Alleged Atlanta Serial Killer, Aemon Presley was an aspiring actor who worked on several feature films in Atlanta, Georgia.
The film industry can attract dangerous people. Last year, an aspiring actress who worked on The Vampire Diaries and The Walking Dead was arrested and charged for trying to kill the President. Now, a serial killer haunting the streets of Atlanta, Georgia killing homeless men was an aspiring actor.
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According to the AJC, a fourth victim was linked to the alleged killer of homeless men. Police have identified a fourth victim of a suspected serial killer linked to the deaths of two homeless men and a Cobb County hairstylist.
[Aeman] Presley, an unemployed actor who had recently returned to the Atlanta area from Los Angeles, is suspected in the deaths of homeless men Dorian Jenkins, Tommy Mims, killed within three days of each other during Thanksgiving week while they were sleeping on Atlanta’s streets, and 44-year-old Karen Pearce, shot to death Dec. 6 in downtown Decatur after having dinner with friends. [via]
Presley appeared in two locally shot, low-budget urban action movies, “Exit” and “Rules.” The director of both films, Taveras Wilson, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an email that Presley was merely a “background performer/extra at best,” adding, “I did not know him personally nor can I recall very much of him from those movies.”
From the Reading Eagle:
Once in Los Angeles, Presley had little luck breaking into show business, though last year he wrote that he was “relaxing in my life nowaday cooling down calming down and collecting mysef after going through all the changes and growing pains that Ive been threw as a younger black man. Im also getting my money right for once and for all.”
He used some of that money to sign up for acting classes at the Margie Haber Studio in Beverly Hills.
“So many Bad actresses in my acting class in Beverly Hills!!! Hope to meet my future wifey. Lol,” he wrote on Facebook in January.
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In a caption accompanying one of his headshots, he wrote, “Its for badboy parts. A lotta people luv it. Everybody might not be feelin it. They problem not mine. Long as these people in Hollywood buy It. And buy me. And cut a check.”
But money was running low, Presley confessed in one exchange. If he had a social life, he never wrote about it, instead posing for dozens of selfies that showed him smoking marijuana or drinking.
One of the last photos he posted, on Jan. 9, included this eeriest of captions: “Killer.”
Aemon Presley was arrested Thursday by MARTA police at the Georgia State raile station after attempting to jump the gates without paying. He was apprehended with a loaded revolver and a box of ammo matching him to the other two homeless shootings.
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