Charles T. Sinclair

Charles Thurman Sinclair, also known as the Coin Shop Killer, was an American criminal suspected of various murders of coin shop owners between the early 1980s and the 1990s. who was linked to murders across the western United States and Canada.

Sinclair has been linked to eleven homicides, one attempted murder and two rapes. He targeted coin shop owners in order to rob them of valuable coin collections. His victims were killed to eliminate any witnesses to the event, not out of any known or specific malice.

Background Charles Sinclair was born and raised in the small town of Jal, New Mexico. He was the youngest of four children from a working-class family. The 10-year-old coin shop was also robbed of $54,000 in coins and gold.

In the summer of 1986, Robert and Dagmar Linton headed towards the northwest in hopes of reaching Vancouver to see the World's Fair. As they worked their way north for the first month, they frequently called home. When they reached Washington State, the phone calls stopped. The red and white trailer Reuben Lee Williams aka Ruben Lucky Williams, of Vacaville, California, was killed with a gunshot wound to the head and his coin shop robbed on November 1, 1986. and marriage certificate lists his legal name as Reuben Lee Williams) Leo Cashatt, of Spokane, Washington, was killed with a gunshot wound to the head and his coin shop robbed on July 14, 1987.

Arrest On August 16, 1990, Sinclair was arrested near his home in Kenny Lake, Alaska after being tracked down by investigators following the trail of bodies left across multiple states.

Death On October 30, 1990, Charles T. Sinclair died of heart failure in an Anchorage, Alaska jail cell. Sinclair's death has left associated cases without the closure of convictions or further information required.