Benjamin Atkins

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Benjamin Atkins (* 26. August 1968 ; † 17th September 1997 in Jackson , Michigan ), called Woodward Corridor killer , was a US -American serial killer .

Atkins killed at least 11 women in Detroit in a nine-month period in 1991 and 1992 . All victims were found in vacant buildings, all raped and strangled . Many worked as prostitutes or were addicted to drugs.

In 1992, the Detroit police in systematic review met all the investigation files of the unsolved murder cases and all documents relating to sexual offenses to a complaint of a rape from the previous year, which in Detroit Highland Park District had been committed, in which several of the bodies localities were. When interrogated again, the victim remembered the rapist calling himself "Tony". After the woman five weeks on a regular basis in a civilian vehicle on patrol had gone, Atkins was on August 23 arrested . There was no further evidence against him, but he collapsed during interrogation and tearfully confessed to being the perpetrator. As a motive, he gave hatred of prostitutes.

Atkins was found guilty by the jury on April 21, 1994. On May 11, 1994, the judge sentenced him to a total of 23 life sentences . He died of AIDS in 1997 at Duane Waters Hospital in Jackson .

literature

  • Peter and Julia Murakami: Lexicon of Serial Killers 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing. 7th edition. Ullstein Taschenbuch, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-35935-3 . (Source, unless otherwise stated)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biographical information on Atkins in the Michigan State Offender Tracking Information System , accessed December 15, 2007.
  2. ^ Lora Johnson: Serial Killers . Nischal Hegde, ISBN 978-1-304-31237-2 ( online [accessed August 12, 2014] preview of the book).
  3. ^ A b c d John Eric Armstrong: The Model Sailor. ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from: crimelibrary.com , accessed December 15, 2007.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.crimelibrary.com
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personal data
SURNAME Atkins, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1968
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1997