July 2, 1963 - John Joubert
Joubert's crimes unfolded across two states over roughly sixteen months, targeting young boys in circumstances — a jogging trail, a paper route, a walk near home — that had previously seemed unremarkable. What distinguished the case investigatively was the persistence of physical evidence, including bite marks and binding methods, that eventually connected killings separated by geography and time. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force at the time of the Nebraska murders, stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, a detail that shaped how investigators ultimately identified and closed in on him.
From Wikipedia
John Joseph Joubert IV (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing three boys in Maine and Nebraska between 1982 and 1983. He pleaded guilty in Nebraska to the murders of Danny Joe Eberle and Christopher Walden and was sentenced to death. He was later convicted by a jury in Maine of murdering Richard Stetson and received a life sentence. Joubert was executed by electrocution at the Nebraska State Penitentiary on July 17, 1996.
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