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Serial Killer’s Twisted Logic: Allegedly Murdered Homeless Victims as Community Service

Murder Spree

The ex-Marine accused of being California’s ‘homeless serial killer’murdered to remove ‘a blight to the community,’ police say. By Christine Pelisek.

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Against the recent backdrop of American soldiers going postal, a newly released grand jury transcript provides a chilling look into the twisted mind of a former Marine who, armed with a large Ka-bar knife, brutally stabbed to death a woman, her son and four homeless men in Orange County during...

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