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Australian-American serial killer and former FBI Most Wanted Christopher Wilder may still be involved in numerous unsolved murders in Florida and New York.

Wilder, a millionaire race car driver and photographer known as the “Beauty Queen Killer” and “Snapshot Killer,” was killed in a shootout with New Hampshire state troopers in 1984. He was arrested after a murder spree that lasted at least two months, and he was left behind at least. Eight women died and the rest are missing.

Some of Wilder’s victims spoke out for the first time in Hulu’s docuseries “The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror,” which premiered on the streaming platform Thursday.

The documentary series follows the story of Wilder survivor Tina Risico, who was kidnapped by Wilder at the age of 16 and taken on a nine-day cross-country road trip in 1984, during which time Wilder The teenager was forced and coerced into cooperating with Wilder in his crimes. crime.

Serial killer may be connected to unsolved case of young woman in New York in 1983

Christopher Wilder was a serial killer accused of murdering at least eight girls and women in the 1980s. (FBI)

The “beautiful queen killer” drove around the country looking for girls in shopping malls and other places. He took photos of them and offered them modeling opportunities.

Risico ended up riding in Wilder’s car for nine days.

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However, the extent of Wilder’s crimes is still unknown, and authorities believe he may be connected to other unsolved murders from the 1980s.

Christopher Wilder's wanted poster

The extent of Wilder’s crimes remains unclear. (FBI)

In 1979, the body of 16-year-old Tammy Jo Alexander from Florida was discovered in Caledonia, New York, but her identity was not positively identified until 2015. She was wearing an Auto Sports Products jacket at the time of her death, authorities said. She is believed to have been dragged into a cornfield and shot to death.

The FBI said Alexander lived near the truck stop and was known to hitchhike with truck drivers in the past.

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Similarly, Shari Lynn Ball disappeared from her hometown of Boca Raton, Florida in 1983, and her body was found four months later in Western New York. In 2017, The Buffalo News reported that Ball had apparently told her family that she was traveling to New York with an unknown friend of hers to pursue a modeling career. New York State Police had not ruled out Wilder as a suspect, the newspaper reported at the time.

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Christopher Webber, a cold case investigator with the New York State Police, told the newspaper: “We can’t rule it out, and it’s very interesting to us.” “That’s certainly consistent with Wilder’s approach. He portrayed himself as a professional photographer. He befriended pretty girls and promised them all sorts of things.”

Shari Lynn Ball

New York State Police reportedly have not ruled out Christopher Wilder as a suspect in Shari Lynn Ball’s murder. (NYSP)

Farther south, in Palm Beach County, Florida, where Mr. Wilder fled after being investigated by authorities for the 1969 murders of two teenage girls on the coast of Sydney, Australia, Mr. Wilder is an unofficial is believed to be involved in several unsolved murder cases.

In 1984, Linda Curtis, the mother of 18-year-old Tammy Lee Reppert, said Wilder had killed her daughter (who disappeared in July 1983 in Rockledge, Florida) on the set of the movie “Spring Break.” He reportedly filed a lawsuit against Wilder before his death, saying he had met her. ” as a participant in a boxing match.

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Reppert also had a career as a model. Curtis claimed that Wilder traveled to Brevard County to take photos of his daughter, but that he dropped the suit in 1984 after Wilder died. The Palm Beach Post reported..

Tammy Lee Reppert

Tammy Lee Reppert (Facebook/ The Missing Sister Tammy Reppert)

Wilder also owns several acres of land in Loxahatchee, where a real estate agent discovered the body of a still-unidentified woman north of Okeechobee Boulevard in 1982, according to the Palm Beach Post. That’s what it means.

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