The killer had placed sanitary napkins or tampons either on the bodies or near them.
Of note, each of the women killed was menstruating at the time of their murder. There was also a human bite mark on one of her legs. She had grass stains on her feet, which showed she most likely tried to get away from her killer. This time her handbag had been upended nearby, the contents scattered, but the bag itself was missing. Helen had been raped and strangled, just like the others. Jean was dropped off at her home in Knightswood and the taxi headed for the direction of Helen’s home in Scotstoun. According to Jean, the man was very well-spoken and liked to quote from the Bible, which is why the killer ended up being called ‘Bible John’. When they left the ballroom, John went off to catch a bus, and the other man joined Helen and Jean in getting a taxi. The other man didn’t disclose who he was or where he was from. They had met two men there, one of who was called John who said he was from Castlemilk. Like the others, she had also attended the Barrowland Ballroom on the night she was killed, along with her sister Jean. The third known victim was Helen Puttock, 29, who was found in her own back garden on October 31, 1969. Witnesses came forward saying they had seen Jemima leaving the Barrowland around midnight that Friday with a young man who was slim, tall, and had red hair.įurther investigations uncovered a witness who claimed she had heard screaming coming from the old building the night Jemima was killed, but she was unable to say what time she had heard it, so the police didn’t consider it important. Her autopsy showed she had been raped, beaten and strangled. Inside the building she found the fully clothed body of her sister Jemima. The next day, her sister Margaret had heard children talking about a body they had seen in an old building, but at first she didn’t pay too much attention.īy Monday, and with no sign of her si ster, Margaret decided to investigate the rumors she had heard from the children. Jemima McDonald was a 32-year-old mother of three children, who had gone to the Barrowland Ballroom on Friday, August 15, 1969. Once identified, the killer confessed to 26 total kidnappings and murders, as well as more than 60 other violent crimes, closing a case that seemed virtually unsolvable.How the next victim’s body was found is truly t ragic. The Los Angeles Times details the investigation that led to DeAngelo's arrest, noting that the investigators used two for-profit genetic genealogy companies to match bodily fluid from a rape kit in the case to some of DeAngelo's family members. He was sentenced to more than 20 life sentences for his terrible deeds regardless, and it only took a covert investigation, DNA evidence, and the better part of half a century to do it. The spree poisoned the hearts of California residents with heavy feelings of paranoid fear for years, first as the "East Area Rapist," then as "The Original Night Stalker," before settling into his final title as "The Golden State Killer." Whatever name DeAngelo's serial killer persona went by didn't matter. The killer was sentenced to life in prison, though it's more than likely that this killer would've received the death penalty had he committed his crimes in any other state.Īs noted by ATI, DeAngelo committed a string of at least 12 murders and more than 50 assaults in a period that spanned through the 70s and 80s. Perrone was arrested the same year as the killings after the authorities found a duffle bag containing his rifle and three knives, covered with traces of what looked like blood, at his girlfriend's apartment. And, the final was gunned down with an exceptional barrage of bullets that penetrated his head, neck, and torso. The next was killed by a mix of bullet and stab wounds. The first victim, as Oxygen notes, was taken with a single shot to the neck.
He walked into each of the shops and opened fire with a sawed-off. Regardless, Perrone's killings were cold-blooded.
The New York Times reports that Perrone worked his days as a traveling salesman, and it's possible that there's some unknown contention between his trade and that of those who ran their sales from a solid post, but if that's the case, few have ever heard of it.