Melanie Thorpe Cathy as Cathy. Melissa Armstrong Lynda as Lynda. Margaux Harris Stacey as Stacey. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. William Phelps is an American crime author and researcher. Starting from January , he hosted and produced the dramatized Discovery Network series Dark Minds, featuring unsolved serial murders. Together with criminal profiler John Kelly and insider information of a serial killer under the alias "Raven" they try to gain more insight into these unsolved murders.
Each episode is ends with asking the public for help, putting these murders back under the audiences attention to try and solve them. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia All entries contain spoilers. User reviews 10 Review. Top review. Ego fest. This is the show that introduced me to crime writer M. As time went by, the fore mentioned commentators began to seem as if they believed themselves true experts in all things criminal.
Images of the atrocity popped into his mind at the most inopportune times. In terms of what made Jesperson kill, Phelps categorizes him as a born psychopath who was abused as a boy, weathered a difficult marriage he fathered two children before being dumped by his wife for spending time with prostitutes , became involved with unsavory people and lashed out the only way he knew how. As the boy created structures with building blocks, Jesperson would knock them down.
Then [Jesperson] said he did not know why he felt that way. Then, an instant later, he turned it off and returned to being the psychopath that he is. Contact The Author Name required. Email required. Comment required. His dream was to work as an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but he suffered an injury during training and his dream was destroyed. He then began to work as an interstate truck driver and took advantage of his job to start serial killing.
Jesperson's first known victim was a woman named Taunja Bennett. He invited her to his house, and after having an argument, she was strangled to death with a rope and her body was later disposed of. Her body was found days later but the case went unsolved until a woman named Laverne Pavliac claimed that she and her boyfriend, John Sosnovske, were responsible for her death.
They were arrested, and as result, Jesperson wrote a confession on the bathroom wall of a truck stop, signed it with a happy face, and subsequently wrote letters to media outlets and police departments, all signed with a happy face. Two-and-a-half years later, he killed his next victim, a woman he claimed to be named Claudia; she was raped by him and then strangled.
A month later, the body of possible prostitute Cynthia Lyn Rose was found. Jesperson's next victim was another possible prostitute, Laurie Ann Pentland; her body was found in November of that year.
More than six months later, he murdered another woman, whose name was claimed by him to be Carla or Cindy. A year later, Jesperson murdered a woman he claimed to be named Susanne.
Another year later, he agreed to give a young woman named Angela Surbrize a lift from Spokane, Washington, to Indiana. During the trip, they got into a fight, and in response, Jesperson raped and strangled her before strapping her her to the undercarriage of his truck and dragged her face-down. Her body was found only after Jesperson was arrested. Two months later, Jesperson murdered his girlfriend, Julie Ann Winningham, because he felt that she was interested in his money.
Unfortunately for him, he quickly became the prime suspect in her death and was arrested on March 30, , for her murder.
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