John Woods

On April 30, 1988, the life of 46-year-old John L. Woods was brought to a violent end in his Decatur, Illinois, apartment. He was found brutally stabbed to death, with two of the numerous wounds piercing his heart and lungs. The scene was initially made to look like a burglary, a deliberate deception to mislead investigators. In a chilling twist, the police received an anonymous phone call reporting the "bloody murder," a call later determined to have been made by the killer himself, Melvin John ...

Decatur Police close two cases from the 1980's; man classified as serial ...