Paul Durousseau (born August 11, 1970)[1] is an American serial killer who murdered seven young women (two of whom were pregnant) in the southeastern United States between 1997 and 2003.

German authorities suspect he may have also killed several local women when he was stationed there with the United States Army during the early 1990s.

[2] In November 1992, Durousseau enlisted in the United States Army[2] and was stationed in Germany, where he met a woman named Natoca.

In 1996 the couple were transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia, where, on March 13, 1997, Durousseau was arrested for kidnapping and raping a young woman.

Durousseau struggled to keep jobs to make ends meet, and the couple would often argue over their financial situation.

In 1999, the police advised Natoca on how to file for a restraining order after Durousseau allegedly slapped her in the face and grabbed her by the neck.

[5] Neighbors and friends described Durousseau as a "lewd womanizer" who often asked young women when they planned to "make flicks" with him.

His modus operandi would be that he would usually meet his victims (all young single African-American women) through his job and gain their trust to enter their homes, where he would bind them before proceeding to rape them before strangling them to death with a cord.

On December 19, 2002, 18-year-old Nicole L. Williams' body was found wrapped in a blue blanket at the bottom of a ditch in Jacksonville.

[3] Eight days later, 20-year-old nurse assistant Shawanda Denise McCalister, who was also pregnant at the time of her death, was raped and strangled in her Jacksonville apartment.

Witnesses recount having seen the two last victims with a taxi driver fitting Paul Durousseau's description on the night they disappeared.

[12] He was resentenced to life in prison without parole on December 10, 2021, after a jury split 10–2 in favor of another death sentence.