An Australian-American serial killer and a former FBI Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive named Christopher Wilder may still be tied to a number of unsolved murders in Florida and New York. Wilder, a millionaire race car driver and photographer known as the 'Beauty Queen Killer' and the 'Snapshot Killer,' died in 1984 during a shootout with New Hampshire State Police when he was caught after a two-month murder spree that left at least eight women dead and others missing.
The 'Beauty Queen Killer' drove across the country, scoping out girls in places like shopping malls. He would take their photos and offer them modeling opportunities. That's how Risico ended up in Wilder's car for nine days. But the extent of Wilder's crimes still remains unknown, and authorities believe he may be tied to other unsolved 1980s murder cases. In 1979, Florida 16-year-old Tammy Jo Alexander's remains were found in Caledonia, New York, though she was not positively identified until 2015. She was wearing an Auto Sports Products, Inc. jacket at the time of her death, when authorities believe she was dragged into a cornfield and shot to death.
Similarly, Shari Lynne Ball disappeared from her hometown of Boca Raton, Florida, in 1983, before her body was found four months later in western New York. Ball apparently told her family she was traveling to New York with an unknown friend to pursue a modeling career, The Buffalo News reported in 2017. New York State Police haven't ruled out Wilder as a suspect, the outlet reported at the time.
The FBI did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital.
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