John Ausonius

John Wolfang Alexander Ausonius (born as Wolfang Alexander Zaugg), a.k.a. "The Laser Man", is a Swedish murderer and bank robber.

History
Ausonius was born Wolfang Alexander Zaugg in Lidingö, Sweden and grew up in a working class suburb named Vällingby, his parents were a couple of immigrants (a Swiss father and a German mother). Because of his parentage, he was often bullied by pure Swedish children, who teased him for having very black hair and brown eyes. Years later, as an adult, he bleached his hair blonde, began to use blue contact lenses and changed his name to John Wolfang Alexander Stannerman, later to John Wolfang Alexander Ausonius. Ausonius went to a privated school in Stockholm, the German School, but dropped put before graduating, he completed his secondary school education in an adult education programme. He was later accepted into the Royal Institute of Technology but dropped out after a couple of years of unsuccessful study. Years later, Ausonius became one of the original suspects in the assassination of Olof Palme, however, he could not be linked to the murder as he was incarcerated at the time, for multiple counts of assault. While in prison, Ausonius became an acquaintance of Miro Barešić, a Croatian assassin, terrorist and member of the Croatian National Resistance who was imprisoned for the murder of the Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden, Vladimir Rolović. Ausonius eventually developed an intense hatred for communists, social democrats and immigrants. He left his job as a taxi driver and started trading in stocks and bonds. His talent for the market earned him a fairly large fortune, resulting in him becoming a yuppie. By the later 1980s, Ausonius owned a luxurious apartment, a Toyota Supra and a mobile phone, which at time, was a luxury item associtated with jet-set lifestyle. As his fortune was running out, due to poor investments and addiction to gambling, he became a bank robber to mantain his lifestyle.

Due to his hatred for immigrants and foreigners, Ausonius started looking for immigrant criminals to kill but later decided to kill any immigrant he encountered, hoping the killings would scare all immigrants out of Sweden. Despite having knowledge on how to use guns, his personal weapons were of poor quality, due to his modifications, such as: sawing off the barrel and the stock of his rifle to make it shorter and fitting a Smith & Wesson Revolver with a silencer, which severely damaged the weapon's performance. Between 1991 and 1992, Ausonius shot and attempted to kill several foreigners, only managing to kill one of them. The police started a massive manhunt to capture the killer, which was second in size only to the hunt for Olof Palmer's killer, the investigation which Ausonius had previously been considered a suspect. On June 12, 1992, Ausonius was caught during a bank robbery and later assaulted his lawyer in court, resulting in him spending the rest of his trial handcuffed. Ausonius was convicted of murder and robbery but was not linked to all of the shootings, although he confessed to all of them in 2000. Ausonius was sentenced to life in prison and incarcerated at the Kumla Prison, later transferred to the Österåker Prison, which ironically, had held Christer Pettersson, another suspect in the assassination of Olaf Palmer.

Modus Operandi
Initially, Ausonius used a rifle equipped with a laser sight, hence his nickname, to commit the shootings, but later moved to shooting with revolver. Ausonius aimed for his victims' faces and heads, but due to the poor quality of his weapons and amateur modifications, the bullet's trajectory was deviated, causing him to miss them or mostly shot them in non-fatal areas.

Victims

 * 1991:
 * August 3: David Gebremariam, 21
 * October 21: Shahram Khosravi, 25
 * October 27: Dimitrios Karamalegos
 * November 1: Heberson Vieira Da Costa
 * November 8: Jimmy Ranjbar
 * 1992:
 * January 22: Eric Bongcam-Rudloff
 * January 23: Charles Dhlakama and two unnamed men
 * Charles Dhlakama
 * Two unnamed men
 * January 28: Isa Aybar
 * January 30: Hasan Zatara
 * February 23: Unnamed Jewish woman

On Criminal Minds
Ausonius is similiar to Long Distance Serial Killer Phillip Dowd. Both were budding serial killers and snipers who joined their nation's armies, shot their victims with rifles (although Ausonius later shot his victims with a revolver), non-fatally shot most of them (though in Dowd's case, it was intentional), and intentionally killed at least one victim, though Ausonius is the main suspect in the murder of another victim.