VON BRAUN SELZ Ralph Jerome

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Ralph Von Braun Selz
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Deceased
Personal Information
Full Name	Ralph Jerome Von Braun Selz
Birth Name	Ralph Jerome Selz
Born	December 15, 1909 San Francisco, California, United States
Died	after 1975 United States
Other Names	Slipton J. Fell Ralph Sells Charles Oliver
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	White
Criminal Information
AKA	"The Laughing Killer"
Offender Type	Suspected Serial Killer Self-confessed Serial Killers
Method of Killing	Strangulation
Conviction	Murder
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment
Victims	1+
Span of crimes	unknown - 1936
Country	United States
State	California
City	Palo Alto
Date apprehended	February 27, 1936

Victims

Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death
Ada Brownell French Rice		February 1936	Strangulation

Links

• Ralph Jerome Von Braun Selz at Wikipedia