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12/10 is the day we lost ANOTHER Frances Brown, maybe to Bill Heirens. See William Heirens: His Day in Court/Did an Innocent Man Confess to Three Grisly Murders?.
Bill Bonin and Co. killed John Kilpatrick. See Born to Kill: the William Bonin Story.
Anneli Alderton was found dead. See Cold Blooded Evil: The True Story of the 'Ipswich Stranglings'.
In happier news, this is the day Pamela Jaske escaped Joe Kallinger with her life. See The Door-To-Door Killer.
12/11 is the day we lost Rob Piest. He was later found in the Des Plaines river. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.Olga Stalmachenok was killed by a man who lured her off the bus where she was on her way home from a piano lesson. See The Red Ripper.
Charlotte Palmer encountered Bill Suff. She did not escape alive. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
This is the approximate day Willie Pickton killed Michelle Gurney. See On the Farm.
Jerry Stano killed Dorothy Williams. See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
Vaughn Greenwood killed Arthur Dahlstedt. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Henry Lucas and Ottis Toole killed Debra O'Quinn. See Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories.
And you know Christmas is almost here when we get to the day when Bernie Madoff was arrested, followed exactly 2 years later by the suicide of his son, the one who turned him in to the cops. See Madoff with the Money.
12/12 is the day we lost Erika Namba. See http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/the-r...
Mary Pratt lost more than just her life to Charles Albright. Guh. See Charles Frederick Albright - Serial Killers Unauthorized & Uncensored.
Annette Nicholls and Paula Clennell, who had been missing for a while, were unexpectedly found together. See Cold Blooded Evil: The True Story of the 'Ipswich Stranglings'.
We lost Greg Godzik. See John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster.
Jake Mills lost his life to Nathaniel Code. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Soul singer Sam Cooke died under circumstances that has tongues wagging to this day. See The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches.
12/13 is the day they found a "John Doe" victim of Bill Bonin and company. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.Tina Leal accepted her last "date" with a john. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
James Glass and Danny Yates went over to Dean Corll's house to sample some of his mother's pecan clusters. This was the worst mistake they ever made. See Harvest of Horror: Mass Murder in Houston.
Jimmy
Danny
Veuve Chardon and her son were killed in a scenario immortalized in Crime and Punishment. For the unfictionalized version of events, see Memoirs of Lacenaire as translated by John Stead.
12/14 is the day WAYNE Lo killed Nacunan Saez and Galen Gibson. See Gone Boy: A Walkabout.
Galen, who like Lo was a student at Simon's Rock College
Saez, who taught at the college
Ethel Christie lost her life, but nobody knew about it for ages. See Ten Rillington Place.
Debbie Ann Friday was tortured to death by a guy who blamed his mother for his behavior. See The Benjamin Atkins Story: America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.
Leigh Miner accepted a date with exactly the wrong trick. See On the Farm.
Believe it or not, it's now been five years since the Sandy Hook Massacre. All those kids would be in 6th grade by now! See Remembering Victims of Sandy Hook School.
In much better memories, this is the day Hertha Jablinski escaped the S-Bahn Killer alive. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Marilyn Moore escaped an attacker alive; he may yet prove to have been 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.
A woman not named in the below-mentioned book escaped William Choyce with her life. Others were not nearly as lucky. See Conquering Darkness: Memoir of the Serial Killer's Wife.
12/15 is the day we lost Robyn Carter to Jerome Dennis. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.This is the approximate day we lost Nesia McElrath to Daniel Siebert. See http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/siebe...
And it's the exact day Marion Parker was kidnapped. Things got far worse from there. See Stolen Away: The True Story of California's Most Shocking Kidnap-Murder.
Patricia Thomas lost her life. See The Alcohol Murders: The True Story of Serial Killer Gilbert Paul Jordan.
Darlene Trippi died a terrible death. See Arthur Shawcross: The Genesee River Killer: The Grisly True Crime Account of the Rochester Prostitute Murders!
Danny Stutzman died after a long, long struggle. See Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets.
Tookie Williams was executed. See Redemption: The Last Testament Of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams.
In better memories, this is the day they finally found Shorty Shea, allowing his family to give him a decent burial and allowing the prosecutor's office to charge Charlie Manson with a crime he committed with his own two hands. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
Shorty, shown with one of the reasons he was killed; Charlie disapproved of his interracial marriage
12/16 is the day Rodney Alcala killed Georgia Wixted in his usual brutal manner. See The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders.
Roger Madison died a terrible death at the hands of Mack Ray Edwards. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Mary Ann Carr died, in a way you wouldn't wish on anyone. See The Torso Killer.
Mary Edwards lost her life to the ever-cruel, ever-brutal Chester Turner. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
12/17 is the day MaryJane, Madison, Zachery and Sadie Ann Longo died under circumstances of startling cruelty. See http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/...
all the victims except their mom, MaryJane
June Cicero died an ugly, humiliating death on an icy day. See Arthur Shawcross: The Exaggerating Cannibal.
Lisa Sanders (or Saunders?) is thought to have been killed by Charlie Brandt. It's not a slam dunk or anything, but rarely do you find a murder victim with the heart missing. See Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask.
12/18 is the day Eileen Adams turned up dead. For years people mistakenly thought John Collins did it. It was the jerk below. The story is really, really bad: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
Carmen Marie Hallock disastrously made the acquaintance of Gerard Schaeffer. See Silent Scream.
Stephen Sladowski crossed paths with Richard Biegenwald. See The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald.
Bonnie Heady and her partner in crime, Carl Hall, got the gas chamber. See A Grave for Bobby: The Greenlease Slaying.
And: Happy 69th birthday, Ed!
See Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer for the sorry details of his life.
12/19 is the day Glenna Biggers was murdered. Henry Lee Lucas is thought to have killed her, but you know that guy -- you have to mentally add a question mark. See Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas.Nicole Williams lost her life to Paul Durousseau. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
(she's the 3rd unlucky woman from the L in this lineup)
Cliff, Christine, Jimmy and Debbie Walker died pretty much out of nowhere. I see why people think Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were responsible, but I'm not convinced. See In Colder Blood.
Bridget Harrington, and her John and Elizabeth Williamson, died suddenly and violently. See The Maul and the Pear Tree.
Carmeline Hibbs died out of nowhere. See http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gilya...
Peggy Cuttino crossed paths with Pee Wee Gaskins. See Pee Wee Gaskins America's No. 1 Serial Killer.
12/20 is a terrible, terrible day to be a woman whose name starts with the letter B.An unknown young woman and her unborn child, a full-term healthy girl, were found packed into 3 suitcases and slung off a bridge into a river where someone found them washed up on the bank. The police named the mom Beth Doe. See Faceless: Five Gruesome Unsolved Murders: Most Mysterious and Headless Unsolved Murders of All Time. Or check out https://alchetron.com/Beth-Doe
Jillian Brewer fell victim to Eric Edgar Cooke. See The Night Caller: The Eric Edgar Cooke Story.
Barbara Tuttle was killed by Matt Macon. Charges have not been brought in her case, which seems rather unfair to me. See http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/macon...
Susan Bickrest died violently. She almost certainly insulted the killer's taste in music. That's usually what set him off. How petty is that? See I Would Find a Girl Walking.
Much more happily, this is the day Barbara Jane Mackle was rescued from a horrible fate. She said in her memoir, 83 Hours Till Dawn, that she knew all along she would be all right, but man oh man. It was a close call.
This is also the day Swift Runner hanged for the crime of eating his family. I want you all to know there were some serious extenuating circumstances. See Swift Runner.
12/21 is the approximate day in 1801 that Margery Lovett-- or maybe her name was Sarah Lovett -- committed suicide in her prison cell. See Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
This is the exact day Susan Sternfeld lost her life to Bill Suff. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
This is the day Vincenz Olivier came into a police station all bloody after escaping a madman, so even if they were disinclined to believe his story -- and they were -- he was wearing the proof. See Cannibal: The True Story of Karl Denke. (And yes, I know that's a photo of Fritz Haarmann on the cover of the book, not Denke. I don't know how he got there.)
12/22 marks the third anniversary of the murder of the daughter of a guy I went to high school with. See https://media.clickondetroit.com/phot...Ilone Harke was killed, and in all likelihood partially eaten. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
(Joachim Kroll appeared to target young girls with really unflattering haircuts)
Lena Zakotnova died a terrible death. See The Red Ripper.
Elisabeth Bungener took the wrong train. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Don'tel Sheeley was shot and killed. This was only the beginning of the bad news for his family, as it turned out. See https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/l...
Lisa Thomas was captured. See Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik.
Theresa Walsh was found dead, one of the victims of a man we know only as the Santa Rosa Killer. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Vaughn Greenwood killed David Perez. See, again, In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Jill Robinson was taken from us by the Oakland County Child Killer. See Portraits in the Snow: The Oakland County Child Killings...Scandals and Small Conspiracies.
Brenda Harden crossed paths with Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. See Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas.
12/23 is the day Earle Nelson killed Mrs. John Berard. See The Dark Strangler: Earle Leonard Nelson.Lemuel Smith killed Joan Richburg for reasons best known to himself. See Lemuel Smith and the Compulsion To Kill: The Forensic Story of a Multiple Personality Serial Killer.
Ned Snelgrove killed Karen Osmun. See I'll Be Watching You.
the Nedster at what looks like an office party
Bill Suff killed Eleanore Casares. See Cat and Mouse: Mind Games with a Serial Killer.
The Chelmsford quack, Harry Bailey, killed a patient named Mary Rogers. Cross-referencing that with the case of the Beautiful Cigar Girl, this is shaping up to be another name not to give your daughter. See Deep Sleep: Harry Bailey And The Scandal Of Chelmsford.
This is the day Randy Kraft killed an unlucky man named Vincent Mestas. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
This is also the approximate day his contemporary, Pat WAYNE Kearney, killed a man we know only as "George." See The Trash Bag Murderer.
2/24 is the day we lost Robert and Fannie Gibbons along with Emma Carrico. See Christmas Slay Ride: Most Mysterious and Horrific Christmas Day Murders."Bones 16," later identified as Sandra Majors, was found on the same day in 1982 that co-victim Colleen Brockman disappeared. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
Father Jean Uhl was killed for reasons understood only by his killer. See The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens.
A few of you may remember that this is the day we lost Laci Peterson, unborn child and all, blighting the holidays for the Rocha family for all time. See For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice.
Randy Kraft killed the unlucky Edward Moore. See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murderers.
Ivy Toms was gunned down at his pharmacy. See Stolen Away: The True Story of California's Most Shocking Kidnap-Murder.
Mari Anne Fowler vanished off the sidewalk, leaving her belongings scattered everywhere along with a couple of her acrylic nails. Her killer is quite possibly discussed inBlood Bath.
Blanche Barrow died on this day in her 80s. See My Life with Bonnie and Clyde.
Michelle Foreman escaped the Son of Sam alive today. Merry Christmas Michelle!!!! See Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer.
12/25 is the day Betty Lee Hanson got away from a sex maniac. See True Crime Story: I Survived A Monster.
Mercedes Masters failed to get away from a different type of maniac. See http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/d...
Doyle Johnson lost his life to the Barrow Gang. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
12/26 is the day the Moors Murderers lured Lesley Ann Downey to her death. See For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim's Mother.
a last look, in a photo taken by her killers
Sunny von Bulow finally died after many years in a coma. See The Von Bulow Affair.
JonBenet Ramsey sustained a 9-inch skull fracture. She was then finished off with a bit of ligature strangulation. See JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation.
Dian Fossey was battered to death. See Murders In The Mist: Who Killed Dian Fossey?.
Kenneth Martin was killed by Kenneth Harrison. See https://ididitforjodie.com/2015/10/09...
Kenneth Lee Lane was killed by a guy who went by "Toy Boy." See Cries in the Desert.
Ray Davies was targeted by the Snowtown Gang on this day. He had been living in a trailer out behind the home of another Snowtown victim. See Bodies in Barrels: The Snowtown Murders.
Rick Chase committed suicide using a collection of hoarded antidepressants. Sounds like they weren't working too well for him anyway. See The Dracula Syndrome.
12/27 is the day we lost Bonnie Pace to Earle Nelson. See The Dark Strangler: Earle Leonard Nelson.Diana Melnick in 1995, and Jennifer Lynn Furminger exactly 2 years later, were taken from us by Willie Pickton.
Diana
Jennifer
Lucy Partington was kidnapped by Fred and (probably) Rosemary West. It was not until January 3rd that Fred presented at an emergency room with some nasty cuts on his hands, suggesting that poor Lucy was -- not unusually for this fine family -- held and tormented for days before being dispatched. See Experience: A Memoir.
Sergei Markov died a hideous death. See Citizen X: Killer Department.
This is the day Jean Harris finally croaked. I don't mind telling you I was sick of hearing about her. See Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower.
The library is closed today for some crazy reason; I'll have to log in later and add photos and book linkies for the last 4 days of this year.
12/28 is the day Vernon Clark killed Iva Watson, but there was a wait of something like 30 years before DNA testing reveled the killer's identity. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.Jane Toppan sat by nursing Mary McNear until she died in agony. It only came out later that Jane had murdered her. See Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer.
Art Shawcross killed Felicia Stephens. She deserved better. See Arthur Shawcross: The Exaggerating Cannibal.
Leonard Fraser killed Julie Turner. See Things a Killer Would Know: The True Story of Leonard Fraser.
Germania Harpin and her baby daughter were strangled. This was a bit of a departure for this killer. See The Laughing Gorilla: A True Story of Police Corruption and Murder.
Helen Creison became the latest in a long, long murder series. See The Pig Farm Murders.
Kathy Kendrick and Jim Chaffin were gunned down, seemingly out of nowhere. When they tracked the suspect to his home, they discovered the bodies of Trey, Renata, Little Gene, Loretta, Becky, Rebecca Lynn, Marianne, Eddie, Barbara, and Billy Simmons, along with those of Dennis, Sheila, Sylvia and Michael McNulty. See Zero at the Bone. Did I mention that some of the bodies were stacked like gifts under the family Christmas tree?
12/29 is the day Wendy Gardner and James Evans killed Betty Gardner. See When Good Kids Kill.
Wendy was Betty's granddaughter, BTW
Heather Crane escaped Cesar Barone and his old buddy "Germ" Darcell. Chantee Woodman was not so lucky. See Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer.
Ambrose Griffin was killed more or less out of nowhere. See Dracula Killer: The True Story of California's Vampire Killer.
A man we know only as "The Irishman" was strangled by a man who had invited him over for a nightcap. See The Nilsen File.
Alison Day was murdered by a fellow named Duffy. See John Duffy and David Mulcahy: The Railway Killers.
Gertrude Siewert was clubbed unconscious and slung off a speeding train. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Peggy Rahn and Wendy Stevenson became one of Jerry Schaefer's many "gruesome twosomes." See Hangman: Life and Crimes of Serial Killer & Police Officer Gerard Schaefer.
Colleen Reed lost her life pointlessly. See Bad Boy from Rosebud.
And Muriel McKay was kidnapped in a horrible misunderstanding. Not that it would have been a lot better for them to have kidnapped the right person, the big stupid idiots. See Missing Bodies.
I'll go back and CORRECT all the good inserted by this wretched app. It doesn't allow me to edit my posts, for crappity crap sakes
12/30 is the day Nikia Kilpatrick and her unborn child were killed. See the Paul Durousseau section of 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
A man we know only as The Original Night Stalker killed Robert Offerman and Debra Manning. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Returning to 12/30, Robert Offerman and Debra Manning were killed. See The Original Night Stalker: Portrait of A Killer.Lee Archer escaped William Cook alive. See Born to Kill.
Grigori Rasputin, sort of a Charlie Manson figure to the rich and famous of imperial Russia, died spectacularly. The Murder Of Rasputin.
and there was great rejoicing
Bertha Jean Mason died really horribly, on a freezing cold night in a miserable section of metro Detroit, at the hands of a guy who was into torture tactics. See The Benjamin Atkins Story: America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.
Stephen Holmes died for no good reason at all. See Serial Killer: Dennis Nilsen - Sleeping with the Dead.
Diane Tift died very young and pointlessly. See Not The Moors Murders: A Detective's Story of the Biggest Child Killer Hunt in History.
Marina Habe died in a case that has never been properly cleared up. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.
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And we come to New Year's Eve.Albert DeSalvo -- probably -- killed Patricia Bissette. See The Boston Stranglers.
Jennifer Beard was murdered. Maybe. See Getting Away with Murder: The Jennifer Beard Inquiry.
Willie Pickton killed Tiffany Drew. See On the Farm.
Randy Kraft killed Mark Hall. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Martha Sue Young stepped out on the porch to have a word with her ex-fiance. This was the last mistake she ever made. See Lethal Friendship: A Mother's Battle to Put--And Keep--A Serial Killer Behind Bars.
Christine Jessup was killed. See Redrum The Innocent: From Wrongful Conviction to Stunning Exoneration.
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David Talsma died a horrific death. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.