In his letter to the newspaper, Travis wrote, "I'll tell you where many others are." And then: "To prove I'm real, here's directions to number seventeen." Travis was arrested on a federal criminal complaint and, while in the custody of the U.S.
However, the map was recognized to have come from, and further investigation traced it back to Travis, leading to his arrest. The letter had a return address of I THRALLDOM, a bondage website, but no other identification. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a profile piece on Wilson, to which Travis responded by sending an anonymous letter and a computer-generated map. Investigationįrom May to October 2001, four other women were tortured and strangled: Teresa Wilson, Verona Thompson, Yvonne Crues and Brenda Beasley. Although Travis appears to have acknowledged at least seventeen murders, the police believe his victim count could be as high as twenty. He is believed to have killed two women: Alysia Greenwade, whose body was discovered 1 April 2001 in Illinois (after having been last seen in Missouri), and Betty James, whose body was discovered about two months later in Missouri (after having been last seen in Illinois). Known victimsĪt least one videotape showing Travis murdering and/or torturing some of his victims was found in the search of his home in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. While Travis claimed in a letter to have murdered seventeen women, some authorities were doubtful others thought he may have murdered up to twenty women.
At the time of the murders, he was a hotel waiter and on parole for a 1989 robbery. Travis was named in a federal criminal complaint for the murders of two women. Louis County, Missouri, after being arrested for murder.
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Maury Troy Travis (Octo– June 10, 2002) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who committed suicide in custody in St.