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Gary M. Heidnik News From AOL News

Northeast Ohio's History of Killers

By Stuart WarnerNov 3rd 2009 – 5:17PM

CLEVELAND -- The discovery of at least 10 decomposing bodies at a home on the east side of Cleveland adds another chapter in a long history of serial killers and mass murderers with their roots in the northeast corner of Ohio. Jeffrey Dahmer, who devoured some of his 17 victims; Jeffrey Lundgren, the defrocked Mormon...

Gary M. Heidnik News From the Web

  • 11/25/11 Governor signs 2 more death warrants Source: Erie Times-News - Erie PA Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has signed death warrants for two more inmates on death row, although the state last executed someone in 1999.
  • 01/14/11 Rendell Sentences 3 Locals To Death Source: FOX - MyFox 29 - Philadelphia PA Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has sentenced three Philadelphia men to death, but no one has been executed here since 1999.

Background on Gary M. Heidnik

Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) was an American murderer who kidnapped, tortured and raped six women and kept them prisoner in his Philadelphia, Pennsylvania basement.

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