The Package Killer Identified Over 30 Years After Killings
DNA evidence positively identifies killer of brutal murders.
In 1991, several murdered women were determined by FBI profilers to be the work of one person, a serial killer nicknamed the “Package Killer.”
On March 26, 1990, a body was found between two mattresses along a highway near Silex, Missouri, in Lincoln County. Her hands were bound, and her face was covered. An autopsy showed she had been strangled to death. She was identified as Robyn Mihan, a nineteen-year-old who lived in St Louis, Missouri. She made a living as a sex worker.
On June 11, 1990, a body was found in a rubber trash can near Highway 55. The body was so decomposed that authorities could not determine the cause of death. She was later identified as Donna Reitmeyer, a forty-year-old woman who was last seen in the Stroll area of Cherokee street in St. Louis, and she was also a sex worker.
On October 4, 1990, a woman’s body was found by a jogger near Interstate 270 in a plastic trash can, and she had been smothered or strangled. The woman remained unidentified for months but was later identified as twenty-seven-year-old Brenda Pruitt, who had lived on Cherokee Street, St. Louis. She was reported missing on May 9, 1990, by her family.
