Dr. No (serial killer)

In December 1986, 18-year-old sex worker April Barnett also went missing from the Union 76 truck stop, with her body found only a few days later 70 miles from Austintown.

During the investigation, law enforcement agencies discovered that Patterson had made an appointment via CB radio with the client, nicknamed "Dr. No", whom she characterized extremely negatively, and then disappeared.

According to the nature of grass depressions and tire tracks located at the scene, forensic experts determined that the killer threw the victim's corpse out of his car.

The victim was identified as Paula Beverly Davis, 21, after relatives recognized her tattoos pictured from her listing in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.

[8][9][10] Although she was included on the task force relating to the murders (formed in 1991), additional theories exist suggesting a drug dealer's retaliation, an unknown woman last seen in her company, or an unrelated serial killer.

Despite the fact that the truck stop was located on another interstate, Cole was included as a potential victim because she had died from strangulation, was a native of Ohio and some of her things had been recovered, while others not.

During the investigation, Lamonica's pimp, 24-year-old Derrick Mims, told police that the alleged killer with whom Cole left on the day of her disappearance was traveling in a blue Semi-trailer truck with white stripes.

The medical examiner found that the woman died from a traumatic brain injury that occurred during a beating with a blunt object several hours before the discovery of her body.

[13] During the course of the investigation, the police interviewed hundreds of prostitutes, pimps, service station employees and truck drivers, in an attempt to find witnesses and identify the offender.

[14] According to the witnesses, the killer appeared to be a tall, large man with fair skin and dark hair, aged 25–40, wore glasses and talked with an accent matching that of somebody from the Northeastern states.

To establish if the sperm had the same affiliation, a forensic examination was carried out which gave mixed results, due to the fact that all of the victims had engaged in prostitution during life, and authorities started questioning whether the deaths were actually related.

After his arrest, the girl contacted police, stating that in 1986, Wilson had picked her up in Akron after paying for her services, and had beat and attempted to strangle her afterward.

[18] In June 1994, a 36-year-old trucker from Ohio, James Robert Cruz Jr., was convicted in the March 1993 murder of 17-year-old Dawn Marie Birnbaum in Centre County, Pennsylvania, whose body was found along Interstate 80.

Nevertheless, he was cleared of suspicion of being the elusive "Dr. No", since, at the time of the first murder in 1981, he was still in high school, and in the mid-1980s, when the majority of the killings took place, he was serving in the Army and was stationed outside Ohio.