Daytona Beach killer

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Police in Daytona Beach, Florida have connected three unsolved homicides that occurred in December 2005, January 2006 and February 2006 to a single offender, and are investigating the possibility that a fourth unsolved death that occurred in October 2006 was the work of the same offender.

[edit] Victims

The first known victim of the offender was 45 year-old Laquetta Gunther. Gunther was found in an alley on December 26th, 2005. She had been shot in the head. The offender's second victim was 34 year-old Julie Green, found January 14th. She had also been shot to death. Just over a month later, on February 24th, police found the body of Iwana Patton, 35, on a dirt road. Authorities received an anonymous telephone call describing the location of Patton's body, but the caller was eventually identified and questioned, and is not a suspect in the killings. All three women are believed to have worked as prostitutes in the Daytona Beach area. Police believe the victims voluntary accompanied the offender, possibly in a vehicle, and were subsequently murdered and dumped in the same area of Daytona Beach. The offender did not attempt to conceal the bodies.

[edit] Possible Connection

In October of 2006, the body of known prostitute Lisa Marie French, 39, was found in Sanford, Florida. Police first reported that French had been strangled to death, but autopsy results were inconclusive in regards to the cause of her death. Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood has since disclosed that French was probably not the victim of foul play.[1]