Michael A. Johnson Jr. (born September 5, 1985) is an American serial killer who, between August 2008 and May 2010, assaulted six women in Chicago, Illinois, killing four and discarding their bodies in abandoned buildings throughout the South Side.
He was born missing three fingers from his right hand, which is possibly due to his mother's heavy use of drugs during her pregnancy.
His mother also regularly beat Johnson with electrical cords and barred him along with his siblings from leaving the house.
The family struggled financially, so as a way of work his mother resorted to prostitution, while Johnson would often travel to the corner store to beg for food.
[2] The refusal caused Johnson to be thrown into rage and attacked the women, choking her until she lost consciousness, then sexually assaulted her and threw her off the second story balcony.
The woman survived but suffered a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and permanent scars all over her back.
In January 2010 Johnson struck again, when he strangled Leslie Brown to death, and dumped her dead body at 119th and Wentworth, where it was found frozen and nude by a passerby.
[4] Later that same month, Johnson strangled 30-year-old Siobhan "Shay" Hampton to death, later discarding her body near Harold's Chicken Shack.