The tips continue to trickle in, yet the murders remain unsolved. By LYDA LONGAlyda.longa@news-jrnl.com DAYTONA BEACH — The tips continue to trickle in, yet the murders remain unsolved. Three women, all prostitutes who frequented the shadowy crannies of Ridgewood Avenue looking for the next trick for just enough money to buy booze, cigarettes, drugs and food, were shot in the head execution-style a decade ago with the same gun. Laquetta Gunther, known as a tough labor hall worker who feared little and was known in most of the watering holes on and off Ridgewood, was the first killed. While her body was not found until Dec. 26, 2005, police believe she was murdered two days before on Christmas Eve, or the very early hours of Christmas. The killer would leave police puzzled two more times that winter.

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Because of his elusiveness, several theories about the man's identity have blossomed over the years: The killer is a cop. He's a member of the military. He's an outlaw biker. He's a taxi cab driver.

He's a seasonal resident. He's a trucker. Whatever the killer's situation, Daytona Beach police Chief Mike Chitwood believes he will strike again. 'If you look at the history of serial killers, when all is good with their lives, they stop (killing),' said Chitwood, who inherited the case, becoming chief about three months after the last death in 2006. 'When things get bad in their lives, they start up again.' Gunther was found in a kneeling position, wedged into a narrow space between two buildings.

The 45-year-old had spoken earlier in the day with her best friend Stacey Dittmer who begged Gunther to come over for dinner so she could make gravy for a turkey. Gunther made her excuses though, saying she wanted to party at the then-popular Chubby's bar at the corner of Beach and Madison Avenue. Dittmer, who keeps Gunther's ashes in her Mulberry Street home, never saw her best friend again. 'She didn't deserve to die that way,' Dittmer said last week. 'It's been 10 years and that guy is still out there.'

KILLINGS CONTINUE As she has from the first anniversary of Gunther's slaying nine years ago, Dittmer made her pilgrimage Thursday to the spot where Gunther was killed. Dittmer and a few other close friends of Gunther's lit candles and drank beer in the slain woman's honor. The candles wouldn't stay lit for long, an issue the group attributed to Gunther's spunky spirit. Christmas came and went in 2005, then days into the new year there was another death. 14, 2006, 34-year-old Julie Green, a drug addict and friend of Gunther's who also turned tricks on the street, was found shot in the head in a ditch near a construction site on LPGA Boulevard. The night before, a friend of Green's told police that the mother of four had left her residence on Tomoka Road to use a payphone.

She never returned. A little more than a month after that, two people walking in a desolate wooded area off Williamson Boulevard spotted Iwana Patton's body. The person who discovered the corpse the afternoon of Feb. 24, 2006, called police from a pay phone at a gas station on Bill France Boulevard. Patton, 35, was a nurse's aide.

Police said she wasn't a regular hooker on Ridgewood, but may have turned to the streets in desperation. The killer used the same weapon in all three shootings, a Smith & Wesson.40-caliber Sigma Series VE. Days after Patton was found, police announced they were looking for a serial killer. DEAD-END EVIDENCE The killer had left a clue other than his favored weapon. He left semen on Gunther and Green, police said.

Then in January 2008, another woman was found shot to death in a wooded area next to a long shuttered church. There was no DNA on her remains because she had been killed about a month prior and had been exposed to the elements, police said. Nonetheless, Chitwood at the time, said the murder of Stacey Gage, 30, was 'eerily similar to the deaths of the other three women.'

It is not uncommon for such murderers to take a hiatus from killing, the chief said. There have been a handful of serial killers in this country who have left a trail of blood in their wake only to stop for several years, then resurface. Dennis Rader of Wichita, Kansas, the BTK killer — BTK were the three letters Rader signed his correspondence with and it stood for bind, torture, kill — murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991.

The killings stopped and no one heard from Rader again until 2004. That was the 30th anniversary of the killer's first murders, a family of four by the name of Otero, police said.

Then, between 2004 and 2005, investigators said Rader sent letters and photographs of some of his victims to newspapers and to police. He also sent puzzles.

Police finally cracked the case and Rader was arrested in 2005. One of the most famous serial killer cases that remains unsolved is the Zodiac Killer of the San Francisco Bay area. Zodiac is responsible for five murders that investigators know of, between 1968 and the early 1970s. The suspect also sent police and area newspapers several letters and clues pointing to his identity. At least two victims who survived his attacks gave police solid descriptions, but still he slipped the grasp of investigators. In 1974, the killer's taunting and quizzical correspondence to media and law enforcement stopped and so did the murders.

The suspect was never arrested despite hundreds of tips. Daytona Beach detectives also felt taunted by their killer, Chitwood has said, because the man left his DNA behind knowing full well that it would not be found in the FBI's national database. The fact that the man's DNA was nowhere also sparked a set of theories concerning his criminal history. Had he committed other violent crimes and simply not been caught? Or, had he been convicted of a felony at a time when DNA technology was non-existent? SAMPLES FROM ARRESTED MEN The absence of the killer's DNA in databases prompted police to take samples from every john arrested in a reverse prostitution sting.

Chitwood said the practice is still in place today. This past fall, the arrest of rape suspect John Lytus lifted the hopes of Daytona Beach detectives briefly.

Lytus, a registered sex offender who sodomized and raped a 19-year-old woman in 1986 in Rockland County, New York, was arrested in early October in Daytona Beach. He is accused of raping, kidnapping and torturing a pregnant prostitute. Police said the woman was hogtied for 12 hours in a camper where Lytus lived on Baldwin Lane. Lytus is also a suspect in the Volusia County death investigation of 30-year-old Laura Nagengast, a Daytona Beach prostitute who was found dead in DeLand in September. Lytus is also wanted out of Nicaragua where he lived for a short time, for raping a woman at knife point, police said.

In custody at the Volusia County Branch Jail, Lytus was swabbed for DNA upon his arrest. Like the serial killer, Lytus' DNA was not in the national database because his New York rape was committed before DNA technology was in place. That gave police hope that this could be their man in the 2005-06 killings. But several weeks ago when Lytus' DNA sample was returned from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, it did not match against the Daytona Beach serial killer's DNA, the chief said.

“That's the kind of individual that's out there on Ridgewood,” Chitwood said, referring to Lytus. 'NOTHING IS TOO RIDICULOUS' Despite a bevy of tips, investigators remain stymied. Chitwood and his detectives have been featured on several TV shows focusing on serial killers. This coming February another special will air on the A&E network. The TV appearances have been fruitful because they have elicited tips.

And each one is investigated diligently, police said. Last week detectives received a fresh tip very similar to one they had gotten in 2006, Chitwood said. The information was credible enough to send investigators to check on it. But nothing came of it, the chief said Wednesday. Over the years, investigators have even met with several psychics. The most recent psychic encounter occurred about three weeks ago when detective Nate Williams, now assigned to investigate cold cases, met with a woman who gave Williams another perspective and some new leads.

“Nothing is too ridiculous at this time,” Chitwood said. Besides the sense of accomplishment that would come with catching the killer, Chitwood said the most important thing is giving closure to the victims' families. The last 10 years have not been easy for Gunther's sister-in-law Laura Plautz and Gunther's brother Michael Plautz of Michigan. How To Crack Puk Code Of Idea Sim. The couple learned of Gunther's death while watching cable television commentator Nancy Grace.

The couple traveled to Daytona Beach as soon as they could. Last week, Laura Plautz in a telephone interview said she can't believe it's been 10 years with no answers or a hit on the killer's DNA.

Plautz said she is hopeful that because it is the 10th anniversary of Gunther's killing, someone will come forward. Chitwood reminded the public that there is a $20,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer. The chief repeated the mantra he has had for the last 10 years: “Somebody out there knows something.” Anyone with information is asked to call detective Nate Williams, 386-671-5100.

The Connecticut serial killer who drove a “murder mobile” and buried his victims in what he called “his garden” was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for his crimes, PEOPLE confirms. New Britain, Connecticut, Superior Court Judge Joan K. Alexander handed down the six life terms — or 360 years in prison — for William Devin Howell, a court clerk tells PEOPLE.

Howell, a drifter who is believed to be the most prolific killer in Connecticut history, pleaded guilty in September to murdering six people in 2003,. His victims, whom he killed over a six-month period, were identified as Melanie Ruth Camilini, Diane Cusack, Marilyn Mendez Gonzalez, Joyvaline Martinez, Mary Jane Menard, Danny Lee Whistnant.

The Ice Princess Camilla Lackberg Ebook Torrents. At the time of his arrest, Howell was already serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter in the death of a seventh victim, Nilsa Arizmendi, who disappeared in July 2003 from a grocery store parking lot in Wethersfield, Connecticut,. Arizmendi’s remains were among those recovered at the burial site behind a strip mall that Howell referred to as “his garden,” according to the newspaper.

In court on Friday, the victims’ families reportedly recounted the pain they have endured since the murders. Calling Howell an “animal,” Tiffany Menard, daughter of victim Mary Jane Menard, said she tried to kill herself twice from the time her mother went missing to when her remains were found. • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? To get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. “He stripped away the youth from us and made me and my brother orphans,” she said.

“I would see my mom on the streets thousands of times only to realize every time that it wasn’t her.” Speaking about brother Danny Lee Whistnant, April Rich said to Howell, “You may be able to protect yourself physically in prison, but there is no weapon that will protect you from your own thoughts.” Howell struck a remorseful tone in his own court statements, saying during his sentencing that he faces “a slow painful death in prison” because of his diabetes, according to the Courant. “I hope that provides some comfort to each of the families,” he said. He pleaded guilty to the six murders “to spare the victims’ families further emotional pain through a lengthy and drawn-out trial that would have taken several weeks, if not months,” his lawyers reportedly said. Howell, who is from Hampton, Virginia, was arrested in September 2015 and charged with murdering five women and one man after police discovered their remains, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Courant. The complaint stated that he dumped each body in a separate plot in a wooded area behind the strip mall that he referred to as “his garden.” According to authorities, Howell called the van he drove the “murder mobile” and later told a fellow inmate that there was a “monster inside him,” the Courant reports,. Howell mutilated some of his victims and strangled others, according to authorities.

They said he sexually assaulted three of the women and he bashed another woman’s face with a hammer and buried a portion of her jaw in Virginia. If he hadn’t been caught, his arrest warrant stated, he planned to go “cross-country and kill others.” Attempts to reach the district attorney and Howell’s lawyers on Friday were not immediately successful.