![]() Early life and criminal history Ĭhristopher Wilder was born on March 13, 1945, in Sydney, New South Wales, the oldest of four sons to an American father, Coley Chapman Wilder (Aug– January 29, 1992), a naval officer, and an Australian mother, June Wilder ( née Decker J– April 26, 1986). The 1986 made-for-television movie Easy Prey dramatises Wilder's crimes. Since his death, Wilder has been suspected in the additional rapes, murders and disappearances of many other women, including the unsolved 1965 Wanda Beach Murders in his native Sydney as well as the suspected murder of missing 18-year-old beauty queen Tammy Lynn Leppert. Wilder accidentally killed himself during a struggle with police in New Hampshire on April 13, 1984. ![]() Īfter being named a suspect in the disappearances of his first two victims, both of whom were women he knew and whose bodies were never found, Wilder began to target random women many of whom were abducted from shopping malls. Two or more of his victims were electrocuted using a makeshift electrical cord. After subduing them, he would torture and rape them before shooting, stabbing with a knife, or strangling them to death. Wilder victimised attractive young women, most of whom he would entice by promising to take their pictures. Wilder's series of murders began in Florida on February 26, 1984, and continued across the country through Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nevada and California, with attempted abductions in Washington and New York. ![]() Christopher Bernard Wilder (March 13, 1945 – April 13, 1984), also known as the Beauty Queen Killer and the Snapshot Killer, was an Australian-American serial killer who abducted at least twelve young women and girls, killing eight of them during a six-week, cross-country crime spree in the United States in early-1984. ![]()
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