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Georgia's Most Notorious Serial Killers - Including the Stocking Strangler and the Atlanta Ripper · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: From a menacing murderer reminiscent of Jack the Ripper who
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  operated at the dawn of the twentieth century, to a
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  ruthless assailant who assaulted and strangled elderly women. In subsequent decades,
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  Georgia has served as a hunting ground for a disturbing
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  array of serial killers. While some are believed to have
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  targeted children, others utilize their charm and charisma to entice
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  unsuspecting victims to their demise, or even took the lives
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  of their own relatives. Although their methods, motives, and preferred
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  types of victims may vary, the one commonality among these
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  killers is that they executed their heinous acts within the
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  state of Georgia. Stocking Strangler Carlton Garry, known as the
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  Stocking Strangler due to his heinous acts, Carlton Garry instilled
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  fear in the community of Columbus, Georgia during the late
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  nineteen six seventies. He specifically targeted elderly white women in
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  the historic Winton neighborhood, predominantly attacking at night. His modus
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  operandi involved strangling his victims and typically leaving a stocking
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  tied around their necks as a disturbing signature, as reported
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  by the Georgia Attorney General's Office. While he was convicted
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  for the murders of three women, authorities believe he sexually
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  assaulted nine women in total, resulting in the deaths of seven.
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  One of the survivors was able to identify Gary as
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  her assailant. He later admitted to being present during or
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  having knowledge of eight of the nine attacks in the
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  Winton area. However, he maintained that he merely robbed the
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  victim's homes and that the rapes and murders were perpetrated
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  by another individual. Investigators found no evidence to corroborate his assertion,
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  and Gary's fingerprints were discovered at four of the crime scenes.
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  In nineteen eighty six, he was convicted on three counts
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  each of malice, murder, rape, and burglary, receiving a death sentence.
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  According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Gary was executed for
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  his crimes in two thoy eighteen. The Atlanta Ripper. Approximately
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  twenty years after Jack the Ripper terrorized women in the
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  streets of London, Atlanta experienced its own series of violent
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  murders during a time of heightened racial strife. Between nineteen
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  eleven and nineteen fifteen, at least twenty black women were
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  horrifically slain, with many victims suffering from severe neck injuries
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  and head trauma, as reported by Atlanta News First, the perpetrator,
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  whose identity remains unknown, was referred to as the Atlanta
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  Ripper by local newspapers, drawing parallels to the infamous London
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  Killer due to the nature of the crimes and the
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  presence of notes at some crime scenes that were signed
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  Jack the Ripper, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Similar
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  to the London case, the Atlanta Ripper was never apprehended,
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  and there continues to be uncertainty regarding whether all the
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  victims were connected to a single assailant. Casanova Killer Paul
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  John Knowles Paul John Knowles, infamously referred to as the
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  Casanova Killer due to his striking appearance and charisma, instilled
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  fear across the Southern United States during the nineteen seventies.
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  He is believed to have murdered a minimum of eighteen individuals.
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  Knowles claimed that the actual figure was significantly greater, asserting
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  it to be thirty five. However, law enforcement officials noted
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  that he had a tendency to embellish, as reported by
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  w j x T, a television station in Jacksonville, Florida.
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  Wayne Williams Atlanta child murders suspect Wayne Williams, a freelance photographer,
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  was found guilty in nineteen eighty two of the murders
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  of two adult men, yet he is also believed to
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  be responsible for the deaths of over twenty additional victims
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  in connection with the Atlanta child murders. According to the FBI,
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  a total of twenty nine black children, teenagers, and adults
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  were murdered in Atlanta, starting on July twenty first, nineteen
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  seventy nine, and continuing for a duration of twenty two months.
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  National Forest serial killer Gary Michael Hilton. Gary Michael Hilton,
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  known as the National Forest serial Killer, sought out his
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  victims in remote wilderness areas. His atrocious acts came to
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  light following the disappearance of Meredith Emerson, a University of
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  Georgia graduate, on January first, two thousand eight, while she
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  was hiking on Blood Mountain with her dog. As reported
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  by People, Eye witnesses noted the presence of an older
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  man accompanied by a distinctive red dog in the Vicinity. Subsequently,
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  law enforcement was able to identify Hilton after receiving a
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  tip from one of his previous employers, Missus Bluebeard ROBERTA Elder.
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  In the pursuit of victims, ROBERTA. Elder found ample opportunity
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  within her own lineage. This serial killer, referred to by
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  law enforcement as Missus Bluebeard, a nod to a children's
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  fairy tale, is believed to have murdered three husbands, four
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  of her own children, three step children, a cousin, and
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  a grandchild, as reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Additionally,
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  she is suspected of having killed one of her husband's
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  former spouses. Roberta's series of murders, thought to have commenced
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  in nineteen thirty eight, remained undetected until the death of
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  her husband, Reverend William M. Elder, in nineteen fifty two.
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  He had info