The Serial Killer Had a Penchant for Necrophilia

July 31, 2009

Cases involving necrophilia, which is right up there with cannibalism as far as being taboo is concerned, pop up every now and then in various parts of the world, more often than not in conjunction with murder cases.  Recently such a case occurred in an area near the southern point of India, and involved a suspected 36-year-old serial killer known as V. Kuppusamy, also known as "Killer Kuppusamy" as dubbed by police detectives who investigated this unusual and bizarre case.

Killer Kuppusamy, it turned out, allegedly held an unnatural sexual attraction for the bodies of his dead female victims who, police allege, engaged in sexual intercourse with following their deaths by strangulation.  Police also believe that he raped his victims prior to killing them.  Police claim that he used a rope or his bare hands to strangle his victims, most of whom were young women.  One of his purported victims, however, was 70-years-old.  Kuppusamy's reign of terror came to a halt on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, when Tamil Nadu police officers arrested him in Pudukottai after his latest intended prey, who would have been his ninth known victim, escaped unhurt from his deadly clutches just outside the village of Dindigul and notified the local police.

According to investigators, Kuppusamy was identified because he had left behind a green moped when he fled the area of Dindigul—police, fortunately, had been able to trace it to him.  Kuppusamy, described as a loner, has two wives, but no children.  According to Inspector General of Police Karan Singha, Kuppasamy's modus operandi typically involved him choosing as his victims women who were working alone in fields, gathering wood, or grazing livestock.  His first victim had been an 18-year-old woman, killed on April 9, 2009, after being overpowered by her assailant while grazing cattle.

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Otty Sanchez Says the Devil Made Her Do It

July 30, 2009

When San Antonio, Texas police officers were called to the modest single-story home in the 300 block of Wayside Drive shortly before 5 a.m. on Sunday, July 26, 2009, where Otty Sanchez, 33, lived with her sister and her sister's two young children, her mother—who lived in another building on the property—and her own newborn son, Scott "Scotty" Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, not yet four weeks old, none of them were prepared for what they soon discovered—no police officer could ever be prepared for such an atrocity as that which was found early that morning.  In fact, the crime scene was described as being so gruesome that police officers scarcely spoke to one another as they examined it.

"At this particular scene you could have heard a pin drop," San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.  "No one was speaking.  It was about as somber as it could have been."

When police officers walked into the unassuming home, they found Otty Sanchez sitting on the sofa.  She was bloody, and had what appeared to be a number of self-inflicted stab wounds to her chest and abdomen, and it looked like her throat had been slashed somewhat.

"I killed my baby!  I killed my baby! I want to die," she screamed repeatedly as she sat there.  She eventually told officers that the devil had made her do it.

When officers found the infant, he was lying in a pool of blood on a bed next to a steak knife.  The shock and revulsion those officers experienced to describe their reaction to what they had found would be an understatement—despite their silence that morning.  Baby Scotty had been stabbed to death, apparently with the steak knife.  They also found a machete and a sword that they at first believed may have been used in the attack, but quickly ruled them out.  The baby boy had also been decapitated, and he had been skinned and gutted, and his face had been torn away, according to the police.  Police believed that the steak knife had been used to not only repeatedly stab the baby, but to also cut off his head and further mutilate him.  The cops also believed that Otty had used the steak knife to inflict her own wounds after the child had been killed.

Although McManus had described the crime scene as "too heinous" to fully discuss, he did say that Otty had eaten part of the baby's brain, and had bitten off three of his toes.  According to Joe Rios, a San Antonio police spokesperson, Otty had told officers what she had done, and that she had been "hearing voices" before the devil told her to kill Scotty, who she had given birth to on June 30, 2009.

"She mentioned that someone or something told her to do it—she was hearing voices," Rios said. 

"So that leads us to believe that she was experiencing some type of mental crisis.  The baby had obviously been decapitated."

Otty Sanchez, according to police information released to news media outlets, had been having relationship problems between herself and the baby's father, Scott W. Buchholz, and the couple had separated on Monday, July 20, 2009.  The couple reportedly had been making progress toward getting back together prior to the tragedy. Otty had apparently shown up to see Buchholz at the home of his relatives, where he had been staying since their separation, on Saturday, July 25, 2009, the day before the child was slain, but had become upset when Buchholz had asked her for a copy of Scotty's birth certificate and Social Security card.

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Gary Michael Hilton and Missing Miami Woman

July 27, 2009

The latest information on the so-called Appalachian Trail Serial Killer, also known as Gary Michael Hilton, indicates that he may be linked to a missing Miami woman, 26-year-old Rossana Miliani, who disappeared four years ago after purchasing a sleeping bag at a Bryson City, North Carolina general store.  At that time she was seen in the company of an older man with graying hair who, police say, may have been Hilton.  Miliani's father, a Miami resident, said that a new sketch of the man seen with his daughter that is now being circulated looks like Hilton.  Rossana's father said that he has not seen or heard from his daughter since December 7, 2005.

The man in Rossana's company told a clerk at the general store where they purchased the sleeping bag that he was a traveling preacher who visited campsites in and around the Appalachian Trail to spread the word of God.  The man also apparently said that he had taken a bus from the South Florida area, where Miami is located, and traveled to North Carolina.  When the clerk described the man, he said that he seemed nervous, and appeared to have been in his late 50s or early 60s.  He said that it looked like the man may have been wearing a hairpiece.  The store clerk also told a private investigator, Steve Siske, that the woman accompanying him also appeared nervous.

There is no hard evidence linking Hilton to Miliani, only the newly-released sketch and notable similarities to other cases that Hilton is believed to have been involved in.  Rossana's father wants the police in North Carolina to thoroughly examine the possible link between Hilton and his daughter, but so far it appears that little has been accomplished.

"The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is still considering a possible connection between Hilton and Miliani's disappearance, but that is not the sole focus of our investigation," said a spokeswoman for the police agency.

Although Miliani was known to have bipolar disorder, her father does not believe that she ran away or committed suicide, and is looking for answers to his daughter's mysterious disappearance.

"She called me most every night, to check in," her father said of his daughter's extensive travels.

He said that she had called him on December 6, 2005 from a Ramada Inn in North Carolina, located approximately five miles from Bryson City.  Like the man described by the general store clerk she, too, had taken the bus from South Florida to North Carolina earlier that same day.  When she spoke to her father that day, she said that she wanted to go hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

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