May 15, 1950 - Milton Johnson
Over a single summer in Will County, Illinois, Johnson carried out a concentrated sequence of killings that included two law enforcement officers among his victims — a detail that shaped both the urgency of the investigation and the community's experience of the violence. The scale attributed to him, up to fourteen murders across what investigators characterized as a weekend pattern, placed the case among the more severe local crime episodes of the early 1980s.
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Milton Johnson (May 15, 1950 – May 16, 2025), known as The Weekend Murderer, was an American serial killer and mass murderer who was believed to have committed up to 14 murders that occurred in Will County, Illinois during the summer of 1983. Two of the victims were police officers. Johnson had been on parole for aggravated battery, burglary, and rape at the time of the murders, and had been imprisoned from 1970 to 1983.
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