Bryan M. Jones was born in 1957. Four women working as prostitutes were killed in San Diego, California in 1985 and 1986, and he is believed to have left all four bodies in dumpsters within a two-block area in the east of the city. That is the detail the case is named for. The San Diego press called him the Dumpster Killer, after where the bodies were left.
He was not caught for the killings at the time. He was charged with them on June 25, 1992, six years after the last of them, while he was already in custody at Corcoran State Prison serving a twenty-two year sentence for sexual assault. Nothing in the accessible record explains what connected him to the four deaths at that point.
He was returned to San Diego and arraigned on four counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and single counts of rape and sodomy. The two attempted murder counts mean two more women survived attacks attributed to him; they are not named in anything available here.
In 1994 he was condemned on two of the four murder counts. The other two produced no death sentence, and the accessible record does not say whether they produced convictions.
This entry is short because the source is. Michael Newton's encyclopaedia of modern serial killers, which is where the detail above comes from, records the method of murder as unknown and the motive as sexual. No victim is named, no account of the investigation survives in anything reachable, and the date he was charged is the only date in the file besides the years of the killings and of the sentence.
He is on California's death row. The state has had a moratorium on executions in place since 2019.