John Floyd Thomas Jr. John F. Thomas Photo
John Floyd Thomas Jr. – An ex-con named John Floyd Thomas Jr., pictured below, has been identified as a serial killer who murdered as many as thirty elderly white women in Southern California.
John Floyd Thomas Jr mug shot
Beginning in the mid-Seventies, John Floyd Thomas Jr. preyed on white senior citizens who lived alone, raping and smothering them while working as an insurance adjuster.
Despite twice being convicted of rape and serving almost fifteen years in state prison, police failed to connect the unsolved “Westside Rapist” crimes with Thomas.
John Thomas, who raped and then strangled or smothered his victims until they either passed out or died, is linked to 17 murders and at least twenty more unsolved rapes.
Thomas was arrested at his apartment in South Los Angeles last month and charged April 2 with murder in connection with the deaths of Ethel Sokoloff, 68, in the Mid-Wilshire area in 1972, and Elizabeth McKeown, 67, in Westchester in 1976.
“When all is said and done, Mr. Thomas stands to be Los Angeles’ most prolific serial killer,” said LAPD Robbery-Homicide Cold Case Det. Richard Bengston.
Bengston said Thomas’ DNA matched evidence found at five murder scenes, spanning both crime waves — the two homicides he has already been charged with, plus one in Lennox in 1975, one in Inglewood in 1976 and one in Claremont in 1986.
DNA and other evidence is being examined in 25 more unsolved murders thought to be committed by Thomas, based on evidence in his two rape convictions and the DNA evidence in the five murders where he has already been charged.
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