
Wilder was sentenced to probation, and claimed later in life that he also received electroshock therapy. On January 4, 1963, at age 17, Wilder raped a 13-year-old girl in the company with two other young men, both of whom denied being involved in the actual assault. Wilder nearly died at birth, and reportedly almost drowned in a swimming pool at the age of two. Since his death he has also been considered a suspect in many unsolved murders, including the unsolved 1965 murder of two teenaged girls in his native Sydney.Ĭhristopher Wilder was born on March 13, 1945, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the oldest of four sons to an American father, Coley Chapman Wilder (Aug– January 29, 1992), a naval officer, and an Australian mother, June Wilder ( née Decker J– April 26, 1986). Wilder was killed during a struggle with police in New Hampshire on April 13, 1984.


Wilder's series of murders began in Florida on Februand continued across the country through Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nevada and California, with attempted abductions in Washington State and New York State.

Christopher Bernard Wilder (March 13, 1945 – April 13, 1984), also known as the Beauty Queen Killer and the Snapshot Killer, was an Australian-American serial killer who abducted and raped at least twelve young women and girls, torturing and killing at least eight of them during a six-week, cross-country crime spree in the United States in early-1984.
