Programmed to Kill; The Politics of Serial Murder by David McGowan

Author:David McGowan [McGowan, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15 The Next Generation

“Like you have a job, I have a job, he has a job. His job is killing people. That’s what he was trained to do. ”

—Cynthia Haden, a juror in the Richard Ramirez trial, commenting on the convicted Night Stalker

Henry Lee Lucas’ reign of terror ended a mere nine months before another series of violent ‘serial killings’ began in March 1984 in part of Henry’s old stomping ground: the state of Florida. By the time it was over, ten people had met with gruesome, untimely deaths, allegedly at the hands of Bobby Joe Long. Though rarely mentioned in press accounts of the killings, Bobby Joe Long was a cousin of Henry Lee Lucas.

Just over two years after John Wayne Gacy was indicted for the murder of thirty-three young men in Chicago, a new wave of ‘serial killings’ began in the Windy City. A year-and-a-half later, seventeen young women had allegedly fallen victim to the “Ripper Crew,” led by Robin Gecht. Seventeen years after the arrest of the Rippers, and just days before the scheduled execution of one member of the crew, a son of the crew’s charismatic leader was arrested along with three accomplices and charged with homicide as well. Though the connection was almost entirely ignored by the media, Robin Gecht had been one of the young male employees of John Wayne Gacy.

Angelo Buono was still awaiting trial for the Hillside Strangler murders when girls once again began turning up dead on the streets of the San Fernando Valley. These killings were eventually attributed to a man named Douglas Clark and an accomplice named, bizarrely enough, Carole Bundy—though this was not the same woman who acquired that very same name after marrying Ted Bundy. Like Buono, Clark owned an auto upholstery business, located just a short drive from Angelo’s shop. Also like Buono, Clark claimed to have used his business as a front for a prostitution ring. On at least one occasion, Clark had visited Buono’s shop to purchase supplies. The first victims of the Clark and Bundy team, who were dubbed the “Sunset Strip Killers,” were dumped along the same lonely stretch of Forest Lawn Drive where the body of Strangler victim Yolanda Washington had earlier been discovered, as well as the body of Laura Collins before her. Clark claimed that his large stable of past and present girlfriends included a roommate of one of the Strangler victims. Following his arrest, Clark began a relationship with another woman, as did his partner, Carole Bundy. The woman was Veronica Compton, the girlfriend of Kenneth Bianchi who was convicted of being a “Copycat” Strangler.

Richard Ramirez, whose alleged “Night Stalker” killing spree began just weeks after that of Bobby Joe Long, arose from the very same cesspool that had spawned Henry Lee Lucas, Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, and the Matamoros and Juarez death cults. Just before his arrival in Los Angeles, Ramirez paid a visit to San Francisco to receive inspiration from the high priest of that satanic sewer, Anton LaVey.

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