Convicted rapist acquired Criminal Justice degree before serial killing spree

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There’s a creepy story being carried by CNN and many other major news sources about Timothy Krajcir, who has pleaded guilty to first degree in the 1982 slaying of an Illinois coed, Deborah Sheppard. He has since been charged with five other murders, after confessing to having committed those also. Police confess to having been baffled by the cases for many years but it may very likely be the fact that Krajcir has a degree in criminal justice that allowed him to evade prosecution until now. Krajcir was a suspect in some of the murders but there was no evidence to convict him. One police officer said, “If he was studying criminal justice and law enforcement, he definitely would know what police were looking for and how to avoid detection.” There were no fingerprints at any of the crime scenes and little other evidence. The advent of DNA testing meant that tissue samples from the crime scenes did point to Krajcir.

Kjajcir has confessed to nine killings in all. His degree in Criminal Justice is from Southern Illinois University, acquired after he had been released from prison over thirty years ago. He had been serving time for rape.