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Ripper Crew
Booking photos; left to right: Robin Gecht, Andrew Kokoraleis, Thomas Kokoraleis, and Edward Spreitzer
Born
Robin Gecht (1953-11-30) November 30, 1953 (age 70) Menard, Illinois, U.S. Andrew Kokoraleis (1963-07-18)July 18, 1963 Villa Park, Illinois, U.S. Thomas Kokoraleis (1961-07-10) July 10, 1961 (age 62) Villa Park, Illinois, U.S. Edward Spreitzer (1961-01-05) January 5, 1961 (age 63) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died
Andrew Kokoraleis March 17, 1999(1999-03-17) (aged 35) Tamms Correctional Center, Tamms, Illinois, U.S.
Cause of death
Andrew Kokoraleis Execution by lethal injection
Other names
The Chicago Rippers The Ripper Crew
Criminal status
Robin Gecht and Edward Spreitzer Incarcerated Andrew Kokoraleis Executed Thomas Kokoraleis Released
Conviction(s)
Everyone except Gecht was convicted of at least one count of murder
Criminal penalty
Robin Gecht 120 years imprisonment Andrew Kokoraleis Death Thomas Kokoraleis Life imprisonment; commuted to 70 years Edward Spreitzer Death; commuted to life imprisonment
Details
Victims
18
Span of crimes
May 23, 1981 – October 8, 1982
Country
United States
State(s)
Illinois
Date apprehended
November 5, 1982
The Ripper Crew or the Chicago Rippers was an organized crime group of serial killers, cannibals, rapists, and necrophiles. The group composed of Robin Gecht[1] and three associates: Edward Spreitzer, and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis.[2] They were suspected in the murders of 17 women in Illinois in 1981 and 1982, as well as the unrelated fatal shooting of a man in a random drive-by shooting.[3] According to one of the detectives who investigated the case, Gecht "made Manson look like a Boy Scout."[4]
^Schneck, Robert Damon (2014). "Ku Klux Klowns: Grim Rippers". Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Anti-Christ: And Other Strange-but-true Tales From American History (E-Book ed.). [S.l.]: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1585429448.
^Ramsland, Katherine. (2005) The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation, Berkley Books, ISBN 978-0-425-20765-9 p. 220.
^Rumore, Christy Gutowski, Marianne Mather and Kori (29 March 2019). "Timeline: Sadistic exploits, innocent victims of the Ripper Crew". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2022-01-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Gutowski, Christy (29 March 2019). "The Ripper Crew abducted and murdered women in the '80s. Now Thomas Kokoraleis, 58, is set to go free". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
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