By McCay Vernon
Sex Slayings
Throughout its lengthy and colourful heritage, St. Augustine, Florida has been domestic to pirates and villains, marauders and despots. however it wasn't until eventually the overdue Eighties that the city's red-light district, identified in the neighborhood as Crack Head nook, turned the searching flooring for a serial killer whose brutality knew no bounds.
A Killer's Taunts
On November 29, 1988, Anita Stevens, 27, climbed right into a stranger's motor vehicle, pondering to show a brief trick to fund her drug behavior. She used to be the 1st to die. Over the following six years, six extra prostitutes might fall sufferer to an analogous phantom killer, slain by way of gun, blunt gadgets, a strangler's noose--and the murderer's naked fingers. His signature used to be the obscene poses during which he prepared his half-nude victims.
Final Justice
Frustrated through fake confessions, investigators sifted via a myriad of suspects until eventually a Christmas Eve, 1996 homicide in Asheville, North Carolina led them to the true killer:...
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The McQuaigs’ residence was one of the better tended, its yard neat with typical north Florida vegetation that included orange trees and semitropical plants. Inside, the house was very obviously family-oriented. The living-room furnishings were worn and comfortable. Photographs of the McQuaigs’ six children, fifteen grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren smiled at visitors from the every available surface. A dining table, capable of seating a large family group, occupied the area between living room and kitchen.
This was no surprise as the two had periodically stayed in touch since Thompson retired from his St. Augustine insurance business to return to his hometown, near Asheville, North Carolina. But the holiday season was always a busy time in law enforcement—lots of traffic accidents, domestic fights, DUIs by those who had celebrated too heartily—so the card, along with other mail, lay unopened until after New Year’s. On the January day that Sheriff Perry finally slit open the envelope, he had no idea that it would contain the key to the savage killings that had plagued local law enforcement for nearly a decade.
Eugene Wells, an employee of the Anastasia Mosquito Control District, was collecting water samples from the borrow ponds on Fish Island and identifying potential mosquito-breeding areas. As he was turning around by one of the ponds, he noticed something floating in the water, stopped his truck, and got out to check further. His first thought was that it was a department store mannequin that had been discarded. Returning to his truck, he put on a pair of water boots and stepped into the edge of the pond to get a better look.