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6/19 is the day Heather West was murdered by her dad, Fred. I am personally convinced her mother Rose knew nothing about it. See She Must Have Known: The Trial of Rosemary West.Tamika Turks and Donna Williams were killed by Alton Coleman with the help of his girlfriend, Debra Brown. Annie Hilliard, luckily, escaped with her life. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
Richard Keith was taken from us by Randy Kraft. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Blanche Vincent lost her life to serial killer Calvin Jackson. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Anthony Walgate was killed by a recently-uncovered serial murderer, Stephen Port. No book on him yet, but see: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2245695...
Larry Hasker was murdered. See Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory.
(Wm. Acker, likely the real murderer)
Odette Hall was murdered. See Warden Ragen of Joliet.
Vincent Chin was done to death under circumstances that still make me sick to think about. There is no whole book on the case, but see the documentary WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?, or the follow-up, VINCENT WHO? He is also discussed in Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People.
6/20 is the day we lost Margery Gardner to a sexual deviate who had consumed 5 whiskeys on top of 47 -- count 'em, 47 -- beers. See Portrait of a Sadist.Ada Court lost her life to someone much bigger, meaner, and more twisted than she was. See Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP's Olsen Murders Investigation.
Aleksey Moiseev lost his life to yet another sexual deviate. Where do they all come from, seriously? See Citizen X: Killer Department.
Stella Nolan lost her life to yet another sexual deviate who preyed on children. See http://murderpedia.org/male.E/images/...
Shannon Exley was killed in a distinctively ugly fashion. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.
Christin McCarron, Anita Lindner, Dr. Alan London, and Dr. Thomas Sigman were gunned down for no good reason. They were swiftly followed by Dean Mellberg, who was gunned down for excellent reasons. See Warnings Unheeded.
Andy Brown, who ended the massacre with a single well-placed bullet
Robin Samsoe was done to death pretty horribly by Rodney Alcala. See The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders.
In MUCH happier anniversaries, this is the day 50 suffering pitbulls were rescued from the accurately-named Badd Newz Kennels by Animal Control. See Badd Newz: The Untold Story Of The Michael Vick Dog Fighting Case.
6/21 is the day John Woods lost his life to Patrick WAYNE Kearney. See The Trash Bag Murderer.Robert Hillsborough was murdered for dumb reasons. See: http://www.back2stonewall.com/2016/06... or just read The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Jim Chaney, Andy Goodman and Mickey Schwerner were killed by local members of the KKK, including a minister and a county sheriff. See Three Lives for Mississippi.
Forty-one years to the day later, the ringleader of the group of Klansmen -- the right reverend Edgar Ray Killen -- was convicted of the killings. See Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen.
Edgar Ray Killen, and his co-conspirator Sheriff Cecil Ray Price
In other happy anniversaries, WAYNE Williams was busted on this day. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
6/22 is the day Jean Hilliker Ellroy was murdered, shattering several lives and ultimately creating a favorite mystery and true-crime writer. See My Dark Places.
Asta, Gretha, Harry and Annabell Eicher were kidnapped. See The Love-Murders of Harry F. Powers.
Susan Rushworth met her end at the hands of the Crossbow Cannibal. See Stephen Griffiths: The Crossbow Cannibal.
Randy Kraft killed Roger Dickerson. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Elyse Pahler was done to death by a pack of Satanists. See In the Name of Satan: A True Story of Human Sacrifice, Devil Worship, and Murder.
LaTonya Wilson was murdered -- a crime thought by some to be the work of the Atlanta Child Murderer, but come on now. See The List.
Rebecca Guno had a bad, bad, bad date. See Butcher.
Stan Howard's children watched him die. See The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder.
In far happier anniversaries, Terri Jentz and Shayna Weiss escaped an axe murderer alive on this day. See Strange Piece of Paradise.
6/23 is the day George Russell killed Mary Ann Pohlreich. See Charmer: The True Story of a Ladies' Man and His Victims.Julie Fuller lost her life very, very young. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
Charlotte Lamb died a terrible death. See Rodney James Alcala: Occupation: Serial Killer a.k.a. The Dating Game Killer.
Lonnie Trumbull was killed. Lisa Wick, her roommate and co-worker, luckily got away alive. Ted Bundy is a possible suspect. See: https://murdersandmonsters.wordpress....
Henry Humphrey was done in by the Barrow Gang. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
6/24 is a busy, busy crime day. This is the day Jeff Dahmer killed Eddie Smith. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Earle Nelson killed Ollie Russell. See The Dark Fountain.
Tiffany Bresciani was murdered. See Garden of Graves.
Brenda Judd and Sandy Colley lost their lives. See All His Father's Sins.
Brenda
Aaron Wyche died, in a case widely attributed to the Atlanta Child Murderer. See The List.
Cindy Schaeffer died a horrible death at the hands of the Toolbox Killers. See Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI.
David Owen was done to death by some people he ticked off. See Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas.
Jake Bird killed Alta Fulkerson. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Julie LeJeune and Melissa Russo were kidnapped. See I Choose to Live.
"Michael" Crilley was raped and murdered. See Rodney Alcala "The Dating Game Killer".
30 people died in a terrible New Orleans arson fire. To this day three of them are known only by the numbers assigned by searchers to their bodies in the wreckage of the bar. See Let the Faggots Burn: The Upstairs Lounge Fire.
Charles Starkweather was executed. See Redheaded Peckerwood.
Patsy Ramsey died of a second round of ovarian cancer. If you believe she killed her daughter, this may work out as poetic justice. See JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation.
6/25 is the day Harry Thaw shot Stanford White in front of a crowd at Madison Square Garden. See The Great Harry Thaw Case, or a Woman's Sacrifice.
Joan Gave escaped Coral Watts alive. See Evil Eyes.
Gordon Cummins was executed. See In the Dark: The True Story of the Blackout Ripper.
So was Gene Simmons. See Zero at the Bone.
6/26 is the day the Yorkshire Ripper got Jayne McDonald. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Janet Henry was killed by Willie Pickton. See On the Farm.
Margaret Harold was shot in the face while out on a date. See http://www.crimemagazine.com/serial-k...
Patrick WAYNE Kearney killed John Demchick. See The Trash Bag Murderer.
Mrs. George Russell invited a strange man into her home to show him a room she had to let. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
Nicole Hanns died, pretty much out of nowhere. See Little Girls Lost: The Stories of Four of Australia's Most Horrific Child Murders, and Their Families' Fight for Justice.
Agneta Nyholm died. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_In...
Katazo Shava died for a really dumb reason. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.
A woman, never named in the papers, escaped Shelly Brooks alive and turned him in to the cops; this allowed WAYNE County prosecutor Kym Worthy to link his DNA to a number of unsolved Detroit rape-murders. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders.
Judy Placido and Sal Lupo escaped the Son of Sam alive. See Confessions of Son of Sam.
6/27 is the day Phillimon Chipoko died unecessarily. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.Troy Ward was taken from his family by Gary Bishop. See The Mind of the Devil.
Patty Higgins was brutally murdered. See The Night Stalker.
So was Linda Hamilton. See Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Eugene Stano.
Joseph Smith was killed by an angry mob. See American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church.
6/28 is another very busy crime day.Bill Suff killed Kim Lyttle. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
Catherine DiMauro lost her life to Steven Pennell. See: http://rivista-cdn.delawaretoday.com/...
Jim and Naomi Olive died. See Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County.
Miriam Angel was murdered while pregnant. Her killer's name passed into English as an ethnic slur. See The Strange Case of Israel Lipski: A Story of London's East End in 1887.
Susan Curtis died. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
Jennie Vincow was murdered out of nowhere. See The Night Stalker.
Gilbert Jordan killed Patricia Andrew. See The Alcohol Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Gilbert Paul Jordan.
Mary Mullin died, probably at the enormous hands of Albert DeSalvo. See The Boston Strangler.
In different years, Billy Mays, GG Allin, and D.C. Stephenson -- the latter two accomplished criminals in their own right -- died associated with their substance abuse. See, respectively, My Son, Billy: A Father Remembers the Greatest Pitchman Ever, I Was a Murder Junkie--The Last Days of GG Allin, and Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan.
Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were gunned down. See The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: The History and Legacy of the Event That Triggered World War I.
Amos Babcock was executed today. See The Ballad of Jacob Peck.
So was Sedley Alley. See (I think) Mindhunter.
Denise Sam-Cali escaped Harvey Robinson alive today. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robin...
6/29's theme is "unanswered questions" -- always a pet peeve of mine.Fatty Arbuckle died under a cloud of unresolved suspicion. See The Fatty Arbuckle Case.
We know Pee Wee Gaskins killed Anne Colberson, but we can't get any closer to a death date than "somewhere right around June 29th." See http://csafd.proboards.com/thread/234
Rita Lorraine Jolly wasn't definitely killed; we only know for sure that she disappeared. Is she dead? If she is dead, did Ted Bundy do it? He's certainly a popular suspect. See http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/j...
This is -- again, the approximate -- date that Shari Lynn Ball was murdered. We really can't say at this point, but Christopher Wilder MIGHT be the killer. Then again, maybe not. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
Sheree Beasley was definitely killed on this day, and we even know who killed her. But there was a long wait to find out who did it, and why. See The Murder of Sheree by WAYNE Miller.
6/30 is a day of "gruesome twosomes," as one character called them in the movie COPYCAT. This is the day Jack Unterweger killed Irene Rodriguez. See The Vienna Woods Killer: A Writer's Double Life.
Matt Turner lost his life, no doubt horribly, to Jeff Dahmer. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Helen Blake and Nina Nichols died in separate incidents on the same day. See The Boston Strangler.
Joan Schell and Roxie Phillips died on the same day, in different years, in different states, at the hands of the same killer. So to me that's a G.T. See Michigan Murders.
In the most unusual Gruesome Twosome anywhere on this daily listing -- can you believe it's already been 4 years!? -- this is the day Josenir Abreu was stabbed to death on the soccer field by Otavio da Silva, whereupon the fans put an even more serious hurtin' on good old Otavio. Click on this link with caution -- it shows a film of a medical team reassembling the pieces on an autopsy table: http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2013/07/b...
In happier news, this is the day George Joseph Smith swung for his crimes. See The Magnificent Spilsbury and the case of the Brides in the Bath.
(I assume they made him take off the hat)
7/1 is the approximate day Dave Rubenstein, aka Dave Insurgent of the Reagan Youth, died -- a collateral victim of serial killer Joel Rifkin. See The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches.
Shelley Robertson died on approximately this day in 1975. She was definitely a Bundy victim. Sandra Weaver died on this day in 1974. She may or may not be a Bundy victim. See The Only Living Witness.
Shelley
This is the day Ricky Holland was murdered and left lying in a ditch by his adoptive parents, Tim and Lisa. They occupied the "worst parents in Michigan" throne until Corinne Baker and Brandon Hayes ousted them. Corrine, in turn, has since been ousted by Mitchelle Blair. See http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/st...
Peter and Herman Stubbe, aged 8 and 6, were killed by Ludwig Tessnow. The only good thing about this crime is that it involved a forensic-science breaklthrough that allowed investigators to distinguish woodstain from blood stains on clothing. See http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/tessn...
Taressa Williams was killed by a non-charismatic serial killer noted for his foul smell. See On the Farm.
Billy Sutherland was killed somewhere around this time -- the range of dates he could have been killed covers several months. This is the sort of thing that happens when you're strangled by a blackout drinker. See HOUSE OF HORRORS..
Dominic Buffalino lost his life to his physician, of all people. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.
Calvin Jackson killed Martha Carpenter. See http://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jacks...
Irina Dunenkova and Lyudmila Kushuba died on this day in 1983; Svetlana Tsana died more or less on this day in 1984 at the hands of the same killer. See The Killer Department: The Eight Year Hunt For The Most Savage Serial Killer Of Our Times.
Lyudmila K., before and after
In far happier anniversaries, this is the day a young housewife -- amazingly -- survived an extraordinarily brutal assault by serial killer Clarence Walker. This was the beginning of the end for good old Clarence. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
7/2 is the day one of many "Jane Doe" victims of Clarence Walker was found. See, again, Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.Gwendolyn Lee was raped and strangled by William Choyce. See Conquering Darkness: Memoir of the Serial Killer's Wife.
Simon Partington was raped and murdered, leading all of Canada to show up on the RCMP's doorstep demanding that they do something. They did this:
See Final Payoff: The True Price Of Convicting Clifford Robert Olson.
Mary Lou Cannon crossed paths with Richard Ramirez. See The Night Stalker.
Joachim Kroll killed Monika Kettner...or was she Marion Ketter? See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Six members of the Evangelista family were killed with an axe. See Detroit Occult Murders.
EDIT: I just found out that Angela Thomas, and 6 years to the day later, a Jane Doe were found -- both possible victims of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
7/2 is the day Barbara Scott was killed by Roger Kibbe. See Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer.Dorothy Gale Brown was murdered as well. She is thought to be a victim of Mack Ray Edwards. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980. I always find it a little extra sad that this child was apparently named after Judy Garland's character in THE WIZARD OF OZ. You sure aren't in Kansas anymore, kid...
Frieda Koziol was clobbered and thrown off a train by a maniac. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Bishop, Esther, Elmer, Martha and Jason Phillips were killed for pretty childish reasons. See http://newsok.com/article/2035221
July 4th is another busy day for crimes that have had books written about them.Annette Edwards was murdered by Darrell Rich. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Vince Groves killed Joyce Ramey. See http://www.westword.com/news/vincent-...
Stacey Lannert killed her dad. See I Shot Daddy.
Bertha Hilgendorf was killed for no good reason. See Final Doom: The Frederick Hollman Story.
Nancy Baird was killed, maybe by Ted Bundy. See http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b...
Bill Suff killed Sherrie Latham. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
Chris Kinison went a little too far in showing off for his friends. See Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America.
And on to the most notorious of all Independence Day murders. On this day in 1954, Marilyn Sheppard's head was bashed in with an unknown object. The shouting has yet to fully die down. See Murder One.
7/5 is the day Robert Harris killed John Mayeski and Michael Baker, stealing their car and finishing the hamburgers they were eating when he came across them. In a dreadful coincidence, one of the first responders at the scene proved to be Michael's father. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Irene Silverman died untimely. She'd trusted the wrong people. See They Call Them Grifters: The True Story of Sante and Kenneth Kimes.
Matthew Bowman died a no-doubt-horrible death at the hands of John WAYNE Gacy. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.
Virginia and Rachelle Temple died more or less out of nowhere. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
Vince Groves killed Karolyn Walker. See http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/grove...
Private Barry Winchell had his head caved in with a baseball bat by a couple of the guys in his Army unit. See Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will.
Several years later and for very similar reasons, Satendar Singh was murdered. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
In much happier anniversaries, this is the day Anna Rogulskyi escaped the Yorkshire Ripper alive. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
7/6 is the day they found John Doe #5, a victim of the Cleveland Torso Murderer. See Corroborating Evidence: The Black Dahlia Murder.Dora Bloch met a terrible, undeserved end. See A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin.
Raymond Kuchenmeister, who was just a kid, was gunned down, but he sort of brought it on himself. See The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking.
Keith Klingbeil died an even worse death than Dora Bloch did. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Anthony Carter was taken from us much too soon. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
168 people, including a small girl who was known for years only as Little Miss Nobody, died in an atrocious fire. See A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire & The Mystery of Little Miss 1565.
In happier news, this is the day Gary Heidnik croaked. See Cellar Of Horror.
In even happier news than that, this is the day Sandra Docker got away alive from a serial killer. See The Olson Murders.
7/7 is the day Vicki Lynn Morgan was murdered. See Vicki.
So was Jeremiah Weinberger. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
And Mia Zapata. See The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches.
And Charlie Howard. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
And Amina Agisheff. See The Search for the Green River Killer: The True Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.
And Joyce Nelson. See The Night Stalker.
AND Homer Garcia. See The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders.
AND Bob Egle. See Obsessive Poisoner: The Strange Story of Graham Young.
7/8 is a little less busy than the previous two:Art Shawcross killed Anna Marie Steffen. See The Misbegotten Son.
Wendy Bush was found dead, a week or two after Don Miller got through with her. See Terror in East Lansing: The Tale of MSU Serial Killer Donald Miller.
Judy Kozma died a terrible death. See Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP's Olsen Murders Investigation.
Andrea Joy Hall died an even worse death than Judy did. Probably much, much worse. See Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI, specifically the chapter covering Larry Bittaker and Roy Norris.
Wendy Coffield died, away back at the beginning of the Green River killings. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
Rosza Toth luckily escaped Paul Denyer with her life. Debbie Fream was not nearly as lucky. See The Frankston Murders: The True Story Of Serial Killer, Paul Denyer.
Thomas Mulcahy was killed. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/roger...
In happier news, Sophie Dickman escaped Rick Ramirez with her life on this day. Many others did not. See The Night Stalker.
7/9 is the day you really, really, really do not want to be named Maureen.Maureen Brainard-Barnes fell afoul of the Gilgo Beach Killer, a man we do not yet know by name. See Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
Maureen Smith died, worn down from years of running ahead of her persecutors. One of them even beat her up one day when she was 8 months pregnant. Then her children were taken away by the state, just to add insult to injury. See Witness: The Story of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors Murders Case.
Maureen Long narrowly escaped a man with a hammer who tried to kill her. 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.
In other crime anniversaries, Mary Flezsar was done to death with great violence by a man she had probably never seen before in her life. See Michigan Murders.
Nicky Stroh and his colleague Robert Siedle were offed by a Major Juma Aida, at the behest of Idi Amin. As far as I can remember their bodies have never been found. See A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin.
7/10 is the day they found Peggi Jean Booth dead. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.John Straffen killed Christine Butcher. See Escape from Broadmoor: The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen.
Dmitry Illiaronov lost his life in a terrible way. See Citizen X: Killer Department.
Shirellda Terry died for no good reason at all. See http://www.cleveland.com/court-justic...
Shirellda's dad trying to take revenge
Eva Morse was killed by parties unknown. See The Shadow of Death: The Hunt for a Serial Killer
(She's 3rd from the right in this lineup)
7/11 is the day Ida Stutzman died under very suspicious circumstances. See Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets.Suzanne Collins was killed in a really horrific fashion. See Journey Into Darkness.
Grace Brown was lured into danger and brutally murdered. See Grace Brown's Love Letters.
Tonnie Storey was murdered by a nice-looking young couple. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
Private Paul Coile was castrated and gutted like a fish for reasons that were never made clear. See The Slaughter: An American Atrocity.
Margaret Davis was killed, maybe by Albert DeSalvo. See The Boston Stranglers.
In related news, William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook which launched more than a few terrorist acts around the world, died a year ago today. He greatly regretted compiling this how-to manual after he came out of his Angry Young Man phase and had it removed from the stands.
In the only really happy anniversary on this day, Peter Manuel swung for his crimes. See Crimes Of Horror.
7/12 is the day Jeff Dahmer killed Oliver Lacy. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.Bruce Kremen disappeared. He is thought to have been killed by Mack Ray Edwards, but no trace of him has been found. See http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k...
Jong-Ok Shin was killed for ridiculous reasons. See Blood on the Altar.
Brenda Jones was found dead on this day. See Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields.
Maria Hettgen died horribly. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
John Sellars died every bit as badly as Maria did -- maybe worse. See The Case of Dean Corll (The Candyman) & Elmer Henley.
Melissa Barthelemy accepted a date with the wrong guy. See Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
Nancy Gidley died, maybe as part of the unsolved Santa Rosa serial killing case. Then again, maybe not. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Pam Kinamore was killed by a man who had been stalking her for some time. See Blood Bath.
A "Jane Doe" victim of Clarence Walker turned up on this day. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Pauline Reade disappeared on her way to a dance. See Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers. The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley..
7/13 is a little less busy.Coral Eugene Watts killed Glenda Richmond. See Evil Eyes.
Dennis Kerr paid the price for failing to respond to a sexual overture from a fellow prisoner. See By Reason of Insanity.
Marlene Walters lost her life out of nowhere. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
Alan Canty Jr. was killed by a pimp in a run-down bungalow right down the road from Canty's office in the Fisher Building, one of the loveliest and priciest office buildings in downtown Detroit. The Fisher Building is still right there, but the house where he was killed has been decently torn down. See Masquerade.
7/14 is the day Jessica Fortney died at the hands of Harvey Robinson. See -- I think -- Signature Killers.
Sheila Egan made her last trip to Piggy's Palace. See On the Farm.
Graeme Cunningham died a terrifying, humiliating death. See The Mind of the Devil.
Angelica Gandara died quite similarly to Graeme. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
Mary Flemming was found dead. See Jack Of Jumps.
Billy the Kid died today -- no great loss IMHO. See The Authentic Life Of Billy The Kid.
And now the list of multiple murders begins:
Eddie and Missy Crimmins were taken out of their Kew Gardens apartments in the middle of the night. See Ordeal by Trial: The Alice Crimmins Case.
Jan Ott and Denise Naslund both made the mistake of trying to help a guy with his boat trailer. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
Gloria Davy, Mary Ann Jordan, Sue Farris, Pat Matusek, Pam Wilkening, Merlita Gargullo and Valentina Pasion died because they didn't want to make their captor mad at them. Corazon Amurao, along among the nine student nurses, dared untie herself and hide under a bed, escaping the massacre alive. See The Crime of the Century.
7/15 is the day we lost Gianni Versace -- probably the only reason we know the names of the killer's other victims, which is pretty sad. See Andrew Cunanan: An American Tragedy.Francis McDonnell died a no doubt atrocious death. See Albert Fish In His Own Words.
Roger Kibbe killed Stephanie Brown. See Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer.
Brenda Goddard died for no other reason than that the killer wanted to cause trouble for the police. See Escape from Broadmoor: The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen.
Kristen Kinney was killed by her own doctor, and not by accident, either. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.
Ellen Hover lost her life in a painful, terrifying way. See The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders.
Caroline Davis lost her life to a killer who has yet to be found. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Johnny Sellers, Jessie Judy, and two men we know only as John Doe died today at the hands of Pee Wee Gaskins. See Slaughter in Carolina.
7/16 is the day Katherine Johnson died. See The Babyface Killer.Ramon Paz Esquivel, also known as "La Claudia," was sacrificed to African gods to increase his killers' incomes. See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
Kenny Myers was killed by one of the two serial killers associated with the county I live in now. See -- I'm pretty sure -- Journey Into Darkness.
Muriel Kell was offed by her doctor, who was hung up on a quack treatment that had long been debunked as dangerous as well as useless. See Deep Sleep: Harry Bailey And The Scandal Of Chelmsford.
EDIT: Somehow I forgot to include Virginia Mochel, who was killed on this day by the Gallegos. Sorry, Virginia! See All His Father's Sins.
7/17 is the day we lost Mark Walts, who hung out sometimes at Spahn Ranch. His case has not been solved but the Mansons are still on the list of suspects. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAsRE...A Jane Doe victim of Clarence Walker was found today. I certainly hope she's been identified in all the time that's gone by since. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Gisele Lovvorn accepted a date with the wrong john, but how was she to know? See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Edith Newenya was killed by her doctor. And he seemed so nice, too. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.
The last Tsar of Russia was lined up with his family and several loyal retainers and shot on this day in 1918. The names of the deceased were Nicholas Romanov and his wife Alexandra; their children Olga, Maria, Anastasia, Tatiana and Alexei; and their servants Anna Demidova, Eugene Botkin, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov. Their burial place, found by an amateur Sherlock Holmes type, was not revealed to the public until 1989. See The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution.
114 merrymakers came to grief in what came to be known as the Skywalk Disaster, a case of gross criminal negligence. 188 more were injured. See The Last Dance: The Skywalks Disaster and a City Changed.
In happier anniversaries, this is the day they put an end to the criminal career of John Joubert. See A Need to Kill: The True-Crime Account of John Joubert, Nebraska's Most Notorious Serial Child Killer.
7/18 is the approximate date Eugene Scott died at the hands of Alton Coleman and Debra Brown. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.Mary Jo Kopechne died what sounds like a pretty horrible death. See The Bridge at Chappaquiddick.
This is the day Jerry and Carlitha Culbert, Vivian Chaney, and Billy Joe Harris died violently. Tomika and Maria Chaney managed to escape alive. See the Nathaniel Code section of Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Barbara Jean Finch died today, for the usual reasons. See A Murder in West Covina: Chronicle of the Finch-Tregoff Case.
7/19 is the day in 1972 that we lost Steven Sickman, and in 1972 Tony Baulch, to Dean Corll and his band of merry accomplices. See The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders.
Steve
Tony
Joe Bradehoft made the horrible mistake of going back to Jeff Dahmer's place for a beer. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
Calvin Jackson killed Kate Lewisohn. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Anna Lemesheva met a harmless-looking man who turned out to be anything but. See Comrade Chikatilo: The Psychopathology of Russia's Notorious Serial Killer.
Monica Barnum fell afoul of Nathaniel Code. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Ida Irga lost her life in a brutal, humiliating way. See The Boston Strangler.
Ebony Simpson died for no good reason. See Little Girls Lost: The Stories of Four of Australia's Most Horrific Child Murders, and Their Families' Fight for Justice.
Rita Curran died, maybe at the hands of Ted Bundy. See http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/st...
Lori Hacking died at the hands of a two-faced liar. See Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking.
7/20 is the day Ellen Fried died. See The Shadow of Death: The Hunt for a Serial Killer.
So did Edward Smith. Not the Dahmer victim; the WAYNE Williams victim. NEVER name your son Edward Smith, OK? See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Maxson and Lela Kneiding and Chainarong Knovananth died on this day. Chainarong's wife, Somkid, and their children escaped alive, but far from unharmed. See The Night Stalker.
Jane Sullivan lost her life in a way that especially repulsed investigating officers. See The Boston Strangler.
Antonio Xigis died for stupid reasons. See Deep Sleep: Harry Bailey And The Scandal Of Chelmsford.
So did Margaret Zhou. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.
Barbara Kralik died under pretty murky circumstances. See Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese and Barbara Kralik Murder Trials.
Barbara and the two guys who confessed to killing her
Cathy WAYNE died at the hands of someone who was, oddly enough, named Killen. See Murder On Stage: Cathy Wayne Story.
7/22 is the day Nancy Feusi was found dead. Her murderer, the Santa Rosa Killer, has not been found. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.Joyce LePage died, maybe at the hands of Ted Bundy. See http://lmtribune.com/northwest/a-brig...
Jane Doe #3, a victim of the Cleveland Torso Murderer, was found on this day. See The Maniac in the Bushes: More Tales of Cleveland Woe.
Dick, Shirley, Susie, Ritchie, Gary and Randy Robison were found on this day in their vacation cabin. It was clear that they had been dead for some time. See When Evil Came to Good Hart.
Maralie Wilson died at the hands of Lem Smith. See Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion To Kill: The Forensic Story of a Multiple Personality Serial Killer.
The Lemster
But today has mostly happy anniversaries of great escapes!
Melvette Sockwell got away alive from Tony Sowell. See Nobody's Women: The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer.
Tracey Edwards escaped Jeff Dahmer, and in doing so broke the Milwaukee Cannibal case. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
John Dillinger escaped Melvin Purvis. See One Night at the Biograph: Murder, Mayhem and the Mysterious Afterlife of John Dillinger.
Nancy Trotter and Pamela Sue Wells escaped Jerry Schaeffer alive. Many others did not. See Silent Scream.
7/23 is the day Edward Andrassy and John Doe #1 were found. They were victims of the Cleveland Torso Murderer. See Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer.
Andrassy
Karen Sue Bieneman was horribly murdered. The only good thing about this is that they used evidence found on her body to finally nail the killer of over half a dozen girls just like her. See Michigan Murders.
Vic Morrow, Renee Chen, and My-Ca Le died for idiotic reasons. See Special Effects: Disaster at Twilight Zone: The Tragedy and the Trial.
The final seconds of their lives caught on film
Ruth Mercado met up with exactly the wrong photographer for the last photo shoot of her life. See Rope: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Harvey Glatman.
Norma Vailliancourt was gnawed to death by WAYNE Boden. See The Dracula Syndrome.
Raymond King met a terrible end. See The Olson Murders.
Andrew Cunanan was found dead. See Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story.
7/24 is the day Sigrun Arnd was murdered. See Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP's Olsen Murders Investigation.Zella Archerd was murdered using a very unusual weapon. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
7/25 is the day Earline Brown was murdered, maybe by Donny Lang. See the extremely troubling Dummy. If anyone knows where I can find a photo of Earline or her co-victim Ernestine Brown, I would be grateful to see them.Alfred Evans and Teddy Smith were found together on this day; as the police would undoubtedly put it, they were in a deceased condition. See The List.
the crime scene
Mary Rogers died mysteriously on this day. See The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder.
Tina Thompson died on this day in 1983. Debra Bonner died on this day in 1982 at the hands of the same killer, while half a planet away, Lyubov Volobuyeva met the same fate at the hands of someone else. See, respectively, The Search for the Green River Killer and Citizen X: Killer Department.
Alison Parrott was murdered. See http://articles.chicagotribune.com/19...
Dianne Mancera lost her life to Vincent Groves. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Charles Cobble and Marty Jones died together, which may have actually made it worse for both of them, considering. See The Case of Dean Corll (The Candyman) & Elmer Henley.
Charles
Marty Ray
Mary Elizabeth Critchley died untimely on this day. Eight years later, so did Carrie Moss. They may be victims of the same killer; in any case nobody has been arrested. See The Shadow of Death: The Hunt for a Serial Killer.
Today, 7/26, is the 50th anniversary of the day Carl Cooper, Aubrey Pollard and Fred Temple were blown away by police officers while they were fixing dinner in their motel room with the Detroit Riots raging around them. See The Algiers Motel Incident.
Jessica Taylor was exhumed on Gilgo Beach. See Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.
Manuela Knodt was murdered, pretty much out of nowhere. See The Serial Killer Spotlight: Joachim Kroll, A Unique Serial Killer.
Paul Knowles killed Alice Curtis. See The Casanova Killer: The Life of Serial Killer Paul John Knowles.
Tiffany Johnston died. She is probably a victim of William Reese. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
Ruth Hallman lost her life to local serial killer Matthew Macon. See http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/macon...
Toussaint-Augustin Gouffe was murdered. See Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris.
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7/27 is the day Gary Hinman died, ending something like 2 days of captivity and torture by the Manson Family. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.Adam Walsh died, out of nowhere and, one feels compelled to add, very horribly. See Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America.
Becky Spencer was stabbed 58 times. See A Call for Justice: A New England Town's Fight To Keep A Stone Cold Killer In Jail.
Becky with one of her children
Terri Lynn Carson was raped and murdered. See The Olson Murders.
Dana Mackay was killed by John WAYNE Mackay. See http://wavy.com/2015/02/09/plea-agree...
Nini Daly escaped Antony Baekland alive. See Savage Grace.
A woman never named in the press escaped Shelly Brooks alive on this day. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders
Gertrud Nieswandt escaped the S-Bahn Killer alive. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Coral Eugene Watts amazingly found himself convicted of the murder of Gloria Steele. I can't believe someone actually pulled this off. Better late than never! See Evil Eyes.
7/29 is "Keep Ivan On A Short Leash Day."Ivan "Buck" Barrow died a long, drawn-out death. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Ivan Bilovetsky was murdered in horrible fashion. See Two-Faced Russian Monster: The True Story Of Andrei Chikatilo.
Ivan Demjanjuk's conviction was overturned owing to lack of evidence. See The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial.
Dorothy Keeler was killed pretty brutally by Art Shawcross. See The Misbegotten Son.
Megan Kanka died a death every bit as hideous as Dot's. See They're Killing Our Children: Inside the Kidnapping & Child Murder Epidemic Sweeping America.
The Kankas and John Walsh stand by approvingly as Bill Clinton signs "Megan's Law"
7/30 is a busy, busy, busy day.Donna Lauria was gunned down by the Son of Sam. See Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer.
Mads Sorenson met his maker. See The Truth About Belle Gunness.
Earl Terrell became the latest victim in a horrifyingly long murder series. Some local people approached cops looking for another victim in the murder series, and told them their dog seemed to have rolled in something dead. They followed the dog to Earl and the body of yet another boy, Christopher Richardson. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Ronnie Wiebe hitched a ride with exactly the wrong good-looking young computer programmer. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Mary Johns appeared to die of alcohol poisoning. See The Alcohol Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Gilbert Paul Jordan.
Natalie Russell died. See The Frankston Murders: The True Story Of Serial Killer, Paul Denyer.
Iantha Buchanan died a really hideous death. See https://www.documentingreality.com/fo...
Howard Jackson died out of nowhere. See Paralyzing Summer: The True Story of the Ann Arbor V.A. Hospital Poisonings and Deaths.
Michael Sakara was horribly murdered. See http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/roger...
Randy Ludlow was raped, and Louise Chartrand raped and murdered, on this day. See Where Shadows Linger: The Untold Story of the RCMP's Olsen Murders Investigation.
Jimmy Hoffa took a powder, apparently forever. See The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
7/31 is pretty busy, too. The day's theme appears to be "don't go out on the street if you have a Slavic surname."Irene Kondratowitz died untimely; her killer may be Coral Eugene Watts. See Evil Eyes.
John Butkovitch was sexually tortured and strangled to death. See The Chicago Killer.
Stacy Moskowitz was killed by the Son of Sam. Her date -- Robert Violante, who didn't have a Slavic name -- survived, albeit with permanent blindness and brain damage. See Son of Sam.
Natalya Pokhlistova, who couldn't be any more Slavic if you paid her to do it, was knifed to death and in all likelihood partially eaten. See The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History.
In other untimely deaths, Brian Howe was done in at only age 4. See Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell.
Evie Fisher disappeared, not to turn up again until October of the same year -- 1980. See Missing: A Family's Triumph in the Tragedy No Parent Ever Wants to Face.
Donna Medford died, maybe at the hands of Lesley Warren. See The Babyface Killer.
Lilli Dunn was bundled screaming into a car and driven away to her death, maybe by Coral Eugene Watts. Then again, maybe it was someone else who did it. See Evil Eyes.
EDIT: Somehow I managed to leave out poor Dawn Ashworth. She was raped and murdered by a perfectly-named serial killer. See The Blooding.
In much happier anniversaries, this is the day Denise Sam-Cali escaped the clutches of serial killer Harvey Robinson -- for the SECOND time. See Signature Killers. I think.
8/1 is the day Robert Eche was killed by Stephen Nash. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.Judy Ann Dull lost her life in a brutal, terrifying way. See Rope: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Harvey Glatman.
This is the approximate day Bill Suff killed Sherry Latham. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
This is the exact day Marcia Chapman never came home from her "second job," selling herself on the streets to support her children. The only good thing about this is that the DNA sample saved from her body is the one that finally ended the "second career" of her killer, Gary Ridgway. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
Paul Knowles killed Mylette and Lillian Anderson. See Killing Time.
This is the day Charles Whitman ascended the clock tower at the University of Texas. By the end of the day, 18 people would be dead, including Whitman himself. See A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders.
On or about this day, in various years starting in 1985 and not ending until 2001, Willie Pickton killed Laura Mah, Sheryl Donahue, Marnie Frey, and Sereena Abbotsway. See On the Farm.
Marnie
8/2 is the day we lost Mandi Scott and her friend Rosie Ortega. See Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave.Ted Bundy took Carol Valenzuela from her family and friends. See The Only Living Witness.
Jacqui Bernard was killed, more or less out of nowhere. See Love Me to Death: A Journalists Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friends Killer.
Randy Kraft killed Thomas Lee, who undoubtedly deserved better. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Larry Hall killed Marcie Swinford for reasons best known to himself. See Urges: A Chronicle of Serial Killer Larry Hall.
Derrick Robie was killed by a kid hardly any older than he was. See http://www.teenkillers.org/index.php/...
Natalya Golovskaya died a horrible death. See The Red Ripper.
This is the approximate day Kelly Hammond died. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
It's the exact day Marjorie Howie died. See In Love with a Serial Killer.
Horace Jones lost his life to a man best known to the world as Pee Wee. See Slaughter in Carolina.
Leshandra (or Leshanda?) Long lost her life to a man out of his head on crack. See Nobody's Women: The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer.
Cindy Howard and Karen Amabile were murdered for no reason that makes any sense. See http://www.candidslice.com/10-true-no...
Today is the 51st anniversary of the Texas tower massacre by Charles Whitman. It was so hot that many of the victims that were shot got third degree burns from the pavement/asphalt. One victim took cover behind a big thick pole and the entire time she was suffering from the heat while trying to survive.Glad summer is gonna end soon.
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Killed:
Margaret Whitman, killed in her apartment
Kathy Whitman, killed while she slept
Edna Townsley, receptionist
Marguerite Lamport, killed by shotgun on stairs
Mark Gabour, killed by shotgun on stairs
Thomas Eckman, shoulder wound, kneeling over Claire Wilson
Robert Boyer, back wound, visiting physics professor
Thomas Ashton, chest wound, Peace Corps trainee
Thomas Karr, spine wound
Billy Speed, police officer, shoulder/chest wound
Harry Walchuk, doctoral student and father of six
Paul Sonntag, shot through the mouth, age 18, hiding behind construction
Claudia Rutt, age 18, killed helping fiancé Sonntag
Roy Schmidt, electrician shot outside his truck
Karen Griffith, chest wound, age 17, died after week in hospital°
Baby boy Wilson (Unborn)
David Gunby, survived the initial shooting but required life-long dialysis as a result of his injuries. More than 30 years after the shooting, he announced he was quitting dialysis and died within a week as a result.
Wounded
Allen, John Scott
Bedford, Billy
Ehlke, Roland
Evgenides, Ellen
Esparza, Avelino
Foster, F. L.
Frede, Robert
Gabour, Mary Frances
Gabour, Michael
Garcia, Irma
Harvey, Nancy
Heard, Robert
Hernandez, Alex
Hohmann, Morris
Huffman, Devereau
Kelley, Homar J.
Khashab, Abdul
Littlefield, Brenda Gail
Littlefield, Adrian
Martinez, Dello
Martinez, Marina
Mattson, David
Ortega, Delores
Paulos, Janet
Phillips, Lana
Rovela, Oscar
Snowden, Billy
Stewart, C. A.
Wilson, Claire
Wilson, Sandra
Wheeler, Carla Sue
Thanks for that addition Bel!8/3 is the day Patricia Anne Moore was killed. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
The little girl's killer
Deborah Furlong and Kathy Snoozy also died untimely on this day. See, again, In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Francis Thornhill was killed in what at first appeared to be just a robbery. There was more to it than that. See Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Bryan, Melissa, Kathryn, and Emily Delisle died in 20 feet of icy water at the bottom of the Detroit River, strapped into the child seats in their parents' car. Their mom escaped. Dad was not too happy about that. See The Detroit Almanac. Oh, and get a load of this: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/top-lists...
Jim Grund died unexpectedly. See Deadly Seduction.
James Dreymala was tortured to death. See The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders.
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Steven Hicks made the mistake of trying to walk out of Jeff Dahmer's life. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
Kelly Ware made a date with the worst john in Sea-Tac history. See The Search for the Green River Killer: The True Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.
Pierre Laurent died a terrible death. See Murder In France.
Laura Sarkisyan died just as badly as Pierre did. See The Red Ripper.