Not on Joliet Mass Murderer Milton Johnson's Xmas Card List? Buy His Holiday Greeting on 'Dark Vomit'

What's Christmas without a card from a convicted killer?

If your holiday felt less-than-happy without a greeting card card from Milton Johnson—the man convicted of the Pottery Shop Massacre in Joliet and of killing an Emden man as he slept in a car parked on Interstate 55, you can buy one now through the murder memorabilia website Dark Vomit.

Dark Vomit, incidentally, is the same site selling letters from alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street double murderer Bethany McKee. Dark Vomit has had two of McKee's letters on the block for more than three months now, apparently without any takers.

Johnson's Christmas missive was priced at $30. He was apparently a little late getting his cards out last year as it was postmarked Jan. 2.

"The letter includes correspondence with a penpal in which he explains how Christmas is in prison and how it has changed since he has been incarcerated," the Dark Vomit listing said.

"Wishing the individual a Merry Christmas ... (Johnson) signs at the end, 'Love Always, Milton,'" the listing said. "Also signed on the inside of the Christmas Card, 'Best Wishes, Love Always—Milton.'"

Johnson was found guilty of murdering four women in the Greenware by Mary Ceramic shop on Joliet's East Cass Street in August 1983.

"Three of the victims, 29-year-old Pamela Ryan, 38-year-old Barbara Dunbar, and 46-year-old Marilyn Baers, the owner of the ceramic shop, sustained multiple stab wounds which caused their death," according to an Illinois Supreme Court opinion. "The fourth victim, Anna Ryan, age 75, was stabbed and shot to death."

He was also convicted of killing Anthony Hackett of Downstate Emden in July 1983.

Hackett and his girlfriend, Patricia Payne, had driven from Emden to Great America in Gurnee, according to another Illinois Supreme Court opinion.

"Around 10 p.m., Payne and Hackett left the park and, on the way home, they stopped Hackett's car along Interstate 55 in Will County to sleep," the opinion said. "Hackett slept in the front seat; Payne slept in the back."

About 1:30 the next morning, "Payne awoke to tapping on the passenger-side window followed by gunshots which struck and killed Hackett," the opinion said. "The assailant opened the passenger-side door and ordered Payne to give him Hackett's wallet and her purse. He then ordered Payne to crawl from the car and into a pickup truck parked nearby. The assailant climbed into the truck and drove down the interstate. While driving, the assailant sexually assaulted Payne; after exiting the interstate and stopping the truck, he raped her. The assailant again started to drive, but pulled the truck onto the shoulder of the road 10 minutes later. The assailant then stabbed Payne in the chest and dumped her from the truck."

Payne survived the attack.

Johnson had been released from prison just months before the murders. He was locked up "at age 19 (for) raping a Joliet woman, torturing his victim with a cigarette lighter in the process," said the serial killer website CrimeZZZ.

Besides the five killing for which he has been convicted, Johnson is "suspected in nine other slayings (from) that (same) terror-filled summer," according to a February 1996 Chicago Tribune story.

Johnson is now incarcerated at Downstate Menard Correctional Center, the same prison holding wife-killer Bolingbrook cop Drew Peterson and Christopher Vaughn, the Oswego man convicted of gunning down his wife and three children on the way to a Springfield water park.

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