Nathaniel White

Nathaniel White (born July 28, 1960) is an African-American serial killer. Active in the Hudson Valley region, in and near Orange County, NY during the early 1990s, White confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death while on parole. Raised in Poughkeepsie, NY as a teen, he graduated from Poughkeepsie High School in 1979 and later served a brief stint in the US Army from 1980-1983. He was residing in the Town of Wallkill, just outside of Middletown, NY, during his 16 month murder spree. Killings White claimed to have found inspiration for his first murder while watching RoboCop 2: "The first girl I killed was from a 'RoboCop' movie... I seen him cut somebody's throat then take the knife and slit down the chest to the stomach and left the body in a certain position. With the first person I killed I did exactly what I saw in the movie." This first killing took place on March 25, 1991—after White had been convicted of abducting a 16-year-old girl, but before he started his prison sentence—and police did not make the connection at the time. In a plea bargain that would later be heavily criticized, White had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for the abduction and would therefore be eligible for parole after just one year.