Police say year-old Kris and year-old Melissa Peters face child abuse charges after a malnourished teen was found hiding in the woods. We have many plans and enthusiasm to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really need your help for this. Acevedo's IQ is a very average You are commenting using your Google account. Like this: Like Loading

If he's convicted of the Yonkers slayings, Acevedo faces life in prison without chance of parole. A Yonkers cold-case detective said investigators had looked at "way more than " other potential suspects over the years before they found Acevedo's blood sample and matched it to the killings. Geberth said urban Hispanic and black serial killers are often overlooked by detectives seeking high-IQ killers like Ted Bundy. Marlon Faulkner was booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree murder. Todd Koelhepp was convicted for rape in Arizona in and now, he's a suspected serial killer.

Frank LoCascio , who led the hunt with some 75 detectives over 16 years, said he was flabbergasted when he heard the suspect's name. The detective said the victims' families were 'very happy, very happy to have some answers. Namespaces Article Talk. Geberth, a retired New York City police lieutenant commander who was asked by Geiss to look at the case in recent years. The results were released in three 3 days from the last day of examination. She fled after he fell asleep.

Ex-clerk at motel testifies in Francisco Acevedo triple-murder case. Authorities say Vince Vaughn slammed into two teens while they were pushing their disabled car off the freeway. That's when Acevedo provided a DNA sample as part of a parole application, apparently having no idea that Yonkers detectives were finally closing in on him. Yonkers — All three women were naked, their bodies facing skyward, their hands bound behind their backs. Police in Suffolk County are currently piecing together another possible serial-killer case stemming from the Dec. The suspect's mother, Yadira Acevedo, 61, said her son grew up in the house in a working-class section of Meriden where she still lives. He said that since , the database has provided leads to 2, convictions while helping free 27 people who were wrongly accused.