Serial Killers in 2025: Active Threats, Unsolved Cases, and What Law Enforcement Knows

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**Active Serial Killers in 2025: FBI Estimates, Real Cases & What Law Enforcement Doesn't Know**

Join Detective Emily "Em" Carter as she explores the chilling reality of serial killers still operating in 2025. With FBI estimates suggesting 25-50 active serial killers roaming the United States alone, discover the cases authorities are investigating, the patterns they're tracking, and why many predators remain unknown.

This episode covers:

- **Current Investigations**: The Jacksonville, Florida cases and why three deaths in three days sparked serial killer fears
- **Active Serial Killer Cases**: The Kenya disappearances, Highway of Tears murders in Canada, and Interstate 45 Texas killings
- **Emerging Patterns**: Highway Serial Killing Initiative, truck stop predators, and the Highway Serial Killer Initiative database
- **Unsolved Mysteries**: The West Mesa Bone Collector, Chicago Strangler task force, and the Danilovsky Maniac
- **Global Threats**: Serial killers in Mexico, Russia, Colombia, and beyond—including Pedro Lopez, history's most prolific killer
- **Criminal Psychology**: Signature killings, victim profiling, copycat crimes, and what makes modern serial killers difficult to catch

Learn why vulnerable populations—Indigenous women, sex workers, and the homeless—are often targeted, how law enforcement manages investigations amid public panic, and what 25 years of criminology research reveals about predators operating in the shadows.

**Perfect for true crime enthusiasts, law enforcement professionals, and criminology students.**

This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
No serial killers still prowling in twenty twenty five. What
we know and what we don't? Hey, listeners, Detective Emily M.
Carter here, and wow, do I have some stories for
you today. You know, when I was sitting in my
criminology classes back at the Academy, my professor, doctor Richardson
used to say that the most terrifying criminals aren't always
the ones making headlines. They're the ones operating in the shadows,

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the ones we don't know about yet. Well, buckle up,
because today we're diving deep into some cases that are
happening right now in twenty twenty five. And let me
tell you, the landscape of serial crime in this country
is absolutely chilly. First, lem me hit you with the
statistic that kept me up at night when I first
heard it. The FBI estimates that there are anywhere from

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twenty five to fifty act as serial killers roaming the
United States right now. Twenty five to fifty. And here's
the kicker that really got me as a rookie just
starting out on the force. We only know about a
few of them. My training officer told me that I
remember thinking about all those case files i'd studied, all
those textbook cases we'd analyzed, and realizing that the ones

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we solve are probably just the tip of the iceberg.
It's like that moment when you're reading a crime scene
and you realize there's so much more happening outside the
frame of what you can actually see. Let me start
with something that just happened, something recent enough that the
ink on the reports is probably still wet. In Jacksonville, Florida,
on November nineteenth of this year, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

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had the issue as statement directly addressing rumors spreading on
social media about a serial killer being on the loose. Now,
this is fascinating to me because it shows how quickly
fear can spread in the Internet age, and also how
law enforcement has to constantly manage public perception while conducting investigations.

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What happened was that three women were found dead in
separate incidents over the course of just three e day.
Let me break this down for you, because the details matter,
and details are everything in this job. On Saturday, November fifteenth,
a twenty four year old mother of two named Cherish
Nunley was found fatally shot in a parking lot on

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Sunbeam Road. She was discovered unresponsive in the lot that
served several businesses in the area. The fact that she
was a mother, that she was young, that immediately made
this case hit different from me personally. I've only been
on the force for a few months and I'm still
getting used to the reality that these statistics we learn
about are real people with real families. Then the very

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next day, on Sunday, November sixteenth, a fisherman discovered the
body of Tiffity Felton beneath a bridge on Blanding Boulevard.
And on Monday, November seventeenth, another woman was found unresponsive
in a rooming house in Jacksonville's Phoenix neighborhood. Now here's
where it gets interesting from a criminal investigation standpoint three

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bodies and three days. That's the kind of pattern that
immediately triggers alarm bells in the mind of anyone who
studies this stuff, including years truly. So naturally, people on
social media started connecting the dots, drawing comparisons to infamous
serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. And
I get it, I really do. When you see that

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kind of pattern, your brain is wired to look for connections.
That's actually something they taught us at the academy about
cognitive bias and pattern recognition. But here's what the Jacksonville
Sheriff's Office said on the record. The cases are unrelated.
They confirmed that these claims of a serial killer on
the loose were false. The agency released a statement saying

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JSO is aware of rumors circulating about a serial killer
on the loose in Jacksonville. We can confirm these claims
are false. Now what's interesting to me, as someone fresh
out of the academy is how law enforcement has to
balance transparency with ongoing investigations. The department stated that detectives

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are investigating each case individually, following the facts and evidence.
No connections have been found between the victims, but I
can see how that might be hard for people to accept,
especially when you've got three tragic deaths happening so close together.
Some people online were pretty skeptical, with one user posting

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three bodies in three days. Forgive me, but you can't
credibly say it's not a serial killer if you haven't
solved it yet. Another person commented that there probably is
a serial killer or two out there, but we just
don't know about it yet, And honestly, they might not
be entirely wrong, but not necessarily about Jacksonville. Let me

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tell you about some cases that are actually confirmed, and
these are the ones that keep me reading pace files
late into the night when I should probably be sleeping.
There's this case that's been ongoing and absolutely horrifying in Kenya.
Between twenty twenty two and mid July of twenty twenty four,
forty two women disappeared from areas surrounding n A Robi,

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the Kenyan capital. Forty two women just vanished. On July twelfth,
twenty twenty four, residents of the Macor Kwan and Junga
area came across six bodies in an abandoned quarry that
was being used as a darbage dough. An investigation began immediately,
and three days after the discovery, authorities arrested Collins Jungyi Halichia.

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When police questioned him, Halichia confessed to coercing, murdering, and
dumping the remains of all forty two women. Within days,
a total of nine bodies, all women between the ages
of eighteen and thirty, were found in that quarry. But
here's where this case takes a turn that absolutely boggles

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my mind. As a law enforcement professional. Even though Haluchia
confessed to these crimes, he escaped from the police station
where he'd been in custody for about a month in
August of twenty twenty four. He simply disappeared. He's still
at large. The article I read actually noted that this
case highlighted the deep mistrust that the King in public

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has in its security services. When I read that, I
thought a