http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082605949.html
This article from the Washington Post, is about a native Israeli man, Elias Abuelazam, who is suspected of injuring 18 men, five of those being fatal injuries. The article focuses more on the case of the suspect, discussing trial places/dates, the details of the case, and the sentences that many police/court officials feel appropriate for this suspected serial killer. Facts including in this article are that Elias is a 33 year old Israeli native male who is suspected of killing men in Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia. He was flown from Georgia to Michigan to face charges of assaulting a man in that state. However, police are still trying to link cases in Virginia to the other known cases in Michigan. The only statement made about Abuelazam in relation to serial killers is that he was called an "evil" individual. Authorities most mentioned were the Leesburg police department. Abuelazam's victims ranged in age from teenagers to the elderly. Authorities believe that many of these attacks were racially based; 16 victims were African American, 1 hispanic man, and 1 white man. Finally, the locations all related to where Elias was living at the time. In Leesburg, he worked in a children's center (crazy!).
That scares me that he worked in a children's center. Although, they can't prove him to be a serial killer yet, they're just going on the fact that he was called an "evil" individual? That doesn't really sound like plausible cause to me...hopefully they'll figure it out soon.
ReplyDeleteThat's so scary that he worked in a children's center! You really don't know who anybody is, especially other employees. It's weird that they can't pin anything on him, even though he was suspected of killing men in so many different states. I hope they can charge him with murder if he actually is the killer before he strikes again
ReplyDeleteA lot of students used this same story but they didn't get the follow-up where the man was arrested.
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