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09-12-2014, 11:03 PM
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Steven Pennell--"the Corridor Killer"
Steven Pennell, the I-40 killer or the "corridor killer" would cruise interstate 40 and 13 in Delaware in his blue rape van, searching for prostitues that he could rape, torture and murder. He would torture them with pliers, needles, knives, and had an array of restraints. On November 27, 1987, construction workers in Newark, Delaware found the body of a prostitute name Shirley Ellis. She had been beaten in the head with a hammer. Her nipples appeared to have been "cut off" with pliers. She was found with duct around her wrists and in her hair. She died from ligature strangulation. On June 28, 1988 the body of Catherine DiMauro was found at yet another construction site. Like Shirley Ellis she had duct tape around her wrists, and her breasts were subjected to severe torture via pliers. July of 1988, the police were sending out female decoys to pose as prostitutes in a attempt to find the killer. During this time another prostitute disappeared getting into a blue van. When police finally discovered the body of the prostitute, Margaret Finner, she was nothing but a skeleton. One night, a female decoy noticed a blue van following her around a parking lot. He pulled over to talk to her. She had him turn on the van's interior light and she noticed blue carpet fibers that matched fibers found on the victims. She surreptitiously picked up a few of the fibers and they were sent to FBI laboratory for analysis. On September 20, 1988, before the fibers from the van could be analyzed another murdered prostitute, Michelle Gordon, was found. She washed up onto some rocks by the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. Unlike the other victims she was not strangled. She had been beaten on the butt and hips, and one of her nipples had been cut off. After being tortured it seems that she just died from shock. After Michelle's body had been discovered the results of the fiber analysis was completed. The fibers found on the bodies matched the fibers that the female decoy had plucked from the van. The owner of the van, Steven Pennell, was put under surveillance. Search warrants were obtained and the examination of Pennell's van yielded a blood stain that matched DiMauro's DNA. Also found in the van were plastic flex cuffs. Pennell was accused of the murders of DiMauro, Ellis, and Gordon. He didn't deny anything. During his trial he would speak about himself in the third person and asked for the death penalty. At his execution on March 14, 1992, he never once mentioned the victims or showed remorse.  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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09-13-2014, 02:11 AM
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Re: Steven Pennell--"the Corridor Killer"
There's at least fifty active serial killers in the US at any given time, I read somewhere. Can't believe I used to hitchhike the way I did back in the day.  |
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09-13-2014, 09:35 AM
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Re: Steven Pennell--"the Corridor Killer"
Agreed!  |
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09-13-2014, 09:50 AM
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Re: Steven Pennell--"the Corridor Killer"
If this van's a rockin chances are a prostitute is getting hammered.
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