Billy Glaze

Who is Billy Glaze?

Billy Richard Glaze is a convicted American serial killer whose guilt has come into question by the discovery of DNA evidence excluding Glaze and implicating another man.

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 became a suspect in the 1986-87 murders of three Native-American women in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area after a waitress brought him to the attention of authorities. Information from a girlfriend led investigators to look for him in New Mexico. Glaze was arrested August 31, 1987 while driving under the influence of alcohol, for a violation of his parole from a Texas conviction for 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. He was convicted of three counts of first degree murder; he would be eligible for parole 52 years later. At sentencing he maintained his innocence.