Serial killer Andrew Urdiales' victims

Investigators say Andrew Urdiales was smarter than your average serial killer. Between 1986 and 1996, his killing spree spanned from Illinois to California. In that time, he attacked and tortured nine women, with no witneses and no evidence left behind. Only one woman, Jennifer Asbenson, survived.

It wasn't until 1996 when police tied the cases to Urdiales, who confessed in great detail to the eight murders and the attack on Asbenson.

Video: Urdiales confesses to murder
Video: Urdiales confesses to attack
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Jan 18, 1986: Robin Brandley, 23, is found dead - stabbed 41 times- in a parking lot on the Saddleback College campus in Mission Viejo, Calif.

With no evidence of a robbery and no witnesses the case went cold. Andrew Urdiales later confesses to her murder.

Video: Urdiales confesses to Brandley's murder
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July 17, 1988 : Julie McGhee is killed in Cathedral City, Palm Springs, Calif. A cartridge casing is found at the scene.

"She had been picked up in Palm Springs, taken out to this area of town that's pretty much abandoned... and [was] shot and killed," says Palm Springs Lt. John Booth. "He left virtually no evidence behind."

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Sept. 25, 1988: At approximately 10 p.m. Mary Ann Wells leaves for a "date" with Urdiales in San Diego. She is later killed and her body found in a downtown alley. A cartridge casing is found at the scene.

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April 16, 1989: 18-year-old Tammie Erwin is murdered in Riverside County, Calif. A cartridge casing is found at the scene.

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Sept. 27, 1992: Jennifer Asbenson, 19, meets Andrew Urdiales when he offers her a ride to work.

Sept. 28, 1992: Urdiales waits for Jennifer at about 6 a.m. when she gets off of work, and offers her a ride home. He kidnaps her, drives her out to the desert, rapes her, bundles her in his trunk and drives off (presumably in an attempt to find a place to kill her), when she manages to escape. The incident is reported to police, who do not take her seriously.

Urdiales later confesses to the attack. Five years later, during his trial, Jennifer confronts her attacker him in court.

Urdiales confesses to Asbenson attack
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March 11, 1995: Denise Maney is tied up with twine and tortured before her murder in Riverside County, Calif.

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April 14, 1996: Laura Uylaki is found shot in the head in Wolf Lake, Cook County, Ill. Detectives are the scene at 12:30 p.m. Uylaki had been murdered at approx. 10:15 p.m. the night before.

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July 14, 1996: At approximately 8:46 p.m., the Livingston County Sheriff's Dept. receives a call that a woman has been found floating the Vermillion River. Detectives responding to the scene find Cassandra Corum dead. She had been shot in the head.

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Aug. 2, 1996: Lynn Huber is found floating face down in Wolf Lake in Cook County, Ill., at 9:30 a.m. She was been murdered at approx. 12:30 a.m.

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