James Thurber wrote about murder at the same time as Pearson.
Serial murder is distinguished from mass murder, in which several victims are murdered at the same time and place.
Two men, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, who were sent down for murder at the same time, still languish in Angola Prison, properly known as the Louisiana State Penitentiary, after 37 years in solitary confinement, the longest period in US history.
Devon and Cornwall Police said yesterday that, at this stage, they were not linking Ms Eborne's disappearance with three murders at about the same time in north Cornwall, but officers from the cases were co-operating.
The three men were allowed to plead guilty to the 1993 murders, and at the same time maintain their innocence, as part of the Alford Plea deal that ultimately set them free.
This year, Chicago has seen 100 more citizens murdered than at the same time last year, and 600 more people shot.
By keeping open the possibility that Myrdon did in fact commit the murder while at the same time presenting him as the victim of a miscarriage of justice, it burdens itself with two very different narratives.
[1] And what I've recognized is that it's difficult to claim you're fighting for justice that you're this good-natured, caring policeman while you're murdering people at the same time.
("He just grinned and looked at me with those big eyes, like he wanted to ravage and murder me at the same time," Dickinson wrote).
Chicago has had 26percentt fewer murders this year than at the same point in 2003, putting it on track for its lowest murder total since 1965.
