George Waterfield Russell Jr. (born April 1958), known as The Charmer, is an American thief and serial killer responsible for the murders of three women in Seattle over the summer in 1990.
Aside from semen samples and fiber pieces matching the truck he drove on the night of Beethe's murder,[8] it was discovered that Russell had given Levine's ring to another woman, claiming that he had bought it from a street vendor in Canada.
Russell pleaded innocent to all charges,[9] and when questioned in telephone interviews, he admitted to having books on Ted Bundy, but denied being a fan of his.
[6] At the time, his brutal killings were compared with the then-unsolved murders of five college students in Gainesville, Florida, which were later linked to Danny Rolling.
Russell’s case was also examined in “Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers” by Robert D. Kepler and William J. Birnes.
The case was dramatized in multiple Investigation Discovery television shows, including: Dead of Night, Secrets of the Morgue, City Confidential, and Murder By Numbers.