Emanuel Lovell Webb

Emanuel Lovell Webb (born April 9, 1966), known as The East End Killer, is an American serial killer who raped and killed four women in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from 1990 to 1993. After the murders were connected and a search for the killer was underway, Webb moved to Georgia, where he raped and killed a woman in Vidalia in 1994. He was convicted of that murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison, being paroled in 2001. He was detained for a parole violation in 2005 and afterwards DNA evidence linked him to the Bridgeport murders. He was extradited to Connecticut and pleaded no contest in 2008 and was sentenced to 60 years in prison.

Murders East End Killer On April 1, 1990, law enforcement responded to an apparent arson in downtown Bridgeport. The crime in question was a sports car that was parked on a city street, and the fire department, after putting the fire out, discovered the charred remains of a woman in the passenger seat. The woman, later identified as 30-year-old Sharon Cunningham, was revealed to have been strangled by a strand of cloth wrapped around her neck. DNA from a male was discovered on her body, leading authorities to suspect she had also been raped. Her 3-year-old son was present during this time although the killer did not harm him. Similar to Cunningham's murder, Sutton had been raped, and a cigarette butt containing male DNA was found near her body.

The third victim was Elizabeth "Maxine" Gandy, a 33-year-old woman who went missing on Easter 1993. Her body was found lying topless in a pool hall in an abandoned building, with her pants unfastened in the front indicating sexual assault was the motive.

The killer struck for the final time in June 1993. On June 28, the father and a friend of 29-year-old Sheila Etheridge entered her apartment after not hearing from her for a few days only to discover her body lying in her bedroom.

Investigation and arrest While Bridgeport authorities conclusively linked the East End Killer to four murders, they investigated up to fifteen other murders dating back to the 1980s as possibly being linked to the case. In 2000, the DNA found on Gandy's body was sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) so that the samples could be compared with DNA profiles of convicted felons around the country. In early 2006, investigators with the East End Killer case were notified when the DNA they submitted matched the sample Webb gave up.

Along with the physical evidence linking him to Gandy's murder, investigators noted circumstantial evidence that linked Webb to the other deaths. At the time of the East End murders, Webb lived in Bridgeport with his sister, whose apartment was within the 10-block radius where the murders occurred. He was employed as a security guard in the neighboring town of Fairfield until moving to Georgia in August 1993, and afterwards, the murders appeared to have ceased. His attorney's attempt to lower his $4 million bail to $1 million was struck down. That same month, Webb's DNA was matched to forensic evidence left at the other three murder scenes, and thus he was charged with three additional murders. He was then returned to Georgia, where he was imprisoned until 2014 for violating his parole. As of , Webb is incarcerated at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. Should he live long enough, he is scheduled for release on November 18, 2058.