US police hunt serial killer

Police said a person known only by DNA has killed six women, most of them prostitutes, over two decades in Milwaukee, the city where serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer once cruised gay bars for victims.

Police Chief Edward Flynn said at a news conference more than 20 DNA samples from other unsolved homicides of prostitutes are being resent to the state crime laboratory to check for possible links to the killer.

The first two victims linked by the killer’s DNA died in October 1986, Mr Flynn said.

Two more were killed in 1995, one in 1997 and the most recent in April 2007. He said five were known prostitutes and the sixth was involved in drugs.

Mr Flynn said the unknown killer has never been arrested for a felony, which is Wisconsin’s basis for those who must submit to DNA testing.