Police say they have physical evidence linking 35 y.o.ex-con to the serial killings of 6 women,between 1991-'96,in TX
Joe1orbit
Here is a VERY interesting new development on the serial murder front, out of
the great state of Texas. After a lengthy investigation, police in the Fort
Worth/Dallas area have now publically announced that the unsolved murders of
SIX women, killed between 1991 and 1996, are all the work of one serial killer!
Furthermore, police have announced that they have a prime suspect and are
currently awaiting final DNA results, after which they very likely will charge
this man, 35 year old David McCall, with all SIX serial killings!
This certainly is big news, and SHOULD warrant some national media coverage.
But the news outlets are too busy mulling over the USELESS results of a
pointless election that took place yesterday in the USA, so it is my pleasure
and honor to provide information on this brand new and major development on the
serial killing front.
It was back in 1996, just two years ago, when David McCall attacked and raped
a female prostitute. Eyewitnesses helped police determine that David, who did
flee the scene after the attack, was the perpetrator of this crime. He was
found guilty and sentenced to 5 years of PROBATION. Police found certain
evidence at this crime scene, that LINKED this attempted assault/murder to the
SUCCESSFUL killings of SIX other women, that had occured previously, between
1991 and 1996. Police confirm that there is PHYSICAL evidence linking all 6
killing together, AND also linking this 7th, unsuccessful murder attempt, to
the other 6, successful killings. This is obviously NOT good news for David.
David is continuing to maintain his innocence. A judge ruled yesterday that
there is already probable cause to put David on trial for ONE of the 6
killings. Police are still waiting for final DNA results on the other 5
killings. But it would certainly appear as though David likely will eventually
be charged with all 6 killings. There is other physical evidence, including
bloody items found by police, inside of his car. David is currently in prison,
being held on $100,000 bail. He was apparently arrested last month, in
connection with 1 of the 6 killings, and refuses to be interviewed by the
media.
Out of the 6 known victims, 3 were shot, 1 strangled, & 1 stabbed, to death.
Here you see the MYTH that serial killers kill all their victims in the same
fashion, exposed for what it is: A MYTH. David is MARRIED, and his wife is
standing behind him, declaring that nobody in the family believes that David is
guilty of these killings.
David, like MOST serial killers, is an intelligent man. He worked as a siding
installer, and thus got to travel a LOT, all over TX. Good job for a serial
killer to have. He can COMBINE business with pleasure. Police say they continue
to investigate the possibility that David may have committed additional murders
or attacks, beyond these 6 killings.
David DOES have a LONG criminal record for VIOLENCE against women. At the age
of FIFTEEN he sexually assaulted a female jogger on a college campus in
Indiana. In 1989 he tried to kidnap a different female jogger. And in 1996 he
assaulted this female hooker. He was found GUILTY of all three of these
non-fatal attacks. Sounds like David is a CLASSICALLY enraged serial killer,
subjected to so much childhood abuse and trauma and injustice that at the age
of 15, he already felt compelled to stalk, attack, & rape an older girl on a
college campus.
David is also a drug abuser, and has TOLD police that on the exact day that
one of the 6 murders took place, the one that he is already charged with, he
was on a "cocaine binge" and had been in the same small town where the victim
turned up dead. I don't think it was wise of David to admit to this, but he is
at least continuing to maintain his innocence with regard to all of the
killings.
The six victims ranged in age from 22 to 39. Five of them were prostitutes
with drug problems. The sixth was a nurse who apparently also had some link to
illegal drug use.
This certainly is a very interesting case, and I would urge the news media to
cover it well, especially once final DNA results are in. Police do seem quite
confident that the 6 killings ARE linked. And so it looks quite likely that
David, already charged with 1 of the killings, IS INDEED the killer of all 6.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 11/4/98 online edition of The Fort
Worth Star-Telegram newspaper:
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1998
Evidence may point toward serial killings
By Susan Gill Vardon
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
In 1996, an Irving woman who worked as a prostitute escaped from a man who was
sexually assaulting her. With the help of witnesses, police arrested David
McCall, who was convicted and sentenced to five years' probation.
Evidence in that crime prompted police in Irving, Carrollton, Coppell and
Dallas to home in on McCall as a suspect in the unsolved slayings of six women
between 1991 and 1996, Irving police Sgt. Tim Kelly said.
There is physical evidence linking the slayings and reason to believe that a
serial killer has been cutting a deadly swath through the Metroplex, Kelly said
yesterday. The four police departments are awaiting results of DNA and other
laboratory tests that they believe could tie McCall to the deaths, officials
said.
"There is absolutely a link among the cases," Kelly said.
Phillip Linder, McCall's attorney, said yesterday that his client is the victim
of "political and community pressure" to solve the killings.
"Any time a new murder defendant is caught in a community and the surrounding
communities have some unsolved murder cases, they will automatically look at
that person," Linder said.
A Dallas judge ruled yesterday that there is probable cause for McCall to stand
trial in the Aug. 13, 1995, slaying of 39- year-old Catherine Casler of
Coppell, who was stabbed multiple times while on an early- morning jog. The
case is scheduled to go to a Dallas County grand jury, Dallas County Assistant
District Attorney Bill Wirskye said.
Although McCall may resemble a police drawing of the man being sought in the
case, "I don't think they have the right guy," Linder said.
McCall, who is at Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas with bail set at
$100,000, declined to speak at yesterday's hearing.
He has declined a request for an interview.
His wife also has declined to comment. She and other family members are
"incredulous," Kelly said. "They do not think he's responsible at all. They are
pretty much convinced it's a conspiracy."
Kelly described McCall, 35, as an intelligent man who traveled as much as 270
miles a day across North Texas installing siding for a major retailer. Kelly
said that Irving police are investigating whether McCall could be tied to other
unsolved homicides and sexual assaults.
"He's a pretty intelligent guy, but science may very well be what gets him,"
Kelly said.
McCall has been convicted of a variety of serious crimes: the sexual assault of
a young female jogger on an Indiana college campus when he was 15; the 1989
attempted kidnapping of a female jogger in Coppell; and the Irving sexual
assault, in which a knife was used, Kelly and other officials said.
The pocketknife used in the assault appears to be the same type used in the
Coppell slaying, according to the arrest warrant in the Coppell case. McCall
told detectives that on the day of the slaying, he was on a cocaine binge and
went to Coppell to get money for drugs from his wife, who worked at a
convenience store there.
"He's very cocky, but he also seems like he's ready to tell you upfront that he
doesn't recall or remember what he was doing because he was in a drug daze,"
Kelly said. "That leaves him an out."
The body of Casler, a nurse, was found in a lot on MacArthur Boulevard in
Coppell, several blocks from the Sparrow Lane house she shared with her
husband, Raymond Casler.
The women slain in the five other unsolved cases were prostitutes with drug
problems, police said. Three were shot, one was strangled and the other was
stabbed.
They were:
* LaCresia Tisdale, 22, who was found shot in the back in January 1991 in a
vacant lot, Carrollton police Sgt. Jack Adams said.
* Lacheke Grandberry, 31, who was strangled Oct. 6, 1995. Her body was left in
L.B. Houston Park in Dallas.
* Alysia Beasley, 23, who was found stabbed Dec. 3, 1995, in the 3700 block of
Bernal Street near Tipton Park in west Dallas.
* Ida Gee, 23, who had been shot several times and was found beside a south
Dallas road in January 1996.
* Staci Terrell, 25, who was found shot to death Nov. 21, 1995, behind an
apartment complex in the 2900 block of West Pioneer Drive near Wyche Park in
Irving.
"She was a known prostitute who had no known address and was last seen plying
her trade," Kelly said of Terrell.
It is not uncommon for a serial killer to switch types of victims and weapons,
Kelly said. A killer might move from targeting suburban women to urban
prostitutes because the slayings of prostitutes create less of a public outcry,
he said.
"There is a motivation behind it that we don't understand," he said. "Whatever
triggers that cycle will say how long that time frame is and what the
motivation is."
McCall was charged last month with Casler's murder. Irving police had arrested
him in connection with Terrell's killing but dropped the allegation days later.
Investigators said they still consider him a suspect and are awaiting results
of DNA tests.
At yesterday's hearing, Coppell police Detective Scott Peters testified that
McCall was arrested because he resembled a composite drawing and had a red
pickup similar to one described by a witness at the crime scene.
Peters also testified that hair samples link McCall to Casler and that McCall
told police, "I think I should go to jail for a short time," and "That ----] is
sending me to prison," referring to Casler.
Robert Burns, the attorney who represented McCall at the hearing, asked Peters
if it was true that the witness was unable to identify McCall in a police
lineup.
"He was not able to identify him," Peters said. "He was given six photos, mug
shots. He told me it could be one of three."
Domingo Ramirez Jr. contributed to this report.
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The following appears courtesy of the 11/4/98 online edition of The Dallas
Morning News newspaper:
Suspect spoke of Coppell killing, officer says
Accused man said he'd be sent to prison because of slain woman, detective
testifies
11/04/98
By Dave Michaels / The Dallas Morning News
David Wayne McCall, a murder suspect investigators have described as
uncooperative, did crack his silence just after police arrested him in the 1995
slaying of a Coppell woman.
"He said, 'I think I should go to jail for a short time . . . and that . . .
[expletive] is sending me to prison,' referring to Catherine Casler," Coppell
police Detective Scott Peters testified Tuesday.
Mr. McCall, 35, didn't give prosecutors a written statement in Ms. Casler's
slaying, Detective Peters said.
Authorities found several articles inside Mr. McCall's truck that had blood on
them, including an athletic bandage, an acrylic blanket and several pieces of
the car's interior.
DNA tests could reveal whether the blood belonged to Ms. Casler, according to
testimony.
Mr. McCall, also a suspect in the deaths of five prostitutes in Dallas County,
jotted down notes but did not speak as the state presented its evidence before
Magistrate Boyd Patterson at the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts Building.
His lawyer and family declined to comment after the examining hearing.
Mr. Patterson ordered that Mr. McCall's bail remain at $100,000 and that his
case be heard by a grand jury. That hearing is scheduled next week.
Mr. McCall is accused of fatally stabbing Ms. Casler, 39, while she took her
regular early morning walk Aug. 13, 1995. Mr. McCall admitted to being on a
cocaine binge and visiting his wife at a Coppell convenience store on the day
of the killing, according to an affidavit.
Investigators also were tipped to Mr. McCall's suspected involvement by a 1989
incident in which Mr. McCall pleaded guilty to trying to kidnap a Coppell
woman, according to testimony.
On cross-examination, defense attorney Robert Burns asked Detective Peters
whether a witness who saw a man struggling with Ms. Casler had identified him
in a photo lineup. He could not, Detective Peters answered.
Mr. McCall does own an older-model, red Chevrolet pickup like the one the
witness described, and he did fit a physical description of a man the witness
saw.
DNA results also are pending on three hairs found in Mr. McCall's truck that
were "microscopically and macroscopically identical" to Ms. Casler's, the
detective testified. Authorities also found a strand of hair identical to Mr.
McCall's near Ms. Casler's body.
Carrollton police have identified Mr. McCall as a suspect in the slaying of
LaCresia Tisdale, 22, in January 1991.
He's also suspected in the deaths of Lacheke A. Grandberry, Alysia Ann Beasley
and Ida Gee, all found dead in Dallas between October 1995 and January 1996.
Staci Terrell, 25, was found shot to death near Wyche Park in Irving in
November 1995.
Mr. McCall moved to Texas in 1982 from northern Indiana, where he was convicted
of a sexual assault he committed at age 15. His sentence was commuted to
probation and he was released in April 1982, Indiana records show.