Serial killer Krajcir moved to prison in Pontiac, Ill.

PONTIAC, Ill. -- Timothy Krajcir, a confessed serial killer who received his 14th life sentence last year, has been transferred to Illinois' Pontiac Correction Center, due to what prison officials are calling "the nature of his crimes."

Krajcir had been serving his sentence at the prison in Stateville, Ill., but he was moved Tuesday to the prison in Pontiac. Both are maximum-security facilities, said Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sharyn Elman. He is more than four years into an 80-year sentence for murders in Williamson and Jackson counties in Illinois. In addition to being sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping of Joyce Tharp, whom he confessed to killing in Carbondale, Ill., Krajcir received a 20-year sentence for a burglary charge.

In 2008 he confessed to five murders in Cape Girardeau in the late 1970s and early 1980s.