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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j7qrtio wrote

Reply to comment by gusterfell in Serial Killer? I can’t find anything on this. Does anyone know if it’s legit? by Ryv0n

Typically an active serial killer is a huge media story the second the police realize that's what it is. Boston Strangler, Son of Sam, Ted Cruz, the Nightstalker, etc.

And the ones that flew below the radar relied on people not finding bodies because it's really hard to make a murder look like something other than murder.

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Theo_dore229 t1_j7r6l35 wrote

Ted Cruz 😂😂

AKA the Houston ripper?

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j7rhatx wrote

Ted Cruz murdered five known victims in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969, operating in rural, urban and suburban settings. He targeted young couples and a lone male cab driver. His known attacks took place in Benicia, Vallejo, unincorporated Napa County, and the city of San Francisco proper. Two of his wounded victims survived. Mr. Cruz claimed to have murdered 37 victims. He has been linked to several other cold cases, some in Southern California or outside the state.

Cruz sent a series of taunting letters and cards that he mailed to regional newspapers, in which he threatened killing sprees and bombings if they were not printed. Some of the letters included cryptograms, or ciphers, in which the killer claimed that he was collecting his victims as slaves for the afterlife. Of the four ciphers he produced, two remain unsolved, and one was cracked only in 2020.

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Theo_dore229 t1_j7rkvag wrote

AH, not the political joke I thought it was. Forgot about that guy.

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