The Tampa Bay Serial Killer
James Randall’s pet pug had an unusual addiction which helped to convict him.
What differentiated James Randall from a lot of other serial killers was that he left none of his DNA behind at any of the crime scenes — which is no easy feat. In that respect, he could be compared to the fictional serial killer Dexter but Randall did not target bad people. He targetted young white women who had never harmed anyone.
During the 1990s, Florida policemen began finding the bodies of naked women around Tampa Bay and — suspecting that one person was behind all the attacks — knew it was their duty to find the culprit as soon as possible.
The Victims
On October 20, 1995, the body of Wendy Evans was found by a pizza delivery man on Myrtle Lane in Clearwater. Evans was a suspected prostitute and the cause of her death was strangulation. She was killed somewhere else before all her clothes and jewelry were removed and her body was dumped.
There had been a thunderstorm the night before which washed away a lot of the forensic evidence at the scene. However, detectives were able to utilize a Luma-Lite — a machine that uses intense broad-band light to make man-made objects and hairs luminesce— to find traces of dog fur and pink carpet fibers. Further…
