18: SERIAL KILLER (part 1)

The Dayton Strangler. After Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes made it clear that there were killers who would continue to kill until they were caught police in cities around the world began to tracking the details of crimes and physical descriptions of murderers. It would be many many years before men like John Douglas would pioneer criminal profiling. Before that would happen police could only rely on a card catalog to track similar motives and clues. Here is the story of one killer, who nearly got away.

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Sources:
my research into this case came from articles in the Journal News and Dayton Daily News from the time period, also an excellent book called Cold Serial by Brian Forschner.