Serial Killer Victims on August 16

Serial Killer Victims (19)

Serial Killer Victim10th anniversary

Elizabeth Griffith

Victim of Shawn Michael Grate

age 29 · Ashland, Ohio

Killed Aug 16, 2016 · 10 years ago

Elizabeth Griffith, a 29-year-old woman from Ohio, tragically lost her life in August 2016. Her remains were discovered on September 13, 2016, in an abandoned property located at 363 Covert Court near downtown Ashland, Ohio. Elizabeth's body was found…

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Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Kelly Hammond

Victim of William Lester Suff

age 27 · Corona, California

Killed Aug 16, 1991 · 35 years ago

On August 16, 1991, the body of Kelly Marie Hammond, a 27-year-old white female from Rubidoux, California, was discovered in an alley in Corona, Riverside County. Her nude body was found posed, with her right arm bent and tucked under her abdomen, her left…

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Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Kelly Hammond

Victim of William Lester Suff

age 27 · Corona, California

Killed Aug 16, 1991 · 35 years ago

On August 16, 1991, the body of Kelly Marie Hammond, a 27-year-old white female from Rubidoux, California, was discovered in an alley in Corona, Riverside County. Her nude body was found posed, with her right arm bent and tucked under her abdomen, her left…

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Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Naomi Kelly

Victim of Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard

age 23 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Aug 16, 1986 · 40 years ago

On August 16, 1986, the body of 23-year-old Naomi Kelly was discovered in a park located at 10th and Harrison streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. A single mother of two who was attending business school to improve her family's future, Kelly had been…

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Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Ernst C. Frey

Victim of Donald Harvey

age 85 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Aug 16, 1986 · 40 years ago

Ernst C. Frey, an 85-year-old man from Cincinnati, Ohio, was a patient at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital when he became one of the victims of hospital orderly Donald Harvey, a serial killer who secretly murdered patients under his care. Frey died on August…

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Serial Killer Victim25th anniversary

Sandra Davis

Victim of Shelly Andre Brooks

age 53 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Aug 16, 2001 · 25 years ago

Sandra Davis was a 53-year-old woman living in Detroit, Michigan, in the summer of 2001. Her life was cut short in August of that year, marking the beginning of a years-long reign of terror by a man who preyed on vulnerable women in the city. Sandra is…

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Serial Killer Victim75th anniversary

Roy Chester Hansen

Victim of Lloyd Gomez

age 46 · California

Killed Aug 16, 1951 · 75 years ago

Lloyd Gomez: The Phantom Hobo Killer Lloyd Gomez was an American serial killer who murdered transient and homeless men along California railroad routes during 1950 and 1951. He became known in later accounts as the “Phantom Hobo Killer” and the “Hobo Jungle…

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Serial Killer Victim100th anniversary

Bonnie Pace

Victim of Earle Leonard Nelson

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Killed Aug 16, 1926 · 100 years ago

Earle Leonard Nelson: The “Gorilla Man” and “Dark Strangler” Introduction Earle Leonard Nelson was an American serial killer whose crimes spread across the United States and into Canada during 1926 and 1927. Newspapers called him the “Gorilla Man,” the…

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Raul Romero

Victim of Aaron Juan Saucedo

age 61 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Aug 16, 2015 · 11 years ago

On a summer day in Phoenix, Arizona, tragedy struck the life of 61-year-old Raul Romero, a man whose death would later be linked to a series of violent acts that instilled fear in the community. On August 16, 2015, Romero was fatally shot, a victim of gun…

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Roxanne Colley

Victim of Daniel Oliver Jones

age 21 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Aug 16, 1999 · 27 years ago

Roxanne Colley, a 21-year-old Black woman from Kansas City, Missouri, had been trying to build something steady for herself: she’d earned her GED, worked as a legal secretary for the Internal Revenue Service, and talked about continuing her…

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Phyllis G. Harris

Victim of Golden Years Murders

age 59 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Aug 16, 1994 · 32 years ago

In the summer of 1994, a palpable sense of fear lingered in the city of Richmond, Virginia, a city already grappling with a staggering number of homicides. Amidst this backdrop of violence, the life of 58-year-old Phyllis G. Harris, a white woman, was…

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Rosie Hill

Victim of Samuel Little

age 20 · Ocala, Florida

Killed Aug 16, 1982 · 44 years ago

Rosie Hill, a 20-year-old woman, was tragically murdered in Florida in 1982. Her body was discovered on August 16 of that year in a wooded area near a hog pen off County Road 326. Authorities determined that she had been strangled or suffocated. For decades…

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Nina Marie Joseph

Victim of Edward Dennis Isaac

age 15 · Prince George, British Columbia

Killed Aug 16, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the summer of 1982, Nina Marie Joseph was a 15-year-old female living and working in Prince George, British Columbia. Her life, full of the promise of youth, was unfolding in a city nestled in the vast, forested landscape of Canada's interior. But this…

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Sherivon Dolores Wooten

Victim of Miami Strangler

age 21 · Miami, Florida

Killed Aug 16, 1969 · 57 years ago

On August 16, 1969, the body of Sherivon Dolores Wooten, a 21-year-old African American female from Miami, Florida, was discovered on a dirt road situated between two residential homes. Her death was part of a disturbing pattern of killings attributed to an…

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Gretchen Fritz

Victim of Charles Howard Schmid

age 18 · Tucson, Arizona

Killed Aug 16, 1965 · 61 years ago

In the summer of 1965, the city of Tucson, Arizona, was gripped by a story that began with the disappearance of two sisters and ended with the unmasking of a charismatic killer. Seventeen-year-old Gretchen Fritz, a white female, and her thirteen-year-old…

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Wendy Fritz

Victim of Charles Howard Schmid

age 13 · Tucson, Arizona

Killed Aug 16, 1965 · 61 years ago

In the summer of 1965, a shadow fell over Tucson, Arizona, with the disappearance of two sisters, 13-year-old Wendy Fritz and her 17-year-old sister Gretchen. The two girls, who were Caucasian, vanished on the evening of August 16, 1965, after heading out to…

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Wayne Smith

Victim of Ronald Joseph Dominique

age 17 · Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Killed Aug 16, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the late summer of 2005, the community of Houma in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, was left with unsettling questions surrounding the death of 17-year-old Wayne Henry Scott Smith, known to his friends and family as 'Wezzy Bo.' An obituary published in late…

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LaTonya Keeler

Victim of Chicago Strangler

age 29 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 16, 2003 · 23 years ago

On a summer day in Chicago, the life of 29-year-old LaTonya Keeler, a Black female, came to a brutal and anonymous end. On Saturday, August 16, 2003, her body was discovered in a garbage can in an alley, a detail that speaks to the coldness of her killer. Her…

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Wanda Sue Adams

Victim of Raymond J. Lassor

age 18 · Providence, Rhode Island

Killed Aug 16, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the summer of 1984, a shadow fell over Providence, Rhode Island, as a series of brutal killings instilled fear throughout the city. The second victim in this terrifying spree was Wanda Sue Adams, an 18-year-old Black woman with a future full of promise. An…

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