1. Christopher Bernard Wilder

3. Early Life Wilder was born on March 13, 1945, in Sydney, Australia
Almost drowned in a swimming pool at the age of two.
In 1962, he pleaded guilty to a gang-rape at a beach in Sydney and was sentenced to probation, during which time he also received electroshock therapy.
Married but it lasted one week, wife fled the country when she heard about his rape fantasies, and physically abused her. Not charged with domestic violence due to lack of witness.

4. Criminal Record AUSTRALIA: Convicted of gang-rape in Australia, 1962
Arrested for sexual misconduct with 15 yr. old girl. Released on bail posted by his parents.
Accused of being a peeping-tom, trying to lure high school girls to pose nude for him.
Told judge he fantasized about masturbating while watching women being raped. Sentenced to attend sessions with sex therapist.

5. United States
Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Colorado, Nevada, New York
Abducted and raped at least 12 women
Killed 8 women
Suspected of killing 7 other women (Cold case files with similar victimology, locations, and M.O.)
Suspected in killings of 2 teenage girls in Australia in Awaiting extradition for trial when killed.
Suspected of raping 2 girls in Florida in 1983 (10 and 12 yrs old).

6. Victimology White, young, and attractive girls or women.
Fashion models or aspiring models.
Frequently approached girls or women at shopping malls or fashion shows looking for victims.

7. Victims Rosario Gonzalez, 20 Elisabeth A. Kenyon, 23
Terry Ferguson, 21
Terry Walden, 24
Suzanne Logan, 21
Sheryl Bonaventura, 18
Michelle Korfman, 17
Beth Dodge, 33

8. Murders 1984 23-year-old Elizabeth Kenyon, who
taught emotionally-disturbed children
at Coral Gables High School,
disappeared in Miami, Florida.
Ex-boyfriend was Wilder.
20-year-old Rosario Gonzalez,
who was seen with Wilder,
disappeared from Miami
Grand Prix, where she was
working as a model.

9. Lured 21-year-old Theresa Wait Ferguson
15-year-old Colleen Orsborn went missing
after leaving her Daytona Beach home on
March 15, Wilder was staying at a motel in
Daytona Beach. Body was found partially
buried weeks later.
Not proven to have been his victim.
Lured 21-year-old Theresa Wait Ferguson
away from the Merritt Square Mall
in Merritt Island, Florida and murdered
her, dumping her body at Canaveral
Groves, where it was discovered on
March 23.

10. 19-year-old Linda Grover from Florida State University, whom he abducted from the Governor's Square Mall in Tallahassee, Florida, and transported to Bainbridge, Georgia. Tortured, glued her eyes shut, and raped her in hotel room. Survived attack.
Terry Walden, a 23-year-old wife,
mother, and nursing student at
Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Approached her about posing as
a model. She turned him down.
Wilder stabbed her to death and
dumped her body in a canal, where
it was found a week later.

11. Wilder abducted 21-year-old
Suzanne Logan at the Penn
Square Mall in Oklahoma City.
After breakfast the next morning,
stabbed her to death and
dumped her body under a cedar tree.
Wilder took 18-year-old
Sheryl Bonaventura captive in
Grand Junction, Colorado. They
were seen together at a diner in
Silverton where they told staff
they were heading for Las Vegas.
Wilder shot and stabbed Bonaventura to death.

12. Christopher Bernard Wilder attends a Seventeen magazine cover model competition in Las Vegas

13. Wilder killed 17-year-old Michelle Korfman, an aspiring model, who disappeared from a Seventeen magazine cover model competition at the Meadows Mall in Las Vegas. Her body was found in Angeles National Forest in southern California.
She had been asphyxiated.

14. Wilder photographed 16-year-old Tina Marie Risico before abducting her, believed that Risico would be of use in helping him lure other victims. She did help him abduct 16-year-old Dawnette Wilt at the Southlake Mall. Wilder raped Wilt several times as Risico drove to New York. Wilder took Wilt into the woods
and attempted to suffocate her before stabbing
her twice and leaving her for dead.
Wilt survived and recuperated.

15. Wilder forced 33-year-old
Elizabeth Dodge into his car
and had Risico follow him in
Dodge's Pontiac Firebird. After
a short drive, Wilder shot Dodge
and dumped her body behind a
high mound of gravel. He and
Risico then drove to Logan Airport
in Boston, where he bought her a ticket to Los Angeles.
Wilder attempted to abduct 18-year-old Carla Hendry in Beverly, Massachusetts, but she managed to escape. Wilder's vehicle description was broadcast to law enforcement officials.

16. “He knew he was too close to being killed and he didn’t want me to die with him. He told me to kiss him on the cheek. He said, ‘All you gotta do kid, is write a book.’ And he walked away. It was heartbreaking. It was so sentimental.”
Tina Marie Risico

17. Modus operandi
Carried expensive cameras and pretended to be a fashion photographer and approached young attractive women offering to give the modeling jobs.
Gained their trust and then blitz attack to overpower victims.
Kidnapped and transported victims to other locations.
Frequently raped them in motel rooms or his car.
Some were tortured as well (Electrocution, beatings, stabbing).
Most victims were killed with a .357 caliber gun.
Some were stabbed to death.

19. Capture
New Hampshire state troopers recognized the car and approached him at a gas station. Killed by police struggling with his gun.