Active for 1 year
(1976) in United States

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4. General Information
5. Characteristics
6. Childhood
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9. Death
10. 11 Timeline Events
11. Serial Killers Active During Spree
12. Boolean Statistical Questions
13. 9 Books Written About Rodney Halbower
14. 3 External References
15. Internal References

Rodney Halbower (Rodney Lynn Halbower) an American serial killer known as the Gypsy Hill killings and the San Mateo slasher. The Gypsy Hill killings refers to five unsolved killings, of young women in San Mateo County, California during early 1976. In 2014, the FBI named Halbower as a person of interest in the Gypsy Hill killings; as of 2015, he was charged with two of the murders based on DNA taken from cigarette butts saved from the scene of a 1976 killing. Halbower is already in prison serving a life sentence with charges of attempted murder, assault, rape and robbery. With the exception of two brief periods when he had escaped, Halbower has been in prison for the past 38 years. In 2018, Halbower was sentenced to two additional life sentences.

Profile Completeness: 65%

Books that Mention Rodney Halbower

Kevin Smith

Serial Killer Rapists

Martin Cruz Smith

Gorky Park

Stephen King

Black House

Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father

Mikey Walsh

Gypsy Boy

Larry Crompton

Sudden Terror

Michael Newton

The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Billy Hill

Britain's Underworld

9 Books that mention Serial Killer
Rodney Halbower

ISBN10	Book Title	Author	Killers Mentioned	Killers
1733630619	Serial Killer Rapists	Kevin Smith	266 Total Including Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour	266
1849838224	Gorky Park	Martin Cruz Smith	Rodney Halbower	1
145169492x	Black House	Stephen King	Rodney Halbower	1
0062036548	First They Killed My Fath...	Loung Ung	Rodney Halbower	1
1250011973	Gypsy Boy	Mikey Walsh	Rodney Halbower	1
1452052425	Sudden Terror	Larry Crompton	Rodney Halbower	2
0816069875	The Encyclopedia of Seria...	Michael Newton	108 Total Including Anatoly Onoprienko	108
0956095801	Britain's Underworld	Billy Hill	Rodney Halbower	1
0297816772	Mother Teresa	Anne Sebba	Rodney Halbower	1

External References

1. Gypsy Hill killings on en.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Sep 16, 2018.
2. San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Arrest of Rodney Halbower on smcsheriff.com, Retrieved on Sep 16, 2018.
3. Q16983027 on www.wikidata.org, Retrieved on Dec 24, 2018.

Internal References

Rodney Halbower is included in the following pages on Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database

1. #12 of 34 [ Page 1 ] of Cancer Serial Killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
2. #17 of 34 [ Page 2 ] of Serial Killers with birthdays in June
3. #174 of 327 [ Page 12 ] of Serial Killers active in the United States
4. #183 of 307 [ Page 13 ] of Serial Killer Rapist sorted by Confirmed Victims
5. #230 of 651 [ Page 16 ] of the A-Z List of Serial Killers
6. #353 of 651 [ Page 24 ] of serial killers sorted by Profile Completeness
7. #361 of 651 [ Page 25 ] of serial killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
8. #571 of 651 [ Page 39 ] of serial killers sorted by Years Active

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Years Active:

• 1976