Several of the suspected victims of Knowles lived in Georgia. She was found strangled with her own stockings. It is also believed that Knowles is responsible for the death of Marjorie Howie, 49, in Atlantic Beach. Knowles’ brother Clifton Knowles later said he did not believe his brother killed the young girls. Dan Janson with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Homicide Unit told FCN that he had doubts that Knowles was responsible, noting that some believed he exaggerated the number of people he had killed to gain notoriety. Mylette Anderson and Annette Anderson disappeared Aug. His first known victim is believed to be retired Jacksonville Beach teacher Alice Curtis, 65, who died the night of his escape from jail after being bound and gagged during a robbery. Jacksonville jail escape starts spreeĪccording to media reports, Knowles is believed to have started his killing spree in the summer of 1974 after he picked a lock and escaped from his jail cell in Jacksonville where he was serving a sentence for stabbing a bartender.
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Knowles never went to trial for the crimes he was accused of because he was shot by a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent while allegedly trying to escape custody just outside Atlanta. Knowles, who was born in Orlando in 1946, was formally accused of murdering four people in Georgia, two in Florida and one in Ohio, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported, but it is believed he killed at least 18 people and maybe as many as 35. “Just about everywhere he went he left a body,” one former investigator said. In some cases, the deaths involved sexual assault. Knowles is accused of indiscriminately shooting and strangling men, women, children and the elderly over a seven-month span in 1974.
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