Police aren’t closing the door on the Baseline Killer spree despite the arrest Wednesday night of a 42-year-old parolee. Mark Goudeau of Phoenix is behind bars, but Phoenix authorities won’t say if they’ve captured the serial killer believed responsible for eight homicides and 23 crimes overall in Phoenix and Tempe.

Police aren’t closing the door on the Baseline Killer spree despite the arrest Wednesday night of a 42-year-old parolee.

A task force searching for the Baseline Rapist has linked him to a Tempe slaying in which a man is already behind bars.

A task force searching for the Baseline Rapist has linked him to a Tempe slaying in which a man is already behind bars.

PHOENIX - Tony Long stared across the courtroom Monday, muttering as he tried to get the attention of two men accused of shooting him and 15 others in a series of random attacks this summer.

The allegations against Minnesota native Samuel John Dieteman and Dale S. Hausner paint a picture of two men on a crime spree that sets them apart from most serial killers, say those who study such crimes.

Two court rulings this month frustrated defense attorneys representing the Valley’s three suspected serial killers.

An Arizona jury on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing nine people during a spree that terrorized the Phoenix area, rejecting the man's pleas for mercy and denials of guilt and agreeing with prosecutors that the killings were especially cruel.

Phoenix police are investigating another series of random shootings but aren’t yet declaring them the work of a third serial criminal. The most recent victims were hit early Saturday morning about 20 minutes apart. No one has been killed, but some of the victims have suffered serious injuries.

TOKYO - A Japanese man went on a midday stabbing rampage in Tokyo's premier electronics and video game district Sunday, killing three people and knifing 14 others, a police spokesman said.

GAFFNEY, S.C. — South Carolina law enforcement officials have identified the serial killing suspect slain in North Carolina as a felon with a lengthy record who was paroled in April after seven years in prison. They say Patrick Tracy Burris was the man responsible for shooting five people to death in a killing spree that has terrorized residents in and around Gaffney.

Prosecutors have finished closing arguments in the penalty phase for a man convicted in the Phoenix area's Serial Shootings case.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday to hold “Baseline Killer” suspect Mark Goudeau in jail without bail until his trial next month on charges stemming from the Sept. 20, 2005, rapes of two sisters.

A grand jury indicted “Baseline Killer” suspect Mark Goudeau on 74 felony counts Tuesday — 16 of which related to attacks on four children.

Phoenix police on Friday attributed two more deaths to the Baseline Killer. Sgt. Andy Hill, police spokesman, said detectives have been going through previous homicide cases to look for links to a brazen criminal whose spree since August has included homicides, rapes and robberies.

Investigators have definite proof that the Baseline Killer worked alone in a December slaying in which there were initial reports of two assailants, a Phoenix police spokesman said Thursday.

WICHITA, Kan. - The Kansas attorney general Tuesday sued two psychologists hired by the state to interview BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, accusing them of profiting from a videotape of a session with him.

The sun sets on Friday night and the streets of Phoenix come alive. Teens walk together. Others chat outside a diner. Men and women walk or ride bicycles alone along dimly lit streets.

The sun sets on Friday night and the streets of Phoenix come alive. Teens walk together. Others chat outside a diner. Men and women walk or ride bicycles alone along dimly lit streets.

A pair of serial killers who have left behind no known witnesses and little evidence in their Valley crime sprees have officers meeting in person, talking on the phone and sending e-mails in their hunt for the criminals.

The man accused of being the Valley’s Baseline Killer was sentenced Friday to 438 years in prison for the sexual assaults of two sisters.

Donna Crowe knew someone was out there killing women, mutilating their bodies and dumping them in the Arizona desert. That didn’t stop her on Feb. 29, 1976, from going into an empty workshop with a stranger who picked her up while hitchhiking.

Donna Crowe knew someone was out there killing women, mutilating their bodies and dumping them in the Arizona desert. That didn’t stop her on Feb. 29, 1976, from going into an empty workshop with a stranger who picked her up while hitchhiking.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona jury on Monday found a former construction worker guilty of killing nine people in the so-called Baseline Killer case that terrorized the Phoenix area during the summer of 2006.