PA Edward Arthur Surratt, born 1941, Serial Killer and Rapist, PA, OH, SC, FL

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Edward Arthur Surratt, Serial Killer

Edward Arthur Surratt (born August 8, 1941) is an American murderer, rapist and suspected serial killer. Convicted of a single murder and several rapes in 1978, he remains the prime suspect in a series of murders in Pennsylvania, Ohio and South Carolina between 1977 and 1978. In 2007, after serving 29 years in prison, Surratt confessed to six murders, but no charges were brought against him, despite credible circumstantial evidence indicating that he was indeed the perpetrator. In 2021, he confessed to six more murders...

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Edward Arthur Surratt is an American murderer, rapist and suspected serial killer. Convicted of a single murder and several rapes in 1978, he remains the prime suspect in a series of murders in Pennsylvania, Ohio and South Carolina between 1977 and 1978. In 2007, after serving 29 years in...

Killer resolution: Four Pennsylvania cold cases solved as Surratt confesses to six homicides​

A convicted serial killer and Aliquippa native has confessed to the decades-old slayings of six Pennsylvanians, including three in Beaver County.
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Serial killer jailed in Florida confesses to additional 6 Pennsylvania murders from 1970s​

Edward Surratt, 79, has been in Florida prisons since 1978, when the Pennsylvania fugitive was arrested in the rapes of a woman and her 15-year-old daughter. Surratt has been linked to at least 18 murders of people ranging in age from 15 to 70, authorities said.

Family of local serial killer victim says a life behind bars isn’t enough​

Investigators with the Pennsylvania State Police said a serial killer has confessed to murders he carried out in Beaver County in 1977 and 1978.

Linda June Hamilton – The Charley Project

PA - PA - Ranee Gregor, 15, Robinson Township, 21 Oct 1977

I remember reading old newspaper articles that Surratt would drive his wife to the places of the abductions and relive them. She must know something if she is still alive. I don't think he drove Ranee that far away in his car, he must of scoped out another secluded area that wouldn't keep him on...

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May he continue to rot in prison while we instead remember the good people he victimized.

Today marks 47 years since the murders of Donna and Richard Hyde. Their memory rises far above anything to do with this human garbage.

 

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He was basically the Eastern Night Stalker, though is more often called "the Shotgun Killer". He committed a total of at least 19 brutal murders in the late 1970s, 18 of which occurred in small towns and rural areas along the Ohio/Pennsylvania border, and one that occurred in South Carolina. He's one of the most prolific home-invading killers in US history, with a higher victim count than Richard Ramirez or Joseph DeAngelo, yet few have ever heard of him. Most of these murders were sexually-motivated home invasion murders, but in a few cases, Surratt would commit "thrill killings" in which he would approach people sitting alone in their cars and shoot them with a shotgun. In most if his murders, he would usually break into a couple's house late at night, kill the husband first, and then rape the wife, before killing her as well. He would typically shoot them with a shotgun, but in some cases would bludgeon his victims in the head with heavy objects such as an iron skillet or a baseball bat. Usually, the victims were left in their homes, but in some cases, the victims were found in wooded areas some distance from their homes. Strangely, while Surratt seemed to have no qualms about killing adults, he seemed unable to bring himself to kill children, and if he encountered kids during one of his home invasions, he would barricade them in a closet before continuing with the murder of their parents. Anyway, it's one of the craziest and most terrifying SK cases in United States history, and I'm shocked it's so little known.