Daytona Beach Serial Killer Case From 2006

**chris** · #1 ● 09-14-2015, 12:05 PM

The Daytona Beach Serial killer, who has still not been arrested, is known to have been active from December, 2005 to December, 2007. The police at this time attribute at least four murders of women to this still unknown killer. All of the women were known prostitutes or drug users.

The known victims are:

Laquetta Gunther (45 Years Old, Found December 26, 2005)
Julie Green (34 Years Old, Found January 14, 2006)
Iwana Patton (35 Years Old, Found February 24, 2006)
Stacey Gage (30 Years Old, Found January 2, 2008)

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According to the FBI, the four killings are among 28 in Florida that are unsolved and connected to serial killings that the bureau suspects were committed by long-haul truckers. Those include 19 deaths along the Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa and Daytona Beach, but it also noted that all but one local law-enforcement agency denies any serial-killer cases on its books.

The FBI believes the suspects are predominantly long-haul truck drivers (from I-95 to I-4 to I-75 in Florida). But the mobile nature of the offenders, the unsafe lifestyles of the victims, the significant distances and multiple jurisdictions involved, and the scarcity of witnesses or forensic evidence can make these cases tough to solve.

Details From The Laquetta Gunther Crime Scene:

The body of Laquetta Gunther was found dead in a tiny alleyway off of Madison Avenue and Beach Street in Daytona Beach, Fla. and that her genitals were sprayed with an oil based paint after being she was murdered.

Details From The Julie Green Crime Scene:

A construction worker found Julie Green’s body on a dirt road Jan. 14, 2006, on the west side of Daytona Beach, off of LPGA Blvd near a local hunting club. The killer robbed her of cash before killing her and then urinated and defecated on her before leaving the area according to police.

She was killed with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head and then set on fire, but since the killer decided to urinate and defecate on the woman before leaving the area, DNA was able to be recovered from the urine and excrement, as well as a set of a tire tracks that were left in the dirt.

Details From The Iwana Patton Crime Scene:

On Feb. 24, 2006, the body of Iwana Patton was discovered dead on a dirt road near Mason Avenue and Williamson Street in Daytona Beach. She was also shot in the head, and set on fire, but appeared to have struggled with her killer. The suspect urinated and defecated on her before leaving the area in this case as well, detectives recovered DNA from the urine and excrement, along with a shell casing and a burned out match, which was used to set her on fire, but prior to urinating and defecating on the woman.

Details From The Stacey Gage Crime Scene:

On January 2, 2008 the body of Stacey Guage was located in a wooded area at 1650 Hancock Boulevard. She had been shot in the head, and the badly decomposed body was discovered by a Daytona Beach Police Officer on routine patrol, after he noticed a foul smell in the area. There was no DNA recovered because the body had been in the elements for about a week, but police believe she was also covered with urine and excrement.

In 2008, Daytona Beach Police officers started swabbing the mouths of persons of interests during traffic stops with special DNA kits in the hunt for the serial killer. The police claim they do have a DNA match recovered from one of the scenes, but thus far, have not been able to make a match to anyone.

The following image was taken of Stacey Gage at a Publix Shopping center on December 11, 2008. Her grandmother was the last one to see her, December 10, 2008 in nearby Holly Hill, when she said she left to get ice and never returned. Her grandmother reported her van, a 1998 white Plymouth Voyager stolen after not hearing from her. Police later found the van abandoned.

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On the day Julie Green's body was found, Jan. 14, 2006, police investigators also noted fresh tire tracks at the crime scene. The tire impressions were tested, and the results showed the vehicle was either a 2003 Ford Taurus, or Mercury Sable, later that year, the same tire markings were found at a junkyard in Volusia County, although police are uncertain if that match is related.

Another interesting thing to note, which has not been widely released, is that three of the four women, whose bodies have been recovered, were found wearing only their socks. This may or may not be important, it's possible that the unknown killer has a sock fetish, which if that is the case, might be useful to investigators as they develop a profile, it could also be used to identify future victims, should he strike again.

Police at one point thought they had a promising suspect in David Lindsay, a homeless shelter volunteer who they discovered was a convicted murderer from Illinois who had been eluding police for years. Lindsay served eight years in jail for killing his wife, and was wanted for strangling an elderly man in Illinois as well.

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Lindsay was working at Volusia-Flagler Coalition for the Homeless, where police say at least two of the victims had visited prior to their deaths. However, Lindsay was cleared by police in this case, I suspect because his DNA must not have matched the DNA they have on file which was recovered from the crime scene.

Morbid75 · #2 ● 09-15-2015, 04:44 PM

Whomever this guy is he really hates women. Maybe he cannot achieve an erection so that is why he pisses on them.

**chris** · #3 ● 09-15-2015, 04:54 PM

Whoever he is, he's been getting away with it for quite sometime as well. Yet he did stop after 2007, or at least police think he stopped. Makes you wonder why, is he jailed for something else, dead of natural causes, or just lost interest, which I think is unlikely.

Morbid75 · #4 ● 09-15-2015, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by chris ↗

Whoever he is, he's been getting away with it for quite sometime as well. Yet he did stop after 2007, or at least police think he stopped. Makes you wonder why, is he jailed for something else, dead of natural causes, or just lost interest, which I think is unlikely.

My husband drives a truck. Not long-haul but he does go around the southeast mostly. He was a cop for 13 years before.

He said there are some weird motherfuckers that drive trucks. A lot of them change companies quite regularly or he lost his truck during the recession which was around that time.

Lot lizards tend to hang out at the seedier truck stops because the Love's and Flying J type stops keep that pretty clean.

I bet he moved on another route and is still out there somewhere trolling those seedy truck stops. Scary

**chris** · #5 ● 09-15-2015, 07:03 PM

Yea, we have a Love's around this area, it's super sketchy. I saw a reference to this case on some Investigation Discovery episode I think at one time, they were pretty convinced it was a trucker as well.

The shitty part is, after this much time, it's not like they can just stake-out truck stops or anything, they actually need him to kill again to get any good leads.

Morbid75 · #6 ● 09-15-2015, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by chris ↗

Yea, we have a Love's around this area, it's super sketchy. I saw a reference to this case on some Investigation Discovery episode I think at one time, they were pretty convinced it was a trucker as well.

The shitty part is, after this much time, it's not like they can just stake-out truck stops or anything, they actually need him to kill again to get any good leads.

That is shitty. I hope he is in VICAP so if it is in another agency's jurisdiction they can match the M.O.

I watch the ID channel a lot too. I do not remember this one. It seems like they show some of the same cases on several different shows.