Billy Richard Glaze is a Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

n serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

, convicted of killing three women and currently under investigation for the murder of a fourth. He was a Native American

Native Americans in the United States

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 who believed that all native women should be rape

Rape

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d and killed.

Glaze was suspected of the murders of at least 50 women in multiple states.

He has boasted to police about having killed over 20 women, but in interviews has claimed he is innocent. Glaze was arrested August 31, 1987 while driving under the influence of alcohol, for a violation of his parole from a rape in 1974. The arresting officers found a bloody shirt, crowbar and nightstick in his truck. Hair samples from the crowbar were used to convict him of murder.