Stephen Morin

Stephen Peter Morin (February 19, 1951 – March 13, 1985) was an American serial killer who was suspected of being responsible for at least forty murders of young girls and women and 7 men in the period from 1969 to 1981.

Since Morin led a transient lifestyle and constantly moved around the country, the exact number of his victims is uncertain, but he is suspected of a total 48 violent crimes across the United States.

He was born on February 19, 1951, in Providence, Rhode Island, into a poor family.

He dropped out of school early, and in his teenage years, Morin began to use narcotics and delved into the criminal lifestyle.

In the mid-1960s, Morin was arrested in Florida for car theft.

He was convicted and spent some time in an institution for juvenile delinquents.

Freed in 1968, Morin left Florida and wandered around the country.

For the majority of the 1970s, he resided in Northern California, specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area, constantly changing his places of residence and using various pseudonyms while committing crimes.

For some time, he lived in San Francisco, where he worked as a car mechanic and builder.

Unnamed Female

On September 26, 1976, Morin tricked a 14-year-old girl into accompanying him to his Marina District apartment in San Francisco.

Once there, he bound her, hung her from a ceiling hook, and raped and brutalized her for several hours.

He released her in a Marin County shopping center.

The FBI reported that Morin had been sought for interstate flight to avoid prosecution since 1977.

Sheila Gay Griffith

On September 25, 1979, Sheila Griffith, 22, was last seen leaving the Silver Nugget in Las Vegas with a man.

Her body was found November 27, 1979, in the Mojave desert near the Nevada state line, covered by a sleeping bag.

Susan Jane Belote

In the early 1980s, he was pursued by the federal authorities.

Morin had created multiple aliases.

These names included Rich Clark, Robert Fred Generoso, Thomas David Hones, Ray Constantino, and Constatine.

The court found Morin sane and sentenced him to death by lethal injection.

On January 16, 1980, Susan Belote, 18, was reported missing when she failed to return to her Las Vegas home after a local shopping trip.

Her body was found May 26, 1980, near Bloomington.

Police said a large stone had been place on top of the body.

An autopsy performed on the badly decomposed body failed to positively established the cause of death, however, the examiner said apparent damage inflicted on the victim's neck tissue led him to suspect the teenager was strangled.

Cheryl Ann Daniel

On June 27, 1980, Cheryl Daniel, 20, was abducted from the Alpha Beta Supermarket parking lot in Las Vegas.

Her body was found on December 13, 1980 in Hell Hole Canyon, near St George, with a gunshot wound to the head.

On January 11, 1981, the Washington County sheriff issued a warrant charging Morin with kidnapping and murder in connection to the discovery of the bodies of Belote and Daniel.

Sheila E Whalen

On November 6, 1981, Morin, having just ended a date with Cindy Lee McDonald, picked up Sheila Whalen, 23.

She was found stabbed to death in a room at the Mountain View Motel in Lakewood, Colorado, on November 7, 1981.

Articles of clothing missing from Whalen's belongings were found by Morin's former girlfriend in his van, contributing to evidence that Morin killed Whalen after sexually assaulting her.

Pamela Jackson

On November 30, 1981, Pamela Jackson, 23, was abducted from a Corpus Christi apartment complex while on her way to pick up her son.

She survived 11 days with Morin.

During her captivity, Morin made her dye her hair brown, from blonde, and he sexually assaulted her multiple times a day.

In 1985, he was executed by Texas after waiving his appeals.

Little is known about Morin's childhood.