“Very few of them kill with a gun.so once we know whether the other victims were killed in an up-close-and-personal way, we would have a better idea if you’ve got a serial killer on the loose.”īowles said it’s unknown at this point whether the men were killed near the creek or just dumped there. “It’s true that most serial killers kill in an intimate way, so they might stab the first, strangle the second and bludgeon the third,” he said. What’s most common for a serial killer, Levin said, is that all their victims are killed in an intimate way, not, for example, by shooting. But, he said, even if the latest two victims weren’t also bludgeoned, it very well may be the same killer. Levin said it’s easier to point to a serial killer when the method of killing for all the victims is known. Bowles said police don’t believe the latest victims are any known missing persons cases from the area. “But we’re not ruling anything out.”īowles said Schaefer’s body had been where it was found for up to three months, while the latest two victims probably had been there for less than a week each.īowles said Schaefer died from blunt-force trauma to the head, but autopsy results aren’t yet available for the second or third victims, whose identities have not been released. “At this time in the investigation, there’s no evidence the cases are linked,” Bowles said. The second body, found earlier this month, is “an apparent homicide,” police said, while the third body was badly decomposed, but police still aren’t ruling out foul play.īowles said while nothing at this point leads him to believe the three men had the same killer, it’s not out of the question.
The body of Schaefer, whom Police Chief Brian Bowles said was homeless, was discovered in November. Yreka police say the death of Christopher Schaefer, the first person found there, has been ruled a homicide.
The other two bodies were near the north end of the creek and Deer Creek Way. The body found Wednesday was about 500 feet from South Yreka Creek near the 1900 block of Westside Road, near the Walmart Supercenter and from Interstate 5. “Three bodies in the same place off the side of a highway - You’ve got to think that you’re talking about the same killer.” “It’s very unusual to find three bodies in proximity to one another.I do think it’s most likely a serial killer,” Levin said. While police said there currently is no evidence the three men were killed by the same person, Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written numerous books on serial killers, said the discovery of the bodies in a small area indicates there’s a good chance the North State has one of the notorious murderers on its hands. The discovery of the latest body Wednesday not far from Interstate 5 and a Walmart Supercenter prompted Yreka police to warn people away from the area where three murder victims have been found in less than eight months. A third body found near Yreka Creek could be evidence a serial killer is a work in the North State, a criminology expert said today.
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