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He visited Australia while in the Navy, which was before the Visalia cases. I haven't heard that he ever went back. EDIT: I'm looking at the Mr Cruel cases now, and I can see why people see similarities, but they appear to be a de-escalation. Why would he go from murdering couples to not...

The Visalia Ransacker attempted to abduct a teen girl (I believe 14), and Visalia and Sacramento LEOs seem fairly sure these were among JJD's first crimes. I believe one of this other victims was 13 or 14. But most of his victims were adults, and I believe they ruled out the Mr. Cruel...

There are a ton of reasons police could be searching the backyard (just to be thorough, looking to see if he buried some of the items he stole, etc.), but in some of the photos/video they appear to be using ground-penetrating radar and marking spots in his backyard.

I wonder if they got DNA from the shoelaces recently, now that DNA technology has improved to where police can get touch DNA.

Roger Kibbe, who was also local to Sacramento and the brother of a homicide detective, used that to avoid capture while killing in the 1970s and 1980s. He would pick up a woman in one county and take her to another before killing her, knowing that the departments wouldn't talk much. Even after...

Exeter/Visalia. The confirmed Visalia Ransacker cases started in 1974, but may go back to 1973. There's at least one murder connected to this series of burglaries. https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/2018/04/25/breaking-visalia-ransacker-aka-golden-state-killer-may-behind-bars/550310002/

Apparently the Visalia Ransacker used dishes as an alarm system much like EAR/ONS did. Or at least, I read that in one of the several articles I read earlier today (I think one of the ones at the Visalia Herald-Delta).

This would add another murder to his list - Claude Snelling, who the Visalia Ransacker shot and killed while attempting to abduct his daughter Beth Snelling. The bullets in the murder matched a gun stolen in one of the confirmed Ransacker burglaries.

Not sure if this made it over here yet, but he's been confirmed by LE as the Visalia Ransacker. Those cases began in 72 IIRC.

It doesn't look like she's been ruled out for several unidentified bodies on NAMUS that at least loosely match (age and length of time missing).

Skeletal remains were found by hikers in Placer County, on a rural road just off of Interstate 80, one of the routes between Sacramento and Reno. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article197039324.html There's not much information known yet - they're not even sure how old the remains...

That cut looks very much like the trend of "high and tight" haircuts among the alt-right white supremacist types: http://www.esquire.com/style/news/a51116/high-and-tight-fascism-neo-nazis-white-supremacists/

That is a potential reasoning behind a violent stabbing, but not the only one. Knives have some symbolism among neo-Nazis, and it wouldn't be the first time that neo-Nazis had stabbed someone to death. According to sites like KnifeDepot.com and MilitaryItems.com, daggers were carried by Nazi...

A pair of men have been linked to a pair of brutal murders in Lodi, California. Kenneth Vanderford, 52, and Kevin Etherton, 26, have been charged with the murder of Dorothy Wiederrich, 74, on Feb. 13, 2016. They were arrested a year ago for the murder of Alan Gregor, 53, and arson on Sept. 25...

So he's suspected in four murders and convicted of at least three abductions and sexual assaults, right? He would have been 20 in the late 1970s. Any chance he's responsible for other Texas Killing Field murders before the abductions that landed him in prison?

http://fox8.com/2016/12/08/ohio-supreme-court-upholds-conviction-of-serial-killer-anthony-sowell/

Kind of a neat story about how they tracked him through DNA, by using it to figure out his surname. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/11/30/how-forensic-genealogy-led-arrest-phoenix-canal-killer-case-bryan-patrick-miller-dna/94565410/...

I remember watching the really sad case of Della Brown and Mindy Schloss' murders on one of the forensic documentary shows. I think FBI Files or Criminal Pursuit? Anyway, I haven't read the book yet, but apparently this journalist lays out a case for why Wade should be connected to other...

Vox.com has a new write-up of this project, along with a bunch of handy graphs and charts to break it into bite-sized chunks. http://www.vox.com/2016/12/2/13803158/serial-killers-victims-data

After months of silence, police open up about unsolved Anchorage homicides https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/11/16/after-months-of-silence-police-open-up-about-unsolved-anchorage-homicides/ From today.