Alphabet Killer: The real story behind the ABC murders

A predatory paedophile is trawling the streets of Rochester, NY, luring children into his car, sexually assaulting them and then dumping their bodies in nearby areas.

Three shy 11-year girls are murdered and the police begin a desperate race against time to find the killer before he can strike again.

Investigators have suspects, car sightings and evidence that the girls may have known their abductor.

But the one macabre thread that seemingly joins the tragic victims is that all the girls have alliterative names and all are dumped in towns beginning with the same letter as their first and second names. A strange coincidence? A chance first killing that became a compulsion or a chilling peep into the murderer's twisted mind?

Read the full, spine chilling story of the shadowy killer known only as 'The Alphabet Killer.'