Louisiana families compare facts to locate serial killer

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Two of the murdered women drove BMWs, but the third victim didn't. Two loved antiques, but the third had no interest. Two lived on the same street at one point, but the third lived on the outskirts of the city.

There are no obvious threads to bind the three women together, but police say DNA evidence shows their murders over less than a year were committed by the same man. The killer remains loose and police remain tight-lipped.

Family members are ferreting through scraps of information about each victim to find a link, a clue that could lead to the serial killer who slashed Pam Kinamore's throat, strangled Gina Wilson Green and stabbed Charlotte Murray Pace.

"We have not been able to come up with anything that is common for all three, and believe me, we're trying," said Ann Pace, mother of Charlotte Murray Pace.

Police won't say if sexual assaults occurred.

Police connected the murders of Pace and Green first, in early July.

Green, a 41-year-old nurse, was found strangled in her home Sept. 24. At the time, Pace lived just three doors away.

Pace, 22, a recent graduate of Louisiana State University, was stabbed to death May 31, two days after she moved to another neighborhood.

Ann Pace said it doesn't appear the two women knew each other.

Three weeks after police connected the deaths of Pace and Green, they announced the link to Kinamore's murder -- and set the city on edge with news of a serial killer.

Kinamore, 44, a decorator and antique store owner, was abducted from her home July 12. The killer slit her throat and dumped her body at an exit off Interstate 10, about 30 miles from Baton Rouge.

After police announced few leads, relatives and friends of the murdered women started talking by telephone and e-mail, comparing gyms, beauty salons, nightclubs and other bits of information.