# Christopher Wilder

Christopher Bernard Wilder (March 13, 1945 – April 13, 1984), also known as the Beauty Queen Killer and the Snapshot Killer, was an Australian-American serial killer who abducted at least twelve young women and girls, killing eight of them during a six-week, cross-country crime spree in the United States in early 1984. Having committed numerous rapes and sexual assaults in Australia and the United States dating back to 1963, Wilder had developed his methods for victimizing attractive young women, most of whom he enticed by promising to take their photographs. In February 1984, Wilder progressed to murder, beginning in Florida, then traveling more than 6,000 miles (9,700 km) west to California then north and east to New Hampshire, while committing murders, abductions, attempted abductions, and transportation of victims in 16 different states.