Born in 1944 in California, Anthony Scully, known to his friends as Jack, worked as a policeman for a while. Later, when he was working as an electrical contractor, he was arrested in May 1983, for the assault of a prostitute. A statement was made to police implicating Scull in a series of unsolved Bay Area murders.

The victims included 4 prostitutes killed on the San Francisco peninsula, another prostitute, a drug pusher and a teenager, all found dead in a park, their bodies crammed into 55-gallon oil drums. The drums had been cemented shut, but fingerprints were found all over the drums. These fingerprints were collected and compared to Scully’s prints. They were a match.

With the evidence of the fingerprints tying him to the crime, Scully was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder on 4th June 1986. He was sentenced to life without parole. It was believed that the motive was related to drugs, though there may have been some sexual elements involved too.