5 notorious black serial killers

Lorenzo Gilyard
Lorenzo Gilyard

Lorenzo Gilyard

Gilyard murdered  at least 13 women, yet he received little media attention in the mid 1970’s. He began strangling prostitutes in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1977 at the age of 26. He was arrested 17 years later at the age of 42, and was caught because of DNA evidence.


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