March 17, 1962 - Timothy Wilson Spencer

Timothy Wilson Spencer (March 17, 1962 – April 27, 1994), also known as The Southside Strangler, was an American serial killer who committed three rapes and murders in Richmond, Virginia, and one in Arlington, Virginia, in the fall of 1987. In addition, Spencer committed a previous murder in 1984, for which a different man, David Vasquez, was wrongfully convicted.

Spencer became the first serial killer in the United States to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence, with Vasquez being the first to be exonerated, in 1989, following conviction on the basis of exculpatory DNA evidence.

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