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True Crime Anniversaries, 2017 Edition
11/4 is the last day Roberta Lee ever went out for a run. She was not seen alive again. See The Dead Girl.
Linda Univerzagt was murdered. See Burn, Judy, Burn.
Frank Landigin died horribly. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.
Laura O'Dell died as part of the murder series known as the Santa Rosa Case. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
J.P. Henderson was killed by Bobby Joe Maxwell. See, again, In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
11/5 is the day John Philip "Zero" Haught died, supposedly while playing Russian roulette, although the gun used in his death was found fully loaded and clean of prints. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
Malice Green was battered to death with police flashlights. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice_...
Lissa Kastin lost her life to a couple of brutal murderers. See Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers.
Thelma Johnson was murdered. Her case was not cleared up properly until WAYNE County prosecutor Kym Worthy saw to it that the backlogged rape kits in her jurisdiction were completely tested, turning up serial killer Shelly Brooks in the process. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders by WAYNE Kadar.
Katherine Quinones was murdered. See Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer.
A "Jane Doe" victim of Jerry Stano was found on this day. See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
Thomas Trevilyan was executed without due process of law. See Killing for Pleasure: The Definitive Story of the Snowtown Murders.
Kevin Kay and Rita Salazar were murdered by the serial-murder tag team of Lucas and Toole. See Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas.
Lisa Steinberg was taken off life support on this day. See What Lisa Knew: The Truth and Lies of the Steinberg Case.
Theresa Sykes escaped an attack by a man with a hammer today -- maybe 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.
11/6 is the 37th anniversary of the horrible, horrible murder of Joyce Bennett of Harper Woods, Michigan. See Evil Eyes.Carswell and Mandy Carr were killed by a home invader. See Natural Born Killer: In Love and on the Road with a Serial Killer.
Maria Welch accepted a date with the wrong john. See The Misbegotten Son.
Mildred Beasley lost her life to Chester Turner. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Mildred is on the R
Cheryl Coker lost her life to Bill Suff. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
May Murray was killed and raped, probably in that order, by Earle Nelson. See The Dark Fountain.
Marcus Foster, a leader among African-American men of his generation and a role model to the young, was killed by a black power terrorist outfit. Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained this killing. See The Voices of Guns.
Virginia Johnson was found dead. See Bound To Die: The Shocking True Story of Bobby Joe Long, America's Most Savage Serial Killer.
Svetlana Korostik died a terrible death after being lured into the woods like a child in a fairytale. But this was no fairytale. See Citizen X: Killer Department.
11/7 is the approximate day Jerry Stano killed Katie Muldoon. See Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Eugene Stano.This is the exact day a cross-dresser named Jeffrey WAYNE Gorton killed Margarette Eby. See Blood Justice: The True Story of Multiple Murder and a Family's Revenge.
This is the day Gertrude Alberman was taken from her family and friends forever. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
Sister Cathy Cesnik died under very unclear circumstances. See https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen...
And happy 64th birthday, Coral Watts! I always wonder if he did so many horrible things to Joyce Bennett the day before because, you know, it was his birthday and this was his way of celebrating. See Hidden Brutality: Life of Serial Killer Carl Eugene Watts.
11/8 is a theme day for unsolved murders. For starters, it's the day they found James Willett dead. Two guys pleaded guilty, but there is no clear, outstanding suspect -- just basically the whole Manson Family. At least the ones who weren't locked up at the time he and his wife Lauren disappeared. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. And http://www.mansonblog.com/2012/12/the...Carolyn Wells, aka Carolyn Wasilewski, was murdered. No suspects have emerged. See http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000...
Gwynneth Rees was found dead. Her killer remains at large. See Jack Of Jumps.
David Tyler was killed -- maybe by Eli Stutzman. Then again, maybe not. See Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets.
Barron Harris was definitely killed by his physician. See Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder.
Dorothy Kilgallen, a respected TC writer herself, died rather suddenly after telling someone she had a huge piece of information about the JFK assassination that would blow the lid off the case. Ever since there has been speculation about whether or not she was murdered. See The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen.
Reginald Baker was knifed to death by his girlfriend, Kitty Byron, right out on the street with a bunch of witnesses. No mystery there. See The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion.
Carol Da Ronch escaped Ted Bundy alive; Debi Kent was not so lucky. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
11/9/is a budy day.We lost Mary Jane Kelly, and I stand by my earlier statement that I have never seen worse crime-scene photos anywhere. See Ripped: Mary Jane Kelly.
Rodney Alcala did things almost as terrible to Jill Barcomb. See The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders.
Nick & Chloe Waterlow were killed by the last person they would have expected. See The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy.
Lillian Weiner invited the wrong potential boarder into her house. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
Danny Paquette was killed by a sniper. See Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town.
Christopher Stuart finally succumbed to his terrible injuries. See Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case That Rocked Boston and Shocked the Nation.
Jane King was carried off and horribly murdered by two men. See Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers.
Alma, Helen, Patricia, Frederick and John List Jr. were murdered. See Collateral Damage: The John List Story.
Mena Griffiths was strangled. See Arnold Sodeman: The True Story of the Schoolgirl Strangler.
David Jones was waylaid by the Skid Row Stabber. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Chris O'Neal committed "suicide by cop." He had a blood alcohol level at the time that would have been fatal to most people. See http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=67257
This is also the day they hanged Eddie Leonski. See Private Eddie Leonski: The Brownout Strangler.
11/10 is another busy one."Stringbean" and Estelle Akeman were murdered. Stringbean was one of the stars of Hee Haw. See Everybody's Grandpa Box .
Brad Hansen was killed by Jeremy Bach. See -- I think -- The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion.
Laura Wetzel was murdered. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Sherry Lynn Armstrong was killed, maybe by Lesley Warren. See The Babyface Killer.
Carol Anne Cooper was murdered in a horrible way you wouldn't wish on anyone. See The Corpse Garden.
Anna Edmunds died at the enormous hands of Earle Nelson. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.,
Tonia Carmichael died miserably. See Nobody's Women: The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer.
PatMan Rogers died just the way 17 of this friends and acquaintances did. See The List.
PatMan, R, with 2 fellow victims
Robert Winch died a hideous death. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.
Rosine Rodier at least died BEFORE the mutilations and sex acts began. See The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science.
Patricia Alsbrook and Janice Kirby offended exactly the wrong man. He was Janice's uncle, as a matter of fact. See Slaughter in Carolina.
here's Patricia
and here's Janice
John Mohammed was executed today. See 23 Days of Terror : The Compelling True Story of the Hunt and Capture of the Beltway Snipers.
11/11 is the day they found Lauren Willett dead. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.Jimmy Bordelon killed Courtney LeBlanc. See https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2...
Ernestine Williams died, maybe at the hands of Donald Lang. But who really knows? See Dummy.
Kim Peterson died a horrific death. See Mormon Murderer : The True Story of Arthur Gary Bishop.
So did Judy Angel. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
Teresa Taylor died, and then had her name smeared by her killer. See In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder.
Anton Shuessler died, technically of too much electroconvulsive therapy, but he was really the final victim of the man who'd killed both his sons. See Three Boys Missing: The Tragedy That Exposed the Pedophilia Underworld.
This is the day they found ANOTHER Frances Brown dead. This time it was Art Shawcross's doing. See Arthur Shawcross: The Exaggerating Cannibal.
And Francisco Rodriquez fell victim to the Skid Row Stabber. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
11/12 is the day Lynel Murray was murdered. See Property Of Folsom Wolf.
the killers
Augustine Luna became the latest victim in the serial ritual murders of out-of-control madman Bobby Joe Maxwell. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Kim Swann was found dead. She, too, had been killed by a maniac named Bobby Joe. See Bound To Die: The Shocking True Story of Bobby Joe Long, America's Most Savage Serial Killer.
A "Jane Doe" victim of Clarence Walker was found on this day. I hope she has been identified after all this time. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Joyce Williams died out of nowhere, and then afterwards it got even uglier. See Dismembered.
Rachel Newhouse was taken from us. See Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast.
Heather Barnett';s daughter came merrily home from school, only to find her mother butchered on the bathroom floor. A nice man comforted the kids until the police came, at least. See The Cutter.
Whiny Amy Grossberg and her boyfriend, Brian "Tell Me What To Do And I'll Do It, Amy" Peterson, killed their newborn son. See Always In Our Hearts: The Story Of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson, The Pregnancy They Hid And The Baby They Killed.
11/13 is the day we lost Helen Betty Osborne in a particularly brutal way. See Conspiracy of Silence.
Laurie Waterman was killed by 3 teenagers. See Love You Madly: The true story of a small-town girl, the young men she seduced, and the murder of her mother.
This is the memorable day we lost Ronald, Louise, Dawn, Allison, John and Marc DeFeo. The scene of the crime would forever after be known simply as "the Amityville house." See High Hopes: The Amityville Murders.
11/14 is the day we lost Jenny Tanner. See Blackened Tanner.Linda Glucoft was murdered. She was only 6, for Pete's sake. See -- IIRC -- Terror in the Streets.
Maria Hahn was found dead. See The Monster of Dusseldorf: The Life and Trial of Peter Kürten.
Lorna Jane Lax, 13, died in her own tree fort. She had been stabbed and beaten over the head. She was lashed to a tree by a rope around her neck. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
11/15 is the day Rodger Nunez killed himself, which seems fair to me. See Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire.We also lost Myra Hindley, allowing Rose West to finally inherit the mantle of Most Hated Woman In Great Britain. See Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection.
Vincent Grove killed Peggy Cuff. See http://www.denverpost.com/2012/03/06/...
Cynthia Montgomery was stabbed to death in Atlanta. See The List.
Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson accepted the wrong ride while hitchhiking. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
Maria
Debbie
Suzanne Allen was executed without due process of law on approximately this day. See Bodies in Barrels: The Snowtown Murders.
Florence Monks died very unexpectedly. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
This is also, of course, the day we lost most of the Clutter family over what amounted to a total misunderstanding. See In Cold Blood.
top to bottom, L to R: Bonnie, Herb, Nancy, Kenyon
11/16 is the day Diane Williams escaped Coral Watts alive. You go girl!!! See Hidden Brutality: Life of Serial Killer Carl Eugene Watts.Dennis Butler escaped Stephen Nash alive as well. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Kathy Nishiyama lost her life. See Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science.
Charles Campbell and John Meyer died unexpectedly. See The Casanova Killer: The Life of Serial Killer Paul John Knowles.
Julie Hogg died in a case that took quite a while to clear up, although the evidence was right there under everyone's noses, daring them to figure it out. See http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/tee...
Bernice Worden disappeared from behind her cash register. There were bloody drag marks leading out to where her killer loaded her into his vehicle. From there it got even worse. See Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho".
Debra Williams died at the hands of Chester Turner. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Debra is in the center of this lineup
Richard Jahnke got his comeuppance. See The Poison Tree: A True Story Of Family Terror.
Jane Doe 59 was found dead. See the back section of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
Jane has been identified at last as Reet Jurvetson
11/17 is the day we lost Jimmy White Buffalo to a madman who called himself "Luther," evidently short for "Lucifer." See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Bobby Joe Maxwell, aka Luther
Olga Duncan was done in by an angry in-law who sounds like a real piece of work. See, again, In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Olga, "before"
Olga, "after"
Barbara Baekland was murdered under scandalous circumstances. See Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family.
Crystal Faye Todd was gutted like a fish. Her killer was one of the shattered mother's most stalwart supports. For a while. See An Hour To Kill: A True Story of Love, Murder, and Justice in a Small Southern Town.
Mike and Pearl Mazzoli, and Theresa, John & Marion Pioppi were gunned down. Four other people escaped with their lives, but still. See Rain of Bullets.
Ken McDuff was executed on this day, and good riddance if you ask me. See Bad Boy: The True Story of Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Most Notorious Serial Killer in Texas History.
11/18 is, of course, the day 914 people died in America's most notorious mass killing -- most of them were residents of Jonestown, where they died. See Who Died on November 18, 1978 in the Jonestown, Guyana Mass Murder-Suicides. Michael Inderbieten was tortured to death and thrown away like a sack of garbage. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Jake Bird killed J.W. Blackman. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Blanche Meyers died horribly. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
Jacqueline Hill fell victim to the Yorkshire Ripper. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Walter Antonio was found dead. See Monster: My True Story.
11/19 is the day Dean Corll killed Richard Kepner. See Harvest of Horror: Mass Murder in Houston.Gilbert Jordan killed Vera Harry. See The Alcohol Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Gilbert Paul Jordan.
Cliffie Olson killed Christine Weller. See The Olson Murders.
Fred Biggs died on the job. See Obsessive Poisoner: The Strange Story of Graham Young.
Greta Brown and a Mrs. Resso lost their lives to axe murderer Jake Bird. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
We lost Joan Harrison -- maybe to the mysterious figure known as Wearside Jack. See Wearside Jack: The Hunt for the Hoaxer of the Century.
And just this week we lost a once-famous terrorist, murderer and leader of a small army of killer hippies. Lest we forget.
In happier anniversaries, both Jose Ramirez and Ricardo Seja escaped Bobby Joe Maxwell alive. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
11/20 is the day we lost Betsy Bacon to Richard Biegenwald. See The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald.Louise Marcel was killed, raped and disembowelled, in what order I am not sure. See The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science.
Jacqueline Rook died at the hands of a serial killer named Thor, of all things. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
(She's at far L in this lineup)
Sasezley Richardson was lynched. See Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America.
John Thomas Straffen, the longest-running prisoner in English history, died of extreme age. See Escape from Broadmoor: The Trials and Strangulations of John Thomas Straffen.
11/21 is the day the South Side Rapist killed Diane Cho. See Confessions Of The South Side Rapist: 25 Years Of Terror In The Gateway City.
Elizabeth Haydon fell afoul of the Snowtown Gang. See Snowtown: The Bodies In Barrels Murders: The Grisly Story of Australia's Worst Serial Killings.
Dene Colomb was killed. See I've Been Watching You: The South Louisiana Serial Killer.
Sonja Johnson and her best friend, Dolly Cepeda, were found sexually assaulted, strangled and dumped like so much trash. See Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers.
Jeff Dahmer woke up in a hotel room in bed with a dead guy -- unlucky Michigander Steve Tuomi. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Lynda Mann was killed pretty horribly. See The Blooding.
John Russell made the mistake of going for a walk on the beach. See Bondi Badlands.
Helen Zubryd was murdered, more or less out of nowhere. The police cleared it up very quickly, though. See Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder.
John Sharpe and Doreen Gaul were murdered, maybe by the Mansons. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
Doreen
Wanda Amundsen was murdered, maybe by a renegade Aussie pie salesman. See Granny Killer: The Story Of John Glover.
Lori Jursa was killed by a person or persons unknown. See the Santa Rosa Killer section of In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
11/22 is the day Donna Branion was ventilated by bullets in her own laundry room. See The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery: The True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case.
Elisa Izquierdo was killed pretty horribly. See http://www.newsweek.com/death-little-...
John F. Kennedy, a once-famous president, was gunned down as he rode in the back of a convertible in Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas. See Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
In happier anniversaries, Paul Nobbs escaped Des Nilsen alive. See Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen.
And a Lindenwold, NJ housewife escaped Joe Kallinger with her life. See The Door-To-Door Killer.
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So this website I went to to read about Christopher O’Neal (http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=67257) mentioned above, says 918 people died. How does one know which number is right?
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Olive Cleveland lost her life quite needlessly. See Granny Killer."
No wonder! His name is John WAYNE Glover.
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Fishface wrote: "11/3 is the day they executed John Wallace. See No Remorse: The Rise and Fall of the Killer John Wallace.Olive Cleveland lost her life quite needlessly. See [book:..."
Yes indeedy. He's listed under his own name and on the WAYNE list on the TC bookshelf.
11/23 is the day we lost Muriel Falconer to John WAYNE Glover. See Garden of Evil: The Granny Killer's Reign of Terror.
John Kilbride died far, far too soon. See Murder on the Moors.
Mona Wilson disappeared forever. See On the Farm.
Marielle Archambault was pretty much chewed to death. The killer was WAYNE Boden. See The Dracula Syndrome.
JoAnn Graff was taken from us by the Boston Strangler. See The Boston Strangler.
Katherine Merry Devine died. The man responsible was long thought to be a serial killer known for his photogenic charm, but it later turned out to be someone who was not photogenic at all. See http://truecrime.umwblogs.org/author/...
Bob Hedderman and Margaret Byron lost their lives in the back room of the religious-supply store where they worked. See Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion To Kill: The Forensic Story of a Multiple Personality Serial Killer.
Frank Garcia was stabbed to death by -- you guessed it -- Bobby Joe Maxwell. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Lady♥Belleza★✰ wrote: "Fishface wrote: "11/18 is, of course, the day 914 people died in America's most notorious mass killing -- most of them were residents of Jonestown, where they died. See [book:Who Died on November 1..."I have seen so many different numbers it's not even funny. Only by turning back the clock to November 18th, 1978 and counting the dead personally would I feel really clear on how many died.
11/24 is the day Lee Harvey Oswald came a cropper. See The Two Assassins.Neil Stonechild died a terrible death. See Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild.
Florence Monks died a completely different, but also terrible, death. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
A woman we still know only as "Madame X" was found on this day -- a victim of Jerry Stano. See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
James Mazzara died in a way you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. See A Passing Acquaintance.
11/25 is the day Art Shawcross killed Liz Gibson. See Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer.Frances Brown died a humiliating death. I keep TELLING you not to name your daughter Frances Brown. See Found Naked and Dead.
Earl and Terry Robertson died very suddenly. See Family Blood: The Murder That Shattered an All-American Home.
This is the approximate day Randy Kraft killed James Reeves. You can be sure it was a horrible, lingering death. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
And it's the exact day Fidel Castro died. See The Real Fidel Castro.
Jean Brusco was killed by persons unknown. See Terror in the Streets.
Terry King was found dead in his burning house. His head had been bashed in with a baseball bat. See A Perversion of Justice.
Karen Mitchell disappeared. WAYNE Adam Ford was apparently responsible. See Body Parts.
11/26 is the day we lost Gary Rochet to sex killer Mack Ray Edwards. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
One of Clarence Walker's many "Jane Doe" victims was found on this day. I hope she's been identified by now. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Carrie Lenz died unexpectedly. See Final Doom: The Frederick Hollman Story.
As did Cindy Feliks. She was a Detroiter, like me. See The Pig Farm Murders.
Donald DeWulf died 4 years ago today. Still no word in the papers about who killed him. This one especially bothers me because it's an easy walk from the murder scene to the house where I grew up. See http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/11/2...
the crime scene
Bill Hines died. See Blood Warning.
So did Clover Parker. See https://ididitforjodie.com/2015/10/09...
And Gidget Castro. See http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/siebe...
And John Berg. See the Stephen Nash section of In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
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Finally a use for my time machine!
***starts cranking***
I TOLD you not to use the pull starter, Bella! It's gonna take forever to get it warmed up!
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***starts wheezing****
***falls down, dies***
THE END
*Fishface whips out a Radio Shack Add-A-Pushbutton-Starter Kit* and goes to work over Bella's prostrate bod*
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*Fishface, assuming Bella is really dead, shoves her rudely out of the way*
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Hey! Oops.
*quickly lies back down*
OK, back to business here.*kicks the corpse aside*
11/27 is the day disgruntled ex-employee Dan White killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk. This was hardly known outside San Francisco, where it happened, because it was pushed off the front pages by the Jonestown Massacre. See The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Debbie Blevins lost her life to Lorenzo Gilyard. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Willie Pickton killed Wendy Crawford. See On the Farm.
David Carpenter killed Shauna May. On the same day, three more of his victims -- Diane O'Connell, Cynthia Moreland, and Richard Stowers -- were found dead. See The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate.
Henry Lee Lucas and his trusty sidekick, Ottis Toole, are thought to have killed Elizabeth Knotts. See Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories.
"Baby Face" Nelson was gunned down. See Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy.
In happier events, Donna De Masi and Joanne Lomino escaped the Son of Sam alive on this day waaaay back in the Disco Era. See Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer.
11/28 is Family Massacre day! Because nothing says "Thanksgiving" like slaughtering a whole family.Lowell Lee Andrews killed his sister Jennie Marie, his mother Opal and father William. See In Cold Blood.
Harry De La Roche Jr. killed Harry De La Roche Sr., his mother Mary Jane and his brothers Eric and Robert. See Anyone's Son.
Alexander, Andrew and Tanner Skelton were "disappeared" by their father in order to get back at their mother. Niiiiiiice guy. The boys have yet to be found, 7 years later. See https://lightingtheirwayhome.wordpres...
Lauren Wagner was killed and left exposed for anyone to find. See Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers.
Rodney Robinson was killed. See Blood Warning.
Clarence Walker killed Arotha Hawkins. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Ocey Snead was killed by her mother and aunts, succumbing to, not weeks or months, but YEARS of slow starvation. See The Notorious Black Sisters.
Ocey with her newborn son
Betsy Aardsma unexpectedly died in her college library. See Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away.
Friedhelm Behre and Thea Kurmann were taken from us by good old Werner Boost. See The Killers Among Us 2: Sex Madness & Mass Murder.
This is also the day Ronald Hughes disappeared while trying his first-ever court case. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
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Frances Brown died a humiliating death. I keep TELLING you not to name your daughte..."
Susan McFarland disappeared courtesy of her **cough** loving husband. See Gone Forever
Elizabeth Ratliff was found dead at the bottom of her staircase surrounded by pools of blood, Michael Iver Peterson was the last person to see her alive. Written in Blood
11/29 is the day Alice Stock died. See Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer.Larry Rice was killed by Stephen Nash. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Judy Blake Moilanen lost her life. See Hunt To Kill.
Shirley Ellis became part of a murder series. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
Dennis Slaeter was killed. See Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets.
A boy known only as "John Doe" was killed by Bill Bonin and his merry crew of accomplices. See Born to Kill: the William Bonin Story.
Jed, John, Stephen and Linda Privacky were killed along with April Boss. See http://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/priva...
Sandy Lindsay was abducted by a man she'd thought of as a friend. See Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik.
11/30 is the day John Mudie became the victim of the notorious Chalk Pit Murder. See The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion.
our last look at poor old John
Frank Fox was killed by Bill Bonin. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Richard Mallory lost his life. See Monster: My True Story.
Randi Lawrence was murdered in the presence of her son. See Deadly Charm: The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer.
Sally Shepherd 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.
Gilbert Jordan killed Mary Johnson. See The Alcohol Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Gilbert Paul Jordan.
In happier news, Tanya Dickerson escaped David Penton alive. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
And Gary Ridgway was arrested, only 20 years or so after he started killing people to let off steam. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
I wrote an e-mail to the sheriff's dept thanking them for their persistence
12/1 is the day Joe Foy watched in astonishment as Coral Eugene Watts killed Helen Dutcher right outside his window. See Evil Eyes.William Burns lost his life to Stephen Nash. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Charles Jackson lost his life to Vaughn Greenwood. See, again, In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
June Rushmer died at the hands of a crazyman. See Arnold Sodeman: The True Story of the Schoolgirl Strangler.
Kim Thompson as killed by Larry Hall. See Urges: A Chronicle of Serial Killer Larry Hall.
Joel Dean Pugh died, quite possibly at the hands of the Mansons, to whom he had just lost his girlfriend, Sandy Good. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
Sandy and Joel
12/2 is the day Gerald Parker killed Sandra Fry. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Teresa Williams, Crystal Parton and Cynthia Mabry were all murdered by James B. Grinder. See The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers.
Susan Tucker was found dead. See Confessions Of The South Side Rapist: 25 Years Of Terror In The Gateway City.
Deedah Goodarzi and a woman we only know as Jane Doe were found dead and mutilated. See The Torso Killer.
Wiebke Geddes died violently. Elizabeth Geddes made it out of there alive. See Final Doom: The Frederick Hollman Story.
Buddy Gabbert drank the wrong glass of iced tea. See Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles.
Christopher Walden died hideously. See A Need to Kill: The True-Crime Account of John Joubert, Nebraska's Most Notorious Serial Child Killer.
Gemma Adams was found dead. See Cold Blooded Evil: The True Story of the 'Ipswich Stranglings'.
12/3 is the day Opie Armstrong killed Monica Johnson. She was found unconscious but died the same day of her injuries. See True Crime: American Monsters Vol. 10: 12 Horrific American Serial Killers (Serial Killers US).
Another well-known little weasel killed Rebecca Marrero. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Danny, Kim, Jessica and Bryant Daniels died very much out of nowhere. See Fear Came to Town: The Santa Claus, Georgia, Murders
Jessica
Bryant
In far happier events, this is the day in 1974 that Helen Bogin, Ethel Cohen, Thelma Suden, and AnnaPearl Frankston all escaped Joe Kallinger alive. See The Door-To-Door Killer.
This is also the day Jerry Schaeffer was stabbed to death in prison. Normally I disapprove of murders, but if anyone ever had it coming...See http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/schae...
you really did us all a favor, there, Vince
This is also the day they, inexplicably to me, paroled Gertrude Baniszeswki from prison. See Justice from Within.
12/4 is the day Robert E. Lee Hogan Jr. killed a dietician who worked at Leavenworth prison. She wasn't named in the book where I read this -- The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison -- but the author took care to give us every syllable of the killer's name.Elfriede Franke and Irmgard Friese were both killed by the S-Bahn Killer. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Paul was no doubt proud of his first "gruesome twosome"
Anthony Silveira died a terrible, terrible death. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
12/5 is the day is the day Minnie Sullivan escaped Thomas Piper alive. Bridget Landregan was not nearly so lucky. See The Bloody Century.Sophie Clark became the latest victim of the Boston Strangler. See The Boston Stranglers.
Heidemarie Hammerer lost her life to a man with a kinky hangup on tying knots. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.
12/6 is the day we lost Mary Ann Sarris to a serial killer named Thor. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.(she's in the center of this line-up)
Susan Powell disappeared. See If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children.
Meredith Hunter was killed by a drunken roadie at a Stones show. See Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day.
Hunter in the last moments of his life
Olivia Williams disappeared on this day in 1996; exactly 3 years later, we also lost Angela Jardine. See On the Farm.
Lilian and Harold Perelson lost their lives. See, again, In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Caroll "Eddie" Cole went to his reward. See Silent Rage.
And it seems fitting as we close in on Christmas that I mention that this is the day in 343 that a Turkish bishop named Nicholas, who once foiled a serial killer, passed away...and apparently went to the North Pole instead of Heaven. See The Saint-a-Day Guide: A Lighthearted but Accurate (and Not Too Irreverent) Compendium.
12/7 is the day we lost the Marr family -- Timothy, his wife Cecelia and their infant son, whose name I have yet to come across anywhere. See The English Monster.
the killer
EDIT: Found it! The baby was 3 mos old and his name was also Timothy.
12/8 is the day we lost Moses Yakanac to Vaughn Greenwood. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Nancy Fox died a frightening death. See Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer.
Mary Hogan died for very weird reasons. I mean very weird. She was exactly my age when she died, so I should probably stop going around saying that Gein preyed on old ladies. See Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho".
Debbie Carter lost her life. See The Dreams of Ada.
Dennis Alt and Chris Schoenborn went to an agriculture conference in western Michigan; they were later found strangled and dumped in the snow by the side of the road. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Sydney Dunn was murdered. There are unanswered questions, but people generally believe Peter Manuel did it. See Blood on the Thistle: A Casebook of Twentieth-Century Scottish Murder.
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, frontman for Damageplan, was killed onstage during a show along with the band's head security man, Jeff Thompson; Jeff Halk, who worked for the Alrosa Villa where the show was being held; a bystander named Nathan Bray who tried to do CPR on Dimebag while the fracas was still going on; and the shooter, Nathan Gale. See A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa.
Nathan Gale
The Alrosa Villa murders occurred on the 24th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. See Who Killed John Lennon?.
The good news for this day is that Gladys Wade escaped Tony Sowell alive. The bad news is that the police ignored her complaint against him. See House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, The Cleveland Strangler.
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Marcy Conrad was murdered pretty brutally. See a movie called RIVER'S EDGE or here: http://dumbandboringmovies.blogspot.c...
Sheila Ingold came irrevocably a cropper on this day. See http://truecrimecases.blogspot.com/20...
Josh Phillips killed Maddie Clifton. See http://crimefeed.com/2015/11/man-who-...
Julia Diaz got away from a child predator named David Penton; Roxann Reyes was not so lucky. See Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare.
Olive Cleveland lost her life quite needlessly. See Granny Killer.
Carol Ann Farino died mysteriously. See Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey.
Mary Brinker Post died in an unusual way. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
This is also the day Lisa McVey was abducted. Unlike more than a few others, she got away alive and utimately helped capture a serial killer. See Smoldering Embers.