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| Full Name: | Maury Troy Travis |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | African-American |
| Birth: | October 25, 1965 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Death: | June 10, 2002 in Clayton, Missouri, United States - Age 36 |
| Cause of Death: | Suicide by hanging (in jail) |
| Nicknames: | --- |
| Murder Toll: | 12+ murdered victims (claimed 17) |
| Murder Time Frame: | 2000-2002 / Age 34-35 at first murder, 36-37 at last murder |
| Murder Locations: | United States - Ferguson, Missouri |
| Preferred Prey: | African-American, female prostitutes |
| Modus Operandi: | Bondage, sodomy, rape, strangulation |
| Victim Disposal: | Dumped in rural areas |
| Signature: | Sent a note and map to the press |
| Trophies: | Newspaper clippings, a videotape of his victims that was labeled "Your Wedding Day" |
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 Mary Shields Female - Age 61 Death: 2000 |
Teresa Wilson Female - Age 36 Death: 2000/2001 |
Alysa Greenwade Female - Age 34 Death: Mar/Apr 2001 |
Betty James Female - Age 46 Death: 2001 |
Verona Thompson Female - Age 36 Death: 2001 |
Yvonne Crues Female - Age 50 Death: 2001 |
Brenda Beasley Female - Age 33 Death: 2001 |
Unidentified Female - Age ?? Death: 2001/2002 |
Unidentified Female - Age ?? Death: 2001/2002 |
Unidentified Female - Age ?? Death: 2001/2002 |
Unidentified Female - Age ?? Death: 2001/2002 |
Unidentified Female - Age ?? Death: 2001/2002 |
Daily and hourly also at any given moment I think of taking my life. The condition here are excruciatingly tormenting to say the least. Staying in my cell and crying myself to sleep most every night will not help, but it's so very hard to believe this has happened to me. This whole situation is horrid and phantasmic. If it weren't for such a caring cellmate, I'm very sure Id've committed suicide after my first day here at this institution. You sir, are my last hope. Please give me another chance in society. Please!!!
- A letter he wrote to a judge in 1989 after he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbery.
"Yes, but you don't have to worry about her tonight because she's with me, and she's safe." - What he said over the phone to a female friend of victim Alysa Greenwade, after Greenwade had called her and had Maury Travis talk to her (the night Greenwade was killed).
"This is first kill. Number One. First kill was 19 years old. Name -- I don't know. I don't give a fuck." - What he said on videotape after appearing to murder one of his victims.
"You want to say something to your kids? Who's raising your kids? You ain't raising shit, bitch. You over here on your back smoking crack. You ain't going home tomorrow. I'm keeping you about a week. Is that all right?" - What he said to one of his victims on videotape.
"Say it clearer!" - What he yelled when he wanted one of his victims to call him "master."
"You don't need to see shit. Lay down on your back. Shut your eyes." - What he said to one of his victims when they tried to remove the duct tape that was covering their eyes.
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Dear Bill, nice sob story about Teresa Wilson. Write one about greenwade write a good one and I'll tell you where many others are to prove im real here's directions to number seventeen search in a fifty yard radius from the x put the story in the Sunday paper like the last
- A letter he sent to Bill Smith of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in May 2002. It also included a downloaded map of West Alton, Illinois, marked with an "X". It directed to where the skeletal remains of one of his victims was found.
"I'm toast, I'm toast." - When he fully realized he was caught.
"Yeah, I knew you'd find it." - When police asked him if he knew what they found in his basement, referring to the videotapes.
"Fucking computer! Damned internet!" - When he found out he was traced through the internet and his home-computer.
"Hmmph, victims..." - When police told him they needed closure for the families of the victims.
"Nothing. Went to school. What did you do?" - When asked what he did as a child.
"No, how about you?" - When asked if he was abused as a child.
"I am not going back to prison. I am not going back."
 A&E - Cold Case Files A Map to Murder Genre: Documentary Release Year: 2005 |
 Court TV - Forensic Files X Marks the Spot Genre: Documentary Release Year: Unknown |
