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4/30 is a busy day:Marie Malvar disappeared. Her "boyfriend" (for that read "pimp"), deeply concerned because so many women like Marie had disappeared in the area lately, searched up and down every street in the direction they'd gone until he saw the truck she had driven off in, the one with the distinctive primer spot on the door. This is how Gary Ridgway first came to the attention of the police. It was already far too late for Marie. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
In a very similar disappearance, this is the day Cindy Beck was reported missing. See On the Farm.
Mark Schwebes lost his life. See Someone Has to Die Tonight.
John Bucher lost his life to the Barrow gang. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Today -- alas! -- is the day we lost Adolf Hitler and his sidekick, Eva Braun. See The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives.
Gabriela Vargas, Jose Rolon, Rosalie Calzada, Guadalupe Sanchez, Guillermo Calzada, Celia de Klein, and Federico Loustalot all lost their lives today, thanks to one guy who went by the nickname El Padrino ("The Godfather"). See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
May Day has a bit of a theme: People missing for a considerable time.Shannan Gilbert was seen running for her life on Long Island, screaming that someone was trying to kill her. Nobody helped her, and she was not seen again until much, much later. See Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
Chandra Levy, who was packing to leave Washington D.C. and go home, vanished. See Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery.
After winning the International Hide And Seek Competition for 10 years running, Osama bin Laden was finally "tagged" by Seal Team Six. See The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden.
After a long, anxiety-provoking search, the police were finally able to arrest J.C.X. Simon, Manuel Moore, and Larry Green. See The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights.
(Jesse Lee Cooks, far L, was arrested separately.)
5/2 is the anniversary of the execution of Caryl Chessman. See Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story.It's the anniversary of the first funeral held for Clairvius Narcisse. See The Serpent and the Rainbow.
A Jane Doe victim of the Green River Killer was found on this day. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Jane Doe #3, a victim of the Cleveland Torso Murderer, was also found on this day. See Corroborating Evidence: The Black Dahlia Murder.
This is the day Bill Suff killed a woman named Martha Young. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
And the day Art Shawcross killed little Karen Hill. See The Misbegotten Son.
Cliff Olson killed Verna Bjerky. See Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP's Olsen Murders Investigation.
This is the approximate day Lorenzo Gilyard killed Margaret Miller. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
5/3 is the day we lost David Madson. See Death at Every Stop.
And Carol Ann Christensen. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
And Graeme Carter. See Deep Sleep: Harry Bailey And The Scandal Of Chelmsford.
5/4 is the day Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and Willliam Schroeder were gunned down at Kent State University. See Kent State: What Happened and Why.
Peter Aston lost his life, pretty much out of nowhere. See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
Valerie Ann Street lost her life in a terrifying way. See The Torso Killer.
Angela Girdner was strangled on approximately this day. He seemed so harmless. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
5/5 is the day Michael Moore, Steve Branch, and Christopher Byers were murdered. Come to think of it, this would be a great subject for the May challenge, because it's about prejudice against lifestyle choices that left 3 innocent guys in prison. See, for starters, Blood on Black: The Case Against the West Memphis 3, Volume I.Richard Rogers killed Peter Anderson. See American Monsters Vol. 7.
Andrew Cunanan killed Lee Miglin. See Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story.
5/6 is the day we lost Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo and his main squeeze, Martin Quintana. See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
(sorry, this is the only photo I could find of both of them together)
Roberta Parks died on this day in 1974, and in 1975 we lost Lynette Culver. Different people, different years, different states even, but the same core problem. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
5/7 is the day Christine Gailbreath made the mistake of walking out of her house. She never made it to her destination. There is no book on Ann Arbor's West Side rapist/sex murderer. Not even a page on Murderpedia. Her killer was Ervin DEWAIN Mitchell. He looked exactly like the Grinch when he smiled.
Jack Blake was murdered, pretty horribly even by the standards of child sex murders. See The Misbegotten Son.
Anita Luchese and Marty Ann Pesce accepted a ride from the wrong guy. See Why: The Serial Killer In America.
Katie Autry died in one of the randomest, ugliest murders I can think of. See Bluegrass : A True Story of Murder in Small-Town Kentucky.
Frank, Mary and Michael Columbo died very unexpectedly. See Love's Blood.
On 5/8 Sandra Garland, her boyfriend Scott Kabran, and their two friends Greg Walls and Tony Brown were ventilated by bullets at a hippie commune called Stonehead Manor in Detroit. See Murder Trial of Wilbur Jackson.Charles Hattula was killed and dumped in a river after being sexually assaulted. He worked for PDM Contracting and the only real suspect is the owner of that company, John WAYNE Gacy. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.
This is the day we lost George Lutz, one of the greatest fraudsters of the Disco Era. See Amityville: House of Lies.
(George with then-wife Kathy Lutz)
5/9 is the day we lost May Thompson. See Private Eddie Leonski: The Brownout Strangler.
William Reese died, and not by accident. See Death at Every Stop.
David Johnson lost his life for pretty doubtful reasons. See The Snowtown Murders: The Real Story Behind the Bodies-in-the-Barrels Killings.
Lady Winfreda Ashton died for genuinely idiotic reasons. See Granny Killer: The Story Of John Glover.
EDIT: This is also the day Marcella Claxton escaped the Yorkshire Ripper alive. Go, Marcella! See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper
5/10 is the day Deanna Siefert died. This was a big deal where I lived. See http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD...Linda Salee was found dead. See Lust Killer.
Shirley Robinson was killed by Fred West, maybe assisted by his lovely wife Rose. See The Corpse Garden.
Anthony Marrero was killed by Richard Rogers. See http://gaycitynews.nyc/gcn_505/serial....
This is the day john WAYNE Gacy was executed. See John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster.
5/11 is the day we lost William Barrett. See The List.
Alexander Dyakonov died a terrible death. See Citizen X: Killer Department.
Sakia Gunn was murdered for turning down a guy who made a pass at her. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
5/12 is the day Tom, Lisa and Kevin Haines were murdered. See: http://stacygreenauthor.com/archives/...Dzung Nuoc Tu was murdered. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r1/ross...
James and Ann Wraith and Caroline Ellis lost their lives. See https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/201...
This is the day Joseph Vacher killed Augustine Mortureux. See The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science.
And: happy 120th birthday, Earle Nelson!!!
Why isn't he smiling? It's his birthday!!!
5/13 is the day Rhonda, Tomaso, Katricia, Zanetta, Phil, Delitia, Raymond, Conrad, Frank, Theresa, and John Africa died fiery deaths at the order of the mayor of Philadelphia. See The MOVE Crisis in Philadelphia: Extremist Groups and Conflict Resolution.
Lana Long was killed by a guy named Bobby Joe Long -- no relation. See Smoldering Embers.
Michael Ross was executed today. Boo frikkin' hoo. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r1/ross...
5/14 is the day Randy Kraft was pulled over for erratic driving, and surprised the state trooper by getting out of his car to come back and talk instead of waiting for the officer to approach. When he investigated, he found Terry Gambrel dead in the shotgun seat. See The Scorecard Killer: the Randy Kraft Story.William Doi was killed, completely out of nowhere. His wife Lillie escaped alive, but far from unscathed. See The Night Stalker.
Randall Reffett and Sam Stapleton died horrible deaths. They were John WAYNE Gacy's youngest victims. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.
5/15 is the day Donna Payant died a terrifying death, the first -- and I hope the only -- female prison officer to die on duty. See Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion To Kill: The Forensic Story of a Multiple Personality Serial Killer.
Emma Jenefor was killed by Vince Groves. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Patsy Vineyard was killed by yet another man named Lesley. Never, never name your son Lesley. See The Babyface Killer.
5/16 is the day they lynched Jesse Washington. See The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP.
Donald Todd lost his life to Mack Ray Edwards. See http://mja--inc--investigations.webs....
Chester Jones killed Desarae Turner. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
We also lost Oleg Makarenkov. See Andrei Chikatilo - Serial Killer Case File #5: True Crimes.
Peter Sutcliffe killed Vera Millward. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Ewing Scott killed his wife Evelyn. See http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/scott...
Kathryn Viramontes was killed under circumstances that hardly bear thinking about. See Alone With the Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist.
5/17 is the approximate day Des Nilsen killed Martyn Duffy. If you look in the photo section of Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen, you can see good old Des wearing Martyn's glasses at an office party. It's the day Sandra Sapaugh escaped Bill Reece alive. See http://abc13.com/news/kidnapping-vict...
This is the day Donald DeFreeze, Camilla Hall, Mizmoon Soltysik, Willie Wolfe, Angela Atwood and Nancy Ling Perry were killed in a shootout with the authorities. See The Voices of Guns: The Definitive and Dramatic Story of the Twenty-Two-Month Career of the Symbionese Liberation Army, One of the Most Bi.
5/18 is the day Ann Lock died. See John Duffy and David Mulcahy: The Railway Killers.Lawrence Sharp accepted a ride from the wrong guys. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Elizabeth Porteous was gnawed to death by WAYNE Boden. See The Dracula Syndrome.
Gladys Hosking was killed for a very odd reason by a very, very drunk man. See Private Eddie Leonski: The Brownout Strangler.
Andrea Borhaven was done to death by Willie Pickton. See On the Farm.
Eric Middlebrooks died for no good reason at all. See The List.
5/19 is the day a California peach farmer went to take another look at a hole that had been dug mysteriously in one of his orchards. He found it filled in this time. It proved to be Kenny Whitacre's grave. See The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders.
Sandra Wolfsteiner died a brutal, terrifying death. See The Olson Murders.
Sean King died very much as Sandra did. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Cherie Down died of two bullets in the chest. Her sister and brother survived very similar injuries. See Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder.
And: Happy birthday, Albert Fish!!!
5/20 is the day we lost Raymond Smith. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Nicky Corwin and Laurie Dann died on the same day, by the same hand. See Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life and Final Rampage of Laurie Dann.
Eugenie Delhomme was killed, gutted and raped -- apparently in that order. See The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science.
5/21 is the day we lost Billy Baulch and Johnny Delome. See Mass Murder in Houston.We also lost Bobby Franks, for even dumber reasons than the boys above. See Compulsion.
Tishana Culver died a brutal, horrifying death. See House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, The Cleveland Strangler.
Myrna Opsahl died while she was out running an errand. See The Voices of Guns.
Jutta Rahn died a terrible death. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Nathaniel Cater died young and pointlessly. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Suzie Bowers died suddenly. See Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields.
Four people associated with Thurston High -- 2 students, 2 teachers -- died at the hands of a very young killer who went into total meltdown after he was picked up by the police. 25 other injured victims escaped alive. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/art...
5/22 is the day the Green River Killer did away with Tina Authorlee. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Suzanne Blamires was taken out by a guy who called himself the Crossbow Cannibal. See The Crossbow Cannibal: The Definitive Story of Stephen Griffiths - The Self-Made Serial Killer: The Definitive Story of Stephen Griffiths - The Self-Made Serial Killer.
In much happier anniversaries, this is the day Leslie Ann O'Dell escaped Richard Cottingham alive. Go Leslie!!! See The Torso Killer.
5/23 is a busy day.Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Mabel Young made the horrible mistake of going to church. See Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Indictment, vs. Thomas W. Piper, for the Murder of Mabel H. Young.
Cheryl Wims lost her life to the same killer who got her colleague, Tina Authorlee. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Michele Maday lost her life. By the narrowest of margins, on the same day, Lori Lister and Melinda Aguilar escaped alive. See Evil Eyes.
Michelle
Michael McMorrow died a horrible death. See Baby-Faced Butchers.
Dennis Hemby was murdered. See Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate.
In much happier anniversaries, this is the day Sharon Komlos escaped a serial killer alive. This was genuinely as narrow an escape as you will ever find in TC literature -- right up there with Lori Lister above. See Feel the Laughter: The Inspirational Story of Sharon Komlos.
5/24 is the day a doctor named Swango killed Rhonda Mahlamvana. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.Jayme Hurley lost her life to a serial killer named Lesley. Never, never name your son Lesley. See The Babyface Killer.
Shelley Sikes was killed by a guy named, unfortunately, Gerald Zwarst. See Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields.
This is also the day we lost Tony Hughes. He sure deserved better than this. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
5/25 is the day we lost Martin Brown to Norma and Mary Bell. See Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell.
Tatyana and Svetlana Petrosyan were chased down together and killed by a man with a knife. See The Red Ripper: inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer.
Stoni Blair was murdered by her mother, and packed in the freezer of the apartment where the family lived. Her brother was already in there, waiting for her. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
5/26 is the day Patrick WAYNE Kearney killed Kevin Portis. See The Trash Bag Murderer.Marine Hedge was taken from us by Dennis Rader. See Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door.
Diane Hawkins and Katrina Harris were gutted like fish. Or maybe I mean deer. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
Thomas Piper was executed. See http://www.serialkillerchronicles.com/
The blasted photo won't post but you can click to see it here: http://www.serialkillerchronicles.com...
So was Marcel Petiot. See Docteur Petiot.
5/27 is the day Michelle Sims was found dead. See Bound To Die: The Shocking True Story of Bobby Joe Long, America's Most Savage Serial Killer.Konerak Sinthasomphone escaped an alcoholic serial killer who had to make an emergency beer run before Konerak was quite subdued. The neighbors rescued him and called the police, who cheerfully handed him back to his killer. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Darwin Scott wasn't just killed; he was stabbed over 80 times and pinned to the floor of his apartment with the butcher knife used to kill him. The only real suspects are Susan Atkins and Darwin's nephew, Charlie Manson. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMy...
Brenda Baker died unexpectedly. Ted Bundy is a suspect. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
5/28 is the day we lost Thomas Lundgren. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Faith Hathaway was murdered. See Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate.
Phil and Bryn Hartman died together. See THE TRAGIC DEATH OF PHIL HARTMAN.
In happier anniversaries, Kate Sheedy escaped Levi Bellfield alive on this day. See The Bus Stop Killer.
5/29 is the day Mabel Bell died violently. Her sister, Nettie Lang, more elderly and even more fragile than Mabel, escaped alive. See The Night Stalker.Vernita Wheat died at the hands of these two young lovers:
See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
We also lost Ricky Lee Beeks on this day. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
5/30 is the day we lost David Hilligiest and Malley Winkle, one of Dean Corll's many "gruesome twosomes." See The Case of Dean Corll (The Candyman) & Elmer Henley.
Hardee Schmidt died an ugly death, but at least in her case she was mutilated after, not before death, as in the case of the two boys above. See Dismembered.
Jennie Randolph was strangled and raped by Earle Nelson. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
Kristin Lardner was gunned down on a sidewalk that still bears a memorial splash of paint in the shape of the bloodstain left by her fallen body. See The Stalking of Kristin: A Father Investigates the Murder of His Daughter.
Ramona Neal was raped and murdered by a pudgy disco duck kind of a guy. See Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Eugene Stano.
Private William Walker was gunned down by the local sheriff near the military camp where he was stationed during WWII. See The Slaughter: An American Atrocity.
Susan Davis and Elizabeth Perry disappeared. Ted Bundy is the suspect. See The Only Living Witness.
In happier news, Carol Kyle escaped Rick Ramirez alive. Go Carol! See The Night Stalker.
5/31 is the day Scott Roeder killed George Tiller. See A Death in Wichita: Abortion Doctor George Tiller and the New American Civil War.
Murray Pace died a hideous death. See I've Been Watching You: The South Louisiana Serial Killer.
Allen Rowe died for stupid reasons. I always think of her when I hear the song "Burden In My Hand." See Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson".
Yvonne Antosh died for the pettiest reasons imaginable. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Linda Monteiro died at the hands of my old nemesis, Coral Eugene Watts. See Evil Eyes.
6/1 is the day Ted Bundy killed Brenda Ball. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.Minnie May and Maureen Atorthy were strangled and then raped by E.L. Nelson. See The Dark Fountain: A Novel of Horror.
The Green River Killer did away with Carrie Rois. See Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer.
This is the approximate day Anne Colberson died, and in a different year, the exact day Doreen Geddings and Robin Dempsey died at the hands of a man aptly named Pee Wee. See Donald Gaskins: The Meanest Man in America.
This is the approximate day John Petrone was murdered. See The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald.
Julie Young and Elaine Dumba died on approximately this day. See On the Farm.
Yelena Bakulina died quite horribly today. See The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History.
In happier news, Lizzie Borden died today after living like a czar for years off the proceeds of her unpunished crime. See Girl in the House of Hate.
6/2 is the day Steven Wells was raped, tortured and strangled by Bill Bonin. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Malcolm Little -- not Malcolm X, the OTHER Malcolm Little -- died at the hands of Randy Kraft. See, again, Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Louis Wagner died untimely. See Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate.
Vince Groves killed Pamela Morgan. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
In happier news, we finally lost Buck Walker on this day. It was past due. See And the Sea Will Tell.
6/3 is the day Elsie Boyes was murdered, quite likely by John WAYNE Glover. See Garden of Evil: The Granny Killer's Reign of Terror.
Grace Budd made the horrible mistake of leaving her house to attend a birthday party. See The Cannibal.
Mary Sietsema opened her door to the wrong potential renter. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
The ironically-named Michael Bonnin was raped, tortured and strangled by John WAYNE Gacy. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.
This is also the day we lost Jack Kevorkian, crusader for, um, death. See Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia.
6/4 is the day we lost Monika Tafel. It must have been a horrible death because hers was one of the few crimes that stood out in the killer's mind well enough for him to remember her at all. See The Serial Killer Spotlight: Joachim Kroll, A Unique Serial Killer.
Ken Cummings Jr. became the victim of a hate crime. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
6/5 is the day Josephine Ross was murdered. See Before I Kill More.Chester Turner killed Elandra Brown. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Shelly Brooks killed a woman today who, last I heard, had not yet been identified, the poor thing. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders.
Dagmar Klimek lost her life to Hans Pommerencke. See The Killers Among Us 2: Sex Madness & Mass Murder.
A perfectly-recognizable man marked with a number of distinctive tattoos was killed on this day. His face was shown everywhere. We still have no idea who the poor guy was. See The Maniac in the Bushes: More Tales of Cleveland Woe.
Bobby Kennedy died today, at the hands of a man who later declared himself to be Jesus Christ. See The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy.
6/6 is the day Rose Wallace lost her life to the Cleveland Torso Murderer. See The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
Ayako Nomoto lost her life pretty violently. The killer was Tustomu Miyazaki. See http://aminoapps.com/page/anime/19523...
This is the anniversary of the Alajuelita Massacre. See http://www.ticotimes.net/2016/04/06/9...
This was the day in 1992 we lost Kathleen Wattley; in 2001 we lost Andrea Joesbury to the same foul-smelling serial killer. See On the Farm.
This is also the day Jason Moss finally killed himself, in a bit of a mental and emotional implosion. See The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer.
6/7 is the day we lost Alice Kalom. See Michigan Murders.Billy Ray Lawrence died an atrocious death. See The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders.
Caroline Byrne died freakishly. See The Killing of Caroline Byrne: A Journey to Justice.
James Byrd died a death you wouldn't wish on anyone. See A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption.
The Gallegos killed Linda Aguilar. See All His Father's Sins.
Judith Roberts was murdered, possibly by Peter Sutcliffe. Investigation is ongoing. 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.
Hats off, everyone. This is the day Rick Ramirez died. There will never be another one like him. I hope. See The Night Prowler: the Richard Ramirez Story.
6/8 is the day we lost Connie Naon. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Bobby Joe Long did terrible things to Elizabeth Loudenback before killing her. See Bound To Die: The Shocking True Story of Bobby Joe Long, America's Most Savage Serial Killer.
Calvin Jackson ended the life of Winifred Miller. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Starr Faithfull was found dead by some startled vagrants. See The Girl On The Lonely Beach.
In less comforting news, Caril Ann Fugate was paroled on this day in the mid-1970s. See Caril.
6/9 is the day Harvey Robinson raped Charlotte Schmoyer, then stabbed her more than 20 times. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robin...
Christopher Richardson lost his life to a pudgy little guy with a funny-shaped hairdo. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Lorenzo Gilyard did away with Kellie Ford. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Lola Gowan made the mistake of admitting a man into her house who had excellent manners and a Bible tucked under one arm. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
Cathern Davis lost her life to a man who would be known in the press as the Grim Sleeper. See The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central.
Marion Spence was murdered, maybe by Peter Sutcliffe. Anyway, the killer used a hammer and a knife just the way Pete used to. 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.
6/10 is the day Lillian St. Mary and Emily Patterson both admitted the wrong man to their homes. He seemed so nice and safe, you know? See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.Susan Basile found out that the man she thought of as a good friend...wasn't. See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
William Carroll died a terrible death, not too different from Susan's. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.
Carla Larson lost her life, totally out of nowhere. See http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/huggi...
6/11 is the day Michael McGhee and Oliver Molitor died so that Patrick WAYNE Kearney could run his hands over their exposed giblets. Because he was weird. See The Trash Bag Murderer.Jeanette Baca was killed by Vince Groves. See http://www.westword.com/news/vincent-...
Elizabeth Stevens was killed for no good reason. See The Frankston Murders: The True Story Of Serial Killer, Paul Denyer.
Georgeanne Hawkins was famously murdered by one of America's most photogenic serial killers. See Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger.
In happier deaths, Tim McVeigh was proudly executed on this day, still standing firmly on his terrorist principles. See The Official Record of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
6/12 is the day we lost Ron Goldman and his friend, Nicole Brown Simpson. See If I did it : Confessions of the Killer. Lyubov Biryuk was chased down and killed by a man with a knife. See Andrei Chikatilo - Serial Killer Case File #5: True Crimes.
Medgar Evers died in a pool of blood on his driveway, as his children stood over him begging him not to leave them. See Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr.
Gloria Boothe died, maybe at the hands of Peter Sutcliffe. 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.
EDIT: I totally forgot to say this is the first anniversary of the massacre at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. The final death toll was 49, not counting the shooter himself, who was rightfully shot and killed on the spot. Worst mass shooting in U.S. history. The nightclub never re-opened but there are plans to make it into a memorial and museum.
6/13 is the day Michael Ross killed Wendy Barbeault. See The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer.Grethe Siefkin died very unexpectedly. See Final Doom: The Frederick Hollman Story.
Lori-Ann Farmer, Denise Wilhite -- or was her name Doris Milner??? -- and Michele Guse were murdered at a Girl Scout outing. At first the counselors who came looking for them, seeing blood everywhere in their tent, guessed that one of the 8-year-olds 'must have gotten her period.' See Tent Number Eight: An Investigation of the Girl Scout Murders and the Trial of Gene Leroy Hart.
6/14 is the day Anna Slesers was murdered and raped, more or less simultaneously, and left in a humiliating position. See The Boston Strangler.John Horigan was killed under circumstances that could only be described as bizarre. See The Boy in the Attic.
Marita Choquette died. See Lethal Friendship: A Mother's Battle to Put--And Keep--A Serial Killer Behind Bars.
Jill Parenteau died pointlessly. See The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders.
Johnny Sellers and Jessie Ruth Judy died violently. See Pee Wee Gaskins America's No. 1 Serial Killer.
6/15 is the day Calvin Jackson killed Kate Lewisohn. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.Jake Bird killed Harvey Boyd. See, again, Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Tony Atkins killed JoAnne O'Rourke. See The Benjamin Atkins Story: America's Most Prolific Serial Killer. He, too, should appear in Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend, but I have the impression he wasn't in there.
This is the day we lost Evgeniy Muratov to the lesopolosa killer. See Citizen X: Killer Department.
Michael Ross killed Debra Smith Taylor. See The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer.
This is the month in 1971 that Pee Wee Gaskins killed two women we know only as Angie and Marie. See Final Truth: The Autobiography of Mass Murderer/Serial Killer Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins.
6/16 is the day we lost the Greyhound Bus Boy, more correctly known as Tim O'Rourke. He was far from the first rape victim of this man, but he was the first in a very long series of rape-murders he committed. See A Question of Doubt: The John Wayne Gacy Story.Keith Bennett disappeared, thank to the Moors Murderers, who apparently thought they were proving that they were superior to other people by killing children. Alone among the victims, Keith has yet to be found. See Brady and Hindley: Genesis of the Moors Murders.
Caylee Anthony died on this day. Justice has been wanting in her case, too. See Follow the Duct Tape: Theories Behind the Death of Caylee Anthony.
Fred Martinez was murdered for dumb reasons. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
Donnie Crisel died horribly. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
(sorry -- it's the only photo I have of him.)
This is the day George Reeves died. See Hollywood Kryptonite.
And this is the day they discovered a burglary in progress at the Watergate Hotel. The rest is history, to put it mildly. See All the President's Men.
In happier news, this is the day that not one, but three landladies -- a Mrs. Ford, a Mrs. Stidger, and a Mrs. Dunne -- escaped E.L. Nelson alive. You go girls!!! See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
6/17 is the day Collette Wilson died. See Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields.Helen Mae Hallmark set up a date with the wrong john. See On the Farm.
Klara Tesmer unexpectedly died. The guy probably ate her, too. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Elizabeth Figg also made a date with a really, really lousy john. See Jack Of Jumps.
Neil Beagley died after many years of suffering at the hands of a group called the Followers of Christ. See In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide.
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Vincent Groves killed Becky Lovato. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Bill Bonin and friends killed Darin Lee Kendrick. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Sandro Beyer was murdered, apparently just for grins. See Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground.