Serial Killer Central

Phillip Jablonski audio tape transcript

When Phillip Carl Jablonski was arrested in Kansas, police found a cassette recorder in the backseat of his car. Phillip had been keeping an audio diary of his murders after they happened to listen to while masturbating. This is the transcript of the tape.

Donald William Dufour

A postman's working days in middle-class Orlando, Florida, are normally as uneventful as a man could hope for. There is seldom any major deviation from routine. A snapping dog, perhaps, but nothing that a can of Mace won't cure. Except, that is, for murder.

William Pierce

In May 1970, Pierce was paroled from the Georgia state prison at Reidsville, despite a report from staff psychiatrists contending that he "may be dangerous to himself and others." The parole board chose to ignore that report, and Pierce claimed his first victim a month later, killing at least nine persons before his arrest, on March 8, 1971.

Li Wen Xian (Guangzhou Ripper)

Information about serial murder in hard-line Communist societies is difficult to come by, since—
according to official party propaganda—such heinous crime is strictly a product of decadent Western
capitalism and could not possibly exist in a people’s republic. And indeed, the world might never have
heard about the monster known as the “Guangzhou Ripper” if the hideously violated corpse of a young
woman had not floated ashore in the then-British colony of Hong Kong in March 1992.

Joseph Briggen

Born around 1850, Joseph Briggen was a product of farming stock and he followed in the family tradition, working hard to scratch a living from his remote Sierra Morena Ranch, in northern California. All things considered, he had little to show for his labor. Briggen's crop was invariably poor, and the effort might have been a complete waste of time, except for his prize Berkshire hogs.

County Fair - By Randy Kraft

Each summer in the 1950s we went to the Orange County Fair. The fairgrounds were next to Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Almost all the grounds, except near the major buildings, were unpaved and bare dirt, and the outer reaches were acres of fields for parking. In the late 1960s or early 1970s the parking area became home to a perpetual Sunday swap meet.

Counting Traffic - By Randy Kraft

California began its rapid growth in the 1950s, and one way it anticipated future highway needs was to count the traffic on heavily used highways once a year. But that era did not have the advantages of electronic counters, so it all had to be done manually, by human beings, and for several years my family were some of those people.

Dana Sue Gray

By the time Riverside County Police caught up with Dana Sue Gray, she had garroted and bludgeoned to death a number of elderly women, then gone on binges with their credit cards. "I had," she said later, "this overwhelming need to shop." But others saw only an overwhelming need to kill.

Texarkana Phantom Murders

The Phantom Killer was an unidentified serial killer believed to have committed a number of murders in Texarkana between February 23 and May 4, 1946. The Phantom is also known as the Texarkana Phantom and the Moonlight Murderer, having often killed when the moon was full.

Anthony McKnight

Born in 1954, McKnight was a career navy man stationed at Northern California's Alameda Naval Air Station since 1982. He lived off-base with wife and child, making friends easily among his neighbors. Tenants of McKnight's apartment complex knew him as "one of the most outgoing people" in the building. To a man, they would be stunned by evidence connecting him with seven counts of homicide in 1985.