WASHINGTON — FBI investigators are looking for more victims of a nationwide killer who used to live in Pennsylvania and has been linked to the death of a five-year-old girl in Montana and an attempted abduction in New York.
Investigators said Richard William Davis died in 2012. He was recently linked to a 1974 abduction and homicide of a girl near her home in Missoula, Montana. The girl’s body was found about 10 miles from her home in a culvert along the interstate. She had head wounds, had been stabbed in her chest and was sexually assaulted, according to FBI officials. Davis was also linked to a 1973 attempted abduction of an eight-year-old girl in Bath, New York.
Agents said Davis primarily lived in Pennsylvania in the early 1960s. He also lived in South Dakota, New York and Arkansas. He was known to travel extensively across the country through states including Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
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Davis worked as a missionary on a Sioux Reservation, in mines in South Dakota, as a security guard in New York, as a school bus driver in Alaska, as a school security guard at the Arkansas School for the Deaf and Blind and as a truck driver. He also volunteered at Big Brothers/Big Sisters in Arkansas.
Detectives described Davis as standing 6 feet tall and smoking menthol cigarettes. He also went by William Davis, Nash and Dick. Police said he used to drive a Nash Rambler, an Oldsmobile 98, a blue pickup truck and a truck with a sleeper cab.
It’s not clear exactly where in Pennsylvania Davis used to live.
If you have any additional information, you’re asked to contact the FBI National Threat Operations Center at 800-225-5324.
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