Career
The first attacks occurred in 1964 as Greenwood killed two transients in November 1964. A ten-year gap period between murders occurred due to Greenwood being convicted and sentenced to a knifing assault in Chicago in 1966. He spent five and a half years in jail for this conviction before returning to California.
Greenwood continued his murder spree in December 1974 and murdered nine victims between December 1974 and February 1975.
Greenwood was convicted of nine counts of murder, including eight of the "Skid Row Slasher" killings in Southern California. The "Slasher" victims had their throats cut from ear to ear.
There was evidence that the killer drank the blood of the victims. Greenwood left cups of blood and rings of salt around the corpses.
This is disputed by K.V. Lanning.
On 19 January 1977, Greenwood was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is serving his sentence in the California Men"s Colony at San Luis Obispo. These are the Skid Row Slasher"s known victims in chronological order of attack:.
