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True Crime Anniversaries, 2017 Edition
3/16 is the day Willie Pickton killed Yvonne Boen. See On the Farm.Valentinian III was assassinated. See How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who Razed the Old World and Formed the New.
3/17 is the day Jack Unterweger killed Elfriede Schrempf. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.We lost Angel Melendez on this day. He was a drug dealer, but what a looker, am I right? See Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland.
Sandy Gabbert and Kimi-Kai Pitsor lost their lives on the same day of the same year. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Bertha Merrett was killed by her own son, Donald, who was using the phony surname "Chesney." See Murderer's Moon.
Shirley Vian died horribly while her children listened to the carnage. See The BTK Murders: Inside the "Bind Torture Kill" Case that Terrified America's Heartland.
Dayle Okazaki and Tsai-Lian Yu died in utter terror at the hands of a stranger. See The Night Stalker.
And happy birthday, John WAYNE Gacy!!!
3/18 is the day we lost likely Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. See Defending 'Ivan the Terrible': The Conspiracy to Convict John Demjanjuk.
Deborah Dudley was electrocuted to death during a torture session. See Cellar Of Horror.
3/20 is the day we lost UofM law student Jane Mixer. See Michigan Murders.
Emily LaQua was killed by Coral Eugene Watts. See Evil Eyes.
Harry Todd Turner was killed by Bill Bonin. See Born to Kill: the William Bonin Story.
(Harry's at the top R in this group photo.)
Eddie Duncan was killed by the Atlanta Child Murderer. See The List.
3/21 is the day someone found Janine Ligotino and Ann Arceneaux dead at the hands of Jerry Stano. See Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Eugene Stano. Arceneaux is second from the L, and Ligotino far L, in the middle row of this lineup:
Father Anthony Crean was sent to his Maker by Patrick Mackay. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.
Sean Gillis did something terrible to Ann Bryant. See Dismembered.
Milly Dowler was killed for no good reason on earth. See Bus Stop Killer: The True Story of Levi Bellfield.
Kathy MacAulay, Heather Goodwin and Danae Palermo were taken from us. See Smoked: A True Story About The Kids Next Door.
In happier news, this is the day John List croaked. See Righteous Carnage: The List Murders in Westfield.
3/22 is the day Bill Bonin and Co. killed Russell Rugh and Glenn Barker. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Larry Ford was killed in what was originally treated as an accident. See Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder.
Barbara Young died, quite possibly at the hands, knife and ball-peen hammer of the Yorkshire Ripper. See Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of How Peter Sutcliffe's Terrible Reign of Terror Claimed at Least Twenty-Two More Lives.
3/23 is a day of great escapes:Sandra Ringwald escaped the Pickton pig-farming operation alive, running naked off the property, screaming for help, holding her intestines in with just her hands. See On the Farm.
Karen Schilt escaped Richard Cottingham alive. Not everyone did. See The Torso Killer.
Agnes Adams was kidnapped by Gary Heidnik. She, too, would eventually escape alive. See Cellar Of Horror.
Jerry Stano, on the other hand, had nowhere left to run and was finally executed on this day. I'm good with that. See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
3/24 is the day Emma Thames and Betty June Binnicker died, almost certainly not at the hands of George Stinney. See Carolina Skeletons.Maralyn Skelton died a horrifically violent death. She was beaten unrecognizable and a long stick was inserted...you know where. See Michigan Murders.
Frank Aguirre died a hideous death on Dean Corll's torture board. See The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders.
Barbara Gaca was killed in one of Metro Detroit's most notorious unsolved crimes. A couple of years ago, Hour Detroit pointed out that the only person they knew she spent time with that day, who was never really seen as a possible suspect, was her priest. As we all know, no priest would ever dream of harming a small child. See: http://psychiccrimefighter.com/forum/...
Dmitry Ptashnikov died just as horribly as Frank, Maralyn and Barbara did. See Citizen X: Killer Department.
3/25 is the day Jeff Dahmer killed Anthony Sears. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.The Atlanta Child Killer did away with Mickey McIntosh. See The List.
146 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory died in terror. See Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.
3/26 is the day Melissa Byers, who we might see as a later victim of the Robin Hood Hills killer, died. See Blood of Innocents: The True Story of Multiple Murder in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Karin Walde died at the hands of Hans Pommerencke. See The Killers Among Us 2: Sex Madness & Mass Murder.
Keith Crotwell was slipped a mickey and done to death by Randy Kraft. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Josephine San Filippo died untimely. See Terror in the Streets.
39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult died. See Heaven's Gate: Cult Suicide in San Diego.
3/27 is the day Glenda Kirby escaped Coral Eugene Watts alive. Anna Ledet did not. See Evil Eyes.Richard Guerrero was killed. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
Karen Sprinker died pretty nastily. See Lust Killer.
(a photo taken of Karen by the man who killed her shortly afterwards)
Vincent and Maxine Zazzara died in stark terror. See The Night Stalker.
Alas, this is the day we lost WAYNE Boden. See The Dracula Syndrome.
3/28 is the day we lost Robin Smith. See To Die For.Artis Wick died a cruel, horrible death. See Bound To Die: The Shocking True Story of Bobby Joe Long, America's Most Savage Serial Killer.
Winston Moseley finally croaked on this day, having lived a long, long life in prison after he killed at least 3 people just to see them die. See Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese and Barbara Kralik Murder Trials.
3/29 is the day "Clyde" Dicks ribbed Pee Wee Gaskins once too often. See Final Truth: The Autobiography of Mass Murderer/Serial Killer Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins.
David Penton killed Nydra Ross. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
The Barrow gang killed Wade McNabb. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
The Mansons got sentenced to death on this day -- the same day in the same year that one of their defense attorneys, Ronald Hughes, turned up dead after having been missing for some time. See Witness to Evil: The Inside Story of the Tate/La Bianca Murder Trial.
Oh, and Johnny Cochran died. See The Run of His Life : The People versus O.J. Simpson
3/30 is the day Alma, Charity, John, Leonard Jr., Leonard III, Michael, Thomas, Carol, David, Ann & Theresa Ruppert died. See: http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/h...
Willie Pickton killed Wendy Allen. See On the Farm.
The Atlanta Child Murderer killed Larry Rogers. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Clarence Walker killed Diane Carter. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Terry Schiavo died. This one really walks the line between homicide and suicide. See Terri's Story: The Court-Ordered Death of an American Woman.
In happier news, John Crutchley died in prison of auto-erotic asphyxia. Hey, man, whatever makes you happy. See:
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And Chester Gillette was executed. Knowing him, he was probably dressed to the nines when he went to the gallows. That was just how he rolled. See Murder in the Adirondacks: An American Tragedy Revisited.
Fishface wrote: "3/30 is the day Alma, Charity, John, Leonard Jr., Leonard III, Michael, Thomas, Carol, David, Ann & Theresa Ruppert died. See: http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/h......"I really need to get the Shiavo book at some point. It was such a sad case and I was horrified at the lengths the govt (aka Jeb Bush) would go to when it was NONE of their business.
The question is, which Schiavo book? There are almost as many on her as there are on Casey Anthony...
3/31 is the day Tejana singing sensation Selena was gunned down by one of her own employees. See Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death.
It's also the day Denise Dunmore lost her life. She may or may not be a victim of Coral Eugene Watts. See Evil Eyes.
April Fools' Day is the anniversary of the murder of Marvin Gaye Jr. by Marvin Gaye Sr. See Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye.
(L to R: Marvin Gay Sr., Marvin Gaye Jr., Alberta Gay -- Marvin's wife and Marvin's mother)
It's the day Ted Bundy killed Debbie Smith. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
H.D Murphy and E.B. Wheeler were killed in a fracas with the Barrow gang. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Scott Hughes died a terrible death at the hands of Randy Kraft. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
This is the month we lost Catherine Knight, Sherry Irving and Theresa Triff to the same man who killed Heather Chinnock on precisely this day. He really smelled bad, too. See The Pig Farm Murders.
This is the day Donna Hensley escaped Jerry Stano alive, leading to his long-overdue arrest. See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
4/2 is the day a "Lyuda Doe" was found -- clearly a victim of the lesopolosa killer. See The Red Ripper.Niecie Johnson was killed by David Penton. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
Andrea Triplett was killed by Chester Turner. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
This is also the day Gina DeJesus seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. She really hadn't gone that far. See The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus.
4/3 is the day Holly Tarr was stabbed and stabbed and stabbed until she died. See The Clairemont Killer: The True Story of Serial Killer Cleophus Prince, Jr..
Victoria Bell lost her life to William Choyce. See Conquering Darkness: Memoir of the Serial Killer's Wife.
Blanche Lamont died pretty horribly. See The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco.
4/4 is the day Robin and Julie Kerry died. Their cousin, Tom Cummins, narrowly escaped alive. See A Rip in Heaven.
Filmmaker Bob Clark and his son Ariel were killed by a drunk driver. See: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/04/...
Kathy Bright was killed; her brother Kevin escaped with serious injuries. See Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door.
Marcia Lyles died of iced tea seasoned with ant killer. See Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles.
The Yorkshire Ripper did away with Josephine Whitaker. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Diane Bellamy and Avery Howard lost their lives to Pee We Gaskins. See Slaughter in Carolina.
Mary Jones and Amelia Boyer were found dead. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
John Doe and Toddler Doe were found buried on a Long Island beach. See Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
In happier news, Wilhelmina Drane got clean away from Opie Armstrong on this day. See: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%2...
4/5 is the day we lost Tina Faelz. She died of a great many stab wounds. See Murder in Pleasanton: Tina Faelz and the Search for Justice.This is approximately the day Gavin Porter lost his life to the Snowtown Gang. See Snowtown: The Bodies In Barrels Murders: The Grisly Story of Australia's Worst Serial Killings.
Richard Biegenwald killed Deborah Osborne. See The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald.
Layne Staley died on the same day as Kurt Cobain, albeit several years apart. They both died in association with illegal drugs. See The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches.
(Kurt on L, Layne on R)
4/6 is the day Bette Coffin died. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.Kenneth Buchanan and Hondo Chance also died, pretty horribly, at the hands of Pat WAYNE Kearny. See The Trash Bag Murderer.
Merle "Hondo" Chance
John WAYNE Gacy killed Darrell Sampson. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.
Willie Pickton (probably) killed Frances Young, a pastry chef. See On the Farm.
Ted Bundy killed Denise Oliverson. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
Brenda Bries lost her life to Chester Turner. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Cal Campbell was killed by the Barrow Gang. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
In happier news, this is the day Sam Sheppard finally drank himself to death. See Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial: The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder.
4/7 is the day we lost Erroll Lindsey. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
Not to mention George Walmsley and John Sturkey. 3 other would-be victims survived. See The Night Caller: The Eric Edgar Cooke Story by WAYNE Monroe.
4/8 is the day Per Ohlin, stage name "Dead," was found in eponymous state by his bandmates. What happened next is what made his death a true-crime story. See The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches.Irene Lockwood was found dead. See Jack The Stripper: The Hammersmith Nudes Case. I think that's poor Irene on the cover...
4/9 is the day Tony Atkins killed Brenda Mitchell. See The Benjamin Atkins Story: America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.Patty Hamilton died. See The Dreams of Ada.
Justin Livingston died for absolutely no reason. See Flesh Collectors: Their Ghoulish Appetites Drove Them to Crimes that Only Began With Murder.
Nick Berg died a very public death. See Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found.
4/10 is a day of people being found a while after they disappeared. This is for instance the day the bodies of Rose Marie Felt, Kelly Hood and Nicole Young were spotted in a vacant lot in Detroit by a man looking out the window of a passing train. There was a fourth body there, too, but I never heard what became of that one. See http://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/armst...
Rena Costello was found, long after she was last seen. See Out of the Shadows: Fred West's Daughter Tells Her Harrowing Story of Survival.
Barbara Bauer was found dead, too. See Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Eugene Stano. She's third from the left in the middle row of this lineup:
Minnie Williams turned up dead the day after she disappeared, saying she was going to a church meeting. See The Bell Tower: The Case of Jack the Ripper Finally Solved... in San Francisco.
Theresa Jordan was found murdered in her ransacked room. See http://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jacks....
Camellia Jo Hand disappeared on her way to kindergarten. See Murder Of A Little Girl.
Steven Wood and Laurence Sharp accepted a ride from the wrong guys. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
4/11 is the approximate day Rhonda Fisher lost her life to Vince Groves. See: http://www.vivacolorado.com/ci_214547...It's the exact day Juanita Mott died. See The Corpse Garden.
A Jane Doe, and the not-yet-identified mother of Toddler Doe found on April 4th, were dug up on Long island. See Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
4/12 is the day Dominick Calhoun died in a locally-notorious murder that took two torturous days to complete. See: http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index...
John Porter was taken off the planet by the Atlanta Child Murderer. See Yesterday's Shame: The Atlanta Child Murders.
Florence Dancy was killed by Jarvis Catoe. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
4/13 is the day we lost Albert Rivera to Patrick WAYNE Kearney. See The Trash Bag Murderer.Billy Blank -- NOT the tae-bo guy -- killed 4 members of his family. See Terror in the Streets.
Wes Harriman and Harry McGinnis died at the hands of the Barrow Gang. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Harry
Deidre Kennedy was killed in a crazy, horrible way. See https://www.qt.com.au/news/murder-tha... because I can't remember the title of the book I read about it.
4/14 is the day Madge Oberholtzer died at the hands -- and teeth -- of D.C. Stephenson. See Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan.Marion Woods-Davies was killed by an enormous man named Shelly. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders.
Sarah DeVries died, details unknown, but they must have been ugly because it was Willie Pickton who killed her. See Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister.
Minnie Edmonds died under rather unclear circumstances. See Whitmore.
Melanie Cooley caught the eye of the wrong handsome young college student. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
Tracey Toovey, Louise and Maria Richards, Ruth Richards, and Angela, Sofia and Teresa Salcido died all on the same day. A three-year-old member of the Salcido family, throat slit and slung onto a garbage heap with her sisters, would survive to write Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival.
1500 people went down on the Titanic, quite unnecessarily. See Ghosts of the Titanic.
Perry Smith and Dick Hickock died today, too. See In Cold Blood.
4/15 is the day not one, but 3 John Does turned up -- more victims of Patrick WAYNE Kearney. See The Trash Bag Murderer.Bernita Sparks was killed by Lonnie Franklin. See The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central.
Tony Atkins tortured Vicki Beasley-Brown to death. See The Benjamin Atkins Story: America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.
This is the approximate day Vince Groves killed Juanita Mitchell. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Yollie Gracia died very suddenly. See the book about my old nemesis, Evil Eyes.
Colleen Daignault died a horrible death. See The Olson Murders.
Krystle Campbell, Martin Richard a Lu Lingzi died very unexpectedly, for stupid reasons. See Boston Marathon Bombing.
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In happier anniversaries, this is the day we saw the last of Fritz Haarmann. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
4/16 is the day Carrie Jefferson lost her life. She was one of the rare (as far as we know) victims of Coral Eugene Watts to be carefully buried rather than left where she fell. See Evil Eyes.Dawn Basom, the youngest of the EMU Murderer's victims, vanished while walking home. See Michigan Murders. Please note the author changed her name to "Dale Harum."
Therese Siegenthaler accepted a ride from exactly the wrong nice-looking couple. See Inside 25 Cromwell Street.
4/17 is the day in 1977 that Stacie Swofford died, and 10 years to the day later, Ann Barnes, at the hands of the same man: Lorenzo Gilyard. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.We lost Susan Rancourt as well. When told about strategies Susan could have used to save her own life, the Rancourts later said they wouldn't have wanted her any other way. They loved her as she was, caring and helpful, despite how it all came out. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
Valentina Suriani and Alexander Esau came a cropper on this day at the height of the Disco Era. See Confessions of Son of Sam.
Willie Pickton killed Heather Bottomley. See The Pickton File.
Maartje Tamboezer lost her life unnecessarily. See The Railway Murderer.
4/18 Amelda Hunter lost her life in a brutal, terrifying way, at the hands of a man out of his gourd on crack. See Nobody's Women: The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer.Sean Collier died in the line of duty. See The Boston Marathon Bombing - FBI Investigation.
Sylvia Benedetti died at the hands of this scary-looking guy. See Things a Killer Would Know: The True Story of Leonard Fraser...
Larry Armendariz was killed, disembowelled, and only then lovingly stroked all over by Patrick WAYNE Kearney. See The Trash Bag Murderer.
Pamela George was killed by a couple of nice boys from good families. See http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/regin...
In happier news, Marie Burke escaped a hammer attack alive on this day. See Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of How Peter Sutcliffe's Terrible Reign of Terror Claimed at Least Twenty-Two More Lives.
4/19 is the day 169 occupants of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma were blown to kingdom come. Plenty of others were injured. The date of the attack was chosen to fall on the anniversary of the Waco Massacre, when 76 people died. See, respectively, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing and The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation.
It's the day Joan D'Allessandro was raped and murdered. I'm deuced if I can remember what book I found her case in, though. See http://www.joansjoy.org/case_backgrou...
(EDIT: I think I may have found this case in Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner.)
Randi Mebruer died a terrifying death on this day. See I've Been Watching You: The South Louisiana Serial Killer.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's luck ran out on this day. See Maximum Harm: The Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing.
(an especially flattering photo of the bomber)
In one of history's narrowest escapes, Trisha Meili survived an attempt on her life on this day, made by a serial killer named Matias Reyes. See The Central Park Jogger Case.
4/20 is a day of valiant efforts to disguise crimes that ultimately failed.Helen Priestly died in a very famous staged murder. The staging fell through thanks to good forensic analysis. See New Murderer's Who's Who.
(the scene of the crime; Helen is inside the sack)
Wilson Turner lost his life. The killer went to considerable pains to hide the body, without result. See Murder in Coweta County.
Linda Gough was buried under her killer's house. The police found her anyway. See The Corpse Garden.
Theodore Hilles tried to keep his murder to himself, but he just couldn't keep a secret, apparently. See Terror in the Streets.
Mark Scott's body was hidden under the sand on a beach far from the scene of his murder, but two accomplices blabbed. It was already over for the killer anyway. See The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders.
(WAYNE Henley, L, and David Brooks, R, on the beach in question)
The killer of Clarnell Strandberg and her best friend, Sally Hallet, was so flummoxed when the police didn't dramatically chase him across the desert to catch him that he finally just went to a phone booth and turned himself in. See Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer.
This is also the date of the Columbine Massacre, which, to say the least, did not involve any sort of attempt to cover up the crime. See Columbine: A True Crime Story.
Carol Fahn died very unexpectedly. See The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer.
In far happier news, Tanja Doss escaped Anthony Sowell alive -- not for want of trying on his part, believe me. See Nobody's Women: The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer.
And: happy birthday, Adolf Hitler!!!
I want to add 4/16 -- The Virginia Tech massacre. I never forget the date because my friend Ellen has a birthday that day and in her mind, it forever tarnished it.
Now how is THAT not in my Book of the Dead!?
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Seung-Hui CHO shot Ryan Clark (22) / Emily Hilscher (19) / Minal Panchal (26) / G. V. Loganathan (53) / Jarrett Lane (22) / Brian Bluhm (25) / Matthew Gwaltney (24) / Jeremy Herbstritt (27) / Partahi Lumbantoruan (34) / Daniel O'Neil (22) / Juan Ortiz (26) / Julia Pryde (23) / Waleed Shaalan (32) / Jamie Bishop (35) / Lauren McCain (20) / Michael Pohle Jr. (23) / Maxine Turner (22) / Nicole White (20) / Liviu Librescu (76) / Jocelyne Couture-Nowak (49) / Ross Alameddine (20) / Austin Cloyd (18) / Daniel Perez Cueva (21) / Caitlin Hammaren (19) / Rachael Hill (18) / Matthew La Porte (20) / Henry Lee (20) / Erin Peterson (18) / Mary Karen Read (19) / Reema Samaha (18) / Leslie Sherman (20) / Kevin Granata (45) Total number of victims: 32. He then shot himself, making the total number of deaths 33. I leave it to your discretion if you want to consider him a victim.
4/21 is the day Debbie Schlesinger died, maybe at the hands of the Yorkshire Ripper. See Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of How Peter Sutcliffe's Terrible Reign of Terror Claimed at Least Twenty-Two More Lives.Rudolf Fentrup was killed by Frank Hedemeier. I'm almost positive the case is in Occult Murders.
Daryn Johnsrude died young and untimely. See Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP's Olsen Murders Investigation.
Glen Pritchett lost his life, too. The killer was an extremely unlikely one. See Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets.
Charles Bravo died in agony. Some think he had it coming. See Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
Lora Heedick died suddenly and shockingly. See Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer.
Cleophus Prince killed Elissa Keller. See Signature Killers.
One year ago exactly, Prince Rogers Nelson -- generally just known by his first name -- died of an accidental OD of a drug for which he had no prescription. The peculiar thing is that he was always so anti-drug.
This is also the day Amanda Berry was kidnapped. She would not be seen again in public for a long, long time. See Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland.
4/22 is the day Fred Craven died. The only suspects were Peter Sutcliffe and his brother. See Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of How Peter Sutcliffe's Terrible Reign of Terror Claimed at Least Twenty-Two More Lives.Jimmy Ray Payne disappeared off the sidewalks of Atlanta. See The List.
Keyra Steinhardt died violently. See Things a Killer Would Know: The True Story of Leonard Fraser.
Rhonda Myles died at the enormous hands of Shelly Brooks. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders.
Debra, Marc and Jacob Richardson were stabbed to death in their own home. See Runaway Devil: How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family.
Michael Ross killed April Brunais and Leslie Shelley. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r1/ross...
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4/23 is the day we lost Diane and Avery Howard. See Pee Wee Gaskins America's No. 1 Serial Killer.Willie Pickton almost certainly killed Kellie Little. See On the Farm.
Tina Atkinson lost her life to the Yorkshire Ripper. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Joachim Kroll killed Petra Giese. This is one of the few he could remember clearly, out of what may have been dozens or hundreds. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Laura Smither lost her life as well. See Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields.
4/24 is the day Sue Searles was killed by Coral Eugene Watts. See Evil Eyes.Mable Hartmeyer was killed by Calvin Jackson. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Wendy Aughe was killed by a guy who was forever using a new pseudonym. See MR Perfect. Gary C. King.
Karen Twigg Chipman and Staci Redican lost their lives to a nice-seeming couple. See A Venom In The Blood.
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Helen Barthelemy was found in an undignified position, and dead besides. See Found naked and dead.
4/25 is the day we lost Kristy and Sherry Janson. It was a close call for their parents as well, who were on the brink of suicide for a while after having lost both their children at once. See Murder on the Mountain.
4/26 is the day we lost Mary Phagan, in what was to become one of the most disputed criminal cases in American history. See Murder of Little Mary Phagan.Cherie Payseur lost her life to a brutal serial killer. (But is there really any other kind?) See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
Pamela Sue Rimer lost her life. See: http://murderpedia.org/male.S/images/...
Shelley Armitage crossed paths with the wrong neighbor. Not all of her has been found. See The Crossbow Cannibal.
This is the day Reactor 4 exploded at Chernobyl. The crime here is not the explosion -- it's the fact that almSerial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murderost nobody living around the power plant understood, due to government hushery, how dangerous the radiation leak was. See Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster.
In happier news, this is the day they executed spree killer Alton Colemen. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
4/27 is the day Andrew Cunanan killed Jeffrey Trail. See Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story.
E.L. Nelson killed Mary McConnell. See The Dark Fountain: A Novel of Horror.
This is the day Valery Legassov killed himself, 2 years and one day after a big project of his came a cropper. See Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter.
4/28 is the day we lost Denice Haraway. See The Dreams of Ada.Yetta Vishnefsky lost her life unexpectedly. See http://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jacks...
(quote from the killer: "I guess I kind of broke wild there, you know?")
Stephanie Bryan died just as unexpectedly as Yetta did. See Shallow Grave in Trinity County.
Terry Chasteen and her children Misty Zollars, Steven and Mark Chasteen died pretty horribly. See Burn, Judy, Burn.
Winifred Joyce Aplin, Walter John Bennett, Nicole Louise Burgess, Sou Leng Chung, Elva Rhonda Gaylard, Zoe Anne Hall, Elizabeth Jayne Howard, Mary Elizabeth Howard, Mervyn John Howard, Ronald Noel Jary, Tony Vadivelu Kistan, Leslie Dennis Lever, Sarah Kate Loughton, David Martin, Noelene Joyce Martin, Pauline Virjeana Masters, Alannah Louise Mikac, Madeline Grace Mikac, Nanette Patricia Mikac, Andrew Bruce Mills, Peter Brenton Nash, Gwenda Joan Neander, Moh Yee William Ng, Anthony Nightingale,Mary Rose Nixon, Glenn Roy Pears, Russell James Pollard, Janette Kathleen Quin, Helene Maria Salzmann, Robert Graham Salzmann, Kate Elizabeth Scott, Kevin Vincent Sharp, Raymond John Sharp, Royce William Thompson, and Jason Bernard Winter were gunned down by Martin Bryant. He was on disability for his low IQ, but there was nothing wrong with his aim. See Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: the making of a mass murderer.
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