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http://www.wisn.com/news/19497019/detail.html

Flynn: DNA Doesn't Match Samples In Databases

UPDATED: 12:02 am CDT May 19, 2009

Milwaukee police are searching for a serial killer who preys on women, saying there could be at least six victims over several years -- and there could be more...

Police identified five of the women as prostitutes, and the sixth was involved with drug use and sales:

Sheila Farrior, 37
Joyce Mims, 41
Quithreaun Stokes, 28
Debra Harris, 31
Tonya Miller, 19
Jessica Payne, 16

5 Victims Strangled, 6th Victim Had Throat Slashed

Details of the crimes against these victims at the link.

Video coverage:
http://www.wisn.com/video/19497926/index.html

Announcement of DNA link:
http://www.wisn.com/video/19497693/index.html

Victims:
Milwaukeevictims.jpg


Prayers for the families of these Women, and the LE so that justice may be swift.
 
That is so tragic that someone served 13 years for one of the deaths. This killer has been doing this for a long time with a decade in between killings. Incarceration is unlikely because of no DNA in the system. So why the long breaks, or did he live somewhere else?
 
very scary, Kat! So the last known CONNECTED case was in 2007... bet there are more recent ones (just a guess)
 
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S937351.shtml?cat=206

The first two deaths happened on October 10th and 11th in 1986. The next two were in 1995, another was in 1997 and the most recent was in April 2007.

and from the first link that was posted in OP:

Based on these new DNA results, police are submitting, and in some cases, re-submitting DNA from 24 more unsolved cases of prostitutes.

Yes Suzi it is so disheartening that someone innocent spent time in prison for a crime that he didn't commit, I agree.

I bet you're right nursie, I bet there are more victims found once the DNA is run again.

Two decades is a long time from first known victim to last, but I wonder what the new tests will reveal?

This case reminds me of the West Mesa case in that the victims were at high risk by their lifestyle choices and IMHO the victims that fall into that high risk category are often marginalized by the community and possibly LE in using resources to find the man or men that has murdered them. I thought to bring it here so that these victims and families can see that they will get the recognition they so deserve.
 
I was surprised there is no thread for these murders in Milwaukee.

Why does this remind me of another group of killings of prostitutes, several found close together in a river very close to town? I think they happened in about 2003, not sure exactly, but now I can't find that case either! :confused:
 
Milwaukee police have arrested a 49-year-old man in connection with the killing of at least six prostitutes over 21 years in the city, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

The suspect, Walter E. Ellis of Milwaukee, was arrested at noon Saturday at a hotel in Franklin by a swarm of police officers, the sources said. A witness confirmed a large number of officers descended on the hotel for an arrest.

Ellis was booked on a temporary felony warrant and was being questioned Sunday by detectives in the Milwaukee police Prisoner Processing Section, the sources said.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/57618177.html

Map of where victims were found and pictures of vic's:


http://media.journalinteractive.com/images/SERIAL20G-2.jpg
 
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iihF7ie9lIMYVjpGYgMaKTUyYjgQD9AIJ05G0

1 hour ago

Milwaukee newspaper reported Monday that local police had arrested a suspect in connection with the killings of seven women, including six suspected prostitutes, over a 21-year period that started in 1986.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the suspect, a 49-year-old Milwaukee man, was arrested Saturday and booked on a temporary felony warrant...

...Police Chief Edward Flynn and Milwaukee County district attorney John Chisholm announced a new investigation four months ago after DNA evidence linked the women's deaths to one person. Police said then that they never stopped investigating the cases, but scored a major breakthrough when DNA technology suggested the same person killed six of the women and had sex with the seventh...


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http://metro.onmilwaukee.com/articl...s-conference-on-arrest-in-prostitute-killings

Published Sept. 7, 2009 at 9:54 a.m.

...Milwaukee police Sunday arrested a Milwaukee man, 49, in connection with the killings. The suspect is Walter E. Ellis.His DNA was found on at least seven females killed between 1986 and 2007, police sources said Sunday...
 
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/57618177.html

Posted: Sept. 7, 2009 6:00 a.m.

...Ellis' DNA has been found on at least seven females killed between 1986 and 2007, the sources said...

...The State Crime Laboratory also has been processing DNA found on two dozen slain prostitutes to see if there is a match with Ellis...

...Court records show Ellis once lived close to the area where many of the homicides occurred.

Ellis was criminally charged 12 times between 1981 and 1998 for violent and property crimes, according to online court records.

Ellis' last felony conviction was in 1998. Ellis was sentenced to five years in prison for recklessly endangering safety, according to court records. Further details of that case were not available. Of the seven victims who have been linked to Ellis, none was killed between 1998 and 2006...

...There also was a gap between 1987 and 1994. Online records show Ellis was released from federal prison in December 1992. Details about that case were not available Sunday...

It looks like this reporter did his homework. Kudos to him.
 
[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84335"]DNA Links 6 Deaths To Unknown Killer-Milwaukee WI - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]
 
http://www.inmatesearch.mkesheriff.org/

Thank you for posting this. The article does not give his name but here is a link to the mil. jail bookings, it says he's 49 so perhaps we can figure out if he is on this list.

How sad it took so many years, it sounds like he used the same area to dump the bodies :(

VB
 
I was surprised there is no thread for these murders in Milwaukee.

Why does this remind me of another group of killings of prostitutes, several found close together in a river very close to town? I think they happened in about 2003, not sure exactly, but now I can't find that case either! :confused:

Also reminds me of the six murders of prostitutes here in N.C. They are now going back at least 10 years looking at other cases that could be related.
 
Authorities have linked 9 murders to Ellis. They say the law for DNA samples from inmates went in to effect in 2000. They're not sure if Ellis had been released just as law was enacted.

They said he was hiding out at the motel because they had served a search warrant on his house and he was on the run. They would not say that if the person found with Ellis at the time of his arrest was a woman.

A family member of one of the victims says that Ellis was a cousin of one of the vic's boyfriends.

210 homicides in the same neighborhood over the last 20 years in Milwaukee.

Will continue testing any usable DNA from unsolved homicides to Ellis.
 
We got three threads on this subject. Gonna ask mods to merge
 

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