Serial killers are often some of the most unsuspecting people. Would the wife of a reverend kill her entire family? Would a Taco Bell manager slaughter his employees? Yes and yes.

What may seem even more shocking about these suspects is that they’re Black.

If you leave it to the media and the abundance of Netflix crime documentaries, you’d think the only serial killers to exist had white skin. Nah, fam. We have our own Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack The Ripper and more in our community. Though seemingly rare, their crimes are just as heinous and claimed hundreds of innocent lives.

Can’t think of any Black serial killers off the top of your head? Check out these 15.

1. Keith Gibson

The 41-year-old was already on probation for manslaughter ahead of his killing spree, per WHYY News. Delaware police said in 2021, he began with killing Leslie Ruiz-Basilio during a robbery at a Metro by T-Mobile store in Elsmere, Del. A month after the killing, he murdered Ronald Wright during a street robbery. The police caught him days later, sticking up a Rite-Aid. However, Gibson’s name popped up in Pennsylvania police systems connecting him to a slew of crimes that occurred in Philadelphia around the time the two victims were killed. He was sentenced to seven life terms, per NBC Philadelphia.

2. Anthony Robinson

The 37-year-old targeted a woman in Mechanicsburg, Pa. named Monica White in 2020. She told PEOPLE they dated for a few weeks until she cut him off after he displayed a series of concerning behavioral patterns. After their breakup, he was blasted in the news after being connected to the alleged murders of six women across the DMV. Police said each of the victims connected with Robinson through a dating app, were killed and then dumped with a shopping cart. He was charged with first-degree murder in two of the murders in 2022, per WTOP News.

3. Collins Jumaisi Khalusha

Who Kenyan National Police considered a “psychopathic serial killer” was arrested after being connected to a series of killings dating back to 2022. They became aware of the killings after discovering a series of remains of women ages 18 through 30 just last week. Police said they were found mutilated, stuffed in sacks and discarded near a dump in Kware. One victim’s phone helped police track down Khalusha at a club where he was arrested. Police say he confessed to luring in the victims, killing them and disposing of their bodies – all 42 of them including his wife who he confessed to making his first kill.

4. Eric Adams

Police said connected Adams to the fatal shooting of five women and the critical injury of a teen girl. In a release, police said a woman in her 40s and another woman in her 50s were found shot to death at an apartment. Amidst the investigation, the police department stated officers received word of a 13-year-old girl who had been transferred to the hospital in critical condition from gunshot wounds. The cops then scoured the apartment building for anymore shooting victims and found the remains of two women and a man – all of whom had been shot to death. However, by the time officers tracked him down in North Vegas, Adams fatally shot himself with his weapon.

5. Roberta Elder

The wife of Reverend William M. Elder was not only responsible for his death but also the death of two of his children whom she poisoned with her cooking. She was charged for their murders but during her trial, it was found that her killings didn’t stop at her household. She was accused of killing up to 13 people including two ex-husbands, three of her own children, a grandson, a cousin and her own mother. She was sentenced to life in prison.

6. Henry Louis Wallace

Wallace, also known as the “Taco Bell Strangler,” raped and murdered 11 Black women in the span of four years in the 90s. Most of the victims were women he knew such as friends and co-workers at the Taco Bell he managed in Charlotte, NC. Ol boy even attended some of their funerals. It wasn’t until Wallace killed two women back-to-back in the same building that the police were onto him. He was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to death.

7. Zebra Killers

In the 70s, a group of young Black men embarked on a killing spree, taking the lives of up to 15 people. Their crimes led to a stop-and-search program to be issued in San Francisco which was widely criticized by Black civil rights leaders as another ploy to harass innocent Black people. However, by 1974, seven Black men were arrested. Three of them got off on bail but the remaining four were convicted on a slew of charges including murder and kidnapping, and sentenced to life in prison.

8. Harrison Graham

One summer in 1987, Graham’s neighbor complained to their landlord about a stench coming from Harrison’s apartment. He was ordered to vacate the premises but refused and boarded up his doors and windows. He then fled from the fire escape and the landlord called the police to break into the apartment. What they found were two dead Black women, blood splatters and a slew of skeletal remains. Bones and body parts of other victims were found in bags.

9. Samuel Little

Little is known as the most prolific serial killer not just because of his crimes but because he confessed to a large number of unsolved murders just two years before he died. Little had been killing since the 50s but was sentenced for good in 2014 for killing three women in the 80s. His DNA was then connected to another string of strangulations. In an interview with a Texas Ranger, he confessed to unsolved killings in over a dozen states bringing the total up to 93 people dead.

10. Debra Brown

Brown and Alton Coleman began their killing spree when they lured two young girls into the woods in 1984. One of the girls was raped and the other was suffocated and stomped. For the next 50 days, the two killed eight more people, raped seven and kidnapped three. The couple was sentenced to death and Coleman was executed in 2002. However, Brown’s death sentence was overturned after the attorney general attributed her actions to a mental disability, per Indy Star.

11. Maury Travis

The infamous “Videotape Killer” was linked to the murders of 12 sex workers in St. Louis by investigators, per Fox 2 Now. He would lure women to his home with money or drugs, then tie them up and kill them. After committing each murder, Travis would discard the bodies along the road and carried on this heinous act for three years.

12. Craig Price

Price grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood during the heat of the civil rights movement. Despite having a relatively happy childhood, Craig started experiencing dark thoughts about murder and by the time he turned 13, he had a hefty criminal record including robbery, stalking and assault. Soon, he killed a white woman from his neighborhood. The case went cold until police found he later killed another white woman and her two daughters. He willingly confessed to the murders and was convicted as a minor. His sentence was supposed to have ended in 2017 but his repeated crimes inside prison extended his stay, per WJAR. He goes down in US history as once of the youngest serial killers.

13. Anthony Sowell

Sowell served 15 years in prison in a rape and was released in the early 2000s. However, in 2009, investigators who suspected him of another rape found the decomposing bodies of two women on the third floor of his house and a grave dug in the basement. Sowell had a total of 10 dead bodies rotting in his home, all of which were vulnerable young women who struggled with drug addiction. Victims who escaped tried to tell the police but some didn’t believe their reports.

Sowell was sentenced to death in 2011 but died in 2021 of an unspecified illness, per Cleveland.com.

14. Wayne Williams

In 1981, Williams was arrested for the murders of two adult men. However, during his trial, prosecutors suggested he was also behind a string of 22 murders of children in Atlanta. Though he maintained his innocence, forensic evidence from his home and vehicle connected him to several victims. He was sentenced to life in prison, though many people still believe he is innocent.

15. Carl Eugene Watts

Dubbed by the press as the “Sunday Morning Slasher,” Watts was assumed to be experiencing delusion after being diagnosed with Meningitis. When he was younger, he used to hunt rabbits and stalk his female classmates, then he committed his first murder at 15 years old. According to AP, he killed for a span of eight years claiming the lives of 14 to 100 women. He was hard to catch because police couldn’t find a pattern in how he killed. Then, in 1981, one of his victims faked being unconscious and escaped from him, alerting the police. In Texas, he was charged as a non-violent felon after pleading guilty to burglary with intention to kill. However, a witness from Michigan came forward with a testimony sending him to life in prison.

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Madison Beer has left a lasting impression on a local nail studio in Singapore. After visiting Edens Atelier Co. (formerly totonailstudio) to get her nails done ahead of her concert on August 22, Beer praised the studio’s work and covered their monthly rental as a token of her appreciation.

Hazel, the 21-year-old owner of Edens Atelier Co., shared that Beer was “friendly and genuine” during her visit. “She didn’t treat me any differently and she spoke to me as though we were friends,” Hazel recalled.

The singer’s unexpected act of kindness came at a crucial time for the nail studio, which had been struggling financially. Hazel revealed that the studio had been facing significant losses and was on the brink of closure.

Beer’s shoutout on her Instagram stories, however, brought a surge of new customers to Edens Atelier Co. This influx of business helped alleviate some of the financial strain.

Touched by Beer’s generosity, Hazel expressed her gratitude and shared the news with her followers on social media. In response, Beer’s team contacted Hazel to offer their assistance. Without Hazel’s knowledge, they transferred the nail studio’s monthly rental directly to their account.

“I’m truly grateful for Madison’s kindness,” Hazel said. “Her gesture has made a huge difference for our business.”

Madison Beer paid for her nail artist’s rent for a month during her tour in Singapore.

— The nail artist reported she no longer needs to file for bankruptcy and can remain in business thanks to Madison’s generosity. pic.twitter.com/VFfeCiLQxD

— Madison Beer Charts (@madisonchart) August 24, 2024

Edens Atelier Co. is located at 124 Lor 23 Geylang, Singapore 388405 Arcsphere #03-02. Appointments can be made via their website.

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MADISON, Fla. (AP) — Tens of thousands of students have left Florida’s public schools in recent years amid an explosive expansion in school choice. Now, districts large and small are grappling with the harsh financial realities of empty seats in aging classrooms.

As some districts are being forced to close schools, administrators are facing another long-avoided reckoning: how to integrate students in buildings that remain racially and economically segregated.

In the Florida panhandle, one tiny district plans to consolidate its last three stand-alone elementary schools into one campus because there aren’t enough students to cover the costs of keeping the doors open. But the Madison County School District’s decision to do so has exposed tensions around race in a community where for years some white families have resisted integrating public schools.

“It’s the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about,” county school board member Katie Knight told The Associated Press.

“At the end of the day, these kids are going to have to interact with all people of races, skill sets, personality types,” she said. “Trying to segregate our children is not an option.”

Segregation, integration, consolidation

Shirley Joseph is a product of Florida’s segregated schools — and was a Black student in some of the first integrated classes at one of the local high schools.

Now, as superintendent of Madison County’s public schools, it’s her job to close some of them.

There are fewer than 1,700 students left in traditional public schools in this rural county in the state’s old cotton belt. Many families have moved away to places with more jobs and housing — or chosen other kinds of schooling. For those who remain, the schools provide more than just an education: All of Madison’s students qualify for free meals because of the county’s poverty rate. One in three children there live in poverty.

“If we are to survive as a district,” Joseph said, “we have got to make the hard decisions.”

Earlier this month, Joseph walked the halls of the elementary campuses on their last first day of school, pointing out classroom after empty classroom.

One of the schools slated to close is Greenville Elementary, which has fewer than 100 students — roughly a third of the school’s capacity. When Florida schools were officially segregated, Joseph attended classes there at what was then called the Greenville Training School.

Generations of Black residents cherish the school’s legacy in the tiny town of Greenville where music legend Ray Charles grew up.

More than 50 years after desegregation, the school remains 85% Black. Class sizes have dwindled as the school struggles to hold onto certified teachers. State ratings of the school have fluctuated, but Greenville has been rated an “F” five times over the past decade for low rates of student achievement.

Fourth grade teacher Mannika Hopkins had just eight students in her class when an Associated Press reporter visited recently.

“I hate it that it’s closing. This is my heart. This is our community. … This is us,” Hopkins said. “Who wants to move into a community that doesn’t have a school that’s close by?”

Starting next year, Greenville will consolidate with Lee and Pinetta Elementary Schools, which are predominantly white. All those students will be sent to Madison County Central School, a majority Black K-8 campus that’s a 15- to 20-minute drive from the outlying elementary schools. The district hasn’t announced yet which teachers will move to the consolidated school and which ones will be out of jobs.

School choice fuels declining enrollment

Madison County sits an hour east of Tallahassee in a region once dominated by cotton and tobacco plantations. A statue of a Confederate soldier still towers over the central park in the county seat of Madison.

The area has been losing students for years as birth rates decline, businesses close and families move to places with more jobs other than in the timber industry, trucking and working at the nearby state prison.

Other families have stayed but simply left the public schools.

For decades, Aucilla Christian Academy in neighboring Jefferson County has attracted some of the area’s wealthiest families. Established in 1970, Aucilla opened as a wave of new private schools sprang up across the South, founded by white people who opposed integration. Researchers call these “segregation academies,” and many of them remain mostly white. As of the 2021-2022 school year, Aucilla’s student body was more than 90% white, according to federal data.

Madison families have pushed back against consolidation in the past: In 1998, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights stepped in when residents resisted plans to send students from predominantly white Lee Elementary to Central, the school that will soon receive the county’s elementary schoolers. After the department got involved, the district went ahead with the plan.

Today, it’s arguably never been easier to leave Florida’s public schools. The chaos of COVID-19 pushed many families to try homeschooling or microschooling — tiny, private learning environments that often serve multiple families. And now, under Gov. Ron DeSantis, all Florida students can qualify for taxpayer-funded vouchers worth about $8,000 a year to cover private school tuition, regardless of household income.

For families opposed to Madison’s consolidation, Aucilla is a possible destination, along with Madison Creative Arts Academy, a public charter school.

Nine-year-old Noel Brouillette’s parents hope she gets a seat at the Academy. It’s not about race, mom Nicole Brouillette said, but rather the majority Black Central school’s reputation of having more fights. If Noel doesn’t get into the charter school, the family might leave Madison County entirely.

The fourth grader says she’s heartbroken she can’t stay at Pinetta Elementary.

“If I never went here, I would have never met my best friend,” she said.

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Other parents are considering homeschooling, like Alexis Molden. She said her sons love going to Lee Elementary, but she’s heard rumors about Central — that multiracial kids like hers get bullied there.

“I’ve heard that … it’s pretty much segregated,” Molden said. “You’ve got the white kids, the Black kids and then the mixed kids pretty much have to decide which side they’re going to.”

Katie Knight, the school board member, said that if she had a dollar for every rumor she heard about Central, she could retire.

Still, the county has a history.

When now-Superintendent Shirley Joseph taught at Madison County High School a couple of decades ago, she said her students would sort themselves when they filed into her classroom — white kids on one side, Black kids on the other — until she’d make them change seats.

“Somehow we’ve got to find out: How do we mesh the communities?” Joseph said.

There’s always talk about leaving the public schools, Joseph said, but she believes most families will stay. In the meantime, she’s focused on delivering the best education possible for the students she has — the ones who can’t leave.

From the moment streaming became the primary way people consume music, there’s been questions about how artists are compensated. This is an especially sticky issue for veteran artists who’ve just made their catalogs available.

During a recent interview with Wale Ogunleye, Head of Sports & Entertainment at UBS—which is available on Hot 97’s YouTube channel—Clifford “Method Man” Smith explained why he’s not happy about the way streaming royalties work. The WuTang Clan member feels that it took the industry “too long to adjust to streaming.”

And for this rap legend, streaming definitely hasn’t delivered new revenue.

Meth went on to explain why he’s a little wary of AI, singling out Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle,” featuring AI versions of Tupac and Snoop Dogg.

“I’m still trying to figure out AI but I have seen some things that have made me raise an eyebrow — the Drake diss with the Tupac and Snoop, the fake Kendrick. It’s a lot to it,” the “Power Book II: Ghost” star said.

The actor/rapper explained that he feels things are particularly rough for artists in his generation, as he’s still waiting to get money from streaming.

“I think it goes way deeper than that, especially when it comes to IPs [intellectual property] for artists that came from my era,” he said. “Because honestly I’ve never gotten a streaming check for any of my music.”

Though Smith has questions about these new creative avenues, he is interested to see if someone can make them work artistically, without it coming off cringey.

“Like I said, I’m still trying to figure it all out because there may be someone who can make a perfect mix of the two where — I’m not saying to accept it, but at least make art out of it, and that’s what I’m always for, the creative part,” he said.

It is unconscionable that someone as influential as Method Man is not being properly compensated for his artistic brilliance. While we’re definitely not smart enough to unravel all the legalities between streaming platforms, record companies and artists, if you’re the one creating the art, you shouldn’t be getting the smallest piece of the pie, or no pie at all.

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Brittany Mahomes, wife of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, has found herself at the center of a social media storm after she was spotted ‘liking’ one of former President Donald Trump’s posts on Instagram. The action quickly ignited backlash from left-leaning followers, who criticized her for seemingly supporting Trump’s platform.

In response to the growing controversy, Brittany Mahomes released a statement on social media defending her actions and addressing the criticism. She implied that those who are attacking her may have unresolved personal issues from their past.

“To be a hater as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted issues you refuse to heal from childhood,” she wrote. “There’s no reason your brain is fully developed and you hate to see others doing well.”

Her comments have sparked further debate, with some applauding her for standing her ground, while others view her statement as an oversimplification of political differences. Brittany has not elaborated further on her stance, and it remains unclear whether she intended to express broader support for Trump’s policies or if the ‘like’ was more incidental.

As the wife of one of the NFL’s most prominent players, Brittany Mahomes has often been in the public eye, and this latest incident has only increased the scrutiny surrounding her social media activity. Patrick Mahomes has not publicly commented on the situation.

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A well-known Philadelphia rapper, YBC Dul, was fatally shot on Friday afternoon in West Philadelphia. The incident occurred around 3:34 PM on the 5600 block of North 6th Street.

According to reports, Dul was riding his bike when he was ambushed by three masked individuals. He was shot multiple times and was transported to Albert Einstein Medical Center by a private vehicle. Despite medical efforts, he was pronounced dead at 3:55 PM.

The shooting scene is currently being investigated by Philadelphia police. No arrests have been made at this time, and no weapons have been recovered.

YBC Dul had recently gained notoriety for digging up the grave of a rival. He had also participated in a YouTube video with Buckingham_Show just hours before his death, where he discussed his potential for violence and the animosity he faced.

The circumstances surrounding the shooting are still under investigation.

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