Joseph Henry Burgess (c. 1947 – July 16, 2009), sometimes referred to as the Cookie Bandit, was an American-Canadian fugitive and suspected serial killer.

He fled to Canada in the late 1960s to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, after which the Marines put out an active warrant for his arrest.

Eventually settling in a Children of God commune on the British Columbia Coast, he clashed with other residents due to his religious fervor and rifle ownership.

[2][3] On June 21, 1972, 20-year-old Ann Durrant and 19-year-old Leif Karlsson were shot multiple times in the head at point-blank range while lying in their sleeping bag on a beach near Tofino on Vancouver Island.

[6] Burgess was initially considered a suspect in the 2004 double homicide of a couple on Fish Head Beach in Jenner, California.