Jake Bird, BLACK SERIAL KILLER OF dozens of WHITES, killed WHITE Bertha Kludt and her daughter, Beverly June Kludt

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Jake Bird was arrested in Tacoma, Washington, on Oct. 30, 1947. He broke into the home of Bertha Kludt and her daughter, Beverly June Kludt, and hacked them to death with an ax. He confessed to the killings and was sentenced to death. On Nov. 26, 1947, following a three-day trial, he was convicted of first-degree murder. He confessed to 44 murders during his travels as a hobo across the country. He was hanged at the Washington State Penitentiary on July 15, 1949.



In 1991, criminologist Eric W. Hickey, Ph.D., Director of Alliant International University's Center for Forensic Studies, wrote about how the Bird case challenges stereotypes of serial killers, who are mostly thought to be Caucasian males, whereas African-American killers typically are associated with urban violence. Hickey wrote, "Revelations that Jake Bird, a black man, had actually stalked and killed dozens of white women in the 1940s in dozens of states...continue to challenge traditionally held profiles of serial killers."[2]
 
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Beverly June Kludt, age 17

Beverly June Kludt​

Birth 1930 Death 30 Oct 1947 (aged 16–17)
Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA

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Beverly June Kludt, 1930 - 1947


Beverly June Kludt was born in 1930, in birth place, Washington, to Edward Kludt and Bertha Kludt (born Eckert).
Edward was born on January 6 1885, in Novograd, Russia.
Bertha was born circa 1895, in Russia.

Beverly had 3 siblings: Alma Clara Kludt and 2 other siblings.
Beverly passed away on month day 1947, at age 17.
 
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Gertrude Mae Brown Resso​

Death 19 Nov 1928 (aged 22)
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA

Gertrude married Gearold "Waldo" Resso September 3, 1924 in Logan, Iowa. They are the parents of Robert Lee, Donald Neal & Melvin Glen.

Gertrude and her sister Creda were murdered by the serial axe murderer Jake Bird on November 19, 1928. Jake Bird was tied to 46 murders, all women, in 12 states. He was finally captured in 1947 in Washington state.

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Creda Marguerite Brown​

Death 19 Nov 1928 (aged 18)
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA

Creda and her sister Gertrude were murdered by the serial axe murderer Jake Bird on November 19, 1928. Jake Bird was tied to 46 murders, all women, in 12 states. He was finally captured in 1947 in Washington state.
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The Resso sisters were not mentioned in murderpedia. What stands out to me is the string of Jazz music axe murders in New Orleans where he was born, the murdered were a number of small grocery or deli store owners that occurred around the time Jake Bird was age 16 to 18 or so, after which he took to the tracks.

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Police in Houston suspected Bird of murdering Mrs. Harry Richardson there, and Chicago authorities were curious about a weighted body retrieved from Lake Michigan, five miles south of Kenosha. Los Angeles detectives had their eyes on Jake for murdering a black youth and a Jewish grocer, while in New York City he was tentatively linked to the robbery and murder of a delicatessen owner. Psychiatrists examined Bird in jail and labeled him a psychopath, deriving satisfaction from the sight of women cowering in terror.
In the verified cases, most of his victims were female, most were white, and the majority had been killed with hatchets or axes in their homes. (Bird also put a "hex" on several enemies from prison, journalists reporting that some half a dozen of them subsequently died.)​

 
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