September 28, 1948 - Thomas Bunday
His military posting gave him both cover and mobility, allowing him to operate in an isolated northern city while remaining largely above suspicion for years. The victims were young women and girls in and around Fairbanks, and the crimes went unsolved until the investigation closed in on him — at which point he died by suicide before facing trial.
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Thomas Richard Bunday (September 28, 1948 – March 15, 1983) was an American serial killer who, from 1979 to 1981, committed a series of murders of young women and girls in the city of Fairbanks, Alaska. At the time of the killings, Bunday was serving at the Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and for a long time avoided suspicion. Despite confessing to the crimes, Bunday was not immediately arrested due to a legal mistake and remained at liberty for another eight days until his apparent suicide in a motorcycling accident, during which, for unknown reasons, he did not make any effort to evade justice.
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