Serial Killer Victims on August 4

Serial Killer Victims (15)

Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Vanessa Villa

Victim of Meza Juan Ramon Segundo

age 11 · Fort Worth, Texas

Killed Aug 4, 1986 · 40 years ago

Vanessa Villa, an 11-year-old Hispanic girl from Fort Worth, Texas, was tragically murdered on August 4, 1986. At the time of her death, she lived with her mother and two siblings. Vanessa was known for her dedication to school, despite facing challenges with…

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Serial Killer Victim50th anniversary

Aura Marina Gabor

Victim of Montie Ralph Rissell

age 26 · Alexandria, Virginia

Killed Aug 4, 1976 · 50 years ago

In the late summer of 1976, the life of a young Guatemalan woman, Aura Marina Gabor, was tragically cut short in Alexandria, Virginia. The 26-year-old, who worked as a masseuse, lived in an apartment complex that would become the hunting ground for her…

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Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Rhonda Renee Johnson

Victim of I-45 Killer

age 14 · Galveston, Texas

Killed Aug 4, 1971 · 55 years ago

Rhonda Renee Johnson, a 13-year-old girl from Galveston, Texas, tragically died on August 4, 1971. She and her friend Sharon Shaw, aged 14, disappeared after spending the day at a Galveston beach. Eyewitnesses last saw them walking on Seawall Boulevard in…

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Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Sharon Lynn Shaw

Victim of I-45 Killer

age 13 · Galveston, Texas

Killed Aug 4, 1971 · 55 years ago

On August 4, 1971, 14-year-old Sharon Lynn Shaw and her friend Rhonda Johnson disappeared from a beach outing in Galveston, Texas. Both girls were last seen walking on Seawall Boulevard. Their skeletal remains were discovered in early 1972 in and around Clear…

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Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Rhonda Renee Johnson

Victim of Anthony Michael Knoppa

age 14 · Galveston, Texas

Killed Aug 4, 1971 · 55 years ago

Rhonda Renee Johnson, a 13-year-old girl from Galveston, Texas, tragically died on August 4, 1971. She and her friend Sharon Shaw, aged 14, disappeared after spending the day at a Galveston beach. Eyewitnesses last saw them walking on Seawall Boulevard in…

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Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Sharon Lynn Shaw

Victim of Anthony Michael Knoppa

age 14 · Galveston, Texas

Killed Aug 4, 1971 · 55 years ago

On August 4, 1971, 14-year-old Sharon Lynn Shaw and her friend Rhonda Johnson disappeared from a beach outing in Galveston, Texas. Both girls were last seen walking on Seawall Boulevard. Their skeletal remains were discovered in early 1972 in and around Clear…

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Serial Killer Victim15th anniversary

Valerie Ector

Victim of Michael Mullins

age 46 · Memphis, Tennessee

Killed Aug 4, 2011 · 15 years ago

Valerie Ector, a 46-year-old woman, was born on February 12, 1965, in Tunica County, Mississippi. Her life was marked by early hardship; after her mother died of heart problems at age 37, 11-year-old Valerie and her siblings moved to Memphis to live with…

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Serial Killer Victim85th anniversary

Evelyn Anderson

Victim of Jarvis Theodore Roosevelt Catoe

age 26 · New York, New York

Killed Aug 4, 1941 · 85 years ago

In the summer of 1941, Evelyn Anderson, a 26-year-old female, was working as a waitress in the Bronx, New York, navigating life in the bustling city. Her life, however, came to a brutal and sudden end on August 4, 1941, when she became the final victim of a…

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Paul Corbett

Victim of Reuben Taylor

age 67 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 4, 1972 · 54 years ago

On August 4, 1972, Paul Corbett, a 67-year-old white male and retired insurance executive, was murdered in his home in Barrington Hills, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The tragedy unfolded when four armed men—Donald Taylor, Reuben Taylor, Michael Clark, and…

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Marion Corbett

Victim of Reuben Taylor

age 58 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 4, 1972 · 54 years ago

On August 4, 1972, Marion Corbett, a 58-year-old white female pianist and composer, was murdered in her Barrington Hills home, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The tragedy unfolded when four men—Donald Taylor, Reuben Taylor, Michael Clark, and Nathaniel…

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Barbara Boand

Victim of Reuben Taylor

age 22 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 4, 1972 · 54 years ago

Barbara Shepherd “Bobbie” Boand, a 22-year-old white woman, was tragically murdered on August 4, 1972, in Barrington Hills, Cook County, Illinois. She was one of four victims killed in a brutal home invasion that shocked the affluent suburban community. The…

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Dorothy Derry

Victim of Reuben Taylor

age 60 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 4, 1972 · 54 years ago

Dorothy Derry, a 60-year-old white woman, was tragically killed on August 4, 1972, in Barrington Hills, Illinois. She was among four victims murdered during a violent home invasion that shocked the suburban community. The other victims were her sister…

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Artemus Brewer

Victim of Lizzie Halliday

Greenwich, New York

Killed Aug 4, 1885 · 141 years ago

On August 4, 1885, Artemus Brewer, a 44-year-old man, died in Greenwich, New York, closing the brief final chapter of a life rooted in Washington County and remembered there in burial. Later retellings would describe him as a veteran drawing a pension, the…

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Robert Ward

Victim of Patrick Franklin Andrews

age 18 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Aug 4, 1997 · 29 years ago

On a summer evening in Washington, D.C., 18-year-old Robert Ward was walking near the intersection of 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue SE when his life was violently cut short. It was August 4, 1997, and the teenager, a resident of Bay Street SE, was…

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Anna Markowitz

Victim of Dayton Strangler

age 18 · Ohio

Killed Aug 4, 1907 · 119 years ago

The Dayton Strangler: Dayton's Unidentified "Jack the Strangler" The Dayton Strangler was the name given to an unidentified killer believed responsible for a series of murders in Dayton, Ohio, during the first decade of the twentieth century. Newspapers also…

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