Suspected Serial Killer ARRESTED for Three Cold Cases in Ventura County! Warren Alexander

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

Thanks for watching 🤓 This is TAKE TWO , please like and share ❤ In the Livestream, I called him WALTER 🧐😤 Suspected serial killer's name is WARREN.

[@teddiakins4346]

Thats funny... hope your watching Boone

[@ChalNjurshEp]

@@GrizzlyTrueCrime we all make errors, friend 🙂😝

[@guisellec-d]

@@GrizzlyTrueCrime I just saw in the comments that a lot of people told you how to pronounce Port Hueneme so I am deleting my comment. I don't want to beat a dead horse as they say! Thank you for all that you do in researching all these cases. ♥️

[@Ronimi-p4c]

@@ChalNjurshEp that’s fine just like helping you out also Port Hueneme is YNeMe

[@BookMama72]

So glad technology has evolved to the point even cold cases can be solved!

[@Goldie9899]

Yes amen!! One great, positive way technology has helped society!!

[@Blueberrythegreat]

We need these sickos off the streets but im wary of the dna evidence alone Hopefully its on the up and up and there should plenty of supporting evidence

[@jesterr7133]

There is no telling how many victims this guy had. With a 15 year gap between his known crimes and a 50 year gap between his earliest known crime and his arrest, it is highly unlikely that he committed no other murders during that time, particularly if he was traveling all over the country. There is potential for this guy to be extremely prolific.

[@MarchandP]

It is so encouraging to know that our technology is enabling law enforcement to solve this old cases. Prayers to the victims families.

[@Tina.Lucille]

I'm reading Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi right now, it's frightening. I did work at a truck stop for five years and yes I've met many young women who were at high risk and yes some of the drivers were highly suspicious, creepy, and definite candidates to be possible SK's. I personally had several scary encounters with drivers when I tried to protect the girls. But to keep it in perspective the number of suspected long haul HSK's is low compared to the number of truck drivers on the road (3.54 million truck drivers). It is the few who wreak such havoc and devastation on our highways. It is a scary, scary world out here. Stay safe everyone. 🤗🤗💜💜

[@ChalNjurshEp]

@@Tina.Lucille love Mr. Figliuzzi! Former federal agent, iirc!

[@SueP-jg9vx]

this is another case that makes me so angry cuz he lived most of his life as a free man. Truck stops should have something - some kind of outreach for girls. But they can always call 911.... so sad

[@junehanzawa5165]

Even 1 percent of that is a huge number.

[@DishingUpTheDodgers]

I live in Ventura County and about 20 miles from Oxnard. It's pronounced "Port WhyNeeMe." This is so scary that he was in the area this whole time. It's amazing that they used modern tech to catch this guy.

[@stellaallbright4750]

Came here to say the same thing! 😊 I went to college and lived in Ventura for years...this is crazy to think I could have crossed paths with him at farmer's markets, shopping centers, beaches, social events, or bars! These poor women!! 💔

[@farmgirl1783]

At least she didn’t say “Venchura” 😂😂 Thank you VC LEO for working so hard on this case! The FBI has a special unit that deals specifically with long haul truck drivers who are suspected of serial murders.

[@virginiainla8085]

I'm in VC, too. Was about to say that! Lol

[@ChalNjurshEp]

@@farmgirl1783 hey now! Ace Ventura, Pet Detective! ✋🤣😆😂

[@GigiWright]

I lived in W. L.A. we'd hitch from Santa Monica Beach up the coast we were in our early teens in the early 1970's 4 serial killers in that area included Warren 2 others further inland.

[@Gasiena]

I'm a 70's baby, hats off to LE & detectives who worked tirelessly for 47 years. They never gave up!

[@lionelladner]

71 here and can’t believe he was down the street in D’head🤦‍♀️🤯

[@jkalibeelz4339]

TY for covering this .. Crazy. So grateful this monster was finally caught ..

[@christy3498]

👋 Yay! Here we go again. Justice has arrived!!!

[@Ms.Norths.Musings]

Technology can be such a beautiful thing. 4 women lost their lives and hopefully will get the Justice they deserve.

[@maxawilli7]

@@Ms.Norths.Musings I’m sure it was not just 4. Those are the ones they were able to link to him.

[@junehanzawa5165]

​@@maxawilli7 So far.

[@Toolmaker204]

Love you what you do and the empathetic way you represent the victims thank you…

[@user-qi4ff5in9z]

I lived along Route 40 in NJ as a kid. In the 1980s, it was referred to as Cocaine Alley, due to the amount of coke distributed along its way. This gives Route 40 a much darker vibe. Given the number of times I had flat tires, or broke down along this highway, this now makes me feel lucky to be alive. I remember telling friends that, when broken down on the side of the road (pre cell phones), I was worried if no one came along to help, but was absolutely terrified if someone did.

[@Yeahwtf]

Yo...why did you mention Rt 40 in Nj? I'm from South Jersey and use Rt 40 all the time...about 15 years ago 3 or 4 female bodies were found buried behind a dilapidated hotel at the very end of Rt 40...where it merges with 322 just outside of Atlantic City, The hotel was demolished years ago, but they never caught the killer. Is that why you mentioned Rt 40???

[@user-qi4ff5in9z]

@@Yeahwtf The killer profiled had been mentioned in conjunction with Rt. 40. My ears perk up at any mention of Rt. 40 bcuz I grew up in south Jersey, along Rt. 40. When I moved to a neighboring state, they has a serial killer that found victims along the route, and happened to live a couple miles from where I moved. Until you mentioned the AC cases, I had forgotten their connection to it, too. Yikes!

[@helene1779]

Thank you, Gisela for covering this case! 🐻💕

[@diepreyeimani188]

Glad he has been caught

[@Courtie825]

This is my neighbor. He lived across from me in Diamondhead, MS for 7 years, and my parents for 16 years (as I moved out but they still live there). He was retired, living with his wife. We were in shock when they took him in 2022.

[@ChasingRainbows67]

Oh wow! You just never know. Living right by your parents and living with his wife like nothing ever happened. I can't wrap my head around how these evil people can carry on. Glad he was caught. I bet your parents were in shock. Thanks for sharing.

[@truckinfam2207]

What did he act like??? Retired from what company?

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

Would love more info about him, what he was like, etc. 😱 [e-mail]

[@Courtie825]

@@truckinfam2207 I’m not sure exactly what company. I just know he was a retired truck driver. He’d gone golfing with my Dad a time or 2 and just seemed like a grumpy old man. He’d yell at the kids to get away from his gravel driveway. He once yelled and cursed at my mom when she walked her dog, for letting her dog poop on his grass near the street, as she was scooping it up with her little doggy poop bags she’d use. 🤣 just typical mean old man stuff. Nothing that screamed serial killer. He would never say much to me but maybe a hello. But I’m a quiet person myself, so never thought anything odd of it. He appeared to be a normal retired man just enjoying a quiet life in Diamondhead. Allot of retirees go there since it’s surrounded by a golf course.

[@marianavarro3111]

@@Courtie825 that house across the street will never look the same

[@yvettecarolin6831]

Hi G- thankyou so much for advocating for the these beautiful young women, glad the families get justice, job well done by law enforcement and DNA analysis. Im staying tuned for you awesome investgative reports.

[@karenthomas3265]

OMg I was born in Ventura in 1959 went to school there and left in 2015. Small town back then. This is so crazy. I need to look into this more. Thanks @Grizzlytruecrime !! You are amazing

[@unapologeticallyauthentic]

Just think...in 1977 they probably didn't have Crime Scene Technicians. Maybe they did, but either way, they knew to save the DNA. Those people are the real MVPs!!

[@NickanM]

They had crime scene technicians, and evidence with body fluids have been saved since they could differentiate between different blood groups, which was discovered in 1900 by Dr Karl Landsteiner.

[@unapologeticallyauthentic]

@@NickanM sadly, that didn't always happen... I'm so grateful that they were thorough.

[@Mark-qv4bn]

I graduated high school in 1976. 😄

[@NickanM]

@@unapologeticallyauthentic Maybe not in the US, in my country it became a law to do it around 1905.

[@unapologeticallyauthentic]

@@NickanM it became law in 1905 to save possible dna?

[@JohnnyHands]

If Alexander was still in Ventura County in February 1974, he should be looked at for the attack of a young female student hitchhiker near Ventura City College at that time. The woman was picked up by a man in a sedan (not a pickup) and driven instead to a citrus grove near the college, attacked, run over, and left for dead. She miraculously survived and Ventura PD collected a SA kit, but mistakenly destroyed it years later. The woman told her story on a Paul Holes “The Murder Squad” podcast as a Golden State Killer possible (Season 1 Episode 4.) This would have been a similar MO to picking up a sex worker, though more of a crime of opportunity, so disposing the body was not planned for, so she was left there in the citrus grove. EDIT: even though the SA kit has been destroyed for the survivor (victim name: Pamela Escalante, attacked February 5, 1974), was there a ABO blood type test ever done on it, and documented in the case files? If so, has Ventura PD compared it to the blood type of Alexander to rule him out as Ms. Escalante’s attacker? They may not have been compared because the Escalante attack happened in the jurisdiction of Ventura City PD, while the Alexander cases were in the jurisdictions of other PD’s in Ventura County. EDIT 2: “The Murder Squad” podcast seems to have been wiped from the Internet, and their website is no longer there either. Does this have to do with co-host Billy Jensen’s “me too” offenses? Maybe, just guessing. Anyway, luckily, I had downloaded this episode on an old computer and can re-listen to it. If anyone has any questions about it, go ahead and ask in a reply, as I will be re-listening closely to it. Again, it was Season 1, Episode 4, “The Golden State Killer.” Also, let us know if you can successfully stream the episode in 2024, and what podcast platform you are using.

[@ChalNjurshEp]

@@JohnnyHands wow wow wow! Impressive! I want to know the answers, too! Thanks for all your detailed info ℹ️

[@JohnnyHands]

@@ChalNjurshEp One more detail I remember - before re-listening to the podcast: Ms. Escalante was able to remember the clothing of the perp: he was wearing a blue work shirt along with work boots. I wonder if there are any photos of Alexander, or people who remember him wearing those items.

[@ChasingRainbows67]

I was going to look up the Murder Squad, glad that I didn't waste my time. That's awesome that you still have the interview on your computer!!

[@susanboonie]

From a local californian. Pronunciations , Y-knee-me and you were right the first time on ox- nard.

[@mariatorres9789]

(Just wait until she gets Mokelumne or Tuolumne. 😂)

[@virginiainla8085]

Aka The 'Nard!

[@liliamrodriguez3020]

Great coverage

[@Pbav8tor]

It's lovely knowing all these old killers must be wondering when that knock on the door will come for them.

[@thisgirl9479]

Thanks G ❤

[@jerrydaugherty9826]

I have heard of cross-country truck drivers who turned out to be serial killers

[@We_Are_All_Vultures]

It's the top profession of SKs

[@ChalNjurshEp]

@@We_Are_All_Vulturesis it, really???? Omg 😱

[@shards0fwords]

@@ChalNjurshEpI’d wanna see stats though I know there have been multiple. Truckers don’t often get the respect they deserve(our world would collapse fast without them) but obviously some are monsters.

[@Nessa1215]

@@shards0fwordsFormer FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi recently published a book about serial killer truck drivers. I don’t think serial killers specifically choose this profession… instead some sick individuals become criminal due to opportunities on the job.

[@Goldie9899]

So many since they travel everywhere so much and it’s easier for them to find victims and avoid being caught

[@debloui]

How fantastic is DNA?! So many cold cases can now be solved. How wonderful for the families who have been waiting decades for answers. Now his DNA is in the system, his dark secrets will be revealed. His horrors occurred before DNA. He must have thought he’d never be caught. So happy for the victims’ families.

[@kosmosbjm]

Oh wow, I live in Ventura County.

[@maryseidler5083]

47 yrs. Thats crazy good for investigators 😊

[@mariaz3886]

Thank you so much for all you do in keeping us updated.

[@fainbrown8681]

A 15 year break from killing. Sounds unlikely.

[@rachelbishop8556]

The f.b.i. has said there are hundreds of truckers under suspicion for serial killing. My husband is a trucker long haul. I tease him all the time ..he is really not. I watch too much true crime as a couch detective to not know.

[@kerrykestrowl6785]

Thank you for the update the family😢 need a to have closure ❤

[@anitagendler3812]

Catching replay! Thank you for your presentation of this case G! This reminds me of the Golden State Serial killer! 😮 Unfortunately, I fear there may be more victims! 😢😢

[@aililenak]

I wonder why they still need a trial once the DNA proves the case. I know due process is what the Constitution grants, however, I know he will say ' not guilty'. It will take three years to go to trial, and if alive, he will spend his senior years well cared, with free food, free health care and with all the human rights he refused to his victims. I cannot even afford health care. It's all ludicrous. Maybe going to jail is the new retirement.

[@llmm8238]

Need someone to check their homework otherwise they'll be cops closing cold cases and linking them to anyone.

[@UPONBUTTERFLYWINGS]

You found what I was referring to!! Terrific. Thank you, Gisela.

[@adrockc9982]

Just found you! I dig it!!

[@MeMeTonya]

I wonder if he's connected to the killing field off 45 east of Galveston Tx

[@kyledamron]

We need to look up what he did after the 3 CA murders until his 1 murder in NC. That 15 years of inactivity give or take a year or two. Also what was he doing from 92 until his arrest in 2022? These gaps in time are crazy I cant help feel like he's got plenty more victims out there

[@Coffee_Lover-s8n]

My husband literally worked with this dude at DuPont in the packing department in DeLisle MS then he was arrested a year or two later.

[@CynthiaWilliams-q2b]

Holy cow! I live in Diamondhead, MS. I’ve been a lurker for months. I love watching & learning from Gisela! I’m addicted to this channel & proud to be a Grissly!😊

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

A Grizzly (double Z like the bear) 🤓 Thank you ❤️

[@CynthiaWilliams-q2b]

@@GrizzlyTrueCrime Oops!

[@chillaxing9272]

I worked with this guy in Mississippi 😳

[@tipsygypsy711]

Oh wow, I used to live in Gulfport, Mississippi. Diamondhead is closeby.

[@PamRDuvall]

Greetings G, Guam girl watching🌴🇬🇺🙏🏽

[@gailheard1524]

Thanks!

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

so much! 🤩

[@user-qi4ff5in9z]

I am so tired of victims, who happened to be sex workers, being denigrated in the media. I hate the way the victims are solely described as sex workers, like that is the defining characteristic of their lives, not that they are daughters, sisters, mothers, etc.. This also makes it seem like these horrible crimes are confined to “bad, loose “ women, that supposedly upstanding, “good” girls are exempt. Doing sex work was what these women did, NOT who they were.

[@mariatorres9789]

It's the same as describing them as a nurse, a teacher, a social worker. Usually a victim is described by their jobs.

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

Victimology is the reason they so often do this in the media. It's also describing their profession as any case so often does, "she was a teacher" , "she was a soldier", etc. I certainly don't minimize anyone to the job they do. I'm here for the victims and have invited families to tell us more about them, I want to learn who they were and we all want to see justice for them 😢❤

[@jameswright4777]

Well in the old days they wouldve just called them whores. So isnt sex worker an upgrade to that?

[@diannlimo4502]

No, it’s not the same. Geez

[@margretenglesson5834]

It may be treated by some as the defining characteristics of their lives, but to criminologists it says how marginalized and vulnerable they were. Men like Gary Ridgeway and Warren Alexander exploit that vulnerability.

[@JohnMack-f3f]

I don’t know if the detectives worked tirelessly, but science prevailed.

[@GGma2020]

Believe it or not Port Hueneme is pronounced Port Why- neem-ie. by a California native 😉

[@RaoulThomas007]

That’s a tough one. How many in California would even get that one right? 😂

[@rebeccaqallaboutthefeminin1794]

Why?

[@mariatorres9789]

​@@RaoulThomas007We're used to crazy native names, lol. They never sound like they're spelled. 😅

[@buffyrocks0149]

You always show so much care for the victims ❤ thank you, I trust you so much ,G

[@AlexaLake7]

During those 47 years he could have left victims all over the country! I wonder if the cases in Carolina, that LE is trying to connect to Rex Heuermann, were committed by WLA ?

[@AvaSim-76]

Thank you, G, for all you do. ❤

[@GenX1968]

What a creepy guy 😬

[@kathyvenne8208]

So heartbreaking for these poor girls.

[@unapologeticallyauthentic]

It's terrifying to know that he was a trucker!!

[@soniahorbushko4114]

Another one !!!!

[@unapologeticallyauthentic]

@@soniahorbushko4114 right!

[@lawrencetagliareni4893]

Thanks g

[@ShraddaNiche]

Hello Grizzlies

[@jonyvisa7031]

Im working in Oxnard right now,off Channel island blvd.Creeps are everywhere

[@Bones3990]

Great work.

[@BeverlyMurphy-u5l]

Wonder if he drove through Canada highway of tears. They always believed it was a unknown trucker.

[@UPONBUTTERFLYWINGS]

Sorry,,, last comment…. It would be great if trucking companies required DNA from all hired applicants. This would deter these people from using this job as a way to bring harm upon anyone crossing their path. Love to all Grizzlies!💚💙💚💙

[@jameswright4777]

what about their constitutional rights? rights to medical privacy? ever heard of hippa laws?

[@gbear768]

thank you, G

[@Dr.Gunsmith]

Not all truckers are serial killers but lots of serial killers where Truckers.

[@lanahaxer]

There was another sa murderer just caught after his 1990s murder in Montana. Paul Hutchinson. He unalived himself when they questioned him

[@jettyoeill]

Being from Ventura, this is shocking on top of being shocking.

[@doneown503]

, it appears these people have been free to live there lives , until forensics catches up with them (?). I Guess that explains , many are OLD by that time ! Sucks for victims family/friends , wrongly accused!

[@MaryMacElveen]

When you mentioned that he was a trucker, that is when my Spidey Senses went up. Not that all are like that.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

you all are.

[@lanahaxer]

In 2017 or 2018 I was hitch hiking and my friend and I got picked up by a truck driver. My friend decided he was gonna go sleep in the back and leave me up front. After a few mins of conversation and me adamantly insisting I wasn't interested in sex work. He pulled over and forced us out on the side of the freeway. And told us he hoped we got killed by the next trucker. But that was actually my first truck driver ride and also my last. Yikes.

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

Omg 👀😱

[@HoosiHerHillbilly]

You look wonderful G

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

[@PamRDuvall]

Truckers can be in so many places do crimes and just drive off. It's happened so many times

[@We_Are_All_Vultures]

One of those trucker serial killer stories that's stuck with me for many years was the guy who would strap the bodies under the truck and drive to shave off anything that could ID the body. Sick stuff.

[@shards0fwords]

@@We_Are_All_Vulturesoh my god I’ve not heard of this and it almost sounds like urban legend but I’ll take your word for it. Eek! The SK trucker I know about had abducted a girl in TX (in the 90s I think) and then took her to a barn where he made her put on a black dress b4 he photographed her. There’s an image of the victim in the dress w/ a chilling blank stare.

[@We_Are_All_Vultures]

@@shards0fwords oh that was horrible. He left her there with wire tightly around her neck (wrapped around the pole multiple times) she was left standing upright but by the time the farmer found her she was just a skeleton. He came to check out the barn before he burned it down. Lucky he did. Poor kid was only 14. From Google "Investigators concluded that the victim had been handcuffed over a large beam, which raised their hands above their head. The baling wire was then placed around their neck and twisted with a piece of broken board at least sixteen times."

[@kaymusictaylor7214]

Love ya, G

[@PamRDuvall]

😂He was arrested on my Birthday! 😂

[@deannespuhl3948]

I find a lot of crimes happen or are solved on mine and my sister's birthdays.

[@barbarabrooks4747]

It's so sad it takes so long to catch serial killers.

[@virginiainla8085]

A friend of mine said her grammy's cousin was murdered while hitchhiking in the 1970s. Her name was Betty Breck and she died along the coastline in California. I can't find anything about her, and they never found the killer. 😢

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

😓

[@kweenz109]

I believe there are dozens more

[@nancyshelden1735]

He is probably the serial truckers deaths they’ve arrested 200 or more but there is 830 bodies found up and down highways in the United States. They found a cab of truck was a torture chamber. Very scary stuff lots of missing women mostly women.

[@Aaron-ex8kv]

@@nancyshelden1735 Your English ability is a crime.

[@dentrout9383]

You're right. Why are you not a detective? Maybe its because you cant be corrupted.

[@niceemarie5352]

Oh I remember a truck driver was a serial killer I- 40! I was 11 years old when this was going on even up to the”80’s! Goodness, remember reading this in our paper 🛑Wow🛑

[@Laura-fp6et]

Thank you, G. Thank god for DNA..

[@GirlFryDay]

I watch you often. Ty for covering this. The city is called Hueneme (Y-knee-me). Oxnard is a neighboring city. All locations are 5 miles or so from one another. This is 60 miles north of Los Angeles. There was only one on a former Pacific Coast High way, but it runs through the city in which he grew up in.

[@GirlFryDay]

I am somewhat local. Prayers for the family and friends of the victims.

[@Steve-j2j]

Check out Frank Figluizzi’s book, Long Haul. Discusses this mode of long haul trucking used by serial killers. Very good read.

[@MAD_962]

Very good read

[@irideaunicorn1620]

I jusy watched the Netflix docuseries of Laci Peterson... Although DNA doesn't come into play, I'm here for all these cold case DNA files. It's such a wooossaa type feeling.

[@nataliesharif2167]

How wonderful for these families after suffering so long. I cannot contain my tears thinking about everything these women and their families and countless investigators have gone through. I had a very strong emotional response to this video, never know when or why that may happen. I suppose because ive known the life these women were living for a short time many years ago. I was lucky and got out. Thank you G for being respectful of these women, not judging and giving value to their lives that others may not see. They were mothers, wives, neighbors, sisters, and daughters and so so much more.

[@Chelina7]

Paw the LIKE 👍 everyone! 🐻

[@dentrout9383]

Victimology is soo important!

[@CaliGirl305]

Technology is finally catching up to these monsters. I'm hoping that all of his victims and their families get justice for their loved ones. My condolences to his victims and all who loved them 🕊 🫂 🙏 ...

[@dollygood66]

I hope all his victims get their justice 🙏🏻

[@cakesboo6554]

Judging on the photos he’s not getting his snacks in jail 😂

[@mamazannie6060]

Hmm…California and North Carolina so he is a coast to coast killer. He killed a lot more than 4 people over his 73 years guaranteed. I pray for his victims and their families. Thank God he was caught.

[@marchelleceryes398]

Yikes😮

[@gobstoppa1633]

cops always make every success into an advert for their great blue line, yet it was a computer that made the match and as often is the case a lab technition, which they never mention, without which none of these cases wold be solved.

[@sharonpowers4771]

I love your "see something say something" shirt especially the black lettering on the white, awesome!!

[@GigiWright]

Port Waneme (pronouced) grew-up in W. Los Angeles near Santa Monica Beach south of Ventura We'd often hitchhike up the Coast in the early 70's as young teens. Lord there were at least 4 serial killers traveling up and down the coast and others a bit inland from the ocean. I have stories...... now in my mid 60's.

[@michelet1287]

Sounds like rex, crazy how these men are living among us

[@dave91137]

And women too

[@Erocksome]

Well well, it's been awhile since we've had a serial killer captured. And so many more too go. Very scary thought of just how many cold cases and unsolved murders too this day.

[@birdlovespaint]

Hueneme, used to live in Ventura Co, Port Hueneme, pronounced, Why Knee Me❤

[@PamelaBuck-c1g]

Ok, if ever there was a mugshot of a SERIAL KILLER, this would be it! 😮CREEEEPY!!!😱😱

[@deannadeason1850]

We have at least 4or5 here in Nevada that are not solved.

[@Ronimi-p4c]

It’s called Ventura,Ca I grew up there.

[@RobinHood_62]

Dang..in the 1980s I wanted to drive wherever I wanted alone .back to college across Texas. A trip from tx the az to visit friends My dad would say no..that there were bad people on the highways. He was right.

[@dentrout9383]

Yep..

[@kimberlyskye2024]

It’s kind of sad cause he got to live his whole life free

[@lisaenglert3202]

This was big news as I’m near there. Very happy to see it solved. Oh by the way, it’s pronounced port Y-nee-mee 😅

[@GrizzlyTrueCrime]

In getting tons of emails and voice clips on email to pronounce that which even Aunty Google gets wrong 😅