Murdered By a Serial Killer: The Answer No Family Wants to Hear

Serial Killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver Now Charged with Raping and Strangling Another Young Victim

Joni E. Johnston, Psy. D.
3 min readApr 2, 2022
copyright free, courtesy of missingalert.com

I wrote about this serial killer before. Actually, I mainly wrote about the bad-ass way the family of one of his victims, Sarah Butler, brought their loved one’s killer to justice. The perpetrator was the boring part of the story.

Here’s a quick synopsis of what we knew about this perp’s history back then. In 2016, Wheeler-Weaver’s kidnapped, raped, and strangled three women over an eighty-eight-day period. [A fourth victim escaped and later testified against him]. His modus operandi was to meet his victims through various internet dating apps and charm them into meeting him for sex. He typically offered to pay for it.

Then, when they met, he would kidnap, rape, and strangle them. He went on trial for these murders in 2021, and, on October 7, was sentenced to one hundred and sixty years in prison.

No one could appreciate the significance of that date until now. Five years to the day — on October 7, 2016 — fifteen-year-old Mawa Doumbia left her Newark, New Jersey house wearing green jeans, a black jacket, and black Nike sneakers. Her father and sister last saw her. Because she left on her own, she was…

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Joni E. Johnston, Psy. D.
Joni E. Johnston, Psy. D.

Written by Joni E. Johnston, Psy. D.

Forensic psychologist/private investigator//author of serial killer book. Passionate about victim’s rights, the psychology of true crime, and criminal justice.