Ongoing case · 2016
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Over two days in March 2016, Pablo Serrano-Vitorino allegedly shot five men to death in two attacks — four in Kansas City, Kansas, and one in Montgomery County, Missouri — before being arrested following a manhunt.
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Suggest coverage for 2016 Kansas–Missouri murder spreeBetween March 7 and March 8, 2016, five men were killed in two shootings roughly 170 miles apart in Kansas City, Kansas, and unincorporated Montgomery County, Missouri. On the night of March 7, four men — Jeremy Waters, 36; Michael Capps, 41; Clint Harter, 27; and Austin Harter, 29 — were shot to death in Kansas City, Kansas, with an AK-47-style rifle. One victim managed to call police about the shooting before dying.
On the morning of March 8, 49-year-old Randy J. Nordman was shot to death in Montgomery County, Missouri. A truck believed to have been driven by the suspect was later found abandoned about five miles away along Interstate 70, prompting a large-scale manhunt involving two police helicopters and at least one SWAT team.
On March 9, police in New Florence, Missouri, responded to a report of a man pulling a firearm on a civilian at a gas station. At 12:18 a.m., Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40 — who had lived next door to the four Kansas victims — was found armed with a Kalashnikov rifle at a muddy hillside along Interstate 70 and was arrested by Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeants Primm and McGinnis without shots being fired. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in Kansas and jailed in Montgomery County, Missouri, with bail set at $2 million. The day after his arrest, he attempted suicide by cutting himself with a safety razor and was hospitalized in stable condition.
On June 1, 2016, Serrano-Vitorino pleaded not guilty to the Missouri killing of Randy Nordman; prosecutors sought the death penalty in that case. In September 2016, a Montgomery County judge transferred the Missouri case to St. Louis for trial.
Serrano-Vitorino, a Mexican national, had previously served a two-year sentence in a California prison for making a terrorist threat and was deported from the United States in April 2004, but later reentered the country illegally. Despite subsequent legal issues, including a battery conviction in the summer of 2015, he had avoided deportation prior to the 2016 killings.
On April 9, 2019, Serrano-Vitorino was found alone and unresponsive in his cell, having hanged himself. He was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, before the Missouri case could conclude at trial.
Four men are shot to death with an AK-47-style rifle in Kansas City, Kansas.
Randy J. Nordman, 49, is shot to death in unincorporated Montgomery County, Missouri; a suspect vehicle is later found near Interstate 70, triggering a manhunt.
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino is arrested near Interstate 70 in Missouri after an armed confrontation is reported at a gas station in New Florence.
Serrano-Vitorino attempts suicide in custody by cutting himself with a safety razor and is hospitalized.
Serrano-Vitorino pleads not guilty to the Missouri killing; prosecutors announce they will seek the death penalty.
A Montgomery County judge transfers the Missouri case to St. Louis for trial.
Serrano-Vitorino is found unresponsive in his cell after hanging himself and is later pronounced dead at a hospital.
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Killed, age 29, in the March 7, 2016 shooting in Kansas City, Kansas.[3]
Killed, age 27, in the March 7, 2016 shooting in Kansas City, Kansas.[3]
Killed, age 36, in the March 7, 2016 shooting in Kansas City, Kansas.[3]
Killed, age 41, in the March 7, 2016 shooting in Kansas City, Kansas.[3]
Killed, age 49, on March 8, 2016 in Montgomery County, Missouri.[3]
Charged with four counts of first-degree murder in Kansas and charged in the Missouri killing of Randy Nordman, for which prosecutors sought the death penalty; died in custody in 2019 before trial concluded.[3]
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SOLVEDListenKansas City, Kansas · 1990s
Ten-year-old Pamela Butler was kidnapped outside her Kansas City, Kansas home in October 1999, then raped and strangled in Grain Valley, Missouri; Keith Dwayne Nelson pleaded guilty to her murder and was executed by the U.S. federal government in 2020.
Credit: Deborah Bradley, and selfPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenKansas City, Missouri, United States · 2010s
Lisa Renée Irwin disappeared from her family's home in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early morning of October 4, 2011, and has not been found.
SOLVEDListenKansas City, Missouri, United States · 1950s
Six-year-old Bobby Greenlease was kidnapped from his Kansas City school in September 1953 by Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady and murdered before a record $600,000 ransom was even paid to his father. Both kidnappers were captured, convicted, and executed within 81 days of the crime.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenDelta, Fulton County, Ohio · 2016
Sierah Joughin, a 20-year-old Ohio college student, was abducted while bicycling home in Fulton County on July 19, 2016, and found dead three days later. James Dean Worley, a neighbor with a 1990 abduction conviction who was not listed in any offender database, was convicted of her murder in 2018 and sentenced to death, prompting Ohio's Sierah's Law, which created a searchable violent-offender registry.
Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenMonon High Bridge Trail, Delphi Historic Trails, Delphi, Indiana · 2010s
Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, were murdered on February 13, 2017, while hiking the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. The case went unsolved for over five years until Richard M. Allen was arrested in October 2022, convicted in November 2024, and sentenced to 130 years in prison.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenStar City, West Virginia (disappearance site); body found in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania · 2012
Sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese disappeared from her Star City, West Virginia home in July 2012 and was found murdered months later. Two of her high school best friends, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy, pleaded guilty to killing her in a premeditated stabbing attack.
