The Satin Strangler

A female serial killer dubbed the Satin Strangler has been hard at work during the last few months, seducing and strangling as many as 12 men along the east coast of the United States.  Here are the details on three of her victims to whet your appetite:

Phillip Stewart was a bartender at the Peachtree Bistro in Atlanta.  He disappeared after closing on January 16th.  His body was found the next day in a nearby dumpster.  Autopsy reports confirmed the cause of death to be asphyxiation due to ligature strangulation.  Police have eliminated Stewart’s girlfriend and family members as suspects.

Preston Jones was a real estate agent murdered in Charleston, SC.  His wife found his body in their bedroom upon returning from a business trip on February 15th.  Multiple dark ligature marks varying in width were visible on the neck.  The coroner’s cause of death was asphyxiation due to ligature strangulation.

Grant Leighton, a physical trainer from Atlantic City, was last spotted at 3AM on March 2nd on a Garden State Parkway toll booth surveillance camera.  A woman sitting in the darkness of the passenger seat remains unidentified.  Two days later, fishermen further north along the Jersey Shore found Leighton’s body bundled inside an industrial sized garbage bag and wedged into an antique traveling trunk.  Ligature marks were found on his neck, wrists, and ankles.  Both forearms had been broken and both pinkies amputated.  The cause of death was asphyxiation due to strangulation.

Who is the Satin Strangler, and what is the secret to her seductive power?  Are there more bodies out there somewhere, and how many more victims will she lure in?

For now there are more questions than answers.  We’ll keep watching for news on the Satin Strangler because we’re Crazy 4 Crazies.

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Serial Killer Bedtime Stories: Pee Wee Gaskins

Out of sleeping pills? Try tonight's serial killer bedtime story about Pee Wee Gaskins.

When he was a young boy Pee Wee watched a cobra eat a live rat at a carnival. According to a later confession he penned, that was the first time he felt attracted to violence. Dubbed America's meanest killer, Pee Wee was always in trouble with the law. He spent most of his youth in and out of reform school and later prison. Because of his pint-size, Pee Wee had to be the "girlfriend" of older, more powerful prisoners. He soon put an end to it by killing a highly regarded inmate while the man was taking a shit, making him a jailhouse legend for the rest of his stay.

In 1969, after being released from prison, Pee Wee got back to killing at an alarming rate. He made a distinction between his "coastal kills," -- people he found while driving around the roadways of the American South that he killed for pleasure -- and his "serious murders," -- people he knew that he killed for specific reasons. Aside from killing, Pee Wee had a thriving business fencing stolen cars. He operated his fencing business out of several properties around the Carolinas. There he also slaughtered many of his prey. His other favorite hunting grounds were the coastal highways, where every six weeks, he went hunting to quell his feelings of "bother-someness."

In the early '80s, Pee Wee was named the "Meanest Man in America" for killing another inmate while in Maximum Security. For his fearless homicidal stunt, Pee Wee was given the death penalty. He was fried on September 6, 1991. His total hits might well have been over two hundred, but law enforcement sources found it impossible to verify all his claims. In the excellent post-mortem auto-biography, "Final Truth," Pee Wee waxed poetic about how he had "a special mind" that gave him "permission to kill."

Sweet dreams, and may you forever remain Crazy 4 Crazies.