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Book a Love by Guest property with Virbo and you get a top-rated vacation rental that's love for all the right reasons Oh, I love my Virbo for the location good reason. Oh and for the pool because pools are cool I feel the love book a Virbo that's love by Guest if you know you Virbo In the summer of 1999 26-year-old John Eric Armstrong was honorably discharged from the US Navy He settled in Dearborn Heights, Michigan with his wife and then you baby He was a nice neighbor a good friend a good father apparently according to his neighbors But Armstrong wasn't the loving family man that people believed him to be Armstrong was in my humble opinion the personification of you Armstrong was using the services of sex workers many of whom he then brutally murdered

He's killed moth boyman. It was natural to him only person that That type of life thought I could be natural to us. I'm out sir as more details emerge Police realized that these murders went far beyond their local area You're talking Singapore Hong Kong and all these exotic locales that his vote traveled to while he was in the Navy He's going to be one of the most prolific well-traveled here killers in history John Eric Armstrong had gone global and Been unveiled as one of the world's most evil killers Oh On April 10th

2000 in Detroit, Michigan Police were alerted to an alarming discovery the bodies of three sex workers have been found near some railway tracks in varying states of decomposition This was the work of a serial killer. He didn't try and conceal his crimes He just discarded the bodies didn't try and hide him He just came back to visit and abuse and then move on to the next murder and dispose of that one and roll it down the hill and Find a known with no leads the police were under pressure to find the unknown killer before he could strike again Then the chance traffic stop and subsequent arrest of 26 year old John Eric Armstrong led to more revelations than they could ever have expected In the patrol car one of the patrol men could hear Armstrong in the back muttering something under his breath I'm glad it's over. I'm glad you guys got me This killer story begins on the southeastern coast of America John Eric Armstrong was born on November the 23rd

1973 I'm strong was born and raised in Newburn, North Carolina and by all accounts had a very normal upbringing very normal childhood I think the most important point in his early life Was the death of a younger brother Michael who died of sudden infant death syndrome at barely two months old and this had an impact on the young John Eric Armstrong Armstrong was five years old at the time and at five years old I'm not sure that children fully understand the concept of death and dying and perhaps how permanent it is So it's quite possible that it impacted him in a way that made him feel completely powerless He was so distraught over that that he deliberately rode his bicycle out in traffic Almost like you know with the intention of joining his baby brother

The loss of the baby had a major impact on Armstrong's parents Shortly after his baby brother Mikey died in the crib his biological father left the family After his father left young Armstrong stayed in the family home with his mother Towards the end of the 1970s Armstrong started school and his classmates saw nothing unusual about him The people who went to school with him for instance his fellow students they saw him as just a normal kid He was a little quiet. He seemed pretty neat one person described him as a loof But really nothing unusual about his childhood nothing that would Make someone illiterate Armstrong felt that he was kind of an underachiever and Being bullied and a lot of this a behavior impacted him psychologically

We've got somebody who's whole identity is being formed around this victimhood this Powerlessness this the world is against me, and I think that internal anger rage Revenge is more what drove him as he went into adulthood There was a strange incident in his life At school he said One of his classmates a girl was tried to persuade him to have sex with her and he didn't want to and he liked himself and To a bathroom and threatened to kill himself this led to a month long stay in a mental health facility So he obviously had issues with sex a simple pressure for sex It's not going to put you into psychiatric care. There's a lot more going on here At the age of 16 Armstrong felt that he was still dealing with the negative impact of his brother's death And so he went for additional psychiatric counseling

To seek psychiatric care at age 16 when he's just had Care for another incident. This is somebody who's really really struggling To function in the world by his late teens despite his problems Armstrong had managed to start a relationship with a girl But when his high school sweetheart left him for another boy Armstrong was devastated Especially when he saw his love rival shower his ex-girlfriend with gifts Armstrong Interpreted this as her prostituting herself or her affections in exchange for these gifts that this other new suitor was providing her this guy sees Women sex relationships Transactional and even he said that this was like she was a prostitute What an awful way to see relationships

In April 1992 when Armstrong was 18 years old he signed up with the US Navy Need joined the military which is I don't think an unusual thing for somebody like him who feels you know like he needs To be in a big gang because he feels like the world's against him and he needs control and he needs power Armstrong was assigned to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier then the largest sailing vessel in the world Life of what the Nimitz it would be pretty exciting if you go anywhere in the world and often did and Armstrong would have enjoyed that life He worked in the barber shop it was said and then he had one or two other jobs on the boat and He had a good record by all accounts aboard the boat Nothing really stood out At one point he was nicknamed baby doll. He had his very child-like face. It's very innocent

Approach which didn't really make him like a look like a grown-up man at all Despite his youthful features Armstrong was over six foot tall with a large build It was while aboard the USS Nimitz that Armstrong met the woman he would go on to marry After both being honorably discharged in 1999 the couple moved to Michigan to start their married life and raise their first child And so they settled into a city and metroidy trade on the west side of metroidy trade called Dearborn Heights and they lived with her parents for a while Armstrong started working for a chain of retail stores Then later as a security guard and then refueling airplanes a Detroit metropolitan airport Seems like Armstrong may not have been able to find his way In at least vocationally in a career

Those around Armstrong just saw him as any other guy in the neighborhood One lady said I used to get her right home with him or right to work and and she was just a nice guy He was a nice neighbor a good friend a good father apparently according to his neighbors and Yeah, he had this completely other side this classic checkland hide approach Particularly to women Beyond this normal life appeared to be a facade and behind that facade Armstrong was going out and engaging in activity like having sex on a regular basis with sex workers He has got a bad attitude misogynistic attitude towards women so I think we can kind of see where it's coming from with him John Eric Armstrong wasn't the loving family man. He was portraying to those around him He was living a double life filled with dark secrets one that would soon be exposed

Armstrong's preferred haunt for picking up sex workers was in downtown Detroit around 10 miles from his family home Unfortunately prostitution has always thrived in Detroit and the area of Michigan Avenue has always been a hotspot for prostitution Kyle James Kassaris was a child when his mum Kelly Jean Hood began working on the streets in the 1990s Kelly started taking drugs following the death of her father and was trying to fund her addiction through sex work She was actually very close to my grandfather and when he passed away she Couldn't deal with the pain my mom Before the drugs and even after the drugs one of the most kindhearted person you could ever meet we were her world She made sure we had a good childhood At best she could given what she could

It's you know a very common motivation of sex workers is to Engage in prostitution to raise money to a support their drug habit Despite his young age Kyle worked out how his mum was earning the money to pay for her addiction I was with her all the time and I knew the people she hung out with and I Would just see them around neighborhood and what they were doing and I just connected the dots I was worried but it was not nothing I can do she was a grown woman and she was my mother I felt like I need to protect her all the time Kelly Jean Hood was one of many women selling sex in the Detroit area at the time Natasha O'Lena Jack was also working in the same area. I wasn't on the streets for the drugs. I was in the street for money fast money Seeing nice cars clothes mean coats stuff like that and I don't know just I just fell in the trap

I always had jobs and everything I just wanted to do something to get quicker money and I did The nature of the industry means that sex workers often operate in secluded and dark areas Making them extremely vulnerable to predators Sex workers are at a huge risk of serious harm and homicide I mean mainly because of their accessibility Sex workers are easy to get into a place on your own No questions asked Because they want the money they'll they'll go with you to a dark place where no one else is around It is a very risky business. They're living a very high risk life One night in august 1999 Natasha was working a shift on the usual streets Unbeknown to the sex workers in the area. There was a deadly predator on the loose and he was out that night looking for his next victim

I'm with on a mile road. He was in a jeep And he circled one time then He circled again He put up and he asked me for a day and I said yeah, then I got in the truck He was big He was barheaded at the time He was tall he wore glasses Yeah, and you could choose a big guy. He wasn't little I didn't feel uncomfortable with him or anything, you know, I wasn't nervous or nothing Natasha was staying in a motel room close to the red light area so the pair headed there He got inside the room and he just was feeling uneasy He asked to use the bathroom. He used the bathroom. He came out and he said I just don't really feel right. I got to leave And he leaves she goes into her room

A little while later if there's an knock on her door. She opens the door. It's that guy I should never open the door. I should have just said never mind But I didn't think he was going to come back Opening the door to let the client back in turned out to be a decision that Natasha would soon regret He came in then that's when he slammed my door and he was like don't scream don't get Because that's when he had the night some sharp big ones and I was like oh my god You can have all my money whatever my whatever But the attacker wasn't interested in taking Natasha's money. He wanted to take her life He said he was going to Kill me I was like don't kill me. I got kids. He came in with this knife at me My foot neck my eye my toes my fingers It just blood everywhere because he Cutting me then I was on the bed like laying down. He had his body on me and then he grabbed the telephone cord

And wrapped it around my neck like five times and was like token The asphyxiation caused Natasha to pass out When she regained consciousness her attacker was gone I went out to the run out of the motel room and said I need help. I need help I was almost this guy just tried to kill me and then that's when the police came The police interviewed Natasha But her description of the attacker wasn't enough on its own It's very difficult for the police to follow up on any kind of attack like this Um because there's so little to go on about what the who this person is And after that happened I said this I gotta get out of this I had to get Caused and stuff because I got diagnosed with PTSD I Less than four months later on December the 2nd

1999 another woman was targeted 31-year-old sex worker Monica Johnson was driven to work on Michigan Avenue by her boyfriend The couple parked up on a side street just off the notorious red light strip And he stayed in his car while she walked down Michigan Avenue to do some business And that's the last year of a server Monica had been picked up by a man on Michigan Avenue And they driven away from the area to have their sexual encounter And it was just a short little kind of secluded area a short little service drive And they parked along there near and alley and they carried out a transaction But then things took a dark turn when the man Monica was with attacked and strangled her A passerby found her still alive hours later and called for an ambulance And the ambulance came and they picked her up and they took her to the hospital

But by the time they got there she had died With no eyewitnesses or CCTV of the attack on Monica Johnson The police had no leads and very little to progress their investigation Nor had they identified any suspects for the attacks on several other sex workers in Detroit in 1999 Monica's killer was still on the loose in Detroit and he could strike again at any moment So when we get into the beginning of 2000 the turn of the millennium He escalates really quite quickly He cannot give up the compulsion so have sex with sex workers and kill them 39-year-old Wendy Jordan was known to the police as a sex worker in the red light area of Detroit On January the first 2000 Wendy got into the car of a man who wanted to pay for her services

He was on Warren Avenue in Detroit and he picked Wendy up and he took her to this side street that was right next to a funeral home and they parked in the parking lot of this funeral home And they proceeded with their transaction and then he killed her and he drove with her in the jeep It's a few miles away and he pulled over and dumped her over a bridge The into the Roosh River on Ian Arbor trail and then he went home Wendy's body had been left in Dearborn Heights the home of John Eric Armstrong and his family Since leaving the army less than a year earlier and moving to the area Armstrong had changed jobs a number of times On January the second 2000 Armstrong set off for work at a retail store At some point in the morning Armstrong reported feeling sick and told his boss he had to leave work

At which time he drove away apparently on his way home On his way home Armstrong pulls over on the bridge over the Roosh River And says he did that because he felt so well he was going to vomit over the bridge Armstrong looked down at the river Rouge below It's maybe at that point 50 yards wide 6-8 feet deep at the most And it it it runs for miles But there's not a real strong current it was January and it was still frozen And so he looks over the bridge and he sees this woman It was the body of Wendy Jordan who'd been left there the previous day Armstrong flagged down a passerby to call the police I'm on the Roosh River and there's a dead body in the river I think I read he's making it got a court breath off He phones him up and of course The body is discovered it is indeed Wendy Jordan The police arrived at the scene and Armstrong told them that he'd left work early

Because he was feeling ill and it'd been driving home But the police regarded and I quite agree with them as a most peculiar Now he just happened to stop on the bridge and he just happened to look over and he just happened to see a body Goodness me. I mean it almostifies belief doesn't it to be honest Detectives wondered if there was more to the discovery than Armstrong had told them But if he was involved in any way why would he have alerted the police He said he could see a body floating in the river and it was all innocent Why would he do that? This really it seems like it would go against everything that you think that he would do You would think that he would want to get away with it You think he'd want to stay under the radar Based on the unusual nature of Armstrong being in that place at that time The police bring him down for additional questioning to the police station

During which he maintains that he has no connection to this person He didn't know who they are or why they were there And he stuck to his story that he felt sick and left work Out we know him To find it And then when I leave over I had caught something I looked over and there she was It seems unusual that you picked the exact five To do that that would that would mean you to be looking over the identification was So you went out Was it with her? I never saw her You never seen her Maybe sorry Not knowing if it's anything Yeah, knowing anything So maybe something so You want to tell us But I didn't know how she was And she would pull out and you were going to throw up And she would land out And I had to bomb it Yeah Yes, I had to bomb it Armstrong had placed himself directly into the murder inquiry But with no grounds to detain him Police let him leave His account of what happened had raised their suspicions

And they decided to investigate Armstrong further Dearborn Heights had him pegged And they don't get a whole lot of homicides like Detroit does And so they dug into this one And they hung on They followed him around They even asked to search his car which he consented to So they did a forensic examination of his car Which they do tape lifts of They try to see if he has fingerprints or DNA or blood inside the car And one of the officers Happened to notice in the search of the Jeep That he saw what he believed were little Specks or residue That were gold in color That matched the shoes that Wendy was wearing Within the car There was forensic evidence that Wendy Jordan had been in it Which pointed even more conclusively To the fact that he not only known her Had her in the car And thrown her out into the river They got a warrant for his blood and saliva And they did DNA testing And then they did DNA testing from Wendy's body

Conclusive DNA evidence could give the police Enough to link Armstrong to the murder of Wendy Jordan But this wouldn't be a quick process DNA really came under the criminal investigation Seen in the late 80s So it was relatively new They didn't have the technology that we have today To both get DNA and analyze even a good DNA sample It could take months for the DNA results to come back The police would have to wait for those Before they could take any further action Against Armstrong And the prosecutor ordered him released Until such time as they had the results from the DNA lab At this point the police look at Armstrong And he's a former military service member Who got out of the service and got a decent job And settled with a wife and family And so his daily life doesn't seem to indicate, you know, a killer It would be an agonizing wait for investigators Meanwhile John Edyk Armstrong remained free to roam the streets of Detroit

Three months after Wendy Jordan's body was discovered 42-year-old Willemina Drain was on Michigan Avenue She said she was trying to catch a bus home And she was an older lady A vehicle pulled up alongside her And the man driving asked her if she needed a lift And they started to travel along And she instructs him how to take her home which was north of Michigan She lived like off-Joy well and he traveled north But he didn't make the turn, he was supposed to make And he turned somewhere else and he pulled over And he reached for her Well she sprays him with mace and she's able to escape 5 days later on April the 7th, 2000 Sex worker Devon Marcus survived an attack and reported the incident to the police Around the same time another sex worker called Cynthia was attacked

By a man fitting the same description as the other two incidents The left of the dead, but in fact she wasn't dead She survived The attacker was showing no signs of slowing down We've got Willemina, we've got Devon, we've got Cynthia Who were attacked and survived and he was escalating He was definitely escalating I mean once he kicked back in the gear in mid-March He escalated Boom, boom, boom, boom On April the 10th, 2000 The police received a phone call Somebody thought they saw a body On the side of a railroad track as they were passing through I was the commanding officer of the violent crime section of the Detroit Police Department composed of the violent crime task force The fugitive apprehension team and the crime analysis team of the Detroit Police Department Every Monday morning we would have a briefing while we were in that meeting

The head of the homicide division Got a message to call the officer Jerry Cliff passed the news onto his colleague, Del Christian A team leader on the violent crime task force The commander from the Detroit Police Department came through and says I'm, hey they found a body Over by the railroad tracks It's just a track that just goes through it's a single track In that area that's used by one of the passenger rails and also freight And a passenger on the train that looked out the window and saw the body Told the conductor I think I just saw a body on the track and the conductor contacted the police department Not long after this report came through to the police there was more news to follow As they walk around the area they discover a second body And he came back and he said there's two bodies at the scene And they're in different states of decomposition

They walk around further and unfortunately third body And so they realize okay This is very bad These three females were probably left here by the same person With three dead bodies found in the same location Police had to act first to establish what had happened to these women There was one victim she was lying 10 to 15 yards Away from the tracks themselves On grass and gravel but not Concealed at all in in brush or anything like that She had her pants found around her ankles she had her legs had done spread in a Revealing manner. I guess she would say There was what appeared to be tights of some sort wrapped around her neck So you could tell this sheet obviously been Been raped and then strangled as we walked Further would have been north there was a lot of brush And that's where the second and the third bodies were found

The bodies weren't very well hidden So this isn't this isn't somebody who's done what they've done and they're leaving the scene So We have to assume that the killer knows these bodies will be found once them To be found in fact they want to display what they've done to the world The victims all had ligature marks around their necks showing that they'd been strangled Their bodies had also been posed by their killer I don't think that somebody who does that to women Has got great relationships with women Probably struggles in relationships with them and feels an awful lot of resentment towards women I mean the misogyny of it Just it's probably the loudest message that you can get from something like that It's wanting to degrade and humiliate the victims

This was a man taking pleasure in killing and demeaning women Once we realize well we have what I call a dumping ground for the bodies We knew we had to see your murderer We mobilized pretty much everybody that we had didn't take a slong to realize that This guy was was a very prolific killer and that we needed to get him off the street as soon as humanly possible before somebody else died Now you have multiple victims you have future victims that may happen unless you catch this person Because they're not going to stop killing until you catch them Over eight months in 1999 and 2000 A spate of attacks and murders had happened in the Detroit area of Michigan It was clear to police that a serial killer was loose on the streets Attacking and murdering women at an increasing rate Detectives knew they needed to act fast Now this ups everything in the police mine

The investigation immediately takes on a different tenor This is Obviously a serial because you could tell by looking at three bodies that they were in different states of decomposition And it's going to be the only case that we're going to be dealing with for the next few days until we get the bad guy The race to catch the killer was on but with limited evidence and no leads The investigators had little to go on They needed to identify the three women and work out a possible connection between them in the hope that it might lead the police to their killer As we were able to identify the victims We also found out that there had been previous arrests for or encounters with the law concerning prostitution and and one eye One was called Robin Brown Also known as Nicole Young One was Rosemary Felt And the last was called Kelly Hood

For Kelly Hood's son Kyle his worst fears for his mother had come true I heard my grandmother coming up to stairs and at first And she told me before anyway she said meco they found her mom She's not here with us anymore they found her she's she's gone Then I knew then that they she met she with dead She became addicted to drugs the only way that she could support herself after family broke up was to work the street She didn't become addicted because she wanted to She wasn't working the street because she wanted to she was working the street to support her habit she had no control over Police had identified the victims were all sex workers But specialist help would be needed to track down that killer FBI profilers got to work on building a picture of the offender The profile will come in look at all the victims look at the victimology Um what commonalities among these victims among the way they were posed among the way they were killed

Um and maybe even if you can figure out the way they met the person that killed them Looking at the crime the FBI's behavioral science unit Suggested that the crimes have been committed by a white man compared to the young 25 to 30 They told us you're looking at his successes You need to look for a failure And by that they meant somebody got away And if we could find that somebody we would get a physical description maybe a vehicle description And so forth Having identified the women as sex workers police knew they needed to interview women in the red light area in the hope of getting much needed information Well from two or three of the girls that were interviewed um they mentioned that yes a guy tried to kill me He was raving a jeep another one said that um he had a tiger tattoo on his arm

That he was a white male with reddish hair another one said he had a work shirt with the name Eric on it The reports all seem to point to the same offender so we realized that the next thing that he would do is find another victim In the hope of stopping the killer in his tracks Detroit's violent crime task force set up covert surveillance on Michigan Avenue and the surrounding streets Now you have potentially a predator hunting victims through this area and you can't afford to miss that We basically flooded the area with surveillance crews and detectives In plain clothes not business suits, but you know jeans and jackets and uh basically Patrol looking for someone fitting his description They didn't want the killer to realize that the police were onto him any suspicion they were looking for him Could scare the killer off and prevent him from being caught So during this time in this area an actual

Marked uniform patrol car Notice the car with a guy in it that might have matched the description of the profile And so they do a routine car stop so they can identify. I'm getting his driver's license Get his data birth run him through the system to see if anybody's looking for him who is this guy The driver of the vehicle was John Eddie Armstrong Dearborn Heights were waiting for DNA results to establish a link to the merger of Wendy Jordan But Armstrong was unknown to the officers in neighboring Detroit He said he was coming home from work Well his work was in the other direction He lived in Dearborn Heights. He worked over in that direction. He was a long way from home Based on the matching description and Armstrong story not adding up police arrested him for further questioning But before they could get to the station there was a shock in store for the officers The officers that are driving him hear him muttering in the back seat under his breath and he's saying

Kind of in a low voice. Um, I'm just glad it's over. I'm glad you got me He was taken straight down to the fifth floor police headquarters and that's when the interviews began As the officers talk to Armstrong one of them lean forward and put his hand on top of Armstrong's He says I just touched you. He says I left my DNA on your body Simply by laying my hand on yours And that's when they began to explain to him, you know if If you had anything to do with these murders And you touched them in any way we're gonna be able to tell There is absolutely no way that you're going to plead that you didn't touch them if we get this DNA analysis that proves that you did And all of a sudden he just started okay. I did it. I did it Then he started making all of his confessions and one right after another a lot of confessions for several hours

John addict Armstrong confessed to the murders of the three women found at the rail yard Nicole young rosemary felt and Kelly Jean Hood Also during this time and this confession He confessed to the murder of Wendy Jordan off the rouge bridge He knew that he was a suspect in that case So it was time to Confess to that But Armstrong's confessions had only just begun He actually Went through a a list of a number of females that he had murdered while he was on The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in multiple foreign countries anytime he was on Surely if he would go ashore and quite often he would find a prostitute and Go through his routine rape murder and you know

Sometimes he would dispose of the bodies and sometimes he would just leave them You're talking Singapore you're talking, you know Hong Kong and All these exotic locales that his boat traveled to while he was in the Navy At this point FBI officials begin to investigate Armstrong's claims all these other murders internationally because if it is true He's going to be one of the most prolific well-traveled serial killers in history And so they start to look into all of these things um that he's telling them in other jurisdictions Some of his descriptions aren't Definitive enough. So when they look the dates don't match up It could be he's telling the truth. He just didn't give them enough details In March 2001 27-year-old John Eric Armstrong went on trial for the murder of Wendy Jordan at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in downtown Detroit To the surprise of those involved in the investigation and despite his earlier confessions

Armstrong changed his story By the time um he was brought up on charges and things were proceeding through the court system He was maintaining his innocence during the trial DNA and forensic evidence was presented to the jury Fibers from Wendy Jordan's clothes had been found in Armstrong's vehicle And the results of the DNA taken by the Dearborn Heights police had come back The semen found inside Wendy's body was John Eric Armstrong's And so in the case of Wendy Jordan his attorney one of the tactics he tried was that okay You got DNA evidence and it's linked my client to Wendy Jordan So yeah, they had sex at night, but it was consensual and when he left her she was alive. So somebody else killed her That jury didn't believe this excuse on the 3rd of April 2001 after a two-week trial John Eric Armstrong was found guilty of the first degree murder of Wendy Jordan and given a life sentence

On the 18th of June 2001 he was also found guilty of the first degree murder of Kelly Jean Hood and given another life sentence She was a wife a mother A daughter and she was a human being that deserved to live and deserved to come back from her addiction if he didn't take her life I know she what it came around because everybody came overcome an addiction On July the 4th 2001 Armstrong pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of Robin Brown Rosemary felt and Monica Johnson he was sentenced to an additional 31 years Armstrong was never charged with the attack on the Tasha O'Leniac But she is certain he was the man who attacked her in August 1999 He was wrong for doing what he's done in period. I don't even know how someone can just be

At home with their wife and Killin women. How can you just go out and do that Armstrong was taken to the G. Robert Cotton correctional facility in Michigan to serve his sentence I've worked other serial investigations and one of the things that you learn when you're doing that is serial criminals don't just stop When and if they get back into police society, they're gonna start up all over again If he could he would still be doing it. If they let him out He would do it again Armstrong was in my humble opinion The personification of people he had no remorse whatsoever for what he was doing He knew what he was doing was wrong. He knew he was taking lives. He was some manipulator Um, and he would do it until we stopped him The lives that Armstrong took before being caught will always be remembered by their loved ones who bear the pain to this day

My impression of John Eric Armstrong. He's just a monster. He's killed him off the woman. So It was natural to him Only only person that That type of lifestyle that could be natural to us. I'm also playing the simple Armstrong killed five women in Michigan and violently attacked many more He also claims to have murdered women all over the world when he was in the Navy If true John Eric Armstrong is one of the most globally prolific serial killers to ever exist And will forever be known as one of the world's most evil killers

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