User:Paulthekid/sandbox/Paul Knowles

New article name goes here new article content ... This Criminal is wanted for 3 murders. Knowles' cross-country murder spree began in Jacksonville on the night of his escape. He broke into the home of 65-year-old Alice Curtis, bound and gagged her, then ransacked her home for money and valuables. Curtis later choked to death on her own dentures, though whether her death occurred while Knowles was there or after he left the residence is unknown.[citation needed] Knowles also stole her Dodge Dart, but also realized that police had connected him to the crime and were advertising him as a wanted fugitive. On the street where he intended to abandon the car, he recognized family acquaintances Lillian and Mylette Anderson. Lillian was eleven years old and her sister Mylette was seven. In fear that they would identify him, he kidnapped them both, strangled them, and buried their bodies in a nearby swamp.[1][2] Soon after this, Knowles claimed to have picked up a teenage girl who was hitchhiking and killed her for an unknown reason: she remained unidentified for decades. On December 21, 2011, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified her as 13-year-old Ima Jean Sanders, who had run away from Beaumont, Texas in July 1974 to Warner Robins, Georgia and then disappeared on August 1, 1974.[3] On August 2, the day after the Anderson sisters disappeared, Knowles met Marjorie Howie, 49, in Atlantic Beach, Florida. She either invited him or was forced by him to go to her apartment, where he strangled her with a nylon stocking. It is alleged that he stole her television set, which he later gave to a former girlfriend.