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Joseph Gerard Christopher (July 26, 1955 – March 1, 1993) was an American serial killer who gained infamy for a series of murders in the early 1980s. He is believed to have killed at least twelve African American men and boys and wounded numerous others.
Joseph Gerard Christopher, also known as the ".22-Caliber Killer" and the "Midtown Slasher", was an American schizophrenic serial/spree killer who murdered at least eleven African-American men and one Hispanic man over a five-month span between 1980 and 1981.
Joseph Christopher, a white Buffalo native who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, began his killing spree on September 22, 1980. Within a 36 hour period, using a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle, Christopher murdered four African American men.
Mar 24, 2018 · A private in the army had just returned to his base on January 4th after a holiday break, visiting family in New York. 2 days later, the 25-year-old Private, Joseph Gerard Christopher, had been detained for wielding a knife against a fellow black soldier unprovoked. The soldier survived the attack.
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Feb 14, 2023 · In September 1980 Joseph Christopher began his killing spree. He murdered three black men and a 14-year-old boy in a 36-hour span in Buffalo linking a more tragic history of hate crimes in Queen...