Andrew Urdiales (June 4, 1964 – November 2, 2018 | age 54) was an American serial killer who was convicted in Illinois in 2002 of killing three women and convicted in California in 2018 of killing five women. He was sentenced to death in California and died by suicide a few months later in California's SQSP.
He beat the family dog to death with a baseball bat.
He stalked 23yo Robbin Brandley and stabbed her 41 times with a knife.
He shot 29yo Julie McGhee with a .45 ACP caliber pistol. Her body was found in a ditch.
… tied her hands behind her back, raped her, placed a .45 caliber gun in her mouth and blew the back of her head off.
Andrew took the clothes that (she) was wearing along with the clothing in the plastic bag and “gave them all to the Salvation Army because (she) wouldn't be needing them any more”….
Andrew also attacked another woman in 1992, but she escaped. According to Andrew, she is the only woman ever to escape him.
Well, I guess I’m not going to work today.
Andrew Urdiales. ALS. #10 (4.125 x 9.5). Pmk April 16, 200?. SEALED. Content unknown. Pristine.
Crimes
Committed by Andrew Urdiales (hereinafter
referred
to as “Cpl.
Urinalysis”):
* Late 1980s – Cpl. Urinalysis had confessed to the murder of a prostitute in San Diego sometime between 1987 and 1989. The victim was a white female in her late 20s or early 30s. Cpl. Urinalysis told police he shot her.
* July 17, 1988 – Cathedral City, Calif., police find Julie McGhee, 30, a local prostitute, shot in a remote area of town. Police say evidence found at the scene matches Cpl. Urinalysis' confession; murder charges are pending.
* April 15, 1989 – Palm Springs police find Tammie Erwin, a 19-year-old prostitute, dead of gunshot wounds.
* Date unknown, 1991 – Orange County Sheriff's Police investigate the murder of a student at Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo. The victim had no known history of prostitution and had been stabbed.
* March 11, 1995 – Palm Springs police find Denise Maney, a 32-year-old prostitute, dead of several wounds, possibly from a knife or a gun.
* Sept. 28, 1992 – Desert Hot Springs, Calif. kidnapped and raped 19-year-old Jennifer Asbenson, after she took a ride to work from a stranger.
* April 14, 1996 – Lori Uylaki, 25, of Hammond shot and stabbed, dumped in Wolf Lake on the Illinois/Indiana border.
* July 13, 1996 – Cassandra "Cassie" Corum, 21, of Hammond, was found in the Vermillion River in Livingston County, Ill. she was shot.
* Aug. 2, 1996 – Lynn Huber, 22, of Chicago, also found dead in Wolf Lake killed by gunshot wounds and stabbed.iii
A Livingston County judge ruled August 17, 2004 in Pontiac, IL that a jury was right to sentence serial killer Andrew “Urdiales to death for the 1996 shooting and stabbing of a 21yo woman from Indiana whose body was found in the Vermilion River about 100 miles southwest of Chicago.
Andrew was found guilty in May 1996 at his original trial and sentenced to death. This was commuted to life in 2003 by the Governor but in 2004 he was convicted of another murder and sentence again to be executed.
He had confessed to killing 7 other women in Illinois and California between 1988 and 1996 and had been charged in California with five of these murders.
Death sentence was upheld on February 17, 2007.
On Friday, November 2, 2018 at around 11:15 pm, Andrew was found unresponsive in his cell in the Adjustment Center of SQSP. Andrew was alone in his cell, and prison officials said the apparent cause of death was suicide by hanging. He was 54 years old.
Archiving
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i Killer: Andrew Urdiales - profiled on Killer.Cloud (2023). Available at: https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/show/600/andrew-urdiales#view_death_information (Accessed: 28 March 2023).
ii Blanco, J. (2023) Andrew Urdiales | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers, Murderpedia.org. Available at: https://murderpedia.org/male.U/u/urdiales-andrew.htm (Accessed: 28 March 2023).
iii Ibid ii