Peter Williams was a serial killer and serial rapist of various girls with the assistance of his girlfriend Laura Kendrick.
Background[]
Williams was an avid researcher of crime history, as well as a sexual sadist, retaining books of true crime throughout his apartment. He beat Laura on a regular basis, but she still her own role in a sadomasochistic relationship with him, dependent on his love as a reward for indulging his fantasies. Williams would keep another girlfriend for regular casual sex, usually aggressive and degrading and under the fantasy that Peter was raping her because she was virgin. Laura not only was a spectator, but she also provided suggestions for Peter's performance. Later, Peter kidnapped five teenage girls in Nassau County who were still virgins, held each of them captive in separate spans of days, drug them with GHB, tie them with ligatures, duct tape their eyes and mouth, and repeatedly rape, sodomize, and brutalize the girls throughout their captivity. He was the prime suspect, along with a man named Carl Robinson, but police never had enough to charge him.
Peter then recruited Laura for more active participation when he wanted to target girls to murder. They kidnapped, drugged, gang-raped, and tortured two teenage girls who ran away from Indiana, recording their crimes on Polaroids and video. Peter strangled the girls to death with cords once he was done with them, but their bodies were never found, or at least not traced to the previous rapes. Peter then enticed Laura into "giving" him her younger sister Jane, promising to marry her and to shower her with a beautiful engagement ring and commitment of her dreams. Laura kidnapped Jane, along with an exchange student named Annika Ohlman who lived with their family, and they followed through with their intentions of raping and torturing the two girls, down to posing for camera footage. Jane overdosed on the GHB and choked on her own vomit. Annika was kept alive to be brutalized for three more days, before she was strangled to death.
Fools for Love[]
The discovery of the girls wrapped in plastic at an abandoned building led to the police being called. The Special Victims Unit uncovered the rape spree Peter committed in Nassau, but he refused entry to his apartment without a search warrant. Once Jane and Annika were identified, as Laura was missing for as much time, she was considered a victim, especially once brought into the hospital with several wounds and said Peter attacked her. Despite Peter's argument that Laura was his girlfriend, he was charged with his crimes, Laura taking a plea once she was found out to be his accomplice and seemed to be a typical battered woman. When the team found the footage of her participation, and the girlfriend Peter degraded came forward, they regretted the plea she faced, but still stuck with it for her testimony. They also still needed to identify the runaway girls in the photos. Laura alleged she was forced, which Peter's lawyer tried to shoot down to blame her as the mastermind. Peter himself lied Laura instructed him in regard to how to torture and kill and if they had to change their plans based on the reactions of the girls, but the defense failed.
Peter was convicted on all charges, but McCoy planned for sabotage at allocation. He interrogated Laura on how she felt when she tortured her sister and the other girls to death, and with enough prodding, she was goading into coldly admitting how much she enjoyed getting Peter's affirmation as an accomplice and devoted partner. The judge was convinced to throw out the plea and send her to trial, so Laura was pressured to 25 to life with the added obligation to give the names of the Indiana girls. Peter was then sentenced to death and executed, whilst Laura is serving her sentence in prison for her roles in the rapes and murders.
Known Victims[]
- Manhattan: Laura Kendrick (physically abused)
- Nassau County: Five unnamed girls (all kidnapped, drugged with GHB, bound, raped, and tortured; were released)
- Unknown location: Two unnamed Indiana runaway girls (both kidnapped, drugged with GHB, bound, gang-raped, tortured with Laura, and strangled with cords)
- Manhattan: The Kendrick family double murder (both kidnapped, drugged with GHB, gang-raped, tortured with Laura, and murdered):
- Jane Kendrick (Laura's younger sister; overdosed on GHB and choked to death on her vomit)
- Annika Ohlman (an exchange student in the Kendrick family home; strangled with a cord)