March 20, 1962 - Andre Crawford
His crimes unfolded over six years within a single Chicago neighborhood, targeting women whose circumstances left them especially vulnerable to predation and, afterward, to being overlooked. The Englewood area during the 1990s was home to at least one other active serial killer simultaneously, a convergence that complicated investigations and allowed Crawford's crimes to continue longer than they might have otherwise. The confusion between cases extended even to a false confession by another offender claiming one of Crawford's murders as his own.
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Andre Crawford (March 20, 1962 – March 18, 2017) was an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed 11 women between 1993 and 1999 in Chicago. Many of the women were addicted to drugs or worked as sex workers. He also had sex with their corpses. In 2009, Crawford was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
All of the crimes were committed in the Englewood neighborhood, where, at the time, at least one other serial killer, Hubert Geralds, was active. Geralds would later falsely confess to a murder actually committed by Crawford.
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