Killer Comparisons: John Eric Armstrong and Colin Campbell
They were both predators of women, scooping them up from wherever was convenient while behind the wheel of their vehicle. They both left their victims' bodies out in the open, daring police to find them in a deadly game of cat and mouse. One operated on the streets of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., while the other hunted years earlier in the UK. They are John Eric Armstrong and Colin Campbell. Born in the 1940s, not much is known about the early life of Campbell, other than his father serving in the British military in India and his mother said to be quite protective of him. Armstrong had a military connection, as well -- his biological father served, and he himself was a Navy man for several years. He was born later than Campbell, in the early 1970s, and he killed 10 or 20 years later than Campbell (depending on whether you believe his Navy-era confessions). Campbell rampaged England in the early 1980s and was arrested then; Armstrong prowled Michigan Ave in Detroit in 1999 and 2000...
