The Devils Rooming House is the first book about the life, times, and crimes of Americas most prolific female serial killer. In telling this fascinating story, M. William Phelps also paints a vivid portrait of early-twentieth-century New England.

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Jayanandan alias Ripper Jayan who was convicted for seven murders and several burglaries, and Riyas, sentenced in 35 cases of burglary, broke the windows of their cell and escaped on Sunday night.

Guys. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with that last statement?

The duo was last seen in their room in the Central Jail in Kannur around midnight. They left two dummies covered under their bed sheets. The recently installed surveillance cameras of the high security block were turned off due to thundershowers, the police said.

We have launched a search and hope to catch them soon, District Superintendent of Police K P Philip said. We dont see any possibility of them leaving the state.

Jayanandan, 41, a native of Mala in Thrissur district, was sentenced to death for a double murder by a court. The sentence was reduced to life imprisonment by the Kerala High Court. He was also convicted in five other murders and several burglaries.

Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has asked Additional Director General of Police Alexander Jacob to launch an inquiry. A special police team has already launched a manhunt for the duo. Six officials at the prison have been placed under suspension.

The police do not rule out the two getting logistical support from outside while a former chief of jails said it was impossible for them to escape without help from within.

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No, but with one exception, if the killer is targeting republicans, i say let him go until he gets them all… In my humble opnion, instead of having fancy court rooms they need to just replace it with a washable floor… when the guilty verdict comes back and he’s sentenced to death, the bailiff walks over and puts a bullet in the back of his head… then they hose down the area… Next!

No more appeals, no more spending 20 years on death row sucking up the taxpayer’s money… quick, fast, done. no Only for long enough for the cops to determine how MANY murders he/she committed, and briefly for some shrink to examine them for data-collection…

Then strap them down and rid the world of them.

We should do the SAME with serial rapists and child-molesters nope No, they and other violent criminals should be killed by their victims, in self-defense, preferably during or immediately prior to committing their crimes, or else executed as soon as they can be found and identified. No way. He didn’t let the people kill leave, therefor, they should live. All they are going to do is waste the tax payers money to provide him free food and shelter for killing people.

Good call on the republicans. I feel strongly that they should be put to death. I feel that they should be shot to death by a victims capable family member, if they should choose so. If the family does not want that death on their conscience, then a volunteer should be used as proxy. High powered rifle at 25 yards, in the head, 3 shots.

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Armed police held back an angry crowd trying to attack the 32-year-old Philippe Onyancha as he took investigators to a district in south Nairobi, where the bodies of two prostitutes he killed in April 2009 were located.

The ex-security guard who was arrested last week then took police to Nairobis Ngong forest, and a north suburb, where he had buried two other of his female victims.

Onyancha, who claimed he wanted to commit a total of one hundred murders, said he never raped his victims, who were exclusively women and children, but did drink their blood as part of a ritual. (AFP)

I can not say I knew any of my victims, because whenever I developed that urge of drinking blood, I went straight for my target, Onyancha told media. (AFP)

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Nolan Ray George, then in his mid-20s and working for the City of Pontiac, eventually confessed to three strangulations, two of them fatal, and went to prison for one. Through plea deals with police and prosecutors, and fortuitous appellate court decisions, he served only 12 years in a Michigan prison.

Once released, he fatally strangled another woman in Ohio and was the prime suspect in a second strangulation. He served only 10 years there.

But now a task force of law enforcement officials in three states — including Michigan — is reviewing several other cold murder cases to determine whether George, 67 and living in Ohio, may have killed other women and gotten away with it.

The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office also is reviewing how George’s plea deal was handled more than 40 years ago.

“We’re trying to put all the pieces together here and figure out what happened,” Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper said.

Pontiac police detectives faced a dilemma that October afternoon in 1969. They had a killer sitting before them, and quite possibly a serial killer.

George, 26, had admitted strangling a young, pregnant woman outside a Lake Orion bar seven months before, choking her with her panties as they had sex in a car.

George, who just had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for that killing, was looking at 40-60 years in prison. The slaying was remarkably similar to two open cases Pontiac police were trying to solve: the near-strangulation death of a Pontiac woman in 1967, and the murder of a second woman in 1968. The latter, a store cashier, also had been strangled with her underwear during an apparent sexual assault.

Should they offer him immunity in those cases — to finally solve them — since he was going to spend most of life behind bars anyway?

“We knew he was the guy,” recalled retired Pontiac Police Detective Orville Johnston, now 81 and living in Florida. “And we knew he was going away for a long time.”
“I did it,” he told police in that interview room at the Oakland County Jail on the afternoon of Oct. 7, 1969, according to court records. He went on to describe how he met Gwendolyn Perry, 36, a cashier at a Pontiac drugstore, on the night of Dec. 6, 1968, and then bought beer.

Perry, he told police, had a reputation as an “easy lay,” and he said that he drove her onto a dark, dirt road and parked. The two, he said, began to neck. But then he became angry and hit her on the side of the head, then choked her to death, throwing her body in weeds.

He also confessed to attacking another woman, Beverly Taylor, who had sought a ride from him the year before, choking her with nylons and leaving her for dead. She survived.

Satisfied, the police closed the files. Prosecutors, too, were satisfied justice had been done. L. Brooks Patterson, currently the Oakland County executive, was the young prosecutor assigned the case. In a recent interview, said he remembered George. Though he couldn’t recall all the details surrounding the case, Patterson said allowing George to confess to unsolved crimes, knowing George was facing decades in prison, was likely a good idea.

“I can see why that decision might have been made at that time,” he said.

And the judge was confident, too, that a dangerous man would be off the street for many years. Noting the two women he had killed, and the one he had tried to kill, former Oakland County Circuit Judge Clark Adams sentenced George to 40-60 years on Nov. 5, 1969.

“In your case, and with your background,” the judge said then, “this court has concluded that you are not a safe person to have in society.”

The Michigan Court of Appeals, though, set George’s guilty plea aside in 1973, ruling that the judge had failed to advise George of his right to confront witnesses and his right against self-incrimination.

Oakland County prosecutors promptly charged him again. A jury hung in 1973, and a mistrial was declared. Prosecutors charged him again, this time introducing evidence that he had pleaded guilty earlier. A jury again convicted him of second-degree murder in 1974.

Judge Robert Webster, now retired, again sentenced George to 40-60 years. “I remember that he was a very evil man,” Webster told the Free Press in a recent interview. “Even now, I remember that.”

But the court of appeals again reversed his conviction, ruling that jurors should not have heard statements about George’s earlier confession.
Prison time cut short

By 1977, George, who had spent eight years in jail or prison, was willing to plead guilty again to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 17-25 years and given credit for the time he’d already served. He was released just seven years later in 1982, his prison time cut short because of good time served.

Michigan’s tough truth-in-sentencing laws, requiring prisoners to serve their full minimum term, had not yet been enacted.

Court records do not show whether the parole board knew of his confessions in the killing of Perry or the attack on Taylor.

Within 10 months, George killed again, this time in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton, snatching Cindy Garland Rose, 22, and choking her into unconsciousness. He left her for dead in nearby woods in October 1982. Police would find a beer can near the body, with George’s fingerprints on it.

Rose eventually died, but an autopsy said it was because of hypothermia because she was left outside seminude. Under Ohio law, George could be charged only with manslaughter. A jury convicted him, and he was sentenced to 10 years.

Three weeks after Rose was strangled, Tammy King, 21, of nearby Cincinnati was found strangled and partially nude in fields nearby. Police say George was a suspect in that killing, and remains so today.

George was released from prison in 1992. Now 67, he lived in Hamilton, near extended family, doing odd jobs before recently moving to Amelia, southeast of Cincinnati.
Multistate task force

“I believe he is another Ted Bundy,” Detective Frank Smith of the Butler County (Ohio) Sheriff’s Department told the Free Press last month. Smith is part of a multistate task force created in January 2009 to look at cold cases to see whether they are connected to George. Smith cited similarities in the young victims, and in the manner in which they were killed by strangulation, as well as studies showing serial killers will murder until they are caught.
“I don’t think somebody like that can stop killing,” Smith said of George.

Oakland County prosecutors are looking at George, and re-interviewing witnesses from 40 years ago.

Cindy Garland Rose’s family wishes Michigan had found a way to keep him behind bars for life. If that had happened, they contend, Rose, the mother of a 3-year-old daughter at the time of her murder, would still be here.

“We have so much anger and so much hurt,” said Annette Preston, 50, of Hamilton, Rose’s first cousin. The two grew up together in the small town. “How can the United States of America allow such things like this to go on and destroy families?”

George, meanwhile, got into an altercation with his landlord in May after a TV news crew reported on his criminal past and the task force investigation. He now is serving 30 days after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of intimidating behavior.

He is to be released back on the streets Monday.

Contact L.L. BRASIER: 248-858-2262 or brasier@freepress.com.

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