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Ireland, April 30 2020

Mark Nash, who was convicted of the notorious Grangegorman murders in 2015, has lost an attempt to claim damages from Irish police for delaying his trial.

Nash claimed that the delay in his trial stopped him getting a fair trial, but his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights was thrown out.

In 1998 Mark Nash was first convicted of killing two people in Roscommon in mid-August 1997. He was given two life sentences.

Then later, in 2015, he was convicted of two more murders from 1997, where two women were found murdered and mutilated in sheltered accommodation in the Grangegorman area of Dublin. The conviction came after a cold case investigation.

April 30, 2020 Multan

Police in Multan, Pakistan, have arrested a man for a series of killing of family members over the past 11 years.

Police accuse the man of murdering his brother during a family dispute in 2009. He was put on trial whilst on remand, and during that time, killed his sister in 2010.

Then this year he murdered his wife as he believed she was acting as a police informer over his criminal activities.

He was finally arrested this April, and he had a pistol with him at the time.

Barcelona, April 28 2020

Despite Spain being in Coronavirus lockdown for over two months, a 35 year man has been arrested in Spain as a possible serial killer, accused of killing 3 homeless people in Barcelona during the lockdown.

The Brazilian man was arrested on suspicion of beating a homeless man to death in the city centre hours earlier. The victim had head wounds similar to two earlier murder victims, and his body was found in the same part of the city as the two previous homeless victims.

Local police say he was identified through CCTV evidence and descriptions, and they are confident the arrested man is the killer.

See details here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8265745/Spanish-serial-killer-accused-murdering-homeless-people-lockdown-arrested.html

March 2020 New Jersey

73-year-old Richard Cottingham is serving more than 200 years in prison after being jailed in 1981 for killing 6 women in New Jersey between 1967 and 1980.

Before Cottingham was arrested, the press called the unknown killer the “Torso Killer” because victims were dismembered.

Now Cottingham has admitted to three more victims, in murders that were being investigated as cold cases.

 Cottingham’s three new victims are Colombian woman Irene Blasé, 15 year old Denise Falasca and 13 year old Jacalyn Harp.

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March 2020 California

67-year-old Donnie Franklin was convicted and sentenced to death in 2016 for murdering black women in Los Angeles between 1985 and 2007. He was a sex as well as a serial killer, assaulting them before shooting or strangling them and duping the bodies. He was held in the famous San Quentin prison in California awaiting execution.

Franklin’s cause of death is being investigated, though there appeared to be no signs of violence.

For more on this and Donnie Franklin’s crime, click here:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/serial-killer-lonnie-franklin-grim-sleeper-dead

Australia, March 23 2020

Bradley Robert Edwards, aged 51, is on trial for the murder of three women who disappeared late at night in 1996 and 1997. The defence and state have agreed to cut short the trial by reducing the time spent on witness statements.

More details here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-23/claremont-serial-killings-trial-cut-short-coronavirus-measures/12081950

Rajkot March 13 2020

Nilesh Meyta had been convicted of killing 6 people as well as robberies and thefts, but fled while on bail for sentencing.

More details here:

https://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/crime/rajkot-serial-killer-40-caught-after-years-chase/articleshow/74601656.cms

Houston March 11 2020

Ward targeted homeless and transgender people. He was sentenced to death after the jury selected that option rather than life in jail without parole.

More details here:

https://meaww.com/houston-serial-killer-lucky-ward-sentenced-to-death-4-murders-transgender-strangled-homeless-victims

Indiana, March 6 2020

Samuel Little, 79, has confessed to more than 90 murders during his crime spree before he was arrested and convicted in 2012 of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989. He was also convicted in 2018 of the murder one Texas woman that dates back to 1994. 

On Friday, Allen County detectives confirmed Little is now responsible for two cold cases from late October 1980.

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March 5 2020, San Joaquin County, California

The San Joaquin County Sheriff announced a gruesome discovery that could be tied to a serial killer nightmare that ravaged the county just a few decades ago.

A bone found in a well by a local farmer is eerily similar to human remains found a few years ago that was tied to the Speed Freak Killer case, the sheriff’s office said.

“We do not know — I’m gonna say this over and over again — whether this is an animal bone or a human bone,” Sheriff Patrick Withrow said in a press conference on Thursday.

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