Edward Carroll Cole
- Dates of Killings: 1971 - 1980
- Locations: California, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, and Oklahoma
- He strangled all of his victims.
- He stated that he was driven to kill "loose women" because they reminded him of his mother.
- Some of the victims were stripped and sexually abused after death.
- He claimed that he was drunk during his killing sprees.
- In Nevada, he wanted a non-jury hearing because he wanted to receive the death penalty, a
sentence more likely to be given by a judge.