Some killers commit a terrible act and are never seen or heard from again, noting that only about one-half of the known homicides in the U.S. are solved each year. Other killers come back to kill again, and it not caught, soon become the serial killers that consume some movie goers and becomes the horrific stuff TV crime shows deal with on a weekly basis. Some killers like what they do to others; they like to kill and they like to get credit for their crimes. Dozens of serial killers have tried to surpass Ted Bundy in the record books while others keep doing things to keep their crimes in the media, this while continuing to terrify a community, many times long after the initial crime has passed. These individuals are called psychopaths, sociopaths, or antisocial personalities, depending on your background how you describe the killer and what they get from their crime. They are people who care little about others, they have short attention spans, they need something to keep them busy, they may crave constant attention, and, in the case of murderers, they often kill again.

San Francisco's Zodiac killer first struck in 1968 and continue to kill, taunting the media with coded messages that he demanded the local newspaper print or he would kill again. He has never been positively identified. Ted Kaczynski, the infamous serial killer the FBI dubbed as "The Unabomber," demanded his rambling 35,000 word diatribe be published in newspapers or he too would kill again. And there was Dennis Rader, Wichita, Kansas' BTK (bind them, torture them, kill them) serial killer who could have simply stayed out of sight and below police radar and retired after hiding in plain sight from law enforcement for decades, but something within him made him continue to taunt the police and the FBI via notes and letters to the media, taunts that finally led to his arrest and conviction.

Now another killer has raised his murderous hand to call attention to himself, this after two decades. It was Good Friday, April 1, 1988, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Then eight-year-old April Marie Tinsley was playing outside of her home with two other young girls. As the three walked from one child's home to another, April remembered she had left her umbrella at her friend's home and ran back to get it. She was never seen alive again. Her broken body was found three days later in a ditch over 20 miles northeast from her parent's home. Though still clothed, she had been raped and suffocated.

For two years her murder went unsolved, but then a young teenage boy reported to police that someone had written a message with a magic marker and a crayon on the doors of a barn, this 10 miles from April's home. The message was somewhat hard to read, but the writer's intent was clear. The writer had murdered April and threatened to kill again. Years more of fruitless investigations would pass without an arrest of the killer. Then in 2004, someone began leaving notes, four of them in total, at homes in Forth Worth, some of them on the bicycles of young girls like April Tinsley. The notes were written on yellow lined paper and were found inside of plastic bags that allegedly had instant pictures of the suspect's body as well as used condoms, and some of the notes referred to April.

Like in the case of the BTK killer who surfaced years later, investigators have a lot to go on in their current search for April's killer. A special FBI task force (Child Abduction Response Deployment team - CARD) has been assigned to find the killer, this, along with the forensic help of 21-year-old DNA gathered from April's body and similar DNA obtained from the condoms recovered five years ago in Fort Wayne. So far the DNA has not been matched to anyone in any national DNA data bank, but the samples in such data bases grow on a daily basis, and when they have a good suspect, the DNA will indicate if they have their man.

The FBI believe they are looking for a white male (this could be noted from DNA and from the pictures left in 2004), someone now in his 40s or 50s who has expressed a preference for sexual contact with little girls over the years. FBI profilers once believed that if a killer like this stopped his activities in a given geographic area that he had either moved, or been arrested, or died. Dennis Rader (BTK) and other similar offenders have proven this to be untrue. The killer of April Tinsley is likely to be a local resident, someone who has spent most of his life in and around Fort Wayne, someone, again like Dennis Rader, who has just hid in plain sight. He is also someone who used a Polaroid camera as late 2004 and had contact with a green paisley bedspread like the one seen in the background of one of his pictures.

While these could be the actions of a copycat, i.e., someone trying to get attention by making the community relive the murder of April Tinsley, physical evidence suggests he is identical to the young girl's killer, someone who has walked and perhaps stalked the streets of Fort Wayne for 21-years, and someone who may have killed others during this same time period.

Hundreds of new tips have been forwarded to the FBI and a number of suspects or "persons of interest" are now being actively looked at by the FBI task force. Somewhere in the local area is the likely killer of April Tinsley; the same man who used crayon and makers to write the cryptic threat on the barn doors 19-years years ago indicating that he would kill again.

History repeats itself and once again the race is on to catch a killer, this before he carries out his threat to take another young life. For parents in Forth Worth, this with the advent of summer and children, like April Tinsley, wanting to play outside, the timing couldn't be worse. Something April's killer knows far too well.