2018 NamUS #6058 was quietly removed. The victim was identified as 16 year old Jacqueline Ashley Smith. Smith was reported missing from the 67 Precinct in East Flatbush, Brooklyn on August 12, 1999, ten months before her torso was discovered in Rockaway Beach. In November 2000, five months after Jackie Smith’s torso was found, Long Island Serial Killer victim Valerie Mack’s torso was discovered in Manorville, NY along with the remains of a still unidentified male strangulation victim found nearby.
The torso of Andre Jamal Isaac (“Sugar Bear”), wrapped in plastic bags, was recovered in the weeds at Beach 63rd st in Rockaway Beach on December 17, 2002. Andre’s torso was found approximately one mile from where Jacqueline Smith’s torso had been discovered two years earlier. His skull was recovered in a frozen pond in Moriches in Suffolk County on January 25, 2003 and his limbs were discovered in a wooded area near the Forge River on April 10, 2004. In 2020, Andre Isaac “accidentally” appeared on the Suffolk County Police Department’s Gilgo News website, validating a long held suspicion that Andre Isaac was in fact a victim of the Long Island Serial Killer. Andre Isaac was last seen leaving his apartment in East New York, Brooklyn after getting into a red BMW-like sports car with his “secret friend”

August 12, 1999 Jacqueline Smith Missing Brooklyn, NY


In 2008, posters on the Porchlight USA missing persons forum were ordered to discontinue any discussion of Jacqueline Smith and remove any posters that were in public view. Why, if Jacqueline wasn’t identified until 2018?



Eve Brown disappeared in July 1999, one month before Jacqueline Smith. Eve Brown lived on Long Island, worked in Rockaway and was found dismembered in plastic bags on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. Her car was recovered in East Flatbush, the same section of Brooklyn where Jackie Smith was reported missing

June 20 2000 Jacqueline Smith Murder Torso Discovered Rockaway Beach, NY




There is a discrepancy in reports of where exactly Jackie Smith’s torso was discovered. The NAMUS listings gave the exact location as on the bay side beach at Beach 88th Street. The NYPD homicide flyer obtained by Murder Inc. gives the location slightly more inland at Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 88th Street. Jacqueline Smith’s unidentified torso remained in NamUS until 2018. According to NamUS her head, limbs and hands were not recovered


The NYPD sent out a tweet in 2019 with limited information about Jacqueline Smith’s murder. This appears to be the only public acknowledgement that the torso found in Rockaway Beach on June 20, 2000 was identified as Jacqueline Smith

Jacqueline Smith’s torso was found approximately 1 mile away from where Sugar Bear’s torso was found two years later

November 2002 Andre Jamal Isaac “Sugar Bear” Missing East New York, Brooklyn

Andre Isaac disappeared from East New York after being seen getting into a red BMW with his “secret friend”

Andre Isaac lived on De Sales Place in Brooklyn. Long Island Serial Killer victim Jessica Taylor’s pimp Khalil White shows a previous address on De Sales Place two blocks from where Andre lived. It also appears that Khalil White’s and Andre Isaac’s relatives know each other

A woman who appears to be a relative of Khalil White seems to know a man who appears to be Andre Isaac’s father

December 17 2002 Andre Jamal Isaac “Sugar Bear” Torso Rockaway Beach, NY







Andre Isaac’s torso was discovered at Rockaway Beach near the dumpsite of several other unsolved dismemberment murders

January 26 2003 Andre Jamal Isaac’s Skull Recovered Moriches, NY


April 10 2004 Andre Isaac’s Arms & Legs Recovered Moriches, NY











PIX11’s Mary Murphy covered the murder of Andre Isaac and the connection to the Long Island Serial Killer case in a July 2020 investigative report







Does the Long Island Serial Killer’s dumping ground along the barrier islands extend from Rockaway Beach to Ocean Parkway?

Phantom Rapist

Murder Inc. Exclusive: Was Long Beach’s Phantom Rapist a Serial Killer?

AaronTimones is an anagram for I am not EARONS
During 1969 and 1970, the Phantom Rapist terrorized the Long Beach and Lakewood area by breaking into homes and assaulting women, sometimes even with their husband or parents present. The Phantom wore a hood or a ski-mask and usually entered the home between midnight and 6:00 am. He awakened victims by pressing a pillowcase over their heads, warning them not to scream and forcing them on their stomachs and then bound the victims with ligatures he had brought with him, venetian blind cords, clothesline or electrical cords. After binding the victims hands he rolled them over, gagged them with a cloth and covered their head with a pillowcase. The Phantom knew intimate details about his victims and bragged about stalking them for weeks. He attempted to use a rag soaked in ether in one attack and is also believed to have used a chemical to drug a victim’s dog. The rapist sometimes used Spanish and mid-western accents and claimed he lost his family during a violent revolution.

His first known attack was on New Years Day in 1969. The next attack was May 3 1969, when he attacked a 75 year old woman in downtown Long Beach. Two days later on May 5 1969, 69 year old Thelma Lewis was found stabbed to death in her home in neighboring Lakewood. Thelma’s murder was never linked to the Phantom, but he struck again the next night, May 6, attacking a 44 year old woman. On May 16 1969 the Phantom attacked a 16 year old girl and then a 60 year old woman on May 25. On June 6 1969, the Phantom attacked another woman, followed by the murder of Rose Parker on June 21. The Phantom was believed to be responsible for her murder, but never charged with the crime.

On August 30 1969 Kathleen Butts was found murdered in the bushes of a vacant lot in Long Beach. Her hands and feet were bound and there was a rope around her neck. It’s believed she disappeared while hitchhiking. On September 12 the Phantom struck, this time in Buena Park. On November 3, eighth grader Jan Marsh was found murdered on a dirt walkway in nearby Lynwood. That night on November 4, the Phantom attacked a couple in Long Beach while wearing a ski mask. He bound them and robbed them and then assaulted the woman.

The Phantom Rapist, next broke into a home on Christmas morning at 1:00 am. Wearing a ski mask and armed with a pistol he attacked a couple in their bedroom. He bound the victims with neckties and a terrycloth belt and stole cash. He then threatened to harm the woman’s husband and raped her. On February 9 1970, the Phantom again chose another couple in Long Beach. A 56 year old woman and her husband were awakened by a flashlight shining in their faces. In a low voice using a mid-western accent the Phantom warned them “keep quiet and you won’t get hurt.” He told the husband to “roll over on your stomach”, bound his hands behind his back with neckties and covered his head with a pillowcase. The phantom then ordered the woman to roll over but she fought back and was beaten and choked until she was unconscious. He bound her and assaulted her on the bed while her husband lay next to her. Afterwards the Phantom asked “where’s the money?” and left with the victims purse. On March 12 he attacked a 29 year old woman in Norwalk.

It had been over 14 months since the Phantom Rapist began his reign of terror. Then on March 20, 1970 came an arrest. Detectives were staking out 22 year old Albert “Corky” Savage Jr.’s residence in Lakewood for two weeks. While a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter was trailing Savage in his truck, the chopper crashed to the ground at Del Amo Boulevard and Paramount Boulevard. Savage was arrested shortly after the crash and charged with possession of a weapon as a convicted felon. Detectives claimed they saw Savage place a .25 caliber handgun wrapped in a greasy red mechanic’s rag behind the seat of the trunk to his pickup truck. They also claimed to find a flashlight, gloves, sleeves from a black wool sweater and a sketch map.

But on May 21 1970, Albert Savage and three other men broke out of the LA County Jail. They sawed their way through the bars of a second story window and jumped 25 feet to escape. While still on the lam, Savage was charged with 19 counts of burglary and rape in connection with the Phantom Rapes.
On October 30, 1970 Vicki Lynn Miner disappeared while walking to school at Buena Park High. Two weeks later she was found bludgeoned to death in a vacant lot in Buena Park.

Meanwhile, in Hammond, Indiana, Albert Savage was arrested during a burglary at an automobile shop. He gave his name as Albert Johnson, and while being held in the Hammond Jail, Savage escaped again, this time by picking the lock to his cell. Detectives traced Savage to an auto-repair shop in Hammond. When they caught up with him, he fled on foot and was shot in the back, severing his spinal cord. As a result, Albert Savage was paralyzed from the waist down.

In May of 1971 the Phantom Rapist trial began as Savage was wheeled into court in a wheelchair. He was charged with seven counts of rape and eight counts of burglary. Savage pled not guilty and claimed he was innocent. Long Beach police criminalist Martin Klein testified that wool fibers found on two Phantom Rapist victims beds showed “no discernible difference” with fibers from a sweater belonging to the defendant. He also claimed that cotton fibers “were similar” to those from two work gloves removed from Savage’s truck at the time of his arrest.

As the trial continued, a bloody week of murder and mayhem befell the Phantom’s former arena. On August 11, 1971, Bellflower resident Margaret Makeig was found shot to death in the head on her living room floor. Three days after Margaret’s murder, on August 14, 1971, two sisters, Dorothy Truxa and Margaret Miller were found murdered in their car in a Downey shopping mall parking lot. They’d both been shot in the head with a small caliber weapon. Three more days later on August 17, 1971, Lakewood Village resident Velma Harris was found shot to death in her home by an intruder. She’d been shot in the back of her head on her bedroom floor. In her hands she clenched a bloody telephone cord and her bikini bottom was ripped off and lying nearby. She lived in the same area the Phantom Rapist attacked many victims and not far from where Rose Parker was purportedly killed by the Phantom in May 1969.

During the Phantom Rapist trial it came to light how Albert Savage had come to attention as a suspect for the crimes. Albert Savage was employed as a car-lot boy at a Long Beach auto dealership. When one of the Phantom Rapist’s victims had dropped off her car to be serviced, Albert Savage was assigned to chauffeur the woman. The woman thought she recognized Savage’s voice, clothing, build and body odor as that of the Phantom Rapist who had attacked her on May 6 1969. A second Phantom Rapist victim had her car serviced at the same dealership before her assault on May 3 1969. A third woman whose house was burglarized on May 15 1969 while she was not home, testified that the .25 caliber gun recovered from Savage’s truck had been stolen from her residence. During the trial, Savage testified that he bought the gun in the bar where his wife worked, but he didn’t know the man who sold it to him.

The prosecution also produced testimony from a Long Beach police crime lab technician who claimed that there “was a very high probability” glove prints left at the scene of a Phantom Rapist crime matched the gloves found in Savage’s truck. Albert Raymond Savage was found guilty of the Phantom Rapist crimes and sentenced to 10 years to life.


January 1 1969 Phantom Rapist Long Beach
January 1 1969 Long Beach Burglar

May 3 1969 Phantom Rapist Downtown Long Beach

May 5 1969 Thelma Lewis Murder Lakewood





May 6 1969 Phantom Rapist Long Beach Traffic Circle


May 15 1969 Long Beach Burglar
May 16 1969 Phantom Rapist Long Beach City College Area


May 25 1969 Phantom Rapist Hawaiian Gardens CA


June 6 1969 Phantom Rapist Long Beach
July 21 1969 Rose Parker Murder Long Beach












July 27 1969 Phantom Rapist Long Beach








July 31 1969 Long Beach Cat Burglar (Date N/A)

August 7 1969 “Not the” Phantom Rapist Long Beach

August 14 1969 Letter to the Editor

Aug 17 1969 Phantom Rapist Profile






August 30 1969 Kathleen Marie Butts Murder Long Beach









Kathleen Butts was found bound and strangled in the same area the Phantom Rapist was active

September 12 1969 Phantom Rapist Buena Park
October 12 1969 Long Beach Cat Burglar


November 3 1969 Jan Marsh Murder Lynwood






November 4 1969 Phantom Rapist Cal State Long Beach


December 25 1969 Phantom Rapist Long Beach

February 9 1970 Phantom Rapist Long Beach

March 12 1970 Phantom Rapist Norwalk

March 20 1970 Phantom Rapist Albert Savage Arrest Lakewood




Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed a helicopter while tailing Albert Savage

March 23 1970 Albert Savage Long Beach

March 24 1970 Albert Savage Long Beach

May 21 1970 Albert Savage Escape Los Angeles County Jail




May 29 1970 Albert Savage 19 Charges Files


October 30 1970 Vicki Lynn Miner Murder Buena Park



Vicki Miner lived and was murdered in Buena Park where the Phantom Rapist attacked in September 1969

November 5 1970 Albert Savage Escapes/Shot Hammond, Indiana



November 8 1970 Albert Savage Paralyzed Hammond Indiana


February 4 1971 Long Beach Cat Burglar


May 13 1971 Long Beach Rapist

May 16 1971 Albert Savage No Bail Long Beach

May 17 1971 Albert Savage Trial Delay Long beach

May 27 1971 Albert Savage Court Long Beach

May 28 1971 Albert Savage Trial Los Angeles
June 28 1971 Albert Savage Pleads Innocent Long Beach

August 11 1971 Marguerite Makeig Murder Bellflower





August 14 1971 Dorothy Truxa & Margaret Miller Murder Downey






Dorothy Truxa and Margaret Miller were murdered in Downey where Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo’s mother, stepfather and brother lived

Dorothy Truxa lived in Downey when she was murdered

Margaret Miller lived in Paramount just south of Downey and Lynwood

August 17 1971 Velma Harris Murder Long Beach




Velma Harris was murdered in her home near suspected Phantom Rapist murder victim Rose Parker, but Albert Savage was in custody in 1971. Were Rose Parker & Velma Harris murdered by the same killer?

November 2 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

November 3 1971 Phantom Rapist Albert Savage Trial Jury Selection Long Beach

November 5 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

November 5 1971 Phantom Rapist Albert Savage Trial

November 9 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

November 19 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

November 18 1971 Albert Savage Trial Glove Prints Questionable Long Beach

November 19 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

November 26 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

November 29 1971 Albert Savage Trial Long Beach

December 1 1971 Albert Savage Testifies Long Beach

December 2 1971 Albert Savage Jury Deliberations Long Beach

December 7 1971 Albert Savage Convicted Long Beach

Dec 29 1971 Albert Savage Sentenced Long Beach

December 1971 Joe DeAngelo’s Mother, Step-Father & Brother Live in Downey

Black Christmass

Was Denise Spangler murdered by the Golden State Killer in Exeter on Christmas Eve in 2017?

Denise Spangler was found murdered in Exeter on Christmas Eve 2017. She’d been stabbed to death in her home located two blocks from Joseph DeAngelo’s former residence. CBK posted on the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker forum 10 days before her murder…
December 24 2017 Denise Spangler Murder Exeter

Denise Spangler was murdered in her home two blocks from Joe DeAngelo’s old apartment on Orange Ave in Exeter. Joe and his wife Sharon resided here while he was a police officer serial killer known as the Visalia Ransacker

Denise Spangler attended Mt. Whitney High School where Jennifer Armour & Beth Snelling attended when they were victims of Joseph DeAngelo


12-26-75 Map

Denise Spangler’s mother Marilyn Spangler worked at the Kaweah Manor Convalescent Hospital where Joe DeAngelo’s step-father died in 2000

Kaweah Manor Convalescent Hospital in Visalia

Marilyn Spangler was working at the hospital in 1981. Was she still working there in 2000 when DeAngelo’s step-father died there? Was Denise Spangler’s killing a revenge murder?

Marilyn Spangler lived on West La Vida Court in Visalia in the 1980s. This is the same street that murder victims Jennifer Armour & Nellie McCarty resided on when they were murdered

Keddie Cabin

Was “Jack from the Town of Quincy” Responsible for the Keddie Cabin Murders?

In October 1973, 14 year old Kathy Ann Howard disappeared from Quincy in Plumas County, California. Her body was found in Strawberry Valley. Kathy Howard was a student at Quincy Junior-Senior High School when she was murdered. East Area Rapist victim Victor Hayes claims he thinks he met Joe DeAngelo for the first time at Bucks Lake near Quincy and Keddie in the summer of 1974. Five years later at the height of the East Area Rapist scare, a suspicious man appeared at Riverside Convalescent Hospital in Sacramento on April 10 1978. He told a nurse his name was “Jack from the town of Quincy”. Four days after on April 14 1978, the EAR struck near the hospital and it was suspected “Jack” may have been the EAR. On April 21 1978, one week after the EAR attack, Lynette Mollath was murdered in her home in Piedmont, CA. She was from Keddie and like Kathy Ann Howard had attended Quincy Junior-Senior High School in 1972. Her brother Gary later owned Keddie Resort.
On April 11 1981 Sue Sharp, John Sharp and Dana Wingate were murdered in their cabin in Keddie. The crime scene resembled the work of the Original Night Stalker who had just murdered Manuela Witthuhn in Irvine two months earlier. The victims were found bound with tape and electrical cords and had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death. Sue’s daughter Tina was missing and her skeletal remains were later discovered at Camp Eighteen in 1984, not far from Strawberry Valley where Kathy Howard’s body had been found in 1973. She was identified after police received an anonymous phone call suggesting the remains found at Camp Eighteen were Tina Sharp’s…

October 7 1973 Kathy Ann Howard Missing Quincy CA

Kathy Howard disappeared from Quincy just south of Keddie

She was a student at Quincy Junior-High School

October 13 1973 Kathy Ann Howard Murder Strawberry Valley CA




Kathy Howard was found near Strawberry Valley 5 miles south of Camp Eighteen where Keddie Cabin murder victim Tina Sharp was found in 1984

October 14 1973 Bonnie Ann Neumann Murder Chico



July 8 1974 Quincy Burglar

July/August 1974 EAR Victim Victor Hayes thinks he met Joe DeAngelo at a PG&E camp at Bucks Lake in Plumas County. Bucks Lake is southwest of Keddie

November 1975 Bucks Lake Ransacker

April 3 1977 Quincy Burglar

October 31 1977 Quincy Dog Poisoner

February 21 1978 Ski Mask Stabber Quincy




April 10 1978 “Jack from the town of Quincy” Riverside Convalescent Hospital Sacramento



April 14 1978 East Area Rapist Sacramento



This attack was extremely close to Riverside Convalescent Hospital only 4 days after “Jack from the town of Quincy” was seen there

April 21 1978 Lynette Mollath Murder Piedmont CA






Lynette Mollath was from Keddie and graduated from Quincy High School in 1972

Lynette Mollath’s brother Gary later owned Keddie Resort…


Lyn Mollath was murdered in Piedmont 1 mile from the 1964 double murder of Mary & Carolyn Martin committed by the Hogtie Killer

April 28 1978 Zodiac Letter


Joseph DeAngelo 1981

February 5 1981 Original Night Stalker Manuela Witthuhn Murder Irvine *Joseph DeAngelo Convicted*


March 8 1981 Zodiac Letter Atlanta GA


March 10-20 1981 Buck’s Lake Burglar



April 11 1981 Dana Wingate, John Sharp & Glenna Sue Sharp Murder + Tina Sharp Missing Keddie CA










































































April 16 1981 Portola Dog Poisoner


This dog poisoning was only four days after the Keddie murders. Portola is 30 miles south east of Keddie

April 22 1984 Tina Sharp Skeleton Found Camp Eighteen, CA





Police recieved an anonymous phone call suggesting the bones found at Camp 18 belonged to Tina Sharp





August 30 1984 Paradise Rapist


The Keddie victims were bound with tape and electrical cords


The East Area Rapist used electrical cords to bind victims

At Keddie Cabin, two victims were found tied to each other


The East Area Rapist used this same method in 1975

One of the Keddie victims was covered with a blanket

The Original Night Stalker covered his murder victims with blankets



Keddie Ligatures


 

EAR Ligatures

Janet Stallcup

On December 19 1976 Janet Stallcup disappeared from Garden Grove, CA on her way to a party. She was later found raped and murdered in her car parked in the back of an apartment complex. Janet Stallcup worked at the UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA, like Original Night Stalker murder victim Patrice Harrington had and where her husband Keith Harrington was a student. Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared from the same medical center in 1980 before she was murdered. Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo’s mother and step-father lived in Garden Grove in 1973-1974 and his brother John resided in Garden Grove for many years

December 18 1976 East Area Rapist Fair Oaks



December 19 1976 Janet Stallcup Murder Garden Grove































Janet Stallcup lived in Garden Grove


Janet Stallcup worked as a nurse at UCI Medical Center like 1980 ONS victim Patrice Harrington. Dorothy Jane Scott was last seen at UCI Medical Center before her murder in 1980


Janet was a nursing student at Cypress College

Janet Stallcup’s body was found one mile from where Joseph DeAngelo’s mother lived in Garden Grove from 1973-1974


John DeAngelo (Joe DeAngelo’s brother) lived in Buena Park in 1974

November 21 1978 Patricia Neufeld Murder Garden Grove









September 7 1985 Nikki Ann Trollinger Murder Garden Grove



Nikki Trollinger’s mom lived 800 feet from where Diane Gurule was found murdered

September 25 1985 Diane Gurule Murder Garden Grove

Diane Gurule was last seen in Norwalk at Varsity Billiards

Diane Gurule and Nikki Trollinger were both murdered in September 1985. Diane’s body was found near Nikki Trollinger’s mother’s home in Garden Grove and not far from where Patricia Neufeld was murdered in 1978

April 24 1986 Garden Grove Jane Doe


December 30 1987 Garden Grove Rapist



July 4 1992 Garden Grove Cat Burglar


June 30 1994 John DeAngelo Burglary Arrest Los Angeles

Bad Lieutenant

Is the Long Island Serial Killer a Suffolk County Police Department Lieutenant?

In October 1994 current Suffolk County Police Lieutenant Michael Murphy was allegedly sexually assaulting sex workers at the Patchogue Motor Inn on his beat in the Fifth Precinct in Patchogue. SCPD Lt. Michael Murphy is also alleged to have impregnated an underage girl but still remains a Lieutenant with the Suffolk County Police Department. Both Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee were working in this area when they were murdered by a serial killer in 1993 and 1994. John Bittrolff was convicted of their murders but the DNA certification used to convict him was falsified. Was John Bittrolff framed to cover up the fact that the Long Island Serial Killer is a member of the Suffolk County Police Department?


November 2 1993 Rita Tangredi-Beinlich




Rita Tangredi’s daughter Amanda claims to have been friends with LISK victim Melissa Barthelemy

November 20 1993 Sandra Costillo Murder North Sea



Sandra Costillo lived in Queens

January 30 1994 Colleen McNamee Murder Shirley






Colleen was last seen getting into a blue car at the Blue Dawn Diner in Islandia


Colleen McNamee’s body was found in Shirley

Colleen McNamee was found in the same area Manorville John Doe was dumped by LISK in November 2000

Lt. Michael Murphy Suffolk County Police Department Serial Killer Suspect

In October 1994 Michael Murphy was accused of sexually assaulting sex workers at motel in Patchogue where Bittrolff’s victims worked.

Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee were working in Patchogue when they were murdered

Colleen McNamee lived at the Patchogue Inn in East Patchogue

The Suffolk County Police Department destroyed the evidence potentially linking SCPD Sgt. Michael Murphy to the homicides because of a “paperwork error”

Lt. Michael Murphy is alleged to have impregnated an underage girl

SUFFOLK POLICE SGT. WAS SUSPECT IN DOUBLE-MURDER, WITNESS SAYS

By Andrew Smith andrew.smith@newsday.com Updated June 21, 2017 8:09 PM

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Less than a year after two women were strangled and bludgeoned more than two decades ago, Suffolk police identified one of their own as a possible suspect, a former homicide detective testified Wednesday in Riverhead.

In 2014, Suffolk police arrested Manorville carpenter John Bittrolff and charged him with second-degree murder after his DNA was linked to the badly beaten and similarly posed bodies of Rita Tangredi, 31, and Colleen McNamee, 20.

Tangredi of East Patchogue was killed on Nov. 2, 1993, and the body of McNamee of Holbrook was found Jan. 30, 1994. Both women worked as prostitutes.

Back then, one of the many men police investigated was Sgt. Michael Murphy, retired Det. John McLeer testified in state Supreme Court.

Murphy was a uniformed sergeant in the Fifth Precinct in Patchogue, McLeer said during cross-examination by defense attorney William Keahon of Hauppauge.

Detectives then were aware that a sergeant in the precinct was forcing prostitutes to give him oral sex, McLeer said. One of them identified Murphy by name in October 1994 and said he had demanded “sex for nothing” seven or eight times next to the Patchogue Motor Inn over a two-year period, McLeer said.

Until Wednesday, jurors knew Murphy had been a suspect but hadn’t learned why. Prosecutors have refused to say why police investigated him and in 1998 secretly searched his police car for evidence in the killings.

Murphy, whose father was chief of detectives then, was ruled out as a suspect and has since been promoted to lieutenant. The police department Wednesday declined to discuss the case, or make Murphy available for comment. Previous efforts to reach Murphy have also been unsuccessful.

McLeer acknowledged to Keahon that detectives kept a “cast of characters” that swelled to more than 100 men, and that they collected DNA from 56 of them.

The case lay dormant from 2006 to 2012, McLeer said — a period in which evidence collected from both crime scenes, Murphy’s car and another police officer suspect was destroyed. Then came the DNA link to Bittrolff and his arrest.

“John Bittrolff didn’t give you a problem all day long [after the arrest], right?” Keahon asked.

“I couldn’t agree with you more,” McLeer said.

McLeer also said Bittrolff declined offers of food, saying he was too nervous and upset to eat.

At the end of that day, McLeer said Bittrolff asked him how they focused on him and got his DNA. McLeer said when Bittrolff’s brother got arrested on an unrelated charge, scientists determined his DNA was such a close match to the DNA found in both victims that it probably was left by a relative.

“I [expletive] knew it,” Bittrolff replied, according to McLeer.

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Keahon suggested that was in response to realizing his brother inadvertently led police to him.

Michael Murphy’s father Tom Murphy was chief of detectives for SCPD and Michael Murphy (serial killer suspect and alleged rapist) now holds the rank of Lieutenant in the Suffolk County Police Department


In 2010 Michael Murphy was a Lieutenant with the Suffolk County Police Department


Lt. Michael Murphy was stationed at the 1st Precinct in West Babylon


In May 2010 Shannan Gilbert disappeared while on the phone with 911 screaming that she was about to be murdered. She was later found dead in a marsh in Oak Beach. The Suffolk County Police Department has continually denied she was murdered and denied that her death is connected to the Long Island Serial Killer. Oak Beach resident Dr. Hackett called Shannan’s family after she disappeared and told them he “ran a home for wayward girls”. Hackett lied and claimed he’d never made the calls but records later showed otherwise


Dr. Peter Hackett

Dr. Hackett is a former Suffolk County Police Surgeon


Dr. Hackett’s neighbor Suffolk County Police Officer John Brunkard




Is Suffolk County Police Officer John Brunkard the missing link between Shannan Gilbert, SCPD & LISK? Since Shannan Gilbert’s murder, the District Attorney Thomas Spota and James Burke, the police chief in charge of the Long Island Serial Killer investigation, have been convicted of corruption. How can anyone be foolish enough to believe the Suffolk County Police Department or the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office have even an ounce of credibility? Why is new Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart and the Suffolk County Police Department still protecting serial killer suspect and alleged rapist Lt. Michael Murphy?