11 Possible Victims Of Famous Serial Killers

4. Cheri Jo Bates

Speaking of the Zodiac Killer, that unknown assassination has been the subject of numerous television shows, movies, books, and even songs. Between 1968 and 1969, Zodiac terrorized the East Bay area of San Francisco. He hyped his own murders by sending cryptic messages to the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Police Department. By 1971, the Zodiac was immortalized on screen as the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry.

Way back in 1966, nobody knew anything about any serial killer calling himself “Zodiac.” On the day before Halloween, an eighteen-year-old coed at Riverside Community College left the college library at around 9 pm. It was a typically quiet Sunday for Cheri Jo Bates, and she probably only thought about getting safely inside of her green Volkswagen Bug. Before she could reach her car, however, an unknown killer attacked Bates, stabbed her several times, and slit her throat. Her body was found the next day between two campus buildings on Terracina Drive.

One month after the murder, the Daily Enterprise newspaper was the recipient of a written confession that contained information that only Bates’ killer would know. Later handwriting experts would claim that Zodiac himself wrote this letter. This information, along with the discovery of a desktop poem about a young woman’s brutal murder, has convinced amateur sleuths that Bates was Zodiac’s first victim.

5. Lynne Schulze

Lynne Schulze was just eighteen when she disappeared. The Connecticut native was supposed to take a test but never showed up. The small college town of Middlebury, Vermont, the home of Middlebury College, soon went into overdrive looking for Schulze. The case has been officially cold since it began in 1971.

In March 2015, Vermont police officer became interested in the case of the millionaire serial killer Robert Durst. For the majority of his seedy career, Durst had lived in New York City. However, between 1971 and 1972, Durst ran and operated the All Good Things health food store at 15 Court Street in Middlebury. Schulze was a regular customer of the store, thus Durst almost surely knew that she was a college student.

Durst has yet to be tried for this disappearance, but Vermont police have more or less named him as their favorite suspect.

6. Carrie Brown

There is probably no serial killer more famous than London’s Jack the Ripper. Ever since he struck in Whitechapel in 1888, millions of writers and film and television producers have tried to unlock the identity of “Saucy Jack.” Even during the Victorian age, newspaper reporters wrote numerous articles about victims of the Ripper who were not confirmed by the Metropolitan Police.

Across the Atlantic, an aged American prostitute named Carrie Brown was found murdered on April 24, 1891. Brown lived near the waterfront in an East River apartment in Manhattan. Called “Old Shakespeare” by her friends, Brown had first been strangled, then mutilated by her killer. The responding coroner claimed that Brown’s killer had tried to completely “gut” her.

Brown was last seen in the company of a 32-year-old man with a slim build, a long nose, and a heavy mustache. This description fits nicely with Ripper suspect George Chapman. At the time, Chapman lived in nearby Jersey City.