Christopher Bernard Wilder (13 March 1945 – 13 April 1984) was a serial killer who abducted and raped at least twelve women and killed at least eight of them during a spree across the United States in early 1984. His rampage began in Florida and continued across the country through Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, California and New York before he committed suicide during a struggle with police in New Hampshire on April 13. He is also believed to have raped girls aged 10 and 12 in Florida during 1983. For many years since his death, Wilder has also been considered the prime suspect in the unsolved Wanda Beach murder of two teenage girls in Sydney, Australia in 1965.
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“For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)