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Paul John Knowles (April 25, 1946 – December 18, 1974), [1] also known as The Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 18 people in 1974, though he claimed to have murdered at least 35.
Also known as "The Cross Country Killer" or "The Casanova Killer", he was convicted of first-degree murder at two separate trials in the deaths of two women (the first in Florida in 1997 and the second in California in June 1999).
The Casanova Murders. Sixty-five-year-old Alice Curtis was Paul John Knowles’ first victim. The retired schoolteacher from Jacksonville was home alone the night that Knowles escaped from jail. In an attempt to burgle her home, Knowles broke in and bound and gagged her.
He was known as the “Casanova Killer” and the “Cross-Country Killer,” but his real name is Glen Edward Rogers. Rogers was captured in November of 1995 after a national manhunt culminating in a high-speed, drunken car chase in Kentucky — during which he tossed an empty beer can at a police cruiser.
On Nov. 14, 1974, Barbara Mabee Abel was a 31-year-old single mother in West Palm Beach, Fla., working to support her 6-year-old son Dale and her twin sister, Beverly, who had cerebral...
Knowles is accused of indiscriminately shooting and strangling men, women, children and the elderly over a seven-month span in 1974. In some cases, the deaths involved sexual assault. “Just ...
Paul John Knowles is the “Casanova Killer.” His devilish smirk, charming demeanor and flowing whiskey-colored hair helped mask his deadly secret: he’s one of...