The Video-Tape Killer: Maury Troy Travis’s Documented Depravity In the early 2000s, the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, harbored a chilling secret, a meticulous predator operating in the shadows of ordinary life. Maury Troy Travis, an unassuming hotel waiter with a past conviction for armed robbery, unleashed a horrifying reign of terror, specifically targeting vulnerable Black women struggling with addiction or involved in sex work. Between 2000 and 2002, Travis was responsible for the confirmed murders of at least 12 women, though he chillingly boasted of up to 20 victims. His monstrous depravity earned him the chilling moniker "The Video-Tape Killer," not for a signature, but for the horrifying discovery in his basement torture chamber: videotapes meticulously documenting every horrific step of his crimes—from the victims' initial transit to thei ...