Possible Serial Killer in Pittsburgh

The below is taken from the website: http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/killersatlarge.html

Possible Pittsburg Serial Killer" (12+) Pittsburg police announced there could be a serial killer in their city who has claimed the life of more than a dozen prostitutes since the late 1980s. However, detectives can't establish a connection between the cases except the victims' hard lives as drug addicts who sold themselves for a fix and ended up dead in remote areas outside the city, some in suburban communities and others in outlying counties.

Some victims, such as Leah Hall, 32, of Oakland, who was found dead in Carnegie in 1997, were strangled. But the coroner's office hasn't been able to establish a cause for others, such as that of Cherida Warmley, 43, of Lawrenceville, whose skeleton was found in North Versailles last year, or Faye Jackson, 24, of Garfield, whose dismembered remains were found in a Monroeville creek in 1994.

Talk of a link began in October, 1999, with the discovery of the skeletal remains of Angelique Morgan, 27, in an abandoned Shadyside house. In the winter of 1997, after the bodies of Hall and Dorothy Siemers, 29, turned up in the suburbs, county police said they suspected the deaths could be connected.

Three years ago, Torbin and Pittsburgh police Cmdr. Ron Freeman even discussed going to the media to drum up information about some of the deaths, although they never did.

While some city and county detectives privately doubt there is a link, others point to the improbability that so many similar deaths -- perhaps as many as 18 -- would be the work of different people.

At least five Allegheny County deaths fit the category of prostitutes from the city found dead in the suburbs: Hall, Siemers, Warmley, Jackson and Jessica Freeman, 15, whose beaten body was discovered along railroad tracks in Bethel Park in 1992. Two recent deaths also might be part of the police investigation.

On June 28, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found in a vacant house in Wilkinsburg. She has yet to be identified, but an autopsy showed she was strangled. On Oct. 6, Morgan's skeletal remains were discovered. The cause of her death hasn't been determined, but police suspect she was slain, because she was found under a carpet and a mattress with her sweat shirt wrapped around her head. Police said she was a prostitute and drug addict.

"We have developed suspects in most of these cases, but the evidence does not overlap," said Sgt. Lee Torbin, a 27-year homicide squad veteran. "There is no common denominator."

Shot In The Back While Riding Motorcycle 5-14-2010

What Is The World Coming To? In The Most Liveable City in the United States, a 30 year old man was shot in the back while riding his motorcycle. The incident occurred in Homewood near Tokay Street at about 1:30 a.m. on May 14, 2010. What type a person would shoot a man 'in the back' while riding his motorcyle? With these type of senseless crimes, how can Pittsburgh continue to rate Number 1? For more information go to the link:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/23553617/detail.html

Nyia Page - Senseless Crime on a Child

What is the world coming to? A father is supposed to protect his child, not harm them and then kill them. What demon possessed this child killer? What lead up to the thoughts in his head to enable him to engage in this senseless crime? It is a good thing that an angel was amoung the turmoil. Someone that could testify about what really occurred that night. Someone else that would have to suffer the pain 'of a lifetime' the hands of a crazed child killer.

"The child's answers came one or two words at a time, but his story was riveting. He said Page woke him up, lay down beside his bed and sexually abused him, and when he told Page to stop, the man grabbed his mouth to silence him and ran from the room.

Nyia followed her father out of the bedroom, according to the boy, who said that was the last time he saw her. Hours later, she was found dead."
THEN -
William Page said, "I was so just mad she was tearing up them Pampers, man, and I kicked her, you know, in, you know, in her private, and it started bleeding," Page said on the CD, which was played Monday for the jury in his homicide trial at the Allegheny County Courthouse."

I cannot understand why a father would abuse his young biological daughter and then after she keeps taking her diaper off (probably due to intense pain), take her out into the cold freezing weather and leave her in the woods to die? Why??? What possessed this grown man to become such a sick individual to do this to a helpless baby???

One of the latest most talked about crimes in the news has to do with the father that murdered his 23 month old daughter after sexually abusing her. The article from KDKA notes that, "William Page was accused of leaving young Nyia Page in a wooded area of Rankin near railroad tracks, where she froze to death in February 2007. On Monday, Page was convicted of homicide in the first degree, kidnapping, aggravated indecent assault and giving false reports to law enforcement."

See the link
http://kdka.com/local/Rankin.baby.death.2.1491806.html
and also WTAE Channel 4 Action News link
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/22888196/detail.html

Check out the taped confession of William Page here:
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/22841988/detail.html