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Crime Anniversaries 2020
5/18 is the day Larry Eyler killed Richard Bruce, who had certainly never done anything to Larry. See The Highwayman:: Larry Eyler, the Hoosier Highway Killer.Someone burned Cheryl Lynn Black alive. Edmonton police are waiting for your call. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
This is the day federal agents burst into Herbert Coddington's trailer, freeing Alecia Thoma and Monica Berge so they wouldn't have to be in that place with their murdered chaperones one minute longer. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Aileen Wuornos killed David Spears. See Monster: My True Story.
Eric Middlebrooks died for no good reason on this earth. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Roger Ailes croaked on this day 3 years ago. Sob!
And now for one of my very favorite true crime anniversaries. This is the day Joseph Roth, a personal hero of mine, bought 21 pieces of irreplaceable artwork by John WAYNE Gacy -- to make into a bonfire. Long may he wave:
(This photo shows Harold Piest, father of Gacy's last victim, adding an example of the killer's lousy artwork to the bonfire)
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Not all heroes wear capes.
I had to google this: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...
5/19 is once again the anniversary of the day that Goro Kagehiro noticed an unauthorized hole dug in the peach orchard where he was working. He came back later and found it had been filled in. That was the last straw and he went and got a shovel. A few feet down he found Kenny Whitacre. RIP Kenny. See The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders.
This is the day the Weathermen bombed the Pentagon. Always up to something, those Weathermen. See The Pentagon: A History.
Officer Ronald West killed Helen Ferguson, who deserved better. See https://www.caledonenterprise.com/new...
Mary Jo Buttafuoco survived a bullet in the head. See Getting it Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved With Sociopaths Need to Know.
Colleen Stan was kidnapped by a man named Cameron Hooker. Her problems were just beginning at that point. See Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box".
Cherie, Christie and Danny Down were shot where they were sleeping in the back of their mother's car. Cherie did not survive. Christie and Danny were eventually adopted by the man who prosecuted their killer. See Small Sacrifices.
Sheila Comeaux died of injuries sustained much earlier in a terrible beating. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
5/20 is the anniversary of the day we lost Raymond Smith, aka Ricky Lee Beeks, to Jeff Dahmer. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
In similar atrocious cases, Ronald Dominique did away with poor Datrell Woods. See The Bayou Killer: Life of Serial Killer Ronald J. Dominique.
(Datrell is, I'm almost 100% sure, in the 2nd row down 3rd from the R -- and look how young he was)
Jack Hanrahan was killed by "Freight Train" Guatney -- and Guatney was actually charged with this one, which makes it feel a lot more solid to me. See Slayer of Innocence.
David Fulton was thrown off a ship to drown. See The Sex Killers.
We lost Kelli Brownlee, maybe to the revolting Arthur Ream. See https://www.wxyz.com/news/if-it-can-b...
Loretta Lynn Chaisson Lewis was found dead. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
Far more happily, this is the day Robert Maier got away alive from Jesse Pomeroy, but I suspect their encounter marked him for life. Torture does that to a guy. See https://everything2.com/title/Jesse+P...
5/21 is the day we lost Maria Diaz in what may have been a ritual murder. It's not for sure because at the time Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime went to press, the killer had not been caught.Nathaniel Cater was definitely, no-fooling-around killed by WAYNE Williams. Fiber evidence found on his body matched that of more than a few of the Atlanta Child Killer's victims, so even though Cater was far from a child, that allowed the authorities to quietly close those cases. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
(last look at Nathaniel)
Anna Brown was killed by someone who had a financial interest in doing so. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
We lost Angelica Lavalee and Barbara Byer to the depredations of a couple of sphincters named Gore and Waterfield. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2
Angelica
Barbara
We lost Officer John Matthews. See http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio...
Deborah Jane Dudley became the latest child in her family to die of gross neglect. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Melford Sample was found buried in a peach orchard. One of his pockets was stuffed with sales receipts signed by a local labor contractor named Juan Corona. See Jury.
And happy birthday, Jeff Dahmer! See A Father's Story.
5/22 is the anniversary of the day Lee Fletcher and Deborah Heneman, who had been missing for some time, finally turned up. Unfortunately, they were buried in Gary Taylor's former backyard in Onsted, Michigan, with marks of torture on them. See Spoken in Darkness: Small-Town Murder and a Friendship Beyond Death.Walter Sanders was also found dead, with 5 shotgun blasts to various areas of his body. Some were inflicted postmortem by his killer, Mauricio Silvia. At least that was how the author of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2 spelled it. Murderpedia says his name is Silva.
Vyacheslav Klimov lost his life for no reason. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
(the killer, Aleksandr Pichushkin, in custody and not too happy about it)
Billy Patten was also found dead after being missing 4 years, adding him to the list of hideous sex killings now known as the Hog Trails Case. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Marcus Conte was also found dead. RIP Marcus. See THE CRATE: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice.
Steve Bryant was shot in the head by some of the guys who ran the religious cult he belonged to. See Monkey on a Stick.
(before-and-after photos of Steve, whose name in the Hare Krishnas was Sulocana)
5/23 is the day Moses Sithole raped and murdered a pretty 21-year-old who was curiously named Granny Dikamatso Ramela. Maybe "granny" means something else in Zulu? See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.Michael McMorrow was murdered in Strawberry Fields, Central Park, NYC with extreme overkill by a couple of young kids. To give an example of what they did to him, when the police went to the lake at Strawberry Fields -- led by an anonymous tip called in by one of the killers -- they found 40 inches of his intestines floating next to the rest of him. See Baby-Faced Butchers.
Charles Fleming was found dead on this day, in the course of the mass dig prompted by the discovery of Kenny Whitacre's body. See Twenty-Five Murders (and Probably More): Looking for a Reason: The Juan Corona Trials and Confessions.
Fritz Haarmann did his usual number on the unlucky Roland Huch. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
Alexander WAYNE Watson, Jr. murdered Elaine Shereika. See https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/wats...
(Elaine is at the center of this lineup)
Weihan Weng, George Chen, Cheng Hong, Veronika Weiss, Christopher Michaels-Martinez and Katherine Cooper all died at the hands of Elliot Rodger. 14 others escaped with injuries. When Eliot was done he killed himself for good measure. See THE "SUPREME GENTLEMAN" KILLER: The True Story Of An Incel Mass Murderer.
This is the day John Jamelske released his third captive. She was alive, but far from unharmed. See http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justi...
In more positive anniversaries, this is the day Richard Sulita escaped the California Donald Miller with his life after refusing an offer of sex and getting clubbed over thd head with a length of pipe. See https://www.tellmedavid.com/2016/06/
And even more frighteningly, this is the day Sharon Komlos staggered naked and completely covered in blood from an apartment where she had been kept overnight, her kidnapper raping her over and over. She had been blinded by a bullet through the head, stabbed again and again, and could not do much more than go out on the balcony and scream for help. It was one of history's narrowest escapes. See Feel the Laughter: The Inspirational Story of Sharon Komlos.
And happy birthday, Richard Trenton Chase! See Dracula Killer: The True Story of California's Vampire Killer.
5/24 is the anniversary of the day a woman called "Shelly Crosby" in the papers escaped alive from Rex Krebs. She was far from unscathed, however. See Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast.Erwin Faulmann escaped 2 knife-wielding maniacs alive. I have seen mention of this crime only in Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. Look for it under "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."
We lost Christa Naujoks to the Pink Giant. He left his ladies' underwear with her in the landfill where he dropped her body. See https://www.womenarehuman.com/transge...
Tony Costa did horrible things to Sydney Monzon. She was later found In His Garden: The Anatomy of a Murderer.
Travesene Ellis was raped and murdered in one of the many abandoned houses on Detroit's east side, exactly 1 year ago now. Like all of DeAngelo Martin's victims, she was found on her knees, face against the floor, with a used condom full of DNA evidence right next to her. RIP Travesene. See https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detr...
We also lost the unlucky Tony Hughes. See The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer.
This is also the day Luka Magnotta succeeded in luring Jun Lin, who had never done anything to him, into a fatal encounter. See Don't F**k With Cats or Canadian Psycho: The True Story of Luka Magnotta.
(the things some people will do for Internet stardom)
Michael WAYNE Ryan croaked in prison on this day 5 years ago. Good riddance to bad rubbish. See Evil Harvest: The True Story of Cult Murder in the American Heartland.
5/25 is the anniversary of the murder of Martin Brown, who was hardly more than a baby when he died. See Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell.
Shirley Rock killed her husband David. Niiiiiice lady. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Dieter Beck put paid to Ursula Fritz. See Killerfrauen: Deutschlands bekanntester Serienmordexperte klärt auf.
We lost Brooke Wilberger to the reprehensible Joel Courtney. See http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio...
Moses Sithole killed another young woman named Granny, this time Elizabeth Granny Mathetsa. This victim was only 19, in spite of her name. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
This is also the day Luka Magnotta posted his now-infamous video of the murder of Jun Lin on Facebook. See My Son, The Killer: The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta and "1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick".
On the other hand, this is the day a 9-year-old escaped Charlie Chop-Off alive, breaking the case for the police. See Charlie Chop Off - Serial Killers Unauthorized & Uncensored.
Marie Pichon ran for her life and successfully kept Martin Dumollard from taking it from her. Not everyone was that lucky. See Dumollard, The Maid Killer.
5/26 is the day Fritz Haarmann killed a travelling salesman (17 years old!) named Fritz Wittig. He was possibly Fritz's oldest murder victim. On the same day he killed his youngest known victim, 10-year-old Friedrich Abeling. Haarmann's love interest, Hans Grans, kept Wittig's suit. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.Georgia Williams was hung, posed and photographed by necrophiliac weirdo Jamie Reynolds on this day in 2013. See True Crime Case Histories - (Books 1, 2 & 3): 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories
Quebecois serial killer Leopold Dion did away with another unlucky boy, this time 13-year-old Pierre Marquis. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
(Pierre is all the way on the R)
This is the day Jesse Thomas was lynched in the place of serial killer Roy Mitchell. I'm sure the lynch mob thought they had the right guy, but that doesn't make it any better. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
Diane Hawkins was stabbed and disemboweled. Her daughter, Katrina Harris, was decapitated. It took a while to clear the case but they finally got the guy who did it. See Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit.
We also lost Sherrice Iverson to Jeremy Strohmeyer. See When Good Kids Kill.
David Maust killed Jesse Thomas. It was a sex crime. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Marlene Warren answered her front door to be confronted by a clown with a basket of flowers. The clown shot and killed her in front of 2 eyewitnesses, then calmly drove away. See http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crim...
Missy Macon was killed by a pack of kids who played Dungeons & Dragons together. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. For an update, see https://www.annistonstar.com/free/rag...
It's already going to be 4 whole years since Iana Kasian was scalped and only later killed by a deranged boyfriend. See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hollywoo...
(crime scene photo)
In better news, this is the day Samuel Danon got away alive from the California Donald Miller. This was the beginning of the end for good old Donald. See https://casetext.com/case/people-v-mi...
5/27 is the day Abraham Abdullah was slashed to death with a razor and robbed of $17. See Teresita, the Voice from the Grave: The Incredible But True Story of How an Occult Vision Solved the Murder of Teresita Basa.Patrick Kelly was killed on this day in 1962. You know it was ugly because I read about it in The Sex Killers.
This is the day we lost Albert Hayes as well. See The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders.
This is the day Konerak Sinthasomphone died, in one of the sorriest episodes ever recorded in the history of Milwaukee police work. He would be 43 now if the officers had taken the neighbors seriously and transported him to an ER instead of handing him back to Jeff Dahmer. See The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough.
Charles Whitehorn and Anna Brown were found dead. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Charles
Anna, L, with her mother Lizzie and sister Mollie
Jean Ann Lingenfelter disappeared, leading to a massive search of greater McHenry, Illinois. See Legally Sane.
Robert Nixon bashed in Florence Johnson's head. See The Brick Slayer.
5/28 is the anniversary of the day Clarice Paisley escaped alive from the maniac who killed her husband, Red. See under Kathleen Ann Miller in Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.Jenny Isford died untimely, at the hands of William Brett Hanson. Danny Wood was a suspect for quite a while in this case, but for a change he didn't kill this unlucky woman. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Martha Kitzler was murdered on the same day Monique Hilton was found dead. In both cases the killer was the same: Mauricio Silva. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Trang Phuong Ho was stabbed 45 times in the dorm-room bed she was sharing with a guest staying the night. The guest, Thao Nguyen, who was stabbed as well, went screaming into the night to get help. By the time help arrived, it was too late for both Trang and her killer. See Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder.
(the killer, R, and victim, L)
Johnny Bayer was lured to his death. See Where the Bodies Are Buried.
(Johnny is at R at the very bottom)
John Jackson died in circumstances fairly similar to those that got Johnny Bayer killed. The setting and the weapon were quite different but the motives were basically the same. See Burden of Proof: The Case of Juan Corona.
LaConia "Muggy" Brown was murdered under circumstances that remain a bit murky. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
Vaughne Waddell was killed by her daughter, Nakisha. She stabbed her a bunch of times. See True Crime: Real Girls, Real-Life Stories.
Nakisha's dating website photo, posted from prison
Adolfo Constanzo and his merry crew of paleros killed Hector de la Fuente and Moises Castillo in a religious ritual intended to increase their business profits. See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
Anatoly Nagiev killed the unsuspecting Darya Kravchenko. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
This is also the red-letter day that Leslie Allen Williams was stopped by police and arrested. The captive in the trunk of his car was still alive! See Born Bent: A Map Into The Mind Of A Serial Killer.
5/29 is the day Allan Legere killed Annie Flam. Nina Flam escaped with her life, but still. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Diana Gilchrist vanished from human ken. She may be a victim of Warren Forrest. On the other hand, she could be alive somewhere. If so she would be 60 years old now. See https://www.koin.com/news/special-rep...
A 29-year-old woman with the interesting name Charlotte Lipstick was raped and done to death in her apartment. The killer proved to be Anthony Spencer. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Curtis Don Brown killed Jewel Woods. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/brow...
Natalee Holloway vanished. It's already been 15 years since anyone saw her alive. See Forever Missing : The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
This is also the day the Jun Lin case hit the news in a big way, when the Canadian Conservative Party offices received a package containing Jun's foot, and a mail clerk intercepted a suspicious package that proved to have Jun's hand in it. Incredibly, it's already been 8 years since this happened. See Canadian Psycho: The Story of Luka Magnotta.
(Jun Lin, in yellow shirt, with his killer in security-cam footage from the building where he was murdered)
5/30 is the anniversary of the terrible day Moses Sithole raped and murdered Mildred Lepule. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
the killer, visibly racked with guilt
This is the last time anyone saw Sheryl Donahue alive. She is thought to have been fed to the pigs at the Pickton farm. See Pickton: In His Own Words.
Private William Walker, a black man, was gunned down by the white sheriff of the county where Walker was stationed in WWII. An Army officer asked that the sheriff do it, with good reason by the standards of the era: Walker's uniform was missing a button. See The Slaughter: An American Atrocity.
Curtis Don Brown killed Terece Gregory. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/brow...
Kristin Lardner was gunned down on the sidewalk in the college town where she was living. The killer, Michael Cartier, killed himself later that day in his apartment. No great loss there. See The Stalking of Kristin: A Father Investigates the Murder of His Daughter.
(this seems to be a photo of Cartier during an earlier police contact but I am not 100% sure)
A pudgy little man -- who clearly had serious emotional issues -- raped and murdered Manuel Reed. See The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana’s Most Gruesome Serial Killer.
5/31 is the day Fritz Haarmann killed Hans Sonnenfeld. Haarmann was seen later wearing Hans's yellow overcoat. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.Jonathan Zak was killed with a gunshot to the chest delivered by William DWAYNE McDonald. This killer is not the same as the Australian William McDonald. You can read about this killer here: https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/s...
Jonathan
This was a big day for William "Freight Train" Guatney: David Johns and Richard and Russell Chase all died at his hands on this day in 1976. See Slayer of Innocence.
Jesus Fernandez was found, having apparently died in the attempt to pull the killer's knife out of his chest. His girlfriend, a Satanist named Sylvia Brakel, proved to be the guilty party. See Cult Killers.
Jan Donse was taken from us by Hans van Zon. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1. Or Jarretels voor een seriemoordenaar, if you read Dutch.
Dr. George Tiller was aborted in the 201st trimester of his life. See A Death in Wichita: Abortion Doctor George Tiller and the New American Civil War.
We lost Barbara Songhurst and Christine Reed to a sex maniac named Alfred Whiteway. See The Sex Killers.
Joseph Proce was shot by Heriberto Seda. See Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer.
6/1 is the anniversary of the day we lost Shari Smith to Larry Gene Bell. She died of dehydration, but not before penning a loving goodbye to her friends and family. See True Crime Case Histories - (Books 1, 2 & 3): 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories.
Shelby Venable and Mary Fellers made the horrible mistake of hitching a ride with Melvin Rees. They were not seen alive again. The case remained unsolved until Rees confessed to a reporter who was interviewing him about his other killings. See The Potomac River Teen Murders: June 1956.
Melissa Ann Meyer was killed with a combination of strangulation and deployment of a machete on her person by Jason WAYNE Rose and his buddy, John Ray Jones. They were very up front in explaining to the police that they'd killed her in a Satanic ritual. In a fascinating aside, Rose later filed suit against the corrections system saying that when they took away his Dungeons and Dragons game, they were depriving him of his constitutional right to practice his religion. I bet Michael Newton was thrilled about that! See Cult Killers.
Lottie Thompson and Hannah Finnerty were found dead, Thompson in an apartment in the same building where her killer, Nicholas Wiley, lived. Hannah was found outside the same building, dumped in the trash. Wiley had been out of prison only a few months. They knew he was a high-risk sex offender so why he was living anywhere but the "gray bar hotel" is beyond me. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Elaine Dumba went missing from the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver, British Columbia. Willie Pickton is obviously a suspect, but no trace of her has been found at his place, apparently. See On the Farm.
A woman's torso was found in the Thames in, I think, 1879. No leads so far. See Faceless: Five Gruesome Unsolved Murders: Most Mysterious and Headless Unsolved Murders of All Time.
June 2nd means it has already been a full year since a pack of kids killed Cynthia Hoffman. See https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime...
Jerry WAYNE Carlin was killed at his workplace, a gas station, by a group of homeless Satanists armed with a hatchet. Only in California. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Satanist cult leader Steven Hurd
Alfredo Prieto killed Lula and Herbert Farley. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...
Maurice Weighly was found with his throat slit, and a broken bottle inserted where no broken bottle should ever, ever go. See The Secret Serial Killer: The True Story of Kieran Kelly.
We lost Melissa Ackerman to serial killer Brian Dugan. You remember him -- he's the guy whose mugshot keeps getting misrepresented as being a photo of Bob Berdella's victim, Robert Sheldon. See http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct...
Kolya Dobryshev died unexpectedly. Maybe by accident, but maybe on purpose. See the Anatoly Slivko section of Born to Kill in the USSR.
Todd Reed killed Alexandria Ison, who surely deserved better. See https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/reed...
Malcolm Little was added to Randy Kraft's scorecard with the notation "Teen Trucker." See Serial Killer Timelines: Illustrated Accounts of the World's Most Gruesome Murders.
6/3 is the anniversary is the day Candice Roy was found dead at the hands of Jason WAYNE Rose and Johnny Ray Jones. See Cult Killers.Elke Braun was raped, stabbed, then thrown off a cliff to die. See the Helmut Weidenbroeker section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Patrolman Edward Wier was shot and killed while responding to a "man with a gun" call. Wier's killer shot and killed himself as well, saving taxpayers the cost of a trial. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Three women have their murder anniversaries on the same day, all at the hands of "angel of death" killer Niels Hogel. Their last names were not given out in the press but Irene G. was killed on this day in 2001, and Helga M. and Elfriede M. were killed on the same day in 2003. See Killer Nurses.
Craig B. Neal died at the hands of WAYNE Garrison. See https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/ki...
Florence Brown died at the hands of the Hurd cult, like Jerry WAYNE Carlin before her. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Denis Roux-Bergevin died untimely, possibly at the hands of Jean-Baptiste Duchesneau. See https://www.lecourrierdusud.ca/lassas...
On the other hand:
A man not named in the press escaped Danny Figueroa with his life. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
And even better, a woman who had gotten away alive from Francisco Del Junco spotted him on the street and flagged down a police car. When collared he was carrying a can of gas and some matches. He readily admitted to killing Vida Hicks, Diane Nelms, Cheryl Ray and Cheryl Cox and volunteered that when collared, he was on his way to do something even worse with the matches. Who knows how many lives were saved that day? See https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/junc...
6/4 is the anniversary of the day Friedrich Koch lost his life to Fritz Haarmann. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.Harold Amick and John Pfaffenbarger died untimely on this day in 1934. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Paulette Sherman was killed. Attempts were made to excise her heart and vulva, so although her killer had not been caught at the time Newton's book went to press, she made it into Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Anthony Dickson was found near a flaming car. His head was missing. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Deron Knepp escaped alive after Sage Francis attempted to slit his throat. See, yet again, Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
On this day over 50 years ago now, we lost Alfred Greenfield to the "Knick Knack Man." See The Mutilator: Signature Serial Killers.
6/5 is the day exactly 1 year ago that DeAngelo Martin killed the unlucky Tammy Jones. See https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2...
Jordan Miller was killed pretty much out of nowhere. The case is officially unsolved, but the author of Aaron Hernandez's Killing Fields: Exposing Untold Murders, Violence, Cover-Ups, and the NFL's Shocking Code of Silence suggested that it was a certain fairly notorious NFL star who pulled the trigger.
Erich De Vries, Fritz Haarmann's final victim before his long-overdue arrest, was carried to the Leine River for disposal in a grip that had belonged to Friedrich Koch, the second-to-last victim. Haarmann explained later that it took four trips to get rid of all of poor Erich. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
We lost Agnes Kesson in an apparent sex crime. See https://eehe.org.uk/?p=25598
Gary Ray Bowles killed a man with the unlikely name "Milton Bradley." See https://www.jacksonville.com/news/201...
This is the anniversary of the killing of RFK by Sirhan Sirhan, who later claimed from his prison cell that he was Jesus Christ. See RFK Must Die! Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination
6/6 is the anniversary of the day Clyde Wilkerson killed Cheryl Burnett. See https://www.deseret.com/2002/10/30/19...
We lost Carmela di Nuccio and Giovanni Foggi to a man who has never been arrested. See The Monster of Florence.
Nichole Lopatta and Billy Phillips were found dead. See Specific Intent.
Aileen Wuornos robbed Charles Carskaddon and did away with him to keep him from identifying her to the police. See Dead Ends: The Pusuit, Conviction and Execution of Female Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos, the Damsel of Death.
William McDonald killed another man with a knife after looking at him and seeing the face of his rapist. In a painful coincidence, the victim's name was James Hackett. See The Knick-Knack Man.
On the same day Stephen Hale was reported missing, the man who had killed him -- Herb Baumeister -- killed another man named Allen WAYNE Broussard. See You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm.
Allen
Christine Reed, one of the victims of the Eel Pie Island murders, was finally discovered dead, some days after her friend. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
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Patrick Baxter killed the unlucky Michelle Walker, who had made the fatal error of going out to pick up a pizza. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
6/7 is the day in 1987 that Desiree Wheatley lost her life to David Wood. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1, under "Missing."William Wallace -- not the one played by Mel Gibson -- was stabbed to death, more or less out of nowhere. See Daddy's Little Secret: A Daughter's Quest to Solve Her Father's Brutal Murder.
(the future victim, shown with the future author of the book)
Dick Marquette killed the unlucky Joan Caudle. See https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13272...
(Dick, L; Joan, R)
Angela Deskins lost her life to smirking serial killer Michael Madison. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
Caroline Byrne was murdered in an unusual and grotesque way. See The Killing of Caroline Byrne: A Journey to Justice. And for a major update, see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-2...
It's already been 22 years since the cruel death of James Byrd. Hard to believe. I remember seeing his pregnant daughter on a talk show back when it first happened; that baby must be out of college by now, or married with children, or both. See Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas.
This is also the last day anyone saw Peter Siems alive. See Dead Ends: The Pusuit, Conviction and Execution of Female Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos, the Damsel of Death.
6/8 is the anniversary of the day we lost Kim Larrow, maybe to good old Arthur Ream. See https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townn...
Somebody killed the incredibly unlucky Jeffrey Ramsey, who was 12. He was found buried under garbage a week after vanishing on this day in 1972. One possible suspect is William Guatney. See Slayer of Innocence.
Alexsandr Pichushkin did away with Liang Fatkulin, who must have deserved a happier fate than this. See Alexander Pichushkin: The Shocking True Story of the Chessboard Killer.
(I am almost positive that he is labeled #27 in this lineup)
Thomas Svekla killed poor Rachel Quinney. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Danny Figueroa killed the tragically unlucky Robert Jimenez. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
And it's once again the anniversary of the day we lost Starr Faithfull. All they've figured out for sure about this case in the 89 years since it happened is that she must have died very shortly before she was found by a surprised beachcomber, and that it was homicidal violence. See The Passing Of Starr Faithfull.
6/9 is the anniversary of the day Patrick Fyfe killed the unfortunate Pauline LaPlante. See A Very, Very Ordinary Man: The Story of Serial Killer William Patrick Fyfe.
(Pauline is all the way on the R)
We also lost YingYing Zhang. RIP girl. See https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/...
The Atlanta Child Killer took the life of Christopher Richardson. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
This is also the unhappy anniversary of the never-solved Villisca Massacre. Police are waiting for your call. See On The Road To Villisca: The Hunt For The Midwest Axemen.
Lisa Szubert vanished from a truck stop. Her body would be found on the 13th of June. See the Darren O'Neall section of American Monsters: Volume 9: The Serial Killer Case Files.
Chelsea Brooks, at 14, became the unlikely victim of a contract hit. The purchaser of that service was her boyfriend at the time, Elgin Robinson. He was much, much older than 14. See True Crime: Real Girls, Real-Life Stories.
Mlengwa Zikode did his usual number on the unlucky Ntombi Florentine Phoswa. Mzozayo Phoswa escaped alive, but still. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Nilda Cartagena, age 13, and her 15-year-old uncle Heriberto Marrero, were found dead and wrapped in plastic. Because a chicken and a coconut were found nearby, and because it was the kind of neighborhood whernon-Christian ro
Ituals went on, Michael Newton attributed the killings -- still unsolved as far as I know -- to the local Santeros. The police were far less certain of that, however. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. But also see https://apnews.com/a397fcb82a4ba4755d...
6/10 is the anniversary of the day two boys headed out to do some fishing found their quarry, the fish, paying a lot of attention to a box underwater that seemed to be filled with concrete. They started to bring it ashore, then abandoned the idea when they saw a hand protruding from the box. It proved to be parts of Harry Miller. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.Larry Brock and Amy Boyle, a pair of high-school sweethearts, decided to elope. They invited Patrick Beach to come along for the ride; this proved to be the biggest mistake they ever made. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Karen Baker lost her life to a serial killer who would not be identified until years later. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1, under "Missing."
(Karen's killer, David Wood, in custody)
Harald Gullberg became the latest victim of the Doodler. See Young, Queer, and Dead: A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, The Doodler.
Carla Lawson was murdered by a random maniac named John Huggins. In a cruel coincidence, her sister-in-law Sonja would also be randomly murdered by a maniac. See (for Carla's story) http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/s...
Aaron Vickers went to visit a friend. Unfortunately, the friend lived at the Oxford Apartments in Milwaukee. Aaron never made it to his friend's apartment after his mom dropped him off there on this day in 1991, and he never picked up another disability check. It was not long at all after he vanished that Tracy Edwards walked up to a police car and asked them if they could remove the handcuff some weirdo had put on him when he went up there for a drink. The weirdo was Jeff Dahmer. The rest is history. See https://www.facebook.com/FrustratedWi...
6/11 is the anniversary of the day a nurse named Niels Hoegel -- correctly spelled "Hogel" with an umlaut over the O -- killed the unsuspecting Advad Tuter. (And there should be an umlaut over the U in his last name, too.) See Serial Killer Nurse.Marty Lancaster fell prey to "Freight Train" Guatney. See Slayer of Innocence.
Joe Mozynski was murdered. His date (IIRC), Catherine May, escaped with her life after being sexually assaulted. Weirdly, the assailant then took Catherine to a bus stop. She went straight to the police, who arrested her as a suspect in her boyfriend's murder. The assailant, who left a note signed "3X," has never been identified. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
K.D. Heaton escaped Beoria Simmons, Jr. with her life. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/simm...
Lavinia Murray and Sheila Barnes lost their lives very young indeed. See The Child Killers.
The killer, Tom Burns -- who was schizophrenic -- in police custody
A team of LAPD officers headed by John Patrick St. John got into the van where Bill Bonin was in the act of raping yet another teenager. They saved the boy's life and ended Bonin's career as a murderer right there. See Born to Kill: the William Bonin Story.
Ramona Wilson became the latest victim of the Highway of Tears on this day in 1994. Her body would not be found until the following April. See https://thehueandcry.com/ramona-wilson/
A woman not named in the papers was raped and stabbed by Matias Reyes, but she got away alive. I hope her life is great now. See Your Eyes or Your Life: The True Story of the Central Park Jogger Rapist.
6/12 is the day in 1881 that we lost Daniel Stott, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream's only adult male victim. (As far as we know.) See A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream.
Tony Costa put an end to the lives of Bonnie Williams and Diane Federoff. See In His Garden: The Anatomy of a Murderer.
Dick Miller died on the job. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Angela Hackl, who had graduated from high school just a few days before, was found hanging from a tree by a tire chain around her neck. She had been sexually assaulted and shot 3x in the back. Adding insult to injury, they put the wrong man in the slam for this hideous crime for well over 20 years. See the Kim Brown section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Medgar Evers, an attorney working for the NAACP, was gunned down in his driveway. It would take many, many years to clear this one up. See Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr.
It's already been four years since a maniac opened fire on the patrons of the Pulse nightclub, killing 49 people before turning the gun on himself. See Rescue, Response, and Resilience: A Critical Incident Review of the Orlando Public Safety Response to the Attack on the Pulse Nightclub.
Kelly Morrisey died violently. We think. Both Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1 and Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime attribute the crime to John Kogut and his merry crew, although Kelly has never been found. Her friend Teresa Fusco definitely died at the hands of these men later. Kelly remains a big question mark, unfortunately.
We lost Warren Thorpe to his wife, Jane. He was not the first or the last to die at this woman's hands. See, again, Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
6/13 is the anniversary of the day William Guatney is thought to have killed Robbie Mann. See Slayer of Innocence.Alverson Carter Jr. was killed in Atlanta, a victim of Gary Ray Bowles, a homophobic jerk. See American Monsters: Volume 5: The Serial Killer Case Files.
the homophobic jerk
Patrick Mackay, a man who was clearly unbalanced most of his life, killed Frank Goodman for no clear reason. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.
the killer, who used to steal garden gnomes, then sit in the backyard talking to them by the hour
Debra Cobb lost her life to Alexander WAYNE Watson, Jr. See https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/wats...
We also lost Sister Roberta Elam in a crime that remains unsolved. See the "Pennsylvania" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Doris Oehring lost her life to the North Pole killer. That's North Pole, Alaska, not the regular North Pole. See https://militaryjusticeforall.com/tag...
the killer
Corporal Margaret Mary Rice died pointlessly and violently. See The Sex Killers.
Francina Sithebe died hideously at the hands of Moses Sithole. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
John Crawford, a rat bastidge if there ever was one, killed the unfortunate and undeserving Shelly Napope. See Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada's Indifference.
6/14 is the anniversary of the pointless murder of Debra May Helmick by Larry Gene Bell. See True Crime Case Histories - (Books 1, 2 & 3): 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories.
We lost Diane Burks to serial killer Donald Murphy. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
A woman called "Anishka Constantine" in the papers escaped Rex Krebs alive. Some of her sister victims of course were not as lucky. See Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast.
Jessica Cardinal was found dead. See (I think) Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Sandra Phillips died very violently indeed. WAYNE and Paul Darvell were jailed for the crime, but it all came unravelled later. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wa...
Lourdes Gonzalez and her unborn were killed by good old Matias Reyes. See Your Eyes or Your Life: The True Story of the Central Park Jogger Rapist.
This is the day Marina Moskalyova was killed by Alexander Pichushkin. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
A young boy named John Horigan was murdered in an apparent sacrifice to Satan, performed by a boy hardly any older than he was. See The Boy in the Attic.
This is also the day they identified the remains of Michael Kiern through DNA testing, long after he'd vanished and pieces of him were found in the Indiana woods. See You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm.
6/15 is the anniversary of the day Frank LaSalle abducted Sally Horner. See The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World.
A killer never named by the police riddled 2 young girls with bullets as they were walking through a park. See Briar Patch: The Murder That Would Not Die.
Christian Magee brutally murdered Susan Scholes. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
John Doe 60 was found tortured to death, with a pentagram carved into his chest among other indignities. They found the killers but they do not know the victim's name yet. See Torture Killers.
We also lost Darlyne Cranfield and Robert Grubesic, in one fell swoop. Their killer was a slimeball named David Threinen. See, again, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Dave
6/16 is the day we lost Maria Navarro to Juan Segundo. See https://cowtowncrime.com/2019/06/24/t...
(Maria is all the way on the R)
We also lost Ernestine Patterson. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
Noel Sowley was murdered one night when out on a date. His girlfriend, Elizabeth Ring, survived. Once again there was a note at the scene identifying the killer as "3X." This dreadful event made the police realize that they had blown it, and they released Catherine May, the surviving rape victim of the killer's previous crime. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
In Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2 you can read about the day Frank Davis killed Darrin Reed.
This is also the anniversary of the horrifically stupid murder of Gary Lauwers. See Say You Love Satan.
This is the approximate day Earl Sauerheber killed Katina Phillips. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
George Reeves was shot and killed on this day in 1959. Tongues have been wagging about that ever since. See Speeding Bullet : The Life and Bizarre Death of George Reeves.
This is the anniversary of the day in 1972 that someone discovered a burglary at the Watergate hotel. The rest, as they say, is history. See Bringing Down A President: the Watergate Scandal.
6/17 is the day we lost Alan Barnes to the "Family Murders." See Young Blood: The Story of the Family Murders.
Raymond Davis was added to Randy Kraft's scorecard with the notation "Dog." Raymond made the horrible mistake of accepting a lift from Kraft when he was out looking for his missing pet. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
It's now been exactly seven years since Odin Lloyd was gunned down. The reasons for it posited in Aaron Hernandez's Killing Fields: Exposing Untold Murders, Violence, Cover-Ups, and the NFL's Shocking Code of Silence were quite intriguing.
It's now been exactly 3 years since Cheryl Baker and Nadja and Peyton Medley were found murdered and dumped in a shed by police who came to do a welfare check on them. Nobody had heard from them in some time. The owner of the property, Cheryl's husband, was clean missing and still is. See https://www.worldwideweirdnews.com/20...
This is the approximate day Jeffrey Mailhot killed Christine Dumont. See Ripper.
Dilbag Singh Sandu was murdered out of nowhere. Edmonton police are waiting for your call. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
We lost Lorelei Sims, too. She was only a few days old. See Dying Dreams.
This is the day Police Chief George Oldfield received the infamous "Geordie Tape," a communication that would set back the Yorkshire Ripper case for years. See Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper.
6/18 is the anniversary of the ransom kidnapping and murder of Jason Evers. Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine calls the killer Adrian Wilson, but Google corrected that, telling me his name is Williams. 
On this Father's Day in 2000, 3-year-old Eugene Clark was found wandering in the street wide-eyed. Someone told they police who responded that they thought they knew where the little boy lived; when the first responders walked inside they found his mother, Charlisa Clark, and Pat DelSordo in pools of blood. They had been killed with a baseball bat. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
the killer, Carl Hall
Debra De Mello became the latest victim of the New Bedford killer. See Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer.
Debra with her son
Janice Roberts, whose legal name for the nonce was still Danny Whistnant, crossed paths with Devin Howell and quickly regretted it. For the rest of her life, in fact. See His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer.
Babazile Nomupelo was raped and strangled by Bongani Mfeka. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
We also lost Cherry Walker. I'll say this much: it was an ugly case. See Don't Tell a Soul.
Ali Kemp never came home from work on this day in 2002. See True Crime: Real Girls, Real-Life Stories.
6/19 is the anniversary of the out-of-nowhere sex murder of Reesa Trexler. The case was not cleared for another 35 years. See https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/dna...
Gary Ray Bowles killed Albert Morris. See https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/23...
Daniel Van Lone was murdered by a couple of guys named Michael Corbett and Freddie Glenn. Glenn has gotten far more ink in this case of team serial murders, but the law doesn't care; they're both equally responsible in the eyes of the court. See https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/glen...
Paolo Mainardi and Antonella Miglorini went on their last date. See The Dark and Bloody Guide to Florence: From the Monsters of the Past to the Monster of Florence.
Frank Davis killed Jeff Lopez. Jeff's friend got away alive, but still. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Tyler Shanabarger, 7 months old, was suffocated in Saran Wrap by his dad, Ron. Ron explained later that to get back at Tyler's mother, he deliberately fathered a child by her so he could devastate her by killing it. Scratch him off your list of dream dates, ladies. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
It's already been 38 years since Michael Nitz, a drunken patron of the Fancy Pants Lounge in Highland Park, Michigan, held Vincent Chin while his stepdad, Ron Ebens, another drunken customer of that establishment, pounded Chin's head in with a baseball bat. Chin was planning to get married in 2 more days. That never happened. See https://www.history.com/news/vincent-...
Richard Allen Keith was added to Randy Kraft's scorecard with the note "MARINE CARSON." See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Geoffrey Griffin killed the unlucky Deborah Pagan. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
6/20 is the anniversary of the day Andre Crawford killed Evandre Harris. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.Jack Unterweger did away with the unlucky Shannon Exley. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.
Shannon is shown at L with sister victim Irene Rodriguez
Dean Mellberg showed up at his old workplace and killed Thomas Brigham and Alan London, the psychiatrist and psychologist who recommended that he be discharged from the military. While he was at it, he shot innocent bystanders Anita Lindner and Christin McCarron, who died like the two medics; and Delwyn Baker, Pauline Brown, Patrick Deaton, Ruth Gerken, Mark Hess, Omer Karns, Deena Brackett Kelley, Orsen Lee, and Dennis, Kelly, Marlene, & Melissa Moe, Lorraine Murray, Joseph Noon, Hazel Roberts, Laura Rogers, Michelle Sigmon, Samuel Spencer, John Urick, Eva Walsh, Anthony Zucchetto, and Janessa Zucchetto, who survived. Michelle Sigmon's unborn son was not as lucky. Military policeman Andy Brown, the author of the excellent Warnings Unheeded, killed Mellberg with a single shot. If he hadn't it might have been even worse.
Walter Ellis killed the unlucky, and no doubt innocent, Ouithreaun Stokes. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
This is the 4th anniversary of the day Jeff Hagler was found dead in the trunk of his car. See https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/man-...
Billy DeSousa was murdered. Maybe the killer was William Guatney. Then again, maybe it was Charles Pierce. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
the little boy close to the center of the page is Billy
Justin Wiles died violently at the hands of WAYNE Garrison. Someone needed to put a fence around WAYNE long before this, but it just never happened. See https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/ki...
6/21 is the day they found a Jane Doe victim of Herbert Boyle. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.Christine Prince turned up dead. See the Danny Wood section of Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Emmanuel Muhammad was killed for no very good reason by Elias Abuelazam. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
Candice Straub was raped, beaten up, and strangled to death by a couple of mooks. They didn't stop there. After using her as a bathmat in the shower, they set the poor creature on fire. See Torture Killers.
John Glendenning died at the hands of Alan Legere. His wife Mary escaped with her life, but I always wonder about cases like these. Was she happy to be alive or did she just want to be with John again? See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Nicole Hoar vanished along the Highway of Tears. See https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/high...
Harold Jones was acquitted of the murder of Freda Burnell on this day 99 years ago. This proved to be a serious mistake. See Every Mother's Nightmare: Abertillery in Mourning.
WAYNE Williams was arrested. It was high time, too. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
The best anniversary today is the case of homeless man, who was probably having a hard enough life already, thank you, escaping Heriberto Seda with his life. See Sleep My Little Dead: The True Story of the Zodiac Killer.
6/22 is the day Alexander Voligny escaped Ron Sears alive. See The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex-Crime Panic, 1945-1946.Terri Jentz and Shayna Weiss also escaped with their lives from a maniac who ran their tent over with his truck, then came after them both with an axe. It was an especially close call for Shayna. See Strange Piece of Paradise.
A man identified in the Soviet newspapers as Yuri X. was not as lucky. See Alexander Pichushkin: The Shocking True Story of the Chessboard Killer.
Neither was Beverly Burns. See the Geoffrey Griffin section of 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Asta, Gretha, Harry and Anabel Eicher travelled to move in with Asta's new husband, the children's new dad, who unfortunately was Harry Powers. See The Mail Order Serial Killer: The Life and Death of Harry Powers.
L to R, Harry, Asta, Gretha, Anabel
Ranjit Khela met her end at the hands of Sukhwinder Dillon, a husband very similar to Harry Powers in all the important ways. See Poison: From Steeltown to the Punjab, the True Story of a Serial Killer.
the killer, who has the same look on his face in every photo I've found of him, regardless of the year it was taken or whether or not he was under arrest yet
Elyse Pahler was brutally killed by a pack of teenaged morons who fancied themselves Satanists. See In the Name of Satan: A True Story of Human Sacrifice, Devil Worship, and Murder.
6/23 is the anniversary is the murder of Walter Wettering by Niels Hogel. See Serial Killer Nurse.Harriet and Priscilla Rulloff were killed by Harriet's husband, Priscilla's father, Edward. See Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff.
Norman Simons killed Freddie Cleaves on approximately this day. Like all Simons's victims Freddie was just a child. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
The Happy Face killer took the life of a woman who has never been identified; he vaguely thought her name was "Carla" or maybe "Cindy." See I: The Creation of a Serial Killer.
Walter Ellis killed the unlucky Sheila Farrior. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Lonnie Trumbull was brutally murdered. Lisa Wick escaped with her life, just barely. Ted Bundy has been suggested as a possible suspect even though this was all the way back in 1966. The son of their landlord seems more likely to me. See https://crimepiperblog.wordpress.com/...
This is the day Bob Berdella captured Larry WAYNE Pearson. See Rites Of Burial.
A slave named Celia, unable to tolerate even one more rape, killed her legal owner, Robert Newsome. While she was waiting for her appeal decision to come through, she gave birth to a still born child who would also have become one of Newsome's farm animals as well, even though he was almost certainly Newsome's son. See Celia, A Slave.
Karl Fromm reported to the Hanover police that he had been raped by a man named Fritz Haarmann. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
6/24 is the day Wes Burks was killed by Nathaniel Code. See https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2...Renate R. was killed by Niels Hogel. See Serial Killer Nurse.
This is the anniversary of the day Clyde Wilkerson killed Louis Mercer so he could rape and attempt to kill Louis's wife Lola, who escaped alive, albeit with a serious head injury. See https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/a...
Betty Renfroe was strangled to death with her shirt. Earl Daughtrey was the main suspect for a while there, which is why you can read about the case in Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2, but the killer later proved to be her husband, Harvie. See https://law.justia.com/cases/alabama/...
Madison and Taylor Sheats lost their lives on their father's birthday, as he, Jason Sheats, looked on in horror. Later that same day, the police cornered and killed the killer, their mother Christy Sheats. See
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/cri...
Eugene Britt strangled Nakita Moore to death, no doubt because she disobeyed his order not to look at his face as he was raping her. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
This is the anniversary of the day Marc Dutroux, the Monster of Belgium, captured Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo, and imprisoned them in a secret dungeon where they would be raped daily, kept underfed and under-hydrated, and not allowed to bathe. It got even worse from there. See I Choose to Live.
Patsy Ramsey lost her life to a second round of ovarian cancer. Boo hoo. See JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation.
We also lost Vilma Butler, to serial killer Jason Scott. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...
6/25 is the day we lost famed serial child molester (is there any other kind?) Michael Jackson. Hee hee https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/699995...
Niels Hogel killed the unlucky Irmgard Thornton. See Serial Killer Nurse.
Zita Bloom and Honorah Lahmann met untimely ends at the hands of Milton Johnson. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Fritz Haarmann lured Ernsty Ehrenberg into his trented room, raped him, tore his throat out with his teeth, then stripped the body of all possessions for later sale. He proceeded from there to slice poor Ernst into collops so he could be sold on the street himself. Times were hard and people didn't ask questions if you had meat for sale. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
Suzie Jaeger died untimely. See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
A 10-year-old, Debbie Smith, was abducted and killed by Robert Buell. See https://peoplepill.com/people/robert-...
We also lost Anthony Chargualaf, this time to his teenaged son, Tony. See True Crime: Real Girls, Real-Life Stories.
Joseph "Jae" Stevens died at the hands of the Doodler. See Young, Queer, and Dead: A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, The Doodler.
Constable Enzio Faraone died suddenly on the job. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Sydney Jones hanged on this day in 1915. He left a note in the death cell admitting to 13 killings in all. He was only being hanged for one. See https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jone...
Ronald "Gene" Simmons, author of the Christmas Massacre, was executed. See Zero at the Bone.
Gordon Cummins hanged for his crimes. See In the Dark: The True Story of the Blackout Ripper.
6/26 is the anniversary of the day Niels Hogel killed a man identified in the papers only as Klaus K. See Serial Killer Nurse.Amos Jimson Gxubane was murdered. Beatrice Ngubo, also attacked at the same time by the same man-- Mlengwa Zikode -- escaped with her life, but not in any sense unscathed. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Ronald Williams, Joe Stuntz and Jack Coler were gunned down, almost certainly NOT by Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for it for many, many years regardless. See The Trial of Leonard Peltier.
Bruce McArthur -- still awaiting trial -- almost certainly did away with Andrew Kinsman on this day. See https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...
Moses Sithole raped and killed Nikuwe Biko. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Madeline and Marie Everett and Tish Milliken vanished from the park where they were playing. See Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret.
Therese Laborde-Line vanished, right around the time she was supposed ton have begun a happy new life with a new husband. See Landru's Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France's Lonely Hearts Serial Killer.
shown with 2 sister victims
But this is also a day of escapes from disaster!
Bill Fisher escaped Elias Abuelazam with his life. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
Judy Placido and Sal Lupo got away alive from the Son of Sam. See Confessions of Son of Sam.
And a woman not named in the Detroit papers got away alive from serial killer Shelly Andre Brooks. This was the beginning of the end for good old Shelly because she turned him in. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders.
6/27 is the anniversary of the day that a man who identified himself as a police officer opened fire on Jackie McAllister and her husband Gord at a highway rest stop. Brian Major, who also happened to be there, went over to see if anyone needed help and was also shot and killed. It was assumed for years that the man was only claiming to be a police officer, but he was one after all. Only Gord survived this bizarre incident. See https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/west...
Donald Miller -- the East Lansing one -- killed Wendy Bush. See Lethal Friendship: A Mother's Battle to Put--and Keep--a Serial Killer Behind Bars.
Wendy is second from the R
Freddie Glenn and Michael Corbett killed another unsuspecting person, this time Winfred Proffitt. See https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/glen...
Robin Thorn was stabbed to death in his crib. Edmonton police are waiting for your call. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Leona Mae Whigham Wilson died gruesomely at the hands of her cousin, Karl Morgan. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
A woman called "Valentina" in the Soviet press was done to death by Metal Fang. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Joseph Smith was killed by an angry mob. See Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.
Richard Evonitz, a serial killer stalking the neighborhood where Robert Ressler was living at the time, shot himself to end a standoff with the police. See Into the Water.
Danny Bible was executed for his crimes, exactly 2 years ago now. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bibl...
And happy birthday, Mark Smith! See Legally Sane.
6/28 is the anniversary of the random, pointless murder of Gina Hall. See Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial..
Elton Jackson killed the unsuspecting Raymond Bostick. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Jim and Naomi Olive were killed by their daughter and her boyfriend, who did their best to burn the remains after the killing was done. See Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County.
Marlene Olive and Chuck Riley, the "barbecue killers"
Linda Ryan was also killed involving fire, this time by her husband Martin. Nothing like a family barbecue to bring everyone together. See https://www.thefreelibrary.com/WAS+TR...
We lost Paige Birgfeld, and I mean that in the most literal sense: she vanished in the middle of an ordinary day and was not found again until it was far too late to help her. It took even longer than that to clear the case, but they finally did it. See True Crime Case Histories - (Books 1, 2 & 3): 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories.
Michael Klitch died more or less out of nowhere. The case has not been solved. See https://www.ohiomysteries.com/ohio%20...
Lucious Boyd killed Patrece Alston, who surely deserved better than this. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/boyd...
A woman we know only as "Peaches" was found, beyond help, on Long Island. See https://www.longislandpress.com/2016/...
But it's not all bad! This is the day GG Allin finally died, ending his crime spree. See My Prison Walls.
John McRae croaked in prison, taking we know not how many secrets with him to the grave. See https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mcra...
Amos Babcock hanged for the murder of Mercy Hall. See The Ballad of Jacob Peck.
Sedley Alley was executed for the brutal, ugly murder of Suzanne Collins. See Journey Into Darkness.
It was also on this day, exactly 2 years ago now, that the police finally came to Steve Crawford to arrest him for the atrocious 1974 murder of Arlis Perry, which opens the story in The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond. Crawford cut the conversation short by killing himself. See https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/2...
6/29 is the anniversary is the day Rosalind Taylor got away alive from David Snow, a serial killer. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.This is also the anniversary of the day June Mincher was killed by William Mentzer, who is not only the head of the nonexistent cult behind the Son of Sam killings, but also a Zodiac suspect, for Pete's sake. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. Or this: https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/ment...
We lost Bob Crane on this day in 1978, in a case that has never been properly cleared up. See The Murder of Bob Crane.
Catherine DiMauro lost her life pretty horribly to Steven Pennell. You know it was bad because I read about it in Torture Killers.
We also lost Christine Klebbe, to another serial killer, this time Nathaniel White. See http://www.abandonedny.com/2012/10/na...
Rebekah Bletsch went out for her last run. See https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2...
the killer feeling sorry for himself in court
Aleksandr Pichushkin did away with the unlucky Nicholas Filippov. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Reverend Carlo Barlassina lost his life to Bruce Davis. No, the other Bruce Davis. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
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6/30 is the day a woman from Harrisburg, PA got away alive from Joey Miller after being stabbed in the head 25 times with a screwdriver. Man. See https://www.pennlive.com/news/page/jo...In another very narrow escape, Edward Surratt did his home invasion number on a family in Ft. Lauderdale, tying everyone up and making the dad watch his wife and daughter get raped repeatedly. Normally he would have followed up by killing everyone, but he apparently felt so secure that he then drank himself into a stupor, allowing dad to wriggle free and call the police. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.
Bobby Gutkaiss was not as lucky as the victims above. See https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lent...
Neither was Angel Mejia, who lost his life to Ronald Dominique. See The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana's Most Gruesome Serial Killer.
Sandy Dunn vanished. Suspicion focused immediately on her husband. See Mean Justice.
Irene Rodriguez lost her life meaninglessly. See Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer.
7/1 is the anniversary of the day in 1976 that Annaliese Michel died of gross physical and medical neglect by her parents. You can read a fictionalized account of her death in The Exorcist, or the true story in Anneliese Michel A true story of a case of demonic possession Germany-1976.
Karen Grammer became the latest victim of Freddie Glenn and Michael Corbett. See https://www.westword.com/news/man-gui...
Amy Schulz lost her life to a guy named Cecil Sutherland. See Torture Killers II.
Ricky Holland died at the hands of his adoptive parents, Tim and Lisa, on this day 15 years ago now. He would have turned 21 this year. See http://www.angelizdsplace.com/child11...
Mlengwa Zikode killed the unlucky Siphiwe Zuma. Annacetta Zuma escaped with her life. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
We also found out on this day what had become of Elaine Zeigler. See the William Mansfield Jr. section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
This was also the day a young housewife survived what really, by rights, ought to have been a deadly assault by Clarence Walker. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
7/2 is the anniversary of the day Mabel Mayer died suddenly and horribly. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
Someone found a victim of Larry Eyler. To my knowledge he has not yet been identified. See Freed to Kill: The True Story of Larry Eyler.
Sean Dannehl died just as suddenly as Mabel did. See The Peninsula Serial Killer: The True Story of Jon Scott Dunkle.
Earl Gentry, a co-defendant of D.C. Stephenson (see Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan), died violently, maybe at the hands of Carrie Gill. Considering his role in the kidnapping and rape-murder of Madge Oberholtzer, it probably served him right. See, again, 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.
Jerry Tharrington lost his life as well. See Charles Ray Hatcher: Revealed True Stories and Secret Details and Investigations of Charlie's Killing Spree.
One of Clarence Walker's many unidentified victims was found dead on this day. See Murder Next Door: How Police Tracked Down Eighteen Brutal Killers.
Angela Thomas died out of nowhere. She was found nude and dead of suffocation on the grounds of Benjamin Franklin Junior high. She is thought to be connected to the Santa Rosa "hitchhiker murders." A Jane Doe victim was found on the same day. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980
We also lost Donna Mraz. See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
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This is the last day anyone saw Ray Muchache alive. See Twenty-Five Murders (and Probably More): Looking for a Reason: The Juan Corona Trials and Confessions.
This is the day we lost James Milliken for stupid reasons. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
(April Milliken showing a photo of her brother James and his baby son)
This is the day they found "Tent Girl." That would be the only name they had for her for many years to come. See https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-body...
(we now know her as Bobbie Taylor)
Joey Pichirallo died a hideous death. See Torture Killers II.
Jodi Samuel was killed completely out of nowhere. See https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...