Christopher Wilder

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Christopher Wilder was an Australian born, naturalized American serial killer presumed to have tortured and murdered at least seven women, and to have abducted and tortured a number of others. The murders took place in Florida in March and April of 1984.

The first murder attributed to Wilder was that of Rosario Gonzalez, last seen February 26, 1984 at the Miami Grand Prix, where she was employed as a model. Soon after, on March 5, 1984, Wilder's former girlfriend, Miss Florida finalist Elisabeth Kenyon, went missing. Their bodies were never found. In the following weeks, Wilder went to nearby malls posing as a fashion photographer representing modelling agencies in order to get close to the models he would later abduct.

One of his other victims was 16 year old Tina Marie who he kidnapped outside a shopping mall and then held captive and tortured. A couple of days later when he was about to kill her, he saw on the news that he was on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, which scared him. He decided to spare Tina Marie's life if she helped him to find a new victim, which she did, because she was totally broken down from days of torture and rape. The victim was a woman named Beth Dodge who Christopher decided to attack because he wanted her gold coloured pontiac car as described in the Crimelibrary story. Tina Marie helped Christopher kidnap her and they drove for half an hour to the woods where Christopher shot Beth. Wilder had started to bond with Tina Marie and decided to give her flight money to get back home to her parents. He drove her to the airport and helped her to the plane. Tina told the police everything about her time in captivity.

On April 13, while Wilder was attempting to flee to Canada, New Hampshire state troopers recognized his car and attempted to arrest him. Wilder shot himself during the ensuing struggle.

Three of the victims bodies were never found.