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The pattern for Billy Mansfield’s wicked life was set before he took his first breath.

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For starters, Billy Sr.’s father he was a convicted pedophile who rocked prisons in his native Michigan and Nevada. Junior and his brothers were encouraged to fight each other. Billy Jr. soon followed a similar path. He dropped out of school when he was 14 in 1970 and later joined the army where he developed a serious drinking problem. In 1975 he married Phyllis Spielmaker and the couple had two children. They divorced four years later when she decided to stay in their hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Serial killer Billy Mansfield. CA DEPT. CORRECTIONS His ex-wife would later say that Billy was bisexual and would often bring home revelers from gay bars and have sex with them in front of her. Billy Jr. was mostly a mild-mannered but violent drunk. While he committed a series of sex crimes in Grand Rapids and Florida in the 1970s and was imprisoned on several occasions, detectives believe he graduated to murder on New Year’s Eve 1975.

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The victim’s name was 15-year-old Elaine Louise Zeigler. The teenager disappeared from a COA campground in Brooksville, Florida while on vacation with her parents. The Hunt for Elaine. TAMPA TRIBUNE Officers said she was a runaway, but a witness saw the girl get into a blue 1966 Ford Fairlane with Florida license plates driven by a man in his 20s. Next to die was René Saling, a 29-year-old mother of three from California. Her naked body was later found in a drainage ditch near Watsonville. She had been strangled to death after meeting Mansfield in a local bar. But the cops quickly caught up and restrained Billy Jr. and his brother Gary. The duo was dubbed ‘The Bag Brothers’. Murder victim René Saling, a 29-year-old mother of three from California. WATSONVILLE POLICE Everything was closing. In Hernando County, Florida, detectives turned their focus to Junior’s junkyard. There they found four bodies.

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A Jane Doe buried under a concrete slab, a white teenager, Theresa Fillingim, 17, was finally identified last week, and Sandra Jean Graham, 21, was last seen in a low-rent pit in 1980. By April 1981, neighbors in Brooksville were calling Mansfield’s place a “house of horrors.” It took weeks to find the bodies. Mansfield’s trash. GOOGLE It took years to develop a DNA profile for Fillingim. “Using DNA evidence from this investigation, Snapshot produced trait predictions for the relevant victim. Individual predictions were made last week about the victim’s ancestry, eye color, hair color, skin color, freckles and facial shape,” the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. A DNA sample from Fillingim’s sister confirmed the identity of the long-lost girl.

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The unknown. HERNANDO COUNTY SHERIFF After Mansfield’s arrest in California, an anonymous tipster told officers there might be bodies at Mansfield’s Florida home. Poor Elaine Zeigler was the second body to be recovered. Jane Doe was never identified. Mansfield, 66, is now in a cage in California. He pleaded guilty to killing all four women to avoid the death penalty. “I plead guilty because I am guilty of the charges and I have no other reason,” he told the California court as he signed away his life. We apologize, but this video failed to load. Mansfield’s son, Bill, told Fox News he can’t understand why his father and brother didn’t do the right thing decades ago, as a new search of the property began in 2021. “I want to know if they found anything and how old it is,” he said. “Why didn’t (Gary) give these people their family members 40 years ago if he knew their bodies were there?”

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Australia’s famous unidentified homicide victim, the Somerton man, finally has a name. SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE AUSTRALIA’S MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED? One of the most disturbing criminal cases in Australian history may finally be solved. Cops and the public called the dead man lying on the beach, with a lit cigarette between his fingers, the Somerton Man. Now, a university professor claims to have spread the mystery. Derek Abbott says the deceased was Carl “Charles” Webb, an electrical engineer and instrument maker born in Melbourne in 1905. He worked with renowned American genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick to identify Webb. When the man’s body was discovered on the beach, police made a death mask. Trapped in the plaster mask were strands of Webb’s hair that years later would prove his identity. Coded writing was part of the mystery. SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE The mystery began on December 1, 1948, when beach bums discovered the body lying on Somerton Beach in Adelaide. He was a well-built man, 40 to 50 years old, about 11 feet, with gray-blue eyes and brown hair graying on the sides. He had no identification and the tags inside his clothes had all been cut off. A worldwide search for his identity has yielded few answers, only more questions. Was he a spy, a victim of cold war intrigue? And what about the piece of paper with some kind of code on it? “The last known record we have of him is in April 1947 when he left his wife Dorothy,” Fitzpatrick said. “He disappeared and she appeared in court saying he had disappeared and wanted a divorce.” One thing seems certain: Webb was poisoned. The investigation continues. [email protected] @HunterTOSun

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