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Serial Shooter killings

Also known as: Serial Shooters, Dale Hausner, Samuel Dieteman, Phoenix serial shootings

Active

2005–2006

Region

Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, USA

State

AZ

Kind

Serial

Status

Convicted

Victims

6

From 2005 to July 2006, Dale Hausner, joined in 2006 by Samuel Dieteman, drove around the Phoenix area at night shooting people and animals at random; investigators linked the pair to dozens of shootings in which six people were killed and many more wounded. Police arrested both men at their Mesa apartment on August 3, 2006. Dieteman pleaded guilty, testified against Hausner and was sentenced to life without parole. Hausner was convicted in 2009 of six murders and dozens of other counts and sentenced to death; he died on death row in 2013.

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Victims

We remember the people whose lives were taken.

• David Estrada, 20 · June 29, 2005
• Nathaniel Shoffner, 44 · November 11, 2005
• Jose Ortiz, 44 · December 29, 2005
• Marco Carillo, 28 · December 29, 2005
• Claudia Gutierrez-Cruz, 20 · May 2, 2006
• Robin Blasnek, 22 · July 30, 2006

Timeline of locations

1. June 29, 2005
   Tolleson (Crime scene, approximate area)

   David Estrada was shot and killed in Tolleson, west of Phoenix.

2. May 2, 2006
   Scottsdale (Crime scene, approximate area)

   Claudia Gutierrez-Cruz was shot in Scottsdale; Dieteman fired while Hausner drove.

3. July 30, 2006
   Mesa (Crime scene, approximate area)

   Robin Blasnek was shot and killed in Mesa, the last of the killings.

4. August 3, 2006
   Mesa apartment (arrest) (Arrest, approximate area)

   Police arrested both men outside the Mesa apartment they shared.

5. 2009
   State prison, Florence (Prison, approximate area)

   Hausner was held on death row in Florence, where he died on June 19, 2013.

6. March 13, 2009
   Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix (Court / trial, approximate area)

   Hausner was convicted on March 13, 2009, and sentenced to death on March 27. Dieteman, who pleaded guilty and testified, was sentenced to life without parole that July.

Active at the same time, nearby

• Mark Goudeau · both active in 2006, 8 km apart · map both

A coincidence of time and place, not a connection. All overlaps

Sources

• Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman (Wikipedia)
• One Phoenix suspect denies wrongdoing (AP via NBC News, August 2006)
• Jeff Hausner's conviction upheld by appeals court; brother of Serial Shooter stabbed victims (Phoenix New Times)

Each location also lists its own sources in the data file.