And, again, there was an item shoved down his throat.īut a valuable clue was recovered from the scene - a palm print on a TV entertainment center.Īfter talking to Morris' associates, they learned he frequented gay bars in Jacksonville and had recently brought home a man named Joey Pearson. His pants pockets had been turned inside out. The victim, a 37-year-old named Albert Morris, had been shot, beaten, and strangled.
Investigators on the scene surmised there had been a violent struggle. "There, lying on the floor, is their son, seemingly bludgeoned to death and his mouth is stuffed with a towel," Lalama told producers. When they spotted blood on his door, they broke inside. That same man, a witness told them, returned back to the bar about 30 minutes to an hour later - without Bradley.ĭays later, and just two hours from Savannah in Hilliard, Florida, the same killer appeared to have struck again.Ī Hilliard couple realized their son hadn't shown up for work at a convenience store that they owned, so they went to check on him at his trailer. Investigators learned Bradley had last been seen leaving a bar with a man who had seemingly been flirting with him.
"There was a lot of rage that went into this murder," Best said. "There was an excessive amount of force used to kill the victim … it was overkill."įascinated By Serial Killers? Watch 'Mark Of A Killer' Now An autopsy showed Bradley had been strangled to death and brutally beaten - assaulted so badly that bones in his neck broke. The victim was identified as Milton Bradley, a 72-year-old World War II veteran. There had to be a reason they were put there," Captain John Best with the Savannah Police Department told show producers. The thought that went through my head is, they didn’t get there by accident. "I saw in his mouth leaves and dirt were protruding. The victim, an older man, showed visible signs of trauma to the body and his is pants pockets had been turned inside out, indicating a robbery. Police arrived and determined there had been a violent struggle at the scene. “She notices a kind of a lump on the ground and realizes she is looking at a body," Pat Lalama, a crime journalist, told Oxygen series "Mark of a Serial Killer." She was looking around a maintenance shed when she came across a gruesome scene. On the morning of May 5, 1994, a worker was checking the grounds of a golf club in Savannah, Georgia. While police were able to identify their suspect relatively early on, it would take months to capture the vicious killer. In 1994, a serial killer was terrorizing gay communities along the East Coast of the United States.
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