March 16, 1978 - Stephen Akinmurele

Stephen Oladimeji K. Akinmurele (16 March 1978 – 28 August 1999) was a Nigerian-English serial killer who was charged with murdering five elderly people between 1995 and 1998.

Initially, he was charged with the murder of an elderly couple, Eric Boardman and Joan Boardman. His third suspected crime was the murder of Jemimah Cargill. After Cargill, he was also charged with the murders of Dorothy Harris and Marjorie Ashton.

Akinmurele was born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and a white British mother. He and his mother moved to the Isle of Man in 1988, before he moved to Blackpool, England, to work as a barman.

Akinmurele had a history of mental illness and had committed crimes against the elderly from the age of 11. He was drawn to situations in which he would encounter the elderly, with the police asserting he got a "kick" out of killing old people.

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