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2/16 is the day we lost Carole and Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso. See The Yosemite Murders.
Clemente Limachi was exsanguinated, and his face, ears and tongue were removed by parties unknown. Times being what they were, Michael Newton included this case in his Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime, but it's really anybody's guess.
Billy Kindred was way;laid, raped and killed by John WAYNE Gacy. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.
We lost Niels Jorgensen seven years ago today. Boo hoo! See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
Orville Majors killed Freddie Wilson. See https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/majo...
Hans-Joachim Neumann lost his life to Adolf Seefeld, aka Uncle Tick Tock. He was 10, a little older than the average victim of this man. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
This is also the day Sam Carr, namesake of the Son of Sam, killed himself. Or did he? See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
(across the top you can see Dave Berkowitz, Sam Carr, Wheat Carr and Michael Carr)
Donald Merrett, aka Donald Chesney, killed himself on this day in 1954 to avoid the hangman. No great loss. See Murderer's Moon.
In happier news, this is the day Georghita Sfectu escaped Rimari Ion with her life. See Romanian Serial Killers: The Punisher.
2/17 is the day Angelo D'Amato did terrible things To Keeran Carter. Her remains would not be found until a couple of years later, when she would ultimately be identified by the serial number on a breast implant. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine. See a photo of Keeran here: http://whymydaughterthegaylemoffitsto...Baby Boy B was found frozen -- who knows why -- at the Women's Medical Society. See Gosnell's Babies: Inside the Mind of America's Most Notorious Abortion Doctor.
Anne Jenkins lost her life on this day in 1988. See Torture Killers II.
We also lost Joseph Daron, Jr. to John Fautenberry. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Elizabeth Duncan and her two hired killers, Luis Moya and Gus Baldonaldo, were executed today. I really wonder how Duncan's son, who was also her defense atty, must have felt on this day -- he vigorously defended her in court but it was after all his wife and unborn child who were murdered. See
Luis, L, and Gus, R (I think)
("Ma" Duncan looking satisfied with the proceedings while her son, Frank, in the foreground, does a bit of a facepalm)
Vera Ball vanished. her body was never found, but that didn't spell a free ride for her killer, who left plenty of damning evidence in his wake. See Missing Bodies.
We lost Brenda Wolfe, a well-liked local character in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver, where she worked as a bartender. See On the Farm.
This is also the day they executed Cameron Todd Willingham for the arson murders of his 3 small daughters. He protested his innocence until his last breath -- and he may have been telling the truth. See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20... or look in The Skeptical Juror and the Trial of Cameron Todd Willingham.
(part of the scene after the firefighters were done)
2/18 is, very happily, the day Elisabeta Florea escaped Rimaru Ion with her life. See Romanian Serial Killers: The Punisher.And Philip Husereau died of auto-erotic asphyxiation. This was purely good news to the women of the world, but he also took a few secrets to the grave with him. The day after he bought the farm, his sister came forward and told police about the 5 girlfriends he'd killed over the years. See https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/huse...
Olive Durand-Deacon, a woman ahead of her time, brought up her idea of manufacturing stick-on plastic fingernails to save women the time and hassle of doing their nails. The man she brought it up to invited her over to his factory to talk it over in more detail, where he killed her, robbed her, and stuffed her in a barrel before pouring acid over her to get rid of the evidence. See John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer: A Portrait of a Serial Killer and His Victims.
David Brom killed his family with an axe. See https://kstp.com/news/flashback-frida...
Mark Marsh was added to Randy Kraft's scorecard with the notation MARINE HEAD BP. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Quincy Jamar Davis was found in the trunk of his mother's car, 5 years ago today. He had already been missing for 11 years at that point. His mom -- the appropriately-named Tonya Slayton -- pleaded guilty. See https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crim...
We also lost Sheldean Human, in a case that shocked South Africa. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
(Sheldean's classmates reacting to the news of her death)
Karil Graham lost her life to the appropriately-named Donald Bashor, who bludgeoned her to death. See The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet
2/19 is the day Angelo Colalillo killed Christine Speich. She was 12. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Curtis Walker became the latest victim of the Atlanta Child Murderer. See The List.
Ronald Dominique tied up and raped Larry Lirette, then as usual killed him to prevent him from filing charges. See The Bayou Killer: Life of Serial Killer Ronald J. Dominique.
This is also the day we lost Rebecca Darling to William Smith. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Becky Watts died for reasons that have never been made 100% clear. The killers were her stepbrother Nathan Matthews and his girlfriend, Shauna Hoare. See The Evil Within.
Darcy Dean Ironchild lost his life. The courts decided agains finding the police criminally responsible, but to me it was sort of a split decision between homicide and accident. See Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild.
We lost Victoria Rhone to serial killer Scott Cox. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
(Victoria shown at R with sister victim Reena Brunson)
This is the day an unlucky building super, sent in to check on the welfare of Sherri, Chad and Joseph Weathers, found them all dead. The same day he was asked to check on Linda Jarman, and guess what -- she was dead too. See the Daniel Siebert section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Sherry Mansur was murdered. Sean Goble eventually confessed to this killing along with several others. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Someone discovered that we had lost Joyce Dickerson-Peay to Alfred Gaynor, who can really say why. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
Roxanne Hayes lost her life to a man who stabbed her 31 times. See The Mad Chopper.
Hattie, Ernest and Ethel Dove died in an axe murder that also took the life of Jessie Quirk. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
The murdering tag team of Gore and Waterfield killed Hsiang Huang Ling and Ying Hua Ling. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
(Hsiang)
(Ying)
We lost Billy Jack Gaither to a hate criminal. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
2/20 is the day we lost Officer Kirk Johnson to Charles Tyberg. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Larry White lost his life, prettily nastily, to the man he played chess with, Robert Eugene Bennett. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
(the killer)
Carol Bolduc, her husband Christopher and stepson Joshua Bolduc all died at the hands of Carol's son by a previous marriage, Matthew Cushing. See https://bangordailynews.com/2009/02/2...
100 Great White fans perished in an atrocious fire at the Station nightclub on this day in 2003. It was a case of criminal negligence. The place went up like a torch in a little more than one minute. They still use a cellphone video made by someone who escaped the club in safety trainings, to show people the importance of knowing where all the exits are in any building. See Killer Show.
This is also the day they executed Catherine Deshayes, aka "La Voisin" or "the neighbor," for her crimes. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
And it's the day Douglas Allison was bludgeoned by serial killer Donald Miller in California; he was out cold in a hospital bed for the next 2 months. Unlike several others, he did ultimately survive. See https://casetext.com/case/people-v-mi...
2/21 is the day in 1992 that we lost Margo Bond. See https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/argu...Teresita Basa was found stabbed to death and set on fire in her Chicago apartment on this day in 1977. See Teresita, the Voice from the Grave: The Incredible But True Story of How an Occult Vision Solved the Murder of Teresita Basa.
(Teresita, in situ at the crime scene)
Penny Haddenham crossed paths with James Ruzicka, exactly three years before Teresita Basa breathed her last. See https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/ruzi...
We lost Sandra Garcia and her fiancé, John Hood, to a man with a knife. Sandra was almost unrecognizable when they found the bodies the next day. The killer has not been found. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
William Domer was killed on approximately this day, by repeat offender George Wallace. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Jesse Pomeroy abducted, tortured, then released a younger child named Tracy Hayden. He was stripped naked, whipped, then beaten with a board, breaking his nose and knocking out some teeth. The boy who did it threatened to remove his penis for good measure. Tracy survived to report the assault to the police. As it turned out, the kid who did it to him was only 12. See Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer.
2/22 is the day Michael Ihde killed Ellen Parker. See Rope Burns: The Shocking True Story of the Most Twisted Couple in American Crime!.William King Jr. killed and dismembered William King Sr. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
We lost Pat Docker to a man we only know as Bible John. See Escape from Evil: Married at 17 to a Serial Killer, She's One Victim Who Escaped.
We lost Leslie Shelley and April Brunais to the same loser on the same day. See The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer.
We lost Sherry Drinkard to Bruce Mendenhall. See Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate.
And Charlyce Robinson. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
And let us not forget the murder of Simmie Williams. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.
And La Vern Connor finished off her husband Marlow on this day in 1946. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
With all that said, this is, to me, a day of triumphant rescues:
This is the day they rescued Mindy Phillips before her mother Priscilla could do to her what she'd done to Mindy's sister, Tia. Miraculously, all Mindy's mysterious disease symptoms cleared up as soon as she was safely in foster care. See A Mother's Trial.
Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey escaped a serial killer alive. See The Texarkana Moonlight Murders: The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer.
A woman escaped Jerome Dennis alive. Not everyone was that lucky. See https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/denn...
And Eunice Thomas was rescued from serial killer James Canaday. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cana...
2/23 is the day Chima Benson was raped by Dale Scheanette. She escaped an even worse fate by biting his dingle so hard that after she made her police report, they were able to trace him by asking about that distinctive injury in local ERs. When they found the right wee-wee, they busted him. See https://cowtowncrime.com/2018/01/22/w...
Chima after her encounter with Scheanette
Chima triumphant
Adolf Seefeld did away with the unlucky Heinz Zimmerman. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
This is the anniversary of the first death of Francina Ileus. See under "Zombies" in Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
A woman we know only as Jane Doe 441-83 was found, sans head. See Faceless: Five Gruesome Unsolved Murders: Most Mysterious and Headless Unsolved Murders of All Time.
Speaking of Jane Does, this is the day someone found Jane Doe #1 in the Cleveland Torso case. See Corroborating Evidence: The Black Dahlia Murder.
Robert Eugene Bennett, up to no good as usual, killed his wife, Floy, who went by "Jeanie." At least they're pretty sure that's what he did; she has never been found. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
Paul Peace became the latest victim of an enormous, years-long murder spree. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Vladimir Mukhankin killed Sergei Ustinov. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
In happier news, this is the day in 1922 they executed Bluebeard killer Henri Desire Landru. See Landru's Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France's Lonely Hearts Serial Killer.
Best of all, this is the day Maria Viricheva escaped Alexander Pichushkin with her life and reported him to the local police. Unfortunately, they weren't interested. See, again, Born to Kill in the USSR.
2/24 is the day Robert Hayes killed Iwana Patton. See http://daytonatimes.com/2019/09/28/ni...
Leigh Turner was killed by his former friend and D&D opponent, Maurice Huish. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Daniel Siebert killed Linda Odum, a waitress he'd been dating. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Officer Gary Stymiloski found himself on a detour into Crazytown. See https://pix11.com/2015/02/16/murder-o...
Shala Eubanks was killed, and 13 others injured, in a shooting that many connected to the killer's history as a surviving resident of Jonestown. See https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/25/us...
Dayton Rogers raped one girl, threatened another with a knife, then got himself together and apologized. It was a little late at that point to say he was sorry. See Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer.
Samuel Sheinbein was shot and killed in a standoff with the police. It was no great loss. See https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda...
2/25 is the approximate day in 1855 that Marie Baday escaped Martin Dumollard with her life. It's the exact day in 1861 he killed Marie-Eulalie Bussod. See Dumollard, The Maid Killer.Adolfo Constanzo sacrificed Jose Garcia to his demanding pantheon of gods, in order to raise profits at work. Nothing personal, you understand. See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
This is the day in 1970 that Jose Raya narrowly escaped a machete attack with his life, much the worse for wear; and the day, precisely a year later, that we lost John Haluka to the same weapon and the same assailant. See Burden of Proof: The Case of Juan Corona.
(John)
Jeanine Nicario died at the hands of Brian Dugan, in a case that took a very long time to clear. See https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/...
Dassa Jackson died a hideous, prolonged death at the hands of her husband Cecil. See (if you dare) Torture Killers II.
Danielle Zacot died at the hands of Lucious Boyd. See https://wsvn.com/news/danielle-zacot/
Bobby Elliott died on the job. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
And happy birthday, Clarence Walker! If still alive in prison he would be turning 97. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
2/26 is exactly 2 years from the day Rudolph Henderson was captured on security cam dragging Annetta Nelson's body out to the curb after her hideous rape/murder. An astonished eyewitness saw it too and called the police. Remarkably, he turned out not to be the murderer after all. See https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/28/man-fi...
Alex Mengel killed Beverly Capone. See Unearthing A Serial Killer.
We lost Elmer and Deanna Mertle, aka Al and Jeanie Mills. The murderer may be Eddie Miller. Then again, maybe not. See http://spikethenews.blogspot.com/2015...
Juan Corona killed Clarence Hocking. See The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders.
William and Anna Aiken died in a murder-suicide scenario that has never been properly explained. Their young son, who looked just like his dad and who grew up to be a very famous poet, became another example of how literature grows out of pain. See Conrad Aiken, Poet of White Horse Vale.
Susan Hockenhull, who had been kidnapped by bank robbers, was left to die of the cold on the moors. See Cause of Death.
(the death scene)
Cindy Connolly died at the hands of her son Danny. See When Good Kids Kill.
We also lost Officer Eddie Byrne. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
2/27 is the day in 1979 that we lost Merla Marie Laycock, more than likely at the hands of Danny Wood. At least he was tried for it -- three freaking times. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder. If I'm remembering right, this is the woman not named in the book but casually referred to as someone Danny had killed way back when before anyone knew he was a serial killer. I'm not having any luck finding a photo of her, either.Mark Langley died a horrific death at the hands of a group known in Australia as the Family. The exact composition of this "family" has never been made clear. See Young Blood: The Story of the Family Murders.
Clara Johnson died almost completely out of nowhere. See https://dementedmittentours.com/blog/... and scroll down to "The Ionia Lady Killer." Please note that the governor who eventually commuted the killer's sentence was the father of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Mark Smith killed Janice Bolyard for no good reason on this earth. See Legally Sane.
We lost Jeffrey Davis to his babysitter on approximately this day. He died of what the killer called "smotheration." See http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2...
J.N. Romashkin was lured out to a stretch of forested land with an offer of alcohol, killed and slung down a manhole. This was not the first time someone in the area had died this way and it would not be the last. See Alexander Pichushkin: The Shocking True Story of the Chessboard Killer.
Jim Galloway, a K9 officer with the RCMP, was killed in a 6-hour standoff with Martin Ostopovich, a man with schizophrenia. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Erik, Brenda and Dennis Freeman were killed by Bryan and David Freeman and their cousin, Benny Birdwell. See Blood Crimes.
(The victims -- Dennis, Brenda, Erik)
This is also the day Russell King died at the hands of T.J. Lane, who had just lost his girlfriend to Russell. See https://www.cleveland19.com/story/311...
Fishface wrote: "See https://dementedmittentours.com/blog/... and scroll down to "The Ionia Lady Killer."Very interesting page! Thanks for that, Fishface.
2/28 is the day Joan and Nina Hicks lost their lives to Michael WAYNE McGray. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder. The only link I could find with photos of these 2 victims is on FB: https://www.facebook.com/newbrunswick...Rosie Davenport was strangled to death. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/crai...
Dieter Beck, another rapey-strangler type, did away with Annaliese Herschel. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
We also lost Garnet Ginn at the hands of parties unknown. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Gail Faison died at the hands of William Henry Hance. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Cassidy Johnson died in the hospital a few days after falling (ahem) mysteriously ill under a babysitter's care. They originally diagnosed her with brain inflammation. See https://www.nydailynews.com/news/just...
John Snowden was hanged under very controversial circumstances. See Mrs. Sherlock Holmes or just look here: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-...
Betty Wentzlaff was stabbed 36 times. See the Bruce Hamill section of Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder. Bruce would later go on to help David Krueger, ne Peter Woodcock, kill Dennis Kerr in a pretty deplorable incident.
We lost Oanh Ha as well. There are like three different dates given for her murder, depending on where you look, but this is the first one I found so I'm going with it. Sue me. See http://www.vancouversun.com/news/murd...
A little girl was found with her head removed. Neither she, nor her killer, has ever been identified. See Faceless: Five Gruesome Unsolved Murders: Most Mysterious and Headless Unsolved Murders of All Time.
And -- cue the sad music -- this is the day Lenny "The Quahog" Paradiso died. See The Paradiso Files: Exposing an Unknown Serial Killer.
2/29 is Rick Ramirez's birthday! Whoo-hoo! See Serial Killers: Richard Ramirez.
This is also the day we lost Bruce Reynolds. See The Great Train Robbery: Crime of the Century.
And Aileen Wuornos. See Aileen Wuornos : Serial Killer.
And Melvin Purvis. See The Vendetta: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters.
And Pat Garrett. See The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (which Garrett wrote).
And Sven Olof Palme. See The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin.
And Emile Buisson. See Flic Story.
This is also the day they first issued warrants in the Salem witch trials. See The Salem Witch Trials Reader.
And the day Daniel Green was convicted in the murder of James Jordan in a stick-up. See https://sportsmockery.com/2016/12/bul...
(James Jordan shown with his son, a once-famous b-ball player)
Ken McDuff killed Melissa Ann Northrup. See Bad Boy: The True Story of Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Most Notorious Serial Killer in Texas History.
Kathy Knight killed John Price in a grisly scenario that still has tongues wagging. See Blood Stain.
(John, before)
(John's house, after)
Deborah Sue Lowe died, maybe at the hands of good old Jerry Schaefer. See Hangman: Life and Crimes of Serial Killer & Police Officer Gerard Schaefer.
And of course this is the day we lost 6-year-old Kayla Rolland to 6-year-old Dedrick Owens and his uncle's borrowed semiautomatic pistol. See
Kayla
Dedrick
March 1st is the day we lost Judith Barksey to mad-dog killer Christian Magee. In looking them up today I finally stumbled across the photo that is so commonly labelled WAYNE Boden but is clearly not him. Alas, Murderpedia has no photo of poor Judith. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
(Christian, not WAYNE)
Kim Roberts was raped and strangled. At the time The Child Killers went to press, the case was still unsolved, but look here: https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1...
(Kim's body is at the back, covered with a sheet)
We lost Semika Shaw to the medical quackery afoot at the Women's Medical Society. See Gosnell's Babies: Inside the Mind of America's Most Notorious Abortion Doctor.
We also lost Suzette Trouten, to a very different kind of serial killer. See Internet Slave Master.
Lashawna Streeter died far too soon. See https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lind...
We lost 11-year-old Paula McCormick to a maniac. See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
(I am far from sure, but I think that's Paula at the center top of this page)
Tony Walker killed Floyd Beatty. See https://www.toledoblade.com/local/201...
3/2 is the day Larry Eyler killed the unlucky John Bartlett. See Freed to Kill: The True Story of Larry Eyler.
Genevieve Lewis and Steve Cornish were disembowelled as sacrifices to Satan. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Alicia Reynolds vanished. Although 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2 lays this at the door of Richard Evonitz, all the articles I found looking for a photo of her suggest that the case is still unsolved.
Christine Falling smothered little Joseph Spring to death on approximately this day. See Killer Babysitter : The True Story of Christine Falling.
Joseph Bell lost his life on exactly this day to the Atlanta Child Killer. See The List.
Rose Valdez lost her life pretty violently. See The Brick Slayer.
We lost Leah Rodermund to Deputy Robert Hohenberger. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Trevor Hardy killed Sharon Mosoph on approximately this day. See https://www.nme.com/blogs/britains-fo...
This is the day of the Lester Street Massacre. A small boy named C.J. Dotson hid in a bathtub, with a knife sticking out of his skull, for 40 hours before somebody found him, plus another survivor just a couple of months old, and 9 dead bodies. C.J. told them that his uncle Jessie did it. See https://www.swordandscale.com/the-mas...
(x-ray of C.J.'s injuries)
3/3 is the day Joseph Laboucan killed Nina Courtepatte. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
We also lost Eli Daiches. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories
(Eli is at upper R)
Mary and Alonzo Singer and Charles Clark all died at Clark's hands. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Norman Stribbling came a cropper. See under "Josephine Gray" in 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
We lost Alma Smith to the Green River Killer. She was found not far from Star Lake. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
Kelly Ann Tinyes died for no reason on this earth. It was a super ugly crime. See Against Her Will.
Just as the police were pulling up to Mungo Ireland's house to question him as a possible suspect in the Jack the Stripper murders, an ambulance came screaming in as well. They were too late. It was a suicide. He left a note that clarified nothing. See Found Naked and Dead.
3/4 is the day Olympe Albert, in a moment of quick thinking, ran for her life and escaped Martin Dumollard. See Dumollard, The Maid Killer.We lost Eleanor Hartwick to the Bedroom Strangler. See http://canadiancrimeopedia.com/canadi...
Marcelline Onick, aged 3, was raped and stabbed to death on this day in 1990. See Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine or the Michael Pacewitz section of Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
In other crimes against little girls, this is the day we lost Angel Lenair. See The List.
This is, VERY approximately, the day Adam Frank was (probably) killed and (definitely) dumped under the house for safekeeping by his daughter Antoinette. It's exactly the day that Antoinette and her friend Rogers Lacaze killed Ronald Williams and Quoc and Cuong Vu. Chau Vu escaped alive, but it was a close thing. See Killer With a Badge.
In other cases involving a killer named Antoinette, this is the day in 1988 that we lost Joseph Sonta. He had it coming if you ask me. See Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.
(the killer-in-self-defense, Antoinette Tolla)
Paul Runge killed Kazimiera Paruch. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Lisa Marie Bianco lost her life to her ex, Alan Matheny. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
3 members of the Zetterberger family were killed, almost certainly at the hands of the increasingly desperate Fredrik Von Sydow, a member of one of the most prominent families in Sweden. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
We also lost Suzanne Nixon, to a serial killer named Alfred Powell. See https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey...
It's also the day we lost Stepan Vasilenko to Alexander Pichushkin. See Alexander Pichushkin: The Shocking True Story of the Chessboard Killer.
Fishface wrote: "2/28 is the day Joan and Nina Hicks lost their lives to Michael WAYNE McGray. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder. The only link I could find with photos of these 2 victims is on FB"I found these on http://transcanadienne.over-blog.com/...
Diane in Australia wrote: "Fishface wrote: "2/28 is the day Joan and Nina Hicks lost their lives to Michael WAYNE McGray. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder. The only link I could find with photos of these 2 vict..."TY! Those FB photos never want to post...
Fishface wrote: "TY! Those FB photos never want to post..."You are most welcome! :)
3/5 is the anniversary of the horrible death of Hectorina MacLennan. See Crime Archive: John Christie.We lost Marta Reeves to the Green River Killer. See The Search for the Green River Killer.
Cathy Smith gave John Belushi his last speedball. See Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi.
Fanica Ilie lost her life to Rimaru Ion. See Romanian Serial Killers: The Punisher.
(Fanica is on the R, shown on the morgue table)
Thomas Bunday killed Wendy Wilson. See https://medium.com/@robinbarefield76/...
We lost Peter Woodcock, aka David Krueger, on his 71st birthday. It was this day in 2010. Boo hoo! See By Reason of Insanity: The David Michael Krueger Story.
On the other hand, this is the day Christian Campbell escaped alive from Trevor Hardy. See http://www.manchestersfinest.com/arti...
3/6 is Jeffrey Willis's birthday. He's 50 this year, with no immediate prospect of freedom. See https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2...Larry Eyler croaked in prison. Fittingly enough, he died of AIDS. See The Highwayman:: Larry Eyler, the Hoosier Highway Killer.
This is the day Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins blew themselves to smithereens at their bomb factory in the Village. Two other fine young terrorists ran for their lives after escaping naked out a window of the flaming townhouse. See Diana: The Making of a Terrorist.
Beate Goertz was raped, stabbed, her skull was fractured, and when all that didn't work, Helmut Weidenbroeker finally drowned the poor creature. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Speaking of overkill, this is the day an inoffensive housewife named Carol Thompson was chased down by a man with a knife and stabbed again and again and again. See Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson.
We lost Kristen Lopez as well. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
Ursula Miltenberger was found dead at the hands of Montie Rissell. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
Moses Sithole, up to no good as always, killed the unlucky Sarah Mokono. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
3/7 is the day the sons of Phillip Shoats Jr., a prison guard, waylaid and killed him. They figured it was the only way they were going to make it to adulthood alive. See The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison.We lost Rachel Bey to Robert Hayes. See https://cbs12.com/news/local/suspecte...
Willie Todd was bashed to death with a flatiron. Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties says both his sisters survived with injuries, but JENNINGS COUNTY INDIANA PICTORIAL (not in GR database) says only one of the sisters survived to testify against the killer. Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965 says only Willie was killed. The "best of three" rule says Willie was the only one killed that day.
We lost Luis (or Louis?) Ortiz to Charlie Chop-off. See Charlie Chop Off - Serial Killers Unauthorized & Uncensored.
Melissa Alaniz became the latest victim of David Wood. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1, under "Missing;" when the book went to press the killer was still hoping never to be identified.
We lost Gertrude Robinson to Wendell Lightbourne on this day in 1959. See The Sex Killers.
This is the day someone found Keryn Barnes dead, where Michael and Suzan Carson had left her. See Cry For War: The Story of Suzan and Michael Carson.
Alexander Pichushkin did away with the unlucky Boris Nesterov. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Fredrik Von Sydow did away with his father, the Baron Hjalmar Von Sydow, and two of his servants, Karoline Herou and Ebba Hamn. He then took his wife Ingun out to a nice restaurant before killing her and himself. The reasons behind all this mayhem remain fairly unclear. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
This is also the day killer Edward Bennett croaked in prison. Small loss. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
3/8 is the day Larry Eyler killed Michael Bauer. It was undoubtedly a hideous death. That's Larry for you. See https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/c...
Daniel Siebert killed Beatrice McDougal. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Delores Williams was lost to us forever. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
Latondra Dean lost her life as well, on approximately this day. See https://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/fayn...
(I think she is in this lineup but it's so hard to see)
We also lost Aleksey Fedorov to the Chessboard Killer. See Alexander Pichushkin: The Shocking True Story of the Chessboard Killer.
(Aleksey is #19 at the upper R)
In better news, this is the day that Joseph Fancher got away alive from Randy Kraft. Many, many others were not that lucky. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
And Mario Orozco escaped Heriberto Seda alive. See Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer.
3/9 is the anniversary of the day Donald Eric Armstrong killed Linda Bright with a knife. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Philip Henry killed Flora Gilligan, who went by "Jane." A neighbor found her battered body outside her house. After being raped and bashed around he slung the elderly lady out a window, fracturing her skull. See The Sex Killers.
Jane Thompson died of injuries she had sustained on the job 8 years earlier. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
This is the anniversary of the day Francine Hughes, who was clearly out of ideas, poured lighter fluid over her sleeping husband and lit him up. See The Burning Bed: The True Story of an Abused Wife.
We lost Randy Harvey to a torture killer. See Mass Murder in Houston.
Mabel Monohan died, supposedly at the hands of Barbara Graham and company. See Decathlon Of Death.
This is the day Timothy Evans hanged, almost certainly for crimes he did not commit. See Murder with a Difference.
Tim is at L, posing with the wife and daughter he supposedly killed, and a family friend)
3/10 is the day Walter Collins was abducted. See The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders.
This is the day Socrates Ladner killed his roommate, Daniel Pierce, with an axe. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
(the killer)
Patrick Mackay killed Adele Price, for reasons best known to himself. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.
We lost Gail Mathews to the4 Green River Killer. See Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer - America's Deadliest Serial Murderer.
Bernd Brandes died under very, very odd circumstances. See Interview with a Cannibal: The Secret Life of the Monster of Rotenburg.
More happily, this is the anniversary of the day Charles Schmid was murdered in prison. Two fellow inmates, no doubt tested beyond their limits by his rotten attitude, stabbed him 47 times. The casket they buried was empty; someone stole his body from the morgue. Honestly, where do all these people come from? See Cold-Blooded: The Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson".
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3/11 is the day they found Keely Pincott's skeleton, months after her disappearance the previous November. She is thought to be a victim of a man known only as the Calgary Prostitute Killer. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
This is also the day Sgt. Robert Bales massacred 16 inoffensive Afghan villagers. See The Devil's Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre.
Jeffery Mathis became the latest child murder victim in Atlanta. For reasons I'm not clear on, despite the time and place he was never clearly connected to the Atlanta Child Murders. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Stephanie Lane was murdered, definitely by Willie Pickton, but the authorities declined to press charges in her case even though they found 2 of her vertebrae at the pig farm -- pretty clear proof that she didn't just happen to leave her DNA there on a doorknob or something. See The Pickton File.
We also lost Aundria Crawford. See Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast.
Mary Jane, John Stephan, and Julissa Camacho-Rubio were decapitated by their parents in a pretty horrifying folie a deux scenario. See The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City.
We lost Elroy van Rooy to serial killer Norman Simons. Elroy's cousin Ryno escaped alive. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Andrew Urdiales killed Denise Maney. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Will Lockett, aka Petrie Kimbrough, was executed on this day in 1920. Apparently even the author of The Murder of Geneva Hardman and Lexington's Mob Riot of 1920 wasn't able to scare up a mug shot of this man.
3/12 is the day we lost Shernell Pierre to her ex-boyfriend, Devon Saunders. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
This is also the day Frank Zanner slung a vernier gauge at co-worker Samuel Segaete. The tool stuck in his head and killed him. It was not a workplace accident, but that didn't come out until later. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
We lost Beverly Kaster, maybe to serial killer Earl Daughtrey. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Caren Koslow was dusted by her stepdaughter, Kristi Koslow, who had an issue with the way her parents' divorce had cut into her income. Kristi's dad Jack was also bludgeoned pretty seriously, but survived to identify the two friends of Kristi's who did her dirty work. See When Good Kids Kill.
Caren
This is the hideous anniversary of the day Marcus Wesson killed his children Jonathan, Sebrhena, Ethan, Illabelle, Aviv, Marshey, Jeva and Lise. Some of these children were also his grandchildren, if you take my meaning. See By Their Father's Hand: The True Story of the Wesson Family Massacre.
(Sebrhena and Lise are shown at L and R at the bottom; the other poor kids are labeled above)
3/13 is the day someone not named in the press was sacrificed to increase the profits of the Hernandez marijuana operation. See Cauldron of Blood: The Matamoros Cult Killings.Andrei Maslov was murdered for no good reason on this planet. See the Chessboard Killer section of Born to Kill in the USSR.
(Andrei is #38 at the lower L)
Walter Nielsen was found murdered in a locked room. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
Chester Poage was ganged up on and killed, basically because the 3 guys involved were royal jerkfaces. After robbing Chester's place, they decided to torture him for a few hours with kicks to the head and hydrochloric acid, and then stab him to death so as not to leave a witness to the robbery.
(Chester is at upper L; the other guys are the jerkfaces)
Willie Pickton killed Elaine Allenbach. See Pickton: In His Own Words, if you can find it.
John Fautenberry killed Jefferson Diffee. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
We also lost Lyman and Charlene Smith to good old J.J. DeAngelo. See I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
Virgil Decker and his family did away with the unlucky Leroy Lovett. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Karry Evans was killed in Michigan by persons unknown at the time Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2 went to press.
Jean Carrigan was killed by a bunch of weirdoes who called themselves The Covenant, The Sword, And The Arm Of The Lord. The triggerman was Jim Ellison. See Cult Killers.
3/14 or Pi Day is also the day Amy Sue Seitz was raped, tortured with a pair of vise-grip pliers, and finally killed by a dream date named Theodore Frank. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!top...
John Hardy Roberts was killed by good old Oscar Ray Bowles. See https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&u...
We lost Andrea Childers to the Green River Killer. See Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer.
We also lost Jarrae Estep to two losers named Steven Gordon and Franc Cano. See http://www.johntv.com/blog/2014/jarra...
Joseph Smith died after his mother Nakita was forced to deliver him prematurely -- forced by her own mother, Julie Smith. I hope this is a one-of-a-kind story. The only place I could find to read about it was in True Crime: Real Girls, Real-Life Stories.
Claude Hawkins was gunned down on Federal property, allowing the FBI to step into his murder investigation and, I hope, speeding the arrest of the Sniper Killer : The True Story Of Thomas Dillon.
This is the approximate day in 1914 that Dan McNichol was shot in the back of the head, then packed into a trunk with all his clothing, labels and personal effects included. He would be found about 20 months later, dusted with quicklime and scraps of leather in the basement of a building where he and a partner used to run a leather business. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
(the business partner, who proved to be the killer)
3/15 is an interesting day for me because I see I have it listed here that Elaine Allenbach was killed by Gilbert Jordan. What's odd about that is that I listed her as having been killed by Willie Pickton 2 days before this, on the thirteenth. I have no idea where I read specifically about Elaine in regard to either serial killer. Apparently she is clean missing, not clearly connected to either of them, and has not been seen since 1986. She might not even be dead!
(but if the truth be told, I fear the worst)
This is the day Beth Foster definitely died at the hands of serial loser Paul Rowles. See https://www.wuft.org/news/2012/09/25/...
John WAYNE Gacy killed the unlucky Jon Prestige. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.
Camilo Loza was murdered and, for some reason, his face removed by a person or persons unknown. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Alex Kasson -- or was his name James Burns? -- was killed pretty horribly by Michael Lupo, the Wolf of London. See https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lupo...
Felix Bailly was murdered on this day in 1951. His killer, Pauline Dubuisson, tried to kill herself afterwards but stood trial for murder. See The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion.
Darrell Rich was executed. He fought it of course, as who wouldn't, but he admitted all along that he pretty much had it coming. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
This is also the day Thomas R. Bunday killed himself to avoid arrest for serial murder. We know not what secrets he took with him to the grave. See https://medium.com/@robinbarefield76/... (but be aware that the photo of the killer is really a candid snapshot of Salvatore Perrone, the Shopkeeper Killer, aka the Son of Sal).
(Bunday steered this bike head-on into a semi on the freeway, killing himself despite the trucker's attempts to get out of the way)
We also lost Joseph LaPage to the hangman's noose on this day, and high time it was, too. See https://www.topsecretwriters.com/2017...
Fair warning. I do not have my own computer and we have all been furloughed from work because of the epidemic. And the library is shut down too for the monent. The anniversaries might not be as lushly illustrated as usual because I can only seem to get so far using my phone. Just saying...
3/16 is the day some kids out looking for a place to roast weenies found John Dick's torso. See Torso Murder: The Untold Story of Evelyn Dick. You can see a gross photo of the remains in New Murderer's Who's Who.
Willie Pickton killed Yvonne Boen. See On the Farm.
504 My Lai villagers were slaughtered by American GIs. Veterans of that war assure me it used to happen all the time; the only difference here was the publicity this mass killing attracted. See My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath.
Ashley and Jason Robinson were burned to death by their mom, Amy. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Mark Sappington killed David Mashak on this day in 2001. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sapp...
(Mark is at R with 2 brother victims)
Jason Scott killed Delores and Ebony Dewitt. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/scot...
(Delores is at L; her daughter Ebony is at R)
3/17 is the day Jack Unterweger killed Elfriede Schrempf. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.
We lost Angel Melendez to his 2 roommates, Michael Alig and Robert Riggs, in a dispute over unpaid debts. See Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland.
Angel
Robert "Freeze" Riggs, one of the killers
Michael Alig, the other killer
This is the day John Fautenberry called the FBI and announced that he was the one who'd killed Donald Nutley, Gary Farmer, Joseph Daron and Christine Guthrie. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Albert Shinsky killed Susan Mummey, explaining later that he did it to break the spell she'd put on him. See https://the-line-up.com/ringtown-vall...
Susan's home, aka the crime scene
William Mansfield Jr. killed a woman who, as far as I know, has never been identified. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
In the very last execution performed by the state of Ohio, on this day in 1999 Andrew Kokoraleis twitched his last. He really had it coming. See the horrific story in Deadly Thrills: The True Story of Chicago's Most Shocking Killers.
Debra Capiola died at the hands of a killer who has not been identified yet, according to Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
This is also the day Donald Merrett offed his mother, Bertha. See Portrait of a Bad Man: The Life and Death of Donald Chesney.
3/18 marks the anniversary of the day Gail Ray killed Gail Vert, her 6-year-old daughter. It was a weird and ugly case. See Cult Killers.
Christopher Wilder killed Terry Ferguson. Just because he was a jerk. See Killer Files: The Beauty Queen Killer.
This is also the day Jesse Pomeroy killed little Katie Curran. See Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer.
Deborah Dudley, who had been kept naked in a cold basement and raped and starved for a long time, finally succumbed. It was probably quite a relief for the poor creature. See Silence of the Lambs : The True Story of Gary Heidnik.
Shirley Williams was killed and her eyes gouged out by a maniac. See Charles Albright "The Eyeball Killer".
3/19 is the day we lost Lisa Sheridan to a collapsed lung. It was a case of medical neglect, but did her mother understand that? See The Crime of Dorothy Sheridan.Sasha Merman lost his life at the hands of Daniel Beceril II. See https://www.santamonicapd.org/Content...
Amos Hurst became the very first victim of serial killer William McDonald. See The Knick-Knack Man.
Roberto Arguelles did away with the unlucky Stephanie Blundell. She was only 13 when she died; if she had never crossed paths with him she would be 42 today. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 4.
And on this day in 2011, Sian O'Callaghan was waylaid and murdered by a big loser named Christopher Halliwell. See https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hall...
Gladys Appleton made the mistake of leaving her boyfriend's home to head back to her own place after an evening out. She never made it back, thanks to an AWOL soldier named John Davidson. See The Sex Killers.
Nancy Harrison fell prey to Detroit's newest serial killer. RIP Nancy. See https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2...
James Kinne was dusted by his loving wife, Sharon. See Serial Killin' Slut : The True Story of Sharon Kinne.
3/20 is the day we lost Richard WAYNE to brutal killer Larry Eyler. See The Highwayman:: Larry Eyler, the Hoosier Highway Killer.Kimberley Louiselle, who decided to get where she was going on this day in 1982 by hitching a ride, vanished. See https://www.livingstondaily.com/story...
A farmer in Wales found what he described as a "football-shaped object" in a red plastic bag. When he reached inside, the first thing he found was what felt like a nose. The bag proved to contain Clive Tully's head. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
Sal Ossido killed Einer Sporrer. See Panic.
We lost Eddie Duncan to the Atlanta Child Murderer. See The List.
Fritz Haarmann killed Wilhelm Schulze. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
Marybeth Tinning killed her daughter Barbara. See From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children.
Cynthia Vigil was kidnapped by David Parker ray and Co. See Consequences, the Criminal Case of David Parker Ray.
Sheily Wilson was murdered, apparently by one of the several men lumped together under the press monicker "The Southside Slayer." See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Antony Baekland committed suicide. See Savage Grace.
3/21 is the day we lost Hazel Scattolon. See The Killer Handyman: William Patrick Fyfe (Crimes Canada: True Crimes that Shocked a Nation #7.
Arnold and Donna Edwards were murdered, as promised, by George Lovie. Their daughter Michele, the real target, escaped alive -- not because he spared her but in order to make her go on suffering. See https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
We lost Pedro Gonzalez to a killer who was not yet identified when Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2. See in the "Gay" section.
Alfred and Elizabeth Casaway and their children were killed in their beds. You guessed it: Clementine Barnabet again. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Father Anthony Crean was killed, more or less out of nowhere. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.
Leslie Irvin killed Wilhelmina Sailer. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
This is also the anniversary of the day we lost Kathy MacAulay, Heather Goodwin and Danae Palermo. It's already been 29 years! See A Deadly Silence: The Cold-Blooded Massacre of Three Vibrant Young Girls and the Devastating Effects on Their Survivors.
(Danae and (I think) Heather are shown at L and R center)
3/22 is the day someone returned Leroy Carter's head to the same spot where someone had deposited his body 42 days earlier. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.Tamara Petrowskaja and her infant son Stanislaw lost their lives to Wolfgang Schmidt. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/schm...
A man incorrectly-named Wise, who had taken 5 hostages before getting into an hours-long standoff with the police, managed to fire 2 rounds before a sharpshooter took him out. One officer was injured and another, Corporal Charles Hill, was killed. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Adolf Seefeld killed an unlucky boy named Gustavo Thomas. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Samantha Collins was killed, dismembered and packed in a crate that would be left under a vacation home. See The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice.
This is also the day Cynthia Vigil escaped David Parker Ray with her life. Not everyone was that lucky. See The True Story of David Parker Ray.
3/23 is the anniversary of the day Rex Coday was coming home from a run and was confronted by a man with a gun and a ski mask. He didn't survive the shooting. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.This is the day they found the Fort Myers 8. They were all found within 50 yards of each other, and only 3 of them -- John Blevins, Jonathan Tihay, and Erric Kohler -- have been identified. Daniel "Hog Trails" Conahan is a possible suspect. See https://www.news-press.com/story/news...
Ronald Donaldson killed Myrtle De Hart. You know it was a very nasty one because I read about it in Torture Killers II.
Lashonda Randolph was murdered too, in a case so creepy it made it into Cult Killers.
(the killer)
Rashunthee Singh was beaten to death in his tailor shop with a hammer. The killer's identity was a bit of a surprise to the police because they thought of Sipho Dube as primarily a sex killer of young women. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Lillian Stovall came a cropper as well. See the "Southside Slayer" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Winifred Smith was found on fire. She didn't survive. See Cause of Death.
Christopher Wilder waylaid and killed Terry Walden. See The Beauty Queen Killer.
But wait! there's more! This is the day Maria America Guerra escaped Father John Feit alive. See The Best American Crime Writing 2006.
(the assailant)
ABD it's the day Karen Schilt managed to get away from Richard Cottingham alive. So that could have been much, much worse. See The Prostitute Murders: The People Vs. Richard Cottingham.
3/24 is the anniversary of the day we lost Betty June Binnicker and Emma Thames. See Triple Tragedy in Alcolu: The execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., accused of the murders of Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames..We also lost Barbara Gaca, in a case that has never been cleared to anyone's satisfaction. See https://www.hourdetroit.com/community...
We lost Richard Griffin and Polly Ann Moore. See Texarkana Moonlight Murders: The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer.
Peter Goebbels killed the unlucky Liselotte Mohn. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Marybeth Tinning killed her son Jonathan. See From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children.
M.A. Joldoshev was lured to his -- or her? -- death by good old Alexander Pichushkin. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Far more happily, this is the day Josefina Rivera got away alive from a cold, dirty, crowded basement where had been held in captivity for some time with a group of other women. This was the beginning of the end for their captor. See Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik.
(long may she wave)
3/25 is the anniversary of the murder of Mickey McIntosh. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
We lost Suzanne Logan as well. See The Beauty Queen Killer.
This is the day we lost Melissa Moore, Suzanne Thorne, "Sushi" Schwartz, "Deacon" Williamson, Jeremy Martin and Kyle Huff at the hands of Kyle Huff. See http://oncrime.blogspot.com/2006/03/s...
(the victims)
(the killer)
Brenda Jo Burton died, maybe at the hands of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. See Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories.
Luke Stice was murdered as well. It was extremely ugly. See Evil Harvest: The True Story of Cult Murder in the American Heartland.
3/26 is the day Jacqueline Martarella was killed -- about 8 hours AFTER the police's most likely-looking suspect, John Kogut, was arrested for something else. The killers proved to be his close friends, John Restivo and Dennis Halstead. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.We lost Tommie Lou Whiddon to Frank Walls. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Josephine San Filippo was killed in her own front yard in Detroit, back in the days when Detroit was one of the most desirable places to live in the whole country. The case has never been solved. See Terror in the Streets.
Jammie Lane was killed by Elias Abuelazam. We know this even though good old Elias will never do a minute of hard time for that killing. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
James Wales killed Cheri Lindsay. I have no idea where I read about her but see here: https://wnbf.com/binghamton-murderer-...
This is also the day we lost Vera Jo Reigle in a sick, bizarre situation. See https://www.thecriminalcode.com/index...
(Vera Jo holding the motive for the crime, her baby daughter)
3/27 is the day Braeden Nugent managed to kill himself by drug overdose in prison. See https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nuge...Child killer John McRae killed a lad named Kip Hess. See https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mcra...
V.P. Ilyin was lured to his death by Aleksandr Pichushkin. Afterwards, he was added to the notorious chessboard. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
This is the last day, in 1971, that anyone saw Pete Beirman alive. See The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders.
Detective Michael Raburn lost his life. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
William Gibson killed Stephanie Kirk. See https://www.courier-journal.com/story...
This was a devastating day for 2 families, maybe 3, in the Deep South. Leon Evers, William and Carrie Burton, and their children Sonny and Leona died violently, as did Lyle Finucane, Ellen Monroe and their 4 children. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
This is also the anniversary of the murder of Julie Speerschneider. See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
Scott Erskine killed Jonathan Sellers and Charlie Keever. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Richard Caputo killed the unlucky Barbara Ann Taylor. How was she to know how dangerous it was to disappoint him in any way? I guess she found out, all right. He basically jumped up ond down on her until she died. See Ladykiller.
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Mark Stebbins crossed paths with the Oakland County Child Killer. See Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Search for a Child Killer.
Elmer Holmgren, a former associate of Sante Kimes who said he committed arson for her, vanished off the face of the earth. See Dead End: The Crime Story of the Decade--Murder, Incest and High-Tech Thievery.
We lost Dolly Davis to Vernon Clark. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/clar...
Billy Lee Chadd took the life of Linda Hewitt. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/chad...
Saki Kondo died 2 years ago today. The killer, Yevgeniy Bayraktar, still had her head in his grip when the police came looking for her. It was apparently a Tinder date gone horribly wrong. See https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/ti...
Natasha Klukhareva lost her life to Vladimir Mukhankin. See The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.
Christa Lehman, aiming to kill Eva Ruh, instead killed Annie Hamman and a unsuspecting dog. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
A woman named Paula survived an attack by Gerald Parker, then known only as the Bedroom Basher. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
In other narrow escapes, William Jones and John WAYNE Gacy were set upon and stabbed by Henry Brisbon, but both escaped with their lives. See The I-57 Murderer: The Story of Henry Brisbon.