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July 4th is the day we lost Chere Jo Horton to Jimmy Shaver, who was found stumbling drunk and half-dressed not too far from where Chere's battered body had been left in the underbrush. The police spirited him off to jail before the searchers could lynch him. See https://www.leagle.com/decision/19574...
Sean Googin became a statistic. Last year I reported that he was a victim of Lewis Lent, but since then I found this: https://www.oneidadispatch.com/news/m...
Deidre Alvis died of drugs she'd bought from her regular connection, Sofronzo Horne. I was surprised to see in the local paper that he was successfully tried for her murder. Maybe they do this all the time but it was news to me. See https://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...
We lost Sherry Eyerly to serial killer William Smith. See https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/...
This is the day Bob Berdella captured Jerry Howell. This was just the beginning of Jerry's problems. See Rites Of Burial.
Shane Stewart and Sally McNelly went out to watch some 4th of July fireworks. They never came home. The case was still unsolved when Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime hit the stands, but see here for a major update: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime...
We lost Kathleen Gouldin to serial killer Vernon Clark. See http://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/...
7/5 is the disastrous day Mildred Halley crossed paths with Gary Dean Brown. She was only 81 years old. See Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.Bella Wright died of a bullet to the face on this day in 1919. She was last seen riding alongside a man on a green bicycle. See The Green Bicycle Mystery: The curious death of Bella Wright.
As he always did in the summer when his wife and kids were off visiting the in-laws, Herb Baumeister spent his spare time bringing strange men home from bars and strangling them. Today it was Manuel Resendez's turn, the poor guy. See Where the Bodies Are Buried.
Manuel is 2nd from L along the top
Mary Kathleen Thill vanished, probably at the hands of good old Bob Hansen. If he did kill her, he would have certainly offered her a ride in his plane to a private spot where he would get out a weapon, chase her through the bush, hunt her down and kill her. That was how he rolled. See Butcher, Baker: A True Account of a Serial Murder.
Jimi Patrick was killed by Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Kratz. See https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/0...
Jimi, shown with his brother victims, is all the way on the L
Speaking of "brother victims," this is the anniversary of the day John Mayeski and Michael Baker -- a friend of his who looked enough like him to be his brother -- were killed by Robert Alton Harris who wanted to use their car. He also finished the partially-eaten hamburgers they had with them in the vehicle. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Andrew Fowler was charged on this day with stabbing his mom 22 times, until she died. Her name was Dora. See Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
Donald Staley killed the unlucky Garry Billings. It was a sex crime. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
the killer
David Snow abducted and raped Lenore Rattray. As horrific as rapes are usually, this one was probably rather worse because Snow is supposed to have had really appalling B.O. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
7/6 is the anniversary of the day the Carters lost their son, Anthony, to the Atlanta Child Killer. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
Keith Klingbeil died a horrible, lingering death. He was added to his killer's list of victims with the notation "HIKE OUT LB BOOTS."
Peter Goebbels -- what a perfect name for a serial killer, Goebbels! -- killed the unlucky Marion Bormann. (Strangely, she too had the surname of a Nazi war criminal.) See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Sarah Cherry died a hideous death, maybe at the hands of Dennis Dechaine. He has a mob of supporters saying the court has it all wrong. Just saying. For the official version read Torture Killers II. For the rebuttal see https://www.google.com/search?q=sarah...
Richard Baldwin died under circumstances that were pretty nutty. See Cult Killers.
Mary Lynn Breeden was found burning in a Dumpster. See http://www.allreadable.com/4488F3l2
This is the VERY approximate day we lost Elizabeth fells to James Greenidge. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Again, more or less, this is the day Dellen Millard and Mark Smich did away with Laura Babcock. See Dark Ambition: The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich.
Dellen and Laura
We also lost Skylar Neese on this day. See Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese.
7/7/ is the anniversary of the grim end of Robert WAYNE Mortimore. James Greenidge did it. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Robert
Rickey Kasso hanged himself in his jail cell, devastating his parents all over again after his arrest for murder, but also saving the taxpayers the cost of a trial. See Say You Love Satan.
A man we know only as Hans H. was killed by that ever-attentive homicidal nurse, Niels Hogel. See Serial Killer Nurse.
Jose Collazo was killed by Joe Kallinger and his son and apprentice, Michael. See The Shoemaker.
the killers
Clarence Bertucci lost his feces, shall we say, and killed 9 German POWs where they were billeted in Utah. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bert...
Julianne Middleton lost her life pointlessly. See, again, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Julianne is all the way on the L
Judith Ann Garcia lost her life pretty nastily to Randy Fisher. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
The Doodler claimed his latest victim, Klaus Christmann. See Young, Queer, and Dead: A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, The Doodler.
We also lost Hazel Drew on this day in 1908. Her case was never solved but it did become the basis of "Twin Peaks." See Who Killed Hazel Drew?: Unraveling Clues to the Tragic Murder of a Pretty Servant Girl.
Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Kratz, not done yet with their mayhem, killed Mark Sturgis, Dean Finocchiaro and Thomas Meo. See https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/0...
7/8 is the anniversary of the day that Cody Johnson was slung off a cliff to his death by his wife of 9 days, the former Jordan Graham. I thought this was going to turn out to be a normal insurance-payoff murder, but according to Jason Neal in True Crime Case Histories - (Books 1, 2 & 3): 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories, it was nothing of the sort. 
On this day in 1909, we lost John W. Sparling to homicide. Exactly 1 year later, Peter S. Sparling followed him to the grave. See http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2...
Florrie Little became the victim of the terrible decision by a Welsh jury to acquit Harold Jones of a previous sex murder. He'd only been out of the slam a few days. See Every Mother's Nightmare: Abertillery in Mourning.
Zanele Kumalo lost her life to Mlengwa Zikode. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Marie Parker lost her life to David Parker Ray and company. I don't even want to know what he did to her. See Cries in the Desert.
Christine Butcher died on this day in 1951 when she ventured out to show her doll to her personal hero, Sugar Ray Robinson, who was making an appearance in her town. Her case has never been solved. See The Child Killers.
(Her photo won't stick but you can see it by clicking here: http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/mur...)
Jonathan Thimpsen died pretty unimaginably. See Kids Who Kill: Case 4: Sandy Charles.
7/9 is the day someone found Jeannette Jugaru dead. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
This is the last day anyone saw Diane Cusack, except maybe Devin Howell, her killer. See His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer.
David Spanbauer killed Trudi Jeschke. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/span...
Andre Rand killed Jennifer Schweiger. She was a little girl with Down Syndrome. See https://allthatsinteresting.com/andre...
Kim Brown did away with Barbara Blackstone. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2. Or did he? See https://www.wiscnews.com/juneaucounty...
This is once again the anniversary of the murder of Heidi Mnilk by Patrick Mackay. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.
Jimmy Childers killed his mom, Norma Rotramel, and 2 other family members, Robert and Warren Rotramel. Josie Russell escaped alive. See https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/m...
Rachel Kalebu and J.J. Jones died in a housefire. Not by accident. See While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness.
On 7/10/1980, Danny Wood killed Micheline St. Amour. On the same day 2 years later, Judy Anne Delisle met the same fate. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.Daniel Lee Corwin killed Debra Lynn Ewing. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c1/cor...
James Schlosser died very horribly indeed. See the Baker and Stroup section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Shirellda Terry died cruelly and needlessly. See https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2013/...
Sean Tilk and Jarod, Brandi and John Ritzert died at the hands of John Ritzert. See Healing Tears.
Benjamin Franklin Miller, Jr. -- or someone -- killed Gail Thompson. She was raped and strangled with her bra. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
We also lost Laurette Riviere. See http://www.abandonedny.com/2012/10/na...
Charles Floyd -- no, not the bank robber, the serial killer -- took Helen Brown from us. Like all his victims she was a redhead. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
We also lost Melvin David Rees on this day. Boo hoo. See https://armedrobbery.wordpress.com/ta...
7/11 is the anniversary of the day a 19-year-old was abducted and rescued, along with sister victim Lenore Rattray, from David Snow. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.Alicia Hauck lost her life to Robert Garrow, yet another Zodiac police sketch lookalike. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Private Paul Coile was disembowelled and castrated on this day in 1943, a fact the military chose not to mention to his family, but which his brother found out the hard way when he asked the undertaker to open the coffin a few days later so he could say goodbye. Nice forking moment for him, when he was undoubtedly going through more than enough already. See The Slaughter: An American Atrocity.
Michael Thomas lost his life to the California Donald Miller. See https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-suprem...
Geoffrey Griffin killed Starshun Nelson, and I would love to show you a photo of her because she deserves that much, but all I can give you is the reference in 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6. My BOTD indicates another woman he killed -- who was unidentified --was found on this day. I hope it turned out to be Starshun. The fewer women this dweeb killed, the better, am I right?
Warrest Forrest killed Krista Kaye Blake. See https://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/forr...
the killer
Peter Kurten killed Maria Hahn. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
Maria is all the way on the L
We lost Stephanie Dubay in a very ugly scenario that unfolded in Warren, Michigan. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine. See footage of the crime scenes and trial here: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/conv...
In the same book, The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine, you can read about the equally hideous murder of Kimberly Knight. At least Stephanie wasn't fed to anyone's dogs, for crying out loud. It all went down just an hour and a half away by freeway from the scene of Stephanie's murder. Both young women died on exactly the same day in the same year, 1990. Kim's killer, the boyfriend she was planning to cut loose, said at his sentencing that he had come to understand that what he did to her was wrong. Well that makes it all better, doesn't it?
A woman identified in the papers only as Elizabeth M. became the latest victim of Niels Hogel. See Serial Killer Nurse.
7/12 is the day we lost Jennifer Janz to a killer who has not been identified yet. She is thought to be one of the victims of the Calgary Prostitute Killer, according to Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Jennifer was last seen leaving a hospital emergency room
Joseph Franklin killed Harold McIver for stupid reasons. See Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin.
Dzeneta and Amela Pasanbegovic were taken from their family and friends by serial killer Paul Runge. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Amela, above, and Dzeneta, below
Liana White was killed by her idiot husband, Mike, as their daughter Ashley looked on in who knows what state of horror. Liana was pregnant with what would have been Ashley's sibling. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Liana and Ashley
Pauline Reade was lured out to Saddleworth Moor, raped by both her abductors, and killed. They buried her more or less on the spot. See Ian Brady: The untold story of the Moors Murders.
We lost Dudley White in connection to a major criminal case he and his brother were investigating. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Kathleen McSharry lost her life to a serial killer. See https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/phil...
Dalia Gelineau luckily escaped David Snow with "only" a fractured skull. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
And Antoine Jackson escaped Elias Abuelazam with his life. Many others were not nearly as lucky. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
7/13 is the day we lost April Sweet to Bernardino Zuniga, who raped her and slit her throat. She was 7. See Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.We also lost Darlene Ewalt to Adam Lane. See Caught in the Act: A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer.
David Mitchell lost his life to a fat little sex pervert who wanted to rape guys and then kill them so they wouldn't report him. See The Bayou Killer: Life of Serial Killer Ronald J. Dominique.
Leatrice Mitchell shows a photo of her son, David, and what may be his dad next to him
Bridget Nora Milton was killed by a sexfiend named Terence Casey. See The Sex Killers.
Charles Hahner vanished from a public swimming pool and was later found dead. William Guatney is considered a possible suspect, but so far, no soap. See https://www.ottawaherald.com/article/...
This is once again the anniversary of the day we lost Laura Jean Ackerson. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
And incredibly, it's already the 35th anniversary of the day Alan Canty Jr., a Grosse Pointe psychologist, had his head bashed in by a pimp with a baseball bat. Pieces of Dr. Canty started showing up all over Detroit's East Side, and later much farther north, concealed in Hefty bags. I still can't see a garbage bag by the side of the road without remembering this sorry incident. See Masquerade.
We also lost Stephanie Vikko. She may be a victim of Jerry Brudos. See Lust Killer.
7/14 is the anniversary of the day good old Niels Hogel killed a man identified in the German-language papers only as Gerhard S. See Serial Killer Nurse.Justin Maguire was murdered, and Samantha Maguire raped and murdered, by Emil Young. See Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine. Or here: https://tulsaworld.com/archive/childr...
Elsie Khoti Masango lost her life in a terrifying way to Moses Sithole. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Josephine McMullen died at the hands of rape-murderer George Williams. She was only 76. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Cassie Corum lost her life pretty similarly to Josephine, this time at the hands of Andrew Urdiales. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Alexander Pichushkin did away with the unlucky Sergei Pavlov. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Christine Falling "smotherated" Jennifer Daniels. See Killer Babysitter : The True Story of Christine Falling.
7/15 is the 8th anniversary of the day Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado were gunned down, more or less out of nowhere. According to the jury, this was NOT the work of Aaron Hernandez, but see Aaron Hernandez's Killing Fields: Exposing Untold Murders, Violence, Cover-Ups, and the NFL's Shocking Code of Silence. 
(I think Furtado is at L and de Abreu at R)
It's also the day the Hughes family lost their daughter Holly. See https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rand...
And the Sniders lost their son Zachary. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stev...
A serial-killer tag team fed poor Judith Daley to the alligators. See the Gore and Waterfield section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
cousins David Gore and Fred Waterfield
In other anniversaries, this is the day serial killers Jake Bird and Reg Christie were hanged, 6 years and an ocean apart. See, respectively, In the Saddle of Headless Horses and Murder with a Difference.
7/16 is the day we lost Deputies Steven Mayer and Dennis Foley along with George Kiehl, Richard Paulin and Cathleen Norwood, all in one sorry incident that was the work of Milton Johnson. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.Maria Monamu died horribly, maybe at the hands of David Selepe. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Thomas Harris -- not the inventor of Hannibal Lecter, the other one -- and professor Oline Carmichal Jr. were abducted by Alton Coleman and Debra Brown and driven to Dayton, OH, where they were both released, in a way. Harris was sent on his way but Carmichal was locked in the trunk of his car and he had to be gotten out by police. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
the kidnappers in custody
Amber Carlson and Adam Towler were murdered; Adam's roommate was raped by the killer, Justin Geiger, who followed up by killing himself as well. See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/death-of...
L to R, Amber, Adam and Justin
A murder victim we know only as Trans Jane Doe was found. Apparently the killing was the work of James Greenidge. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Johnny Meadows killed Eula Miller, who surely deserved better than that. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
An 18-year-old captive was rescued from her abductor, Emil Young, by a heroic motel clerk named Calundra Cooper, the motel manager and a truck driver who called the police and ended Young's killing spree on the spot. See https://oklahoman.com/article/2324471...
7/17 is the anniversary of the murder of Horst N. by good old Niels Hogel. See Serial Killer Nurse.They found out for sure on this day that Alice Pereira had lost her life, maybe to Andre Rand. See https://nypost.com/2000/04/24/jailed-...
Josephine Mlangeni died a horrible death that you wouldn't wish on anyone, thanks to Moses Sithole. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Mostly, though, this is a day of escapes from danger.
This is the anniversary of 2 different home invasions by Alton Coleman and Debra Brown. All the intended victims -- the Reverend Millard Gay and his wife Kathryn, and Dallas and Flossie Davis -- escaped with their lives. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Patricia Brooks similarly escaped Adam Lane with her life. See Caught in the Act: A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer.
Betty Bryant escaped Robert Nixon with her life. See The Brick Slayer.
Kate Wrigley luckily escaped Francisco Montes. See Wolf Man: The True Story of Francisco Arce Montes - The First Global Serial Killer.
Brian Loftis was dragged behind Jon Dunkle's car as their other friends tried to get Dunkle to stop. He finally did stop in time. Jon was probably drunk, as usual. The author of The Boy Next Door made it sound as if this were not an accident.
7/18 is the anniversary of the hideous rape-murder of Granny Ramelo. It almost goes without saying that it was the work of Moses Sithole. I am starting to wonder about all these young women getting murdered who happened to be named "Granny." See, again, Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Speaking of hideous crimes against women, this is the anniversary of the Dresser Drawer Murder. See https://www.indystar.com/story/news/h...
This is also the day Raynell Dispany was killed in prison. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
Francisco Arce Montes did something to Caroljne Dickinson that he couldn't ever take back. See Wolf Man: The True Story of Francisco Arce Montes - The First Global Serial Killer.
It's already been 2 years since we lost Molly Tibbetts to that idiot Cristhian Rivera. Can you believe it? See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mollie-t...
This is the approximate day a man we still know only as "Portland Eck" was tortured to death by Randy Kraft. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Deborah McHenry was raped and strangled by her childhood friend, Eugene Britt. This could not have followed his usual pattern of raping women he did not know and killing them if they dared look at his face. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
The best anniversary from this day that I'm aware of is Norma Countryman's 1974 escape from Warren Forrest. She chewed through the ropes he'd tied her up with and fled naked through the forest. And, I guess, from the Forrest. I mean this on more than one level when I say: YOU GO, GIRL! See https://www.columbian.com/news/2014/a...
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I disagree with the jury. Tragedy all around and the NFL is seriously forked up.
Lady ♥ Belleza wrote: "Fishface wrote: "7/15 is the 8th anniversary of the day Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado were gunned down, more or less out of nowhere. According to the jury, this was NOT the work of Aaron Herna..."As I'm sure I've commented before, even Hernandez seemed really thrown by the verdict. I mean look what he did afterwards...
7/19 is the anniversary of the day Alton Coleman and Debra Brown killed Eugene Scott. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.We lost Sherry Perisho who was living in a dinghy on a Florida beach already and had definitely fallen on hard times. Then Charlie Brandt came along and raped her, stabbed her to death and cut her heart out. See Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask.
Gregg Braun killed Barbara Kochendorfer and Mary Raines. See https://www.gcpolice.org/about-gcpd/h...
Richard Eveans, Jr. lost his life to his supposedly loving mother, Tammy, who killed him because she was jealous of all the attention he was getting. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
This is the 328th anniversary of the day Sarah Good, Sarah Wildes, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, and the Reverend George Burroughs were hanged as witches, on the word of a group of melodramatic little girls who knew how to get every eye in Salem Village on them. See Hunt the Witch Down!: Twelve Real Life Stories of Witches and Witchcraft.
This is the day Isaiah Kalebu killed Teresa Butz. See While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness.
Teresa gave her life to save her partner, who escaped with injuries
Carlos Ramos, whose photo I could not find, and Kevin Swaney were killed by Daniel WAYNE Cook. See https://www.catholicsun.org/2012/08/1...
A woman was brutally raped and her ATM card used by the assailant, Matias Reyes. See Your Eyes or Your Life: The True Story of the Central Park Jogger Rapist.
Richard Booker escaped alive from Elias Abuelazam. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
7/20 is the anniversary of the day Albert Walker killed his business partner, Ron Platt. See A Hand in the Water: The Many Lies of Albert Walker.We lost Shirley Dean Taylor, maybe to "Dr. No," since revealed to be Samuel Legg III. See https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/...
On this day in 1979, Teddy Smith became the very first victim of the Atlanta Child Killer. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.
On this day in 1989, Gregg Braun killed Pete Spurrier. On the same in day in 2000, the state of Oklahoma put Braun down like the rabid dog he was. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b1/bra...
This is also the anniversary of the massacre at the Aurora theater. See The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth.
the shooting victims who did not survive the evening
We also lost Angeline Hopkins and Brenda Whiteside, to Nathaniel White. They were cousins and it turns out that other members of the family cracked the case, not the police. Good on them. See https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/07/ny...
Mary Hynes, 79, lost her life to Patrick Mackay, who confessed to killing her long after he was in the slammer for other murders. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.
the killer, who said he wanted to "wipe out the elderly"
Cecil Higgs died a pretty nasty death at the hands of Tyrone Washington and DePaul Jackson. See Torture Killers.
As did Ngoc Van Dang, at the hands of a pack of teenagers. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. Or here: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/o...
There are two very good anniversaries today too:
Alton Coleman and Debra Brown were arrested at last, ending their multi-state kill spree. See Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder.
And one that always brings a smile to my face: Paul Ogorzow became the only man I'm aware of ever kicked out of the Nazi Party for being too violent and dangerous. Good, good times, I tell you. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
7/21 is the day we lost Louella George to Russell Johnson, the "Bedroom Strangler." See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.Joie Armstrong, a naturalist at Yosemite State park, was taken out by a serial killer. See Murder at Yosemite.
We also lost Angela Hicks in a case that has never been solved. Note to murderinos: Her stepdad was "Dr. No," serial killer Samuel Legg. See https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/loc...
This is the approximate day Devonna Nelson lost her life to WAYNE Nance. See To Kill and Kill Again.
Gregg Braun, up to no good as usual, killed Gwendolyn Miller. Two other would-be victims got away alive. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b1/bra...
Robert Avila became a notation on Randy Kraft's scorecard: "DEODORANT." See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Maurice Taylor was found dead. He may be a victim of the killer described in Where the Bodies Are Buried.
Lorrie Kirkley was murdered by David Malinski. He was the one who finally led police to her remains, I believe. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
the killer
7/22 is the anniversary of the day Roger Goodlet died untimely. See You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm.
Roger is in the column on the R, third from the top
Frank Walls killed Edward Alger and Ann Peterson. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Elly Hager-Segov died at the hands of Dutch serial killer Hans Von Zon. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Elton Jackson killed Andre Smith, who must have deserved a lot better. Who doesn't? See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
the killer
Today's theme, though, is family murders. It's the anniversary of the day Dick and Shirley Robison and their children, Susie, Gary, Randy and Ritchie, were found dead in their vacation place up North, as we Michiganders call anything above Pentwater. The family had been dead for some time when someone finally decided to follow the smell. See When Evil Came to Good Hart.
L to R, Shirley, Gary, Randy & Susie, Ritchie and Dick
It's also the 5th anniversary of the day David, April, Christopher and Victoria Bever lost their lives to Robert and Michael Bever, their sons or brothers, depending on who you mean. Crystal and Autumn Bever were spared. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
Johnnie Balch escaped Jesse Pomeroy alive on this day in 1872. See Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer.
7/23 is the anniversary of the day a Gunther M. was murdered in his bed by one of his nurses. See Serial Killer Nurse.Anita Willis, an exotic dancer, was murdered by a guy who had a degree in Social Work from the same school I later attended. See https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/02/...
Helen Mintiks, aka Helen Hagnes, was killed at her workplace in a remarkably random, pointless crime. See Murder at the Met: Based on the Exclusive Accounts of Detectives Mike Struk and Jerry Giorgio of How They Solved the Phantom of the Opera Case.
Seryozha Pavlov lost his life, seemingly out of nowhere. See the Anatoly Slivko section of Murder Most Moscow: True Stories of Russia's Worst Serial Killers.
Kenneth Erskine killed the unlucky Florence Tisdall. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
Janet Downing was stabbed 99 times. I read about this in When Good Kids Kill, but there is a whole book about the case, called The Politics Of Murder: The Power and Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case".
Cindy Ray was murdered and her unborn baby was stolen. See Lullaby and Goodnight.
Cindy was given an impromptu C-section with a car key; it would be hard to imagine a more painful or terrifying death
Four years ago today, Mari Gilbert, the mother of murdered Shannan Gilbert -- whose death led to the discovery of quite a few other dead people buried on Gilgo Beach, Long Island -- was murdered by her other daughter, Shannan's sister Sarra. See https://www.dailyfreeman.com/news/sar...
This is the day we lost Karen Sue Bieneman in a cruel, violent, terrifying way. The only good thing about it is that the events that followed finally put a serial killer behind bars. See The Michigan Murders.
Andrew Cunanan was found dead. See Death at Every Stop.
And happy birthday, Myra! See One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley.
7/24 is the anniversary of the day a man the papers identified only as "Hero Van S." was murdered in his hospital bed. Friggin' Niel Hogel again. See Serial Killer Nurse.Flora Light died of her injuries, 5 weeks after being sexually and physically assaulted by a bunch of knuckleheads led by a guy named Rex Elam. See Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
Marietta Ball was done to death for no good reason on this earth, on this day in 1874. See The Trial of Joseph LaPage, the French Monster, for the Murder of the Beautiful School Girl Miss Josie Langmaid.
Donald Staley killed the unlucky Donnie Goss. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Steven Hale went home with the wrong love interest. See You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm.
he never did anything to Herb, that's for sure
Robbie Mann became the latest victim of "Freight Train" Guatney. See Slayer of Innocence.
Rita Yeung died horribly at the hands of Charles Kembo. See, again, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
7/25 is once again the anniversary of the day Mickey Fleming ran across the street to a neighbor's house and pounded on the door, screaming for help. The neighbor saw a naked woman with blood pouring out of her chest and slammed the door in her face, afraid his wife would be next. Mickey died waiting for the ambulance to arrive. See She Had No Enemies.
Moses Lephule died horribly at the hands of Moses Sithole. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Nilsa Arizmendi was murdered for someone else's sexual pleasure. See His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer.
Earline Brown was murdered, almost certainly by Donny Lang. See Dummy.
Earline, L; Donny, R
Charles Cobble and Marty Jones died horrific deaths together on Dean Corll's "torture board." See Harvest of Horror: Mass Murder in Houston.
Mary Elizabeth Critchley died violently on this day in 1981. Exactly 8 years later, Carrie Moss followed her. They may have been killed by the same man. See The Shadow of Death: The Hunt for a Serial Killer.
Judith and Maria Barsi lost their lives to Jozsef Barsi, who was Judith's father and Maria's husband. See http://sanfernandovalleyblog.blogspot...
Alison Parrott vanished from all our lives forever. See https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jury-c...
7/26 is the anniversary of the day Aleksandr Pichushkin did away with Andrei Konovaltsev. RIP Andrei. See Alexander Pichushkin: The Shocking True Story of the Chessboard Killer.Carl Cooper, Aubrey Pollard, and Fred Temple were terrorized and killed by 3 Detroit Police officers for pretty shaky reasons in the middle of the Detroit Riot of 1967. Officers Ronald August, Robert Paille and David Senak got pretty much no consequences for the triple murder. See The Algiers Motel Incident.
stone cold dead
scot free
Patricia Franklin was killed by Billy Lee Chadd, a serial killer. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
Darwin Marshall lost his life very suddenly to Elias Abuelazamm. he would have either asked Darwin for road directions or asked him to help him get his car started. When Darwin approached him in hope of helping the guy out, he would have been gutted like a fish. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
Darwin is right in the middle of this lineup
Cousin serial killers David Gore and Fred Waterfield killed Lynne Elliott. A 14-year-old friend of hers escaped alive. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Toussaint-Augustin Goufee was murdered, stuffed in a trunk and disposed of like so much trash. See Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Epoque Paris.
7/27 is the day Kathleen Bullman was murdered -- but not by Billy Glaze. See https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/06...
We lost Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez to J.J. DeAngelo. See I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
Georgina Zweni lost her life to Stewart Wilken. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Melinda Harder died violently. She is thought to be a possible victim of William Mansfield, but that has yet to be made clear. It took them forever just to identify her remains and the trail is pretty cold. See Murders in the Swampland.
Gemmel Moore died at the hands of Democratic politician Ed Buck. Buck, with his rainbow neckties and LGBTQ advocacy efforts, is living proof that not every homosexual serial killer is a "closet case" who resents being gay. See https://www.vibe.com/2017/11/gemmel-m...
Gemmel, L; the Buckster, R
But on to today's real theme, which is all about escapes from certain death at the hands of maniacs:
A woman not identified in the Detroit papers got away alive from Shelly Brooks. See Great Lakes Serial Killlers: True Accounts of the Great Lakes Most Gruesome Murders.
A man was stabbed by Elias Abuelazam on this day 10 years ago but got away alive. The article where I found this identifies the man as "Antoine Marshall," but it may be a mixup since other articles do not name him, and Abuelazam has other victims named Antoine Jackson and Darwin Marshall. So, um, I dunno. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7. Anyway, the guy's alive!!!!
Gertrud Nieswandt escaped Paul Ogorzow alive. See A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer.
Nini Daly escaped an attempt on her life by demented rich kid Antony Baekland. Did I mention that he was her grandson? See Savage Grace.
Courtney Fellowes fought off Matias Reyes. Soon enough she would find out he was a serial killer. See Your Eyes or Your Life: The True Story of the Central Park Jogger Rapist.
Beauty Zulu escaped Mlengwa Zikode and called the police on him. Long may she wave! See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
7/28 is the anniversary is the day Richard Whitley started to tell his neighbor, Phoebe Parsons, about his relationship troubles. Then he had a better idea -- at least in his mind -- and wrapped his hands around her throat. It got worse from there. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
the killer
Edward Creed died under circumstances that have never been made clear. See Unsolved 1926: A List of Unsolved UK Murders from 1926.
Joseph Kallinger Jr. died at the hands of his father, Joe Sr., and his brother Michael. One wonders whether Michael was asking himself when it would be his own turn. See The Shoemaker.
not sure, but I think Joe Jr. is at the center of this photo looking towards the camera, flanked by his killers
Linda Nachreiner, a housewife from the Wisconsin Dells, disappeared from her home, leaving two small children and a basket of wet laundry unattended. She was found the next day with her jeans pulled over her head, which had been penetrated by a bullet matching the ones used in 2 similar crimes. It later transpired that a man named Kim Brown had clocked out of work after only 2 hours and headed over to the Nachreiner home with the stolen .357 used to kill her. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Linda is shown with her family in the photo near the top
Anita Vega was paroled on this day in 1999. I'm not sure that this is OK with me, considering how cruelly she killed one daughter while the other one had to watch. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
the victim, Anna Marie Arguello
Joe Yellow Horse Bates became the latest victim in a long, long series of murders. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Ronnie Wiebe was added to Randy Kraft's murder list with the notation "7th STREET." It refers to the location of his poor, battered body. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
7/29 is the day we lost Pia Rontini and her date, Claudio Stefanacci. See The True Stories of the Monster of Florence.Annie Gordon died in agony, as she was faithfully tended by her killer. See Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer.
Megan Kanka was carried off and killed by Jesse Timendequas. During the trial he was photographed smirking at her devastated parents. America would have forgiven them if they had killed him on the spot. See Megan's Law: Protection Or Privacy.
George Bigheart was killed for his money. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Phil Domblewski was stabbed to death. No good reason. It just sort of happened out of nowhere. Two other would-be victims escaped with their lives, but still. See Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case.
the crime scene
The bodies of Robert Avila and Raymond Davis were found together, pretty much ruling out any notion that the crimes were unrelated. See The Scorecard Killer: The Life of Serial Killer Randy Steven Kraft.
Monica Massaro lost her life to a serial killer. See Caught in the Act: A Courageous Family's Fight to Save Their Daughter from a Serial Killer.
This is also the day we lost Ivan "Buck" Barrow, played by Gene Hackman in a movie about the exploits of Buck and his brother Clyde. See Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
7/30 is the anniversary of the terrible day a man named Ernest Broadwax set upon and killed two young women on vacation together. This would take a very long time to clear up. See http://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvani...
In an even more random crime, this is the day Vince Li stabbed, beheaded and partially ate Tim McLean as they rode in the back of a bus. I wonder how long it took for any of the other passengers to notice what was going on. See https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/natio...
We also lost Nancy Lee Paiva. See Killing Season: The Unsolved Case of New England's Deadliest Serial Killer.
Michael Sakara fell prey to the Last Call Killer. See https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/ric...
Troy Burress lost his life to Aileen Wuornos. See Monster: My True Story.
Adriane Hunter was lured into danger and killed by Nathaniel White. See https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/...
W.W. Vaughn became an indirect victim of the Osage murder spree in Oklahoma. See http://www.ucomagazines.com/oldnorth/...
Jimmy Hoffa vanished on this day in 1975. Seven years later exactly, he was declared dead by the courts. This created an opening for every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants press attention to claim they know where his remains can be found. See In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth.
Tiffany Pohlson, Brian Mort, and Tony Spigarelli died very, very suddenly and randomly when they were out having a good time on a hot, sunny day. See The Best American Crime Reporting 2010.
Anthony
Brian
Tiffany
7/31 is the anniversary of the day Michelle Charette lost her life to serial killer peter McDonald. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
We also lost Tracie Hawlett and J.M. Beasley to Cole McCraney. See https://abcnews.go.com/US/dna-links-s...
Richard Caputo did away with Natalie Brown, probably for the usual reason in his case, that he felt rejected. See Ladykiller.
Daniel Porter and Susan Petz were taken from us by another serial killer. Considering how uncommon these guys are in the general scheme of murders, spare a thought for all the thousands and thousand of people murdered who will never be mentioned in a book like Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies' Case.
Jessica Muskus vanished from human ken, to be found much, much later, reduced to a pile of bones not far from the dumping ground used by Devin Howell. She has not been clearly connected to his crimes, but you can still read about her in Anne Howard's His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer.
Harvey Carignan killed the unlucky Laura Showalter, who was as blameless as all the other victims in these anniversary listings. See The Want-Ad Killer.
Officer WAYNE Selle died in the course of a riot at Leavenworth Prison. See The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison.
We also lost John Butkovitch to a certain piece of walking self-pity whose name we all know. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.
On the other hand, E'twan Wilson escaped Elias Abuelazam with his life, and that's not a small thing. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
you can see in this photo how close a call it was
8/1 was earlier reported by this writer as the last day anyone saw Laura Mah alive before Willie Pickton or maybe Gilbert Jordan killed her, but that's been proven to be untrue. She died of natural causes in a hospital. Due to some sort of paperwork foul-up, she has been listed for over 30 years as a murder victim. RIP Laura. 
This is the approximate day Moses Sithole killed a woman who is still waiting to be identified. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Richard Caputo killed Jacqui Bernard, not for his usual rejected-swain reasons but probably because she wanted to stop giving him money. Always with the sob stories, that Caputo. See Love Me to Death: A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer.
Lloyd Lichti killed John Barce. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Marnie Lee Frey died on approximately this day in 1997. On approximately this day in 1985, Sheryl Donahue lost her life. On exactly this day in 2001, we also lost Serena Abbotsway. You can read about them both in The Pig Farm Murders.
Bill Suff killed the blameless Sherry Latham. See The Riverside Killer.
Stephen Nash, who was always up to no good, killed Robert Eche. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Mark WAYNE Helmig lost his life very young indeed. See Slayer of Innocence.
8/2 is the day Niels Hogel killed Manfred Monczka. See Serial Killer Nurse.Marie Goudreau died untimely. The case has never been cleared. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Thomas Lee was reduced to a notation, "Pier 2," on Randy Kraft's scorecard. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Bill Suff killed poor Kelly Hammond. See The Riverside Killer.
Carl and Sarah Collier were stabbed to death by their granddaughter, Holly Harvey. See True Crime: Real Girls, Real-Life Stories.
We also lost Michael Tinning, in a case that should have brought Child Protective Services, the police and angry villagers with torches and pitchforks to the killer's door. How did they not see??? From Cradle to Grave: Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children offers no clarity on this question, I'm sorry to say.
Deputy Stephen Sorensen lost his life needlessly. See Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History.
Arnold Minor, a smallish African-American man of the sort Elias Abuelazam liked to gut with a knife, became the killer's latest victim. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
Carol Valenzuela died violently. Much, much later the killer proved to be someone other than Ted Bundy, the one everyone seemed to think was responsible. See https://katu.com/news/local/new-evide...
Marie-Angelique Guillin found out that she had married exactly the wrong guy. See Landru's Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France's Lonely Hearts Serial Killer.
Jane Bennington became a victim. See the "Orange Coast" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Andrew Urdiales raped -- or tried to rape -- and finally killed Lynn Huber. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Cara King was found dead. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
8/3 is the last day anyone saw Deborah Reynolds alive. She was caught on security cam with DeAngelo Martin. Witnesses saw her pleading for help from the Ferndale police, saying Martin was going to kill her...but nobody did anything. See https://wwjnewsradio.radio.com/articl...
This is the first anniversary of the day Connor Betts killed 9 people. See https://www.toledoblade.com/news/nati...
AND the first anniversary of the day Patrick Crusius killed 23 people. I remember wondering what could possibly have been going on in this world to make this happen, but hey, we hadn't even started 2020 yet, so we really hadn't seen anything yet. See https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/us/el-...
Darrell Rich killed Patricia Anne Moore. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Ronald Nienhuis killed Cathy Greeve. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
WAYNE Harvey Smith killed Samedy Khiev. See https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2...
Emma Rogers was shot 6 times. She and her unborn baby survived. Emma and baby 2, Earl Daughtrey 0. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Debbie Furlong and Kathy Snoozy lost their lives to the usual kind of sweet, shy loner -- this time the guy's name was Karl Werner. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
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This is the day in 1801 that Francis Thornhill lost his life and his strand of pearls to Sweeney Todd. Poor Francis was butchered like a hog and served as dinner to the customers in a meat-pie shop under the barbershop where he met his end. See Sweeney Todd: The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
In far better anniversaries, a teenager in Leesburg, Virginia got away alive from Elias Abuelazam. Long may he wave! See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
8/4 is the anniversary of the day when a woman called Helene Annaliese R. in the German-language papers got her last injection. See Serial Killer Nurse.Jennifer Bastian was killed by a loser named Robert Washburn. See True Crime Case Histories - (Books 1, 2 & 3): 32 Disturbing True Crime Stories.
crime-scene photo
William Boyd's head was crushed by his cellmate, Kieron Kelly. That didn't really satisfy somehow, so Kelly garroted him as well. See The London Underground Serial Killer.
Ian Huntley killed Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells. They were just kids, like Jennifer Bastian above. See Goodbye, Dearest Holly.
Christine Klebbe, Angeline Hopkins and Brenda Whiteside were found together, quite a while after they were last seen alive. See https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/...
We also lost Aura Gabor. See https://richmond.com/from-the-archive...
8/5 is the anniversary of the murder of Emi Krause by good old Niels Hogel or Hoegel. See Serial Killer Nurse.
the killer in court
Larry WAYNE Pearson finally succumbed to whatever horrific tortures Bob Berdella had been putting him through since luring him into his house. RIP, Larry. See Rites Of Burial.
James Haakenson was raped, tortured and killed by a pudgy building contractor who apparently couldn't cope with being gay. See Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders.
Lewis Lent killed Holly Piirainen. Maybe. See https://www.masslive.com/springfield/...
Barbara Simons was stabbed almost 100 times by the Weepy-Voiced Killer. He got this nickname in part because of the blubbery phone call he made to the police taking credit for the atrocity. See https://heresthefuckingtwist.com/2018...
Sheila Egan lost her life on this day in 1998. We think. She's never been found. Willie Pickton is a suspect. See On the Farm.
Joe Metheny died in prison. Boo hoo! See https://random-times.com/2020/04/15/j...
But here's the god news. Locatia Mladamin, and Hlope and Cornelia Mahadebe Dlamini all got away alive from the same serial killer, Mlengwa Zikode. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
the disappointed homicidal maniac in a reflective moment
8/6 is the anniversary of the last day anyone definitely saw Manuel Resendez alive. On the same day in the same year -- 1993 -- Allan Livingston was definitely killed by the same man who killed Manuel. See Where the Bodies Are Buried.Here's a curious case. Amanda Thethe was murdered; a suspected serial killer, David Selepe, was accused of the crime. The true murderer turned out to be Amanda's boyfriend, Moses Sithole -- another serial killer. See Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth.
Ron Sears killed Frank Sciegelski. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Detective John Davis died, a month after sustaining injuries in a shootout. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Sipho Dube killed Nomnikelo Juma. RIP Nomnikele. See https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dube...
Louis Cassaway, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Josie and Louise (or Ruby???) were killed by an observant member of the God Sacrifice Church. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Elizabeth and her daughters
Carol King was taken from everything and everyone she loved. See Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women.
Jennie Cramer was found decapitated. See Faceless: Five Gruesome Unsolved Murders: Most Mysterious and Headless Unsolved Murders of All Time.
the victim
Clara Johnson was rescued from Joey Miller, thank Scrod. He bit off more than he could chew that time. See https://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-suprem...
Willie Pickton killed Dorothy Spence. See The Pig Farm Murders.
A man not named in the papers who was living in Leesburg, Virginia escaped Elias Abuelazam with his life. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
8/7 is already the 15th anniversary of the day Theresa Innes was found stuffed in a hockey bag. How Canadian can a murder get, am I right? See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
Dayton Rogers was stone-cold busted standing over the body of Jennifer Smith. If I recall correctly, he still had the dripping knife in his hand. See Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer.
Margo, Sylvia, and Sandra Compton were killed along with family friend Gary Seslar. The killer, Robert McClure, was finally busted when he bragged to cellmates about how the children clutched their teddy bears as he murdered them. See https://apnews.com/7daf7344b73f9f9377... or Cult Killers.
A man in Toledo Ohio got away alive from Elias Abuelazam. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 7.
Alphonse Manning and Toni Schwenn, an interracial couple, were killed by Joseph Franklin. See Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin.
A woman we know only as "Cathy" was killed by Doug Clark and Carol Bundy. She was just a skeleton when she was found in a creek bed. See The Sunset Murders.
8/8 is the 1886 anniversary of not, one, but two murders you can read about in Faceless: Five Gruesome Unsolved Murders: Most Mysterious and Headless Unsolved Murders of All Time. In one case, the torso of a man who has never been identified was found in Wallingford, CT. The other is the once-notorious Shoe Box Murder. This is the day in 1987 that Estella and Charlene Moore were gunned down. Georgianna Broadway, also in the apartment at the time, escaped with her life. See The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.
the accused killer, Skeet Douglas, with his son, Robert Peace
Jack Sully, a police officer who worked on the side as a serial killer, did away with Barbara Searcy. See https://mycrimelibrary.com/anthony-su...
Donald Kueck was roasted alive. See The Best American Crime Writing 2006.
Lottie May Brandon came irrevocably a cropper. See Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.
Moses Sithole did away with the blameless Ocarina Jakalase. RIP Ocarina. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Than Mai died at the hands of Niels Hogel, only one of 85 people he would eventually be convicted of killing. See Serial Killer Nurse.
Leading the way for Niels was Jane Toppan, whose patient Alden Davis died in misery on this day a century or so earlier, as she held his hand and mopped his brow. See Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer.
We also lost Micheline Pare, along the Highway of Tears. See Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women.
8/9 is already the 25th anniversary of the Milford Memories murders. A couple of young girls vanished from the festival and were later found dead at the hands of a couple of morons named Aaron Stinchcombe and Russell Oeschger. See https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/15/us...
Edward Dooley was killed by his wife, Lyda "Flypaper" Dooley. See https://magicvalley.com/news/local/si...
Tim Hack and Kelly Drew fell prey to Edward WAYNE Edwards. See IT'S ME, Edward Wayne Edwards, the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of.
Dead women were found in a back bedroom of the apartment recently abandoned by Marty Graham. He left a note on the door saying he'd be back for his belongings later, but the smell brought the landlord a-sniffin'. More bodies, and parts of bodies, were found on the building's roof and buried in the yard. See https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/grah...
Valerie Jamison
Barbara Mahoney
Cynthia Brooks
Mary Jeter Mathis
Robin DeShazor
Sandra Garvin
David Roth did away with Lisa Roberts, who was known only as Jane Doe for years after the crime. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
Moneta Strickland died at the hands of John Quade. You can read about this in, of all places, The Chesapeake Today August 2013 -- a true-crime and fishing circular.
An unidentified woman was found where Moses Sithole had left her. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Diane Dimitri lost her life to Michael Durant. See https://www.pressreader.com/canada/th...
Diane is at upper R
Patty Rebholz died on this day in 1963. See http://www.codex99.com/unclassified/p...
We lost Donald Jones to David Maust. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
8/10 is a day of unanswered questions. For starters, it's the anniversary of the day someone found the body of "Blue Bandanna Girl." That was the only name she had for years, but she was finally identified as Paula Davis who had vanished in 1987. She spent more years than that on the list of possible victims of "Dr. No," but has fairly recently been moved to the list of possible victims of Lorenzo Gilyard. I hope this poor creature finally gets some justice, somehow. See https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2...
forensic sketch
Paula in life
Joyce Mashbela died violently, maybe at the hands of David Selepe. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Vicki Koch died at the hands of persons unknown. See Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial..
Linda LeMonte and her daughter, Sheila Smoke, were gutted like trout by Linda's boyfriend at the time, Raymond Brown, who she never knew had been imprisoned for doing the same thing to 3 female relatives. Sheila's brother Aaron escaped the slaughter alive. See The Path of a Psychopath, Alabama's Teenage Serial Killer, Raymond Eugene Brown.
Allan Warren, aged 7, was killed by a pervert named Horace Edwards. See The Child Killers.
the pervert, R, with his counsel
Øystein Aarseth, the inventor of the Norwegian Black Metal sound and owner of his own record shop and record label, got his thank-you for everything he'd done to help break Varg Vikernes into the music business on this day in 1993. Vikernes waylaid him in his apartment and stabbed him over and over, polishing him off with a knife through the head when Aarseth survived all the stab wounds to the torso. Some thanks. See Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground.
Zach Davis killed his mom, Melanie, with a sledgehammer. See https://morbidology.com/the-sledgeham...
Aimee Constance de Bully was taken from us on this day in 1824 by another child-killing pervert, this time Antoine Leger. See, again, The Child Killers.
"Bicycle Bob" Small was killed for his yellow Schwinn in a sorry incident you can only read about in Predators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
8/11 is the day Christine Thornton and her unborn child were taken from us by Rodney Alcala. See The Dating Game Killer: Life of Serial Killer Rodney James Alcala.
A hospital patient called Ernestine P. in the newspapers was murdered by good old Niels Hogel. See Serial Killer Nurse.
While we're on that subject, this is the anniversary of the day Charles Cullen killed Christopher Hardgrove for no other reason except getting a jolt out of that sort of thing. See The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder.
(Christopher's mom and sister giving their impact statements; mom is demanding that Cullen look at his handiwork, her son lying in his coffin)
Clay Boatman was found dead. He may well be a victim of Herb Baumeister. See You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm.
Rachel and Suzanne Harris, Renee Ferguson, and Josephine Smith were found dead in what came to be known at the Seaside Cottage murders. See https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/murde...
5 members of the William Burton family lost their lives to the Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
8/12 is the day they found Tracy Olajide dead. She is considered to be a victim of the Hemlock Valley Killer -- whoever that might be. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Steven Elliot fell prey to Herb Baumeister. See Where the Bodies Are Buried.
Samuel Nqaba died on approximately this day at the hands of Norman Simons, aka the Station Strangler. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Shirley Marks was found dead as well. See The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice.
Gary WAYNE Cordova was added to Randy Kraft's list of murder victims with the notation "Big Sur." RIP Gary.
Pierre Chevallier was killed by his wife, who apparently just couldn't take any more. See The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion.
Reiter De Bruijn lost his life to Hans Van Zon. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Adolfo De Jesus Constanzo and his merry crew of paleros sacrificed someone whose name never made the papers, in hopes that the gods they worshipped would increase profits at their marijuana ranch. See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
8/13 is the anniversary of the day Nicole Townsend was found dead at the hands of Andrew Crawford, who was nothing but trouble on his best day. See Rise of the Black Serial Killer: Documenting a Startling Trend.Melissa Floyd was found dead on the same day that Michelle Galloway disarmed and escaped Melissa's killer, Lucious Boyd. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/boyd...
Pearl Bruns was reported missing. This was just the beginning of a long, frustrating story for the police. Hoo boy. See https://www.swordandscale.com/a-missi...
(she was eventually found)
Michelle Burns became the latest victim of rape-murderer Eugene Britt. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
We lost Tiahease Jackson. She is generally thought to be a victim of pervert Andre Rand, but until some trace of her is found it's going to be hard to know anything for sure. See https://alchetron.com/Andre-Rand
Catherine Casler was stabbed to death when she was out on a morning run on this day in 1995. DNA eventually linked her to David WAYNE McCall, about whom you can read a few paragraphs in In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders.
It's already been 2 whole years since Shannan Watts, her unborn son Nico, and her daughters Bella and Celeste were killed by the kids' dad, Christopher. See My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer.
Kay Amin died of a botched abortion performed by the baby's father. See A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin.
(Kay with her husband Idi Amin, the man she was trying to hide the pregnancy from)
This is the anniversary of the dark day Sonia, Nina, Jane and Michael Horbachewski were killed by Michael Horbachewski, the children's father. See Panic.
8/14 is the anniversary of the day David Kammerer was stabbed several times with a Boy Scout knife. When that didn't kill him, his assailant took off Kammerer's shoelaces, tied his hands and feet so he couldn't move, then rolled him into the East River. He really had it coming, though. See And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.
We also lost Jane Taylor, maybe to Ian Copeland, but also maybe to Ray Morris. See https://scepticpeg.wordpress.com/2017...
Chris and Peggy Lerch died violently at the hands of little-known serial killer Bill Wickline. See https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w1/wic...
Dennis Medler was found mutilated and dead. See Cult Killers.
Darrell Rich killed Annette Selix. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
8/15 is a pretty good day, because that was when they rescued Laetitia Delhez and Sabine Dardenne from Marc Dutroux's sex dungeon. See I Choose to Live.
Sabine
Laetitia
Stanley Burden escaped Dan Conahan with his life. It was a close call. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Manuel Diaz survived being shot and castrated by Norman Bernard on this day in 1983. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bern...
Gail Ficklin, on the other hand, did not survive her encounter with one of the killers lumped under the monicker "Southside Slayer." See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
A woman who could have been Margaret Radebe, or maybe Makoba Nogotst, was found dead at the hands of Moses Sithole. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
8/16 is the day we lost Bob Miles, the Grand Dragon of the Michigan KKK and -- without any detectable trace of sarcasm -- pastor of a church, just a hair north of here in Cohoctah. See A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America.
It's the day Ronald Dominique killed WAYNE Smith. See The Bayou Strangler: Louisiana’s Most Gruesome Serial Killer.
James Dashiell was killed in his bed; his wife escaped alive. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Marcus Shrader killed Cheryl Boyd. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/shra...
Jemima McDonald was murdered by a man who has never been arrested. See Escape from Evil: Married at 17 to a Serial Killer, She's One Victim Who Escaped.
Necole Guillory also died for no reason anyone has been able to establish in court. No arrest so far at all. See Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.
Nadine O'Dell vanished from human ken, maybe because of Arthur Ream. See https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Bill Suff definitely killed Kelly Hammond. See The Riverside Killer.
8/17 is the approximate day Waldo Grant killed George Muniz. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.We lost Susan Shumake to Daniel Woloson on tis day in 1981. See https://thesouthern.com/news/woloson-...
Fred Merrick died at the hands of Edward Ruloff and two accomplices. Said accomplices, Al Jarvis and Billy Dexter, managed to drown themselves fleeing the scene. See Life, Trial and Execution of Edward H. Ruloff: The Perpetrator of Eight Murders, Numerous Burglaries and Other Crimes; who was Recently Hanged at Binghamton, N.Y.
Steven Cooper fell prey to Charlie Chop-Off. See Charlie Chop Off - Serial Killers Unauthorized & Uncensored.
This is the day someone found Lisa Carter in flames. See https://www.expressnews.com/news/loca...
Elton Jackson killed the hapless Chucky Smith. See, again, 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
8/18 is the day Ron Sears killed Sgt. Hugh Blackwood-Price. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.Celia Cota fell prey to a man still known only as the Coast Fiend. See https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT193...
(Celia is marked #4 in this line-up of the victims)
Brenda Lee Salomon died at the hands of Lance-Corporal Curtis Gibbs. See The Mutilators: From the Files of True Detective Magazine.
Pam Foddrill was abducted by a group of felons. From here things got much, much worse. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
This is the approximate day Elton Jackson killed Joseph Ray. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Herbert Coddington killed Sheila Keister. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
This is the last day anyone definitely saw Amber Tuccaro alive. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
This is also the day Elliot Ness had them burn down the shantytown at Kingsbury Run, in the attempt to flush out the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Fauling that, they could comfort themselves they would be making it harder for him to find more homeless to kill. See Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer.
8/19 is the day Joyce Mashabela was found dead at the hands of Moses Sithole. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.We lost Jackie McLean, supposedly at the hands of Carl Hall according to Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder, but an article I found says he was acquitted of that particular crime because his friend's footprints were also found in Jackie's blood.
Jackie and friend
(this photo was captioned "Smirking Hall wins acquittal in Sandbar slaying")
Danny Bridges unwittingly broke the Larry Eyler case on this day when pieces of him were found in Larry's garbage. See Freed to Kill: The True Story of Larry Eyler.
Maria Casio became the latest victim of David Wood. See under "Missing" in Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Keith and Patrice Harrington lost their lives to Joseph DeAngelo. He finally pleaded guilty to this revolting crime just days ago. I hope wherever they are, they are smiling in relief. See I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
This is the day we lost Deletha Word in a vicious beating at the Belle Isle Bridge. See https://apnews.com/dc5031b6ac9cbb61b3...
(what was left of her car after they used her as a bludgeon against the windshield)
This is also the day the "Holmes Castle" burned to the ground. Seems kind of fitting to me. See The Murder Castle of HH Holmes: Expanded Edition (full length, newly edited): An annotated scrapbook of pictures, diagrams, eyewitness accounts, legal ... ephemera, and more.
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This is the approximate day in 1993 that Herb Baumeister did away with Richard Hamilton and Jeff Jones. On exactly this day 3 years later, Baumeister drove to Canada, ate a peanut butter sandwich and blew his own head off. See You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm.
Sandra Chamberlain was raped, gutted like a fish and sexually mutilated with a piece of broken glass. See Torture Killers.
Angela Frausto was taken from us. See the "Missing" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1; the killer has since been identified as David Wood.
This is the approximate day Todd Stoops died after a couple of weeks of starvation and assorted torture by Bob Berdella. If you read what it says about him in Rites Of Burial, you'll be amazed he lasted as long as he did. He must have been a very strong man.
Roxanna Thiara became the latest victim of the Highway of Tears. See Invisible Victims: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women.
Stacie Goulet met a horrible end. See Ripper.
Sarah Gibson died at the hands of David Frooms. See The Sex Killers.
Marie Beavers, aka Ethel Berridge, was suffocated using a man's handkerchief. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.