Michael Hubert Hughes (born c. 1958) is a convicted American serial killer on death row in San Quentin.

[1] After leaving the Navy, Hughes moved back to California, where he lived on the streets, made friends, and sold drugs to support himself.

He and his new-found friends moved through Oakland to Long Beach, finally settling in Los Angeles, where Hughes' first confirmed murder took place.

In 1998, he was convicted and given a life sentence without parole for the strangulation murders of Teresa Ballard, Brenda Bradley, Terri Myles and Jamie Harrington.

[3] On July 3, 2008, Hughes was charged with sexually assaulting and strangling two women and two teenage girls in the Los Angeles area between 1986 and 1993 after homicide detectives linked him to DNA samples from the victims using new forensic technologies.

She was considered at the time to be a victim of the prolific, then-unidentified serial killer known as the Southside Slayer (later dubbed the Grim Sleeper, and later still identified as Lonnie David Franklin Jr.).