George Russell (serial killer)
George Waterfield Russell Jr. (born April 1958), known as The Charmer, is an American thief and serial killer responsible for the murders of three women in Seattle over the summer in 1990. After killing his victims, he would mutilate and have sex with the corpses, leaving the bodies posed in bizarre positions at the crime scene. For his crimes, he was sentenced to two life imprisonment terms, and is currently imprisoned at Clallam Bay Corrections Center. Early life. Born in Florida in April 1958, George's parents separated when he was still a baby, with his  mother moving with him to Mercer Island, Washington, to live with her new husband. At the age 16 he was forced to live with his stepfather who later on remarried to another woman. While living with them, he developed an inappropriate fascination with his stepmother. He started to spying on her, and for that he was kicked out the house. Later on he lived with his aunts. Throughout his childhood and early adulthood, Russell often had scrapes with the law, mostly involving thefts and burglaries. In 1971 after he got into trouble for truancy. Rather given a punishment he was  offered to work around the Mercer Island Police Station. He later used this to make comfortable woman around him. He was popular with the ladies, frequenting cocktail lounges around Seattle in search of hook-ups with women. However any rejection he had hurted his fragile ego. After an incident when he impersonated a police officer, he was banned from a club. Not long after this, he committed his first murder. Murders. Between June and August 1990, Russell would sexually assault and murder three women in Seattle. In each case, he horribly mutilated and violated the corpses, posing them in various  embarrassing positions before leaving the crime scene. Trial and imprisonment. On September 12, Russell was arrested as a suspect in the murders. Aside from semen samples and fiber pieces matching the truck he drove on the night of Beethe's murder, it was discovered that Russell had given Levine's ring to another woman, claiming that he had bought it from a street vendor in Canada. That ring was later found at a pawn shop. Russell pleaded innocent to all charges, and when questioned in telephone interviews, he admitted to having books on Ted Bundy, but denied being a fan  of his. In spite of his claims, he was found guilty of the three murders in October 1991 by Justice Patricia Aitken, showing no emotion when the sentence was read out. At the time, his brutal killings were compared with the then-unsolved murders of five college students in Gainesville, Florida, which were later linked to Danny Rolling. George Russell was given two life imprisonment terms plus 28 years, and is currently imprisoned at Clallam Bay Corrections Center. In popular culture. The case was dramatized in multiple Investigation Discovery shows, including: "Dead of Night", "Secrets of the Morgue", "City Confidential , and Murder By Numbers". The case was examnied by "The New Detectives" in an episode named "Stranger than Fiction". He appeared in "Most Evil", one ID's most popular shows. He was ranked at 17 out of the 22 level scale, among other sexually depraved killers like Ted Bundy. It was also covered by Oxygen Network original series "Mark of a Killer" in the episode named "The Charmer".