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Donald Harbour

Male, age 49 · Manhattan, Kansas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

On a summer morning in Manhattan, Kansas, on August 9, 1982, a veteran police officer’s life was tragically cut short in a violent confrontation. Donald Harbour, a 49-year-old White / Caucasian male, had dedicated 22 years of his life to the Riley County…

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Dave Bahl

Male, age 28 · Grand-prairie, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Dave Bahl, a 28-year-old male, was tragically killed on August 9, 1982, in Grand Prairie, Texas. The incident occurred during a violent rampage by John Felton Parish, a 49-year-old truck driver who went on a shooting spree at two warehouses in the area.…

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Eddie Eugene Ulrich

Male, age 40 · Grand-prairie, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Eddie Eugene Ulrich, a 40-year-old Caucasian male, was tragically killed on August 9, 1982, in Grand Prairie, Texas. Ulrich, who worked as a supervisor at the Western Transfer Company, was one of the victims in a horrific shooting spree carried out by John…

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Martin Douglas Moran

Male, age 30 · Grand-prairie, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Martin Douglas Moran, a 30-year-old white male, tragically lost his life on August 9, 1982, in Grand Prairie, Texas. Moran was one of the six victims in a violent rampage carried out by John Felton Parish, a 49-year-old truck driver. The incident occurred in…

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Moody Charles Smith

Male, age 58 · Grand-prairie, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Moody Charles Smith, a 58-year-old male of unspecified ethnicity, met an untimely death on August 9, 1982, in Grand Prairie, Texas. He was the operations manager at Western Transfer Company. Smith's death was part of a tragic event involving a disgruntled…

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Richard Theodore Svoboda

Male, age 37 · Grand Prairie, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Richard T. Svoboda, a 37-year-old supervisor at Jewel-T warehouse in Grand Prairie, Texas, was tragically killed on August 9, 1982. Svoboda was involved in a pay dispute with John Felton Parish, a truck driver who had been banned from making deliveries for…

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Wyvonne Kohler

Female, age 45 · Grand-prairie, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Wyvonne Dolores Schrank Kohler, a 45-year-old executive secretary at Western Transfer Company in Grand Prairie, Texas, tragically lost her life on August 9, 1982. She was killed during a violent rampage carried out by John Parish, a 46-year-old truck driver…

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Earl Greene Jr

Male, age 56 · Manchester, Vermont

Killed Aug 9, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the summer of 1980, the quiet town of Manchester, Vermont, was unsettled by the discovery of a local man's body. On Saturday, August 9th, the remains of 56-year-old Earl Joseph Greene Jr. were found in a river. The initial investigation into the…

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Jack Murray

Male · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 1980 · 46 years ago

Jack Murray, a country-western singer, was murdered on August 9, 1980, in Los Angeles, California. His death was part of a series of gruesome crimes committed by the notorious "Sunset Strip Killers," Doug Clark and Carol Bundy. The couple, who met in late…

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Tim Hack

Male, age 19 · Sullivan, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 9, 1980 · 46 years ago

Timothy “Tim” Hack was a 19-year-old White/Caucasian male from the Hebron area of Wisconsin whose life ended after what should have been an ordinary summer night with his longtime girlfriend, Kelly Drew. On August 9, 1980, Tim and Kelly attended a wedding…

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Kelly Drew

Female, age 19 · Sullivan, Wisconsin

Killed Aug 9, 1980 · 46 years ago

Kelly Drew, a 19-year-old White/Caucasian woman from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, disappeared on the night of August 9, 1980, with her boyfriend, Timothy Hack. The two were high school sweethearts who had gone to a wedding reception at the Concord House, a dance…

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Raymond Lee Washington

Male, age 25 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 1979 · 47 years ago

Raymond Lee Washington, the founder of the notorious Crips gang in Los Angeles, met a tragic end on August 9, 1979, at the age of 25. Washington's death was the result of a drive-by shooting that occurred around 10:00 p.m. on the corner of East 64th Street…

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Charles Elmore

Male · El-centro, California

Killed Aug 9, 1979 · 47 years ago

On August 9, 1979, Special Agent Charles W. Elmore was tragically killed in the line of duty at the FBI office in El Centro, California. Elmore, along with his colleague Special Agent J. Robert Porter, was shot by an assailant who had entered the office under…

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James S. Judge Jr.

Male, age 26 · Pagosa Springs, Colorado

Killed Aug 9, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the late summer of 1978, the lives of James S. Judge, Jr., a 26-year-old male, and his 23-year-old wife, Jeanette 'Margene' Davis Judge, were violently cut short in the scenic landscape of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The couple, who were newlyweds, fell…

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Jeanette Margene Davis Judge

Female, age 23 · Pagosa Springs, Colorado

Killed Aug 9, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the summer of 1978, Jeanette Margene Davis Judge, a 24-year-old White/Caucasian woman, was embarking on a new chapter of her life. Just four days into her marriage with James Judge, the newlyweds were honeymooning near the scenic town of Pagosa Springs…

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Robert Hugh Milligan

Male, age 53 · Fort-lauderdale, Florida

Killed Aug 9, 1978 · 48 years ago

Robert Hugh Milligan, a 53-year-old white male, was a Deputy Sheriff with the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. On August 9, 1978, while attempting to serve an eviction notice at an apartment located at 4042 NW 16th Street in…

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Paula Payne

Female, age 20 · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Aug 9, 1977 · 49 years ago

Paula Payne, a 20-year-old from Dayton, Ohio, was tragically murdered on August 9, 1977. Paula was a nature enthusiast and a valedictorian, known for her passion for biology. On the morning of her death, she left her home on Manhattan Avenue to head to her…

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Elizabeth Elder

Female, age 17 · Everett, Washington

Killed Aug 9, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the summer of 1977, a 17-year-old girl named Elizabeth Ann Elder, who went by Lisa Roberts after her adoption, made the fateful decision to run away from her home in Roseburg, Oregon. On July 25, 1977, her father reported her missing. A few weeks later…

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Jerald Wayne Maynor

Male, age 27 · Hickory, North Carolina

Killed Aug 9, 1977 · 49 years ago

Jerald Wayne Maynor, a 27-year-old male police officer with the Hickory Police Department in North Carolina, tragically passed away on August 9, 1977. Officer Maynor's death occurred during a training incident, which was unexpected and deeply mourned by his…

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Mary Ann Pryor

Female, age 17 · Montvale, New Jersey

Killed Aug 9, 1974 · 52 years ago

On a summer day, August 9, 1974, seventeen-year-old Mary Ann Pryor and her sixteen-year-old friend, Lorraine Kelly, left their homes in North Bergen, New Jersey, with plans to go shopping for bathing suits at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus. Mary Ann…

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Lorraine Kelly

Female, age 16 · Montvale, New Jersey

Killed Aug 9, 1974 · 52 years ago

In the summer of 1974, a shadow fell over the quiet community of North Bergen, New Jersey, with the disappearance of two teenage friends, sixteen-year-old Lorraine Kelly and seventeen-year-old Mary Ann Pryor. On the afternoon of August 9th, the two girls…

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Loyal Wright

Male, age 70 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Aug 9, 1972 · 54 years ago

On August 9, 1972, 70-year-old Loyal Wright was found dead in his home located at 857 Leonard Avenue in Columbus, Ohio. Wright had been shot twice in the head with a .22 caliber firearm, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation into his…

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Alfred Hair

Male, age 29 · Fort-pierce, Florida

Killed Aug 9, 1970 · 56 years ago

Alfred Warner Hair, also known as Freddy Hair, was a prominent African American painter from Fort Pierce, Florida, and a key figure in the Florida Highwaymen artist movement. Born on May 20, 1941, Hair's life was tragically cut short on August 9, 1970, when…

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Steven Earl Parent

Male, age 18 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 1969 · 57 years ago

Steven Earl Parent, an 18-year-old from El Monte, California, was tragically murdered on August 9, 1969, in Los Angeles. Parent was a recent high school graduate with a keen interest in electronics, working two jobs to save money for college. On the night of…

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Thomas Kummer

Male, age 35 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 1969 · 57 years ago

Thomas John Kummer, professionally known as Jay Sebring, was a renowned celebrity hairstylist who tragically lost his life on August 9, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. Sebring, along with actress Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger, was…

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Wojciech Frykowski

Male, age 32 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 1969 · 57 years ago

Wojciech Frykowski, a Polish writer and actor, was tragically murdered on August 9, 1969, at the age of 32 in Los Angeles, California. Frykowski was one of the victims of the infamous Tate–LaBianca murders, orchestrated by the Manson Family, a cult led by…

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Rodney Gene Bonham

Male, age 21 · Fort-worth, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1969 · 57 years ago

Rodney Gene Bonham, a 21-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, tragically lost his life on August 9, 1969, in Fort Worth, Texas. Bonham was fatally shot in the neck by Joe Michael Ervin, a 17-year-old high school student, at the Berry Bowl bowling alley on…

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Rodney Gene Bonham

Male, age 21 · Fort Worth, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1969 · 57 years ago

Rodney Gene Bonham, a 21-year-old male from Fort Worth, Texas, tragically lost his life on August 9, 1969, following a senseless act of violence. Bonham, who was of Caucasian ethnicity, was fatally shot in the neck while sitting in a car with his friend Larry…

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Tomoko Tatsuno

Female, age 25 · Wahiawa, Hawaii

Killed Aug 9, 1960 · 66 years ago

On August 9, 1960, in Wahiawa, Hawaii, 25-year-old Tomoko Katori Tatsuno was tragically killed in a shooting incident. The event also claimed the lives of her two young daughters: 14-month-old Margie Kyoko Tatsuno and 2-month-old Ann Tomoko. The assailant…

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Sue Ella Horn

Female, age 39 · Butte, Montana

Killed Aug 9, 1949 · 77 years ago

In the summer of 1949, a 39-year-old woman named Sue Ella Horn was looking for a change of scenery and a new opportunity. She placed a newspaper advertisement seeking a job as a cook on a ranch in Montana. A man named Ray Dempsey Gardner answered her ad, and…

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Paul Reynolds

Male, age 29 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Aug 9, 1929 · 97 years ago

In the sweltering heat of a Phoenix, Arizona evening on August 9, 1929, Special Agent Paul E. Reynolds, a man of 29 years, departed from his hotel after renting an automobile. Three days later, his body was discovered floating in a canal near the city. An…

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Joseph Marshall

Male, age 30 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed Aug 9, 1927 · 99 years ago

Joseph Earl Marshall was a 30-year-old white male patrolman with the Wichita Police Department, a motorcycle officer who had spent two years on the force and built a life with his wife and their two children in Kansas. In the late summer of 1927, he took his…

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Edwin Butler

Male, age 51 · Covington, Virginia

Killed Aug 9, 1922 · 104 years ago

In the summer of 1922, the life of Alleghany County Sheriff Edwin Blair Butler, a 51-year-old White male, was tragically cut short in the line of duty. On August 9th, Sheriff Butler, accompanied by two other officers, was in the process of serving a search…

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Edward Smith

Male, age 27 · Columbia, Texas

Killed Aug 9, 1902 · 124 years ago

Posseman Edward C. Smith, a 27-year-old male, was tragically killed on August 9, 1902, in Columbia, Texas. Smith, who was assisting a sheriff's deputy, was involved in an attempt to arrest a man for carrying a pistol. Upon learning that the man was armed, the…

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Herbert Haynes

Male, age 52 · Clayton, Delaware

Killed Aug 9, 1900 · 126 years ago

Herbert “Hub” Haynes, 52, male, was the night policeman in Clayton, Delaware, when a sweltering August night turned violent at the railroad siding. Shortly after midnight on August 9, 1900, railroad workers reported several men riding a southbound freight in…

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William Melton Mears

Male, age 34 · Sylvania, Georgia

Killed Aug 9, 1900 · 126 years ago

In the late summer of 1900, the life of Constable William Melton Mears, a 34-year-old man, was cut short in a violent ambush near Sylvania, Georgia. On Thursday, August 9, Constable Mears was in the process of serving a warrant on a teenager for communicating…

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Larry Drayton

Male, age 73 · Augusta, Georgia

Killed Aug 9, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the late summer of 2024, tragedy befell a 73-year-old Augusta man, Larry Drayton, forever altering the quiet of his neighborhood. On the night of August 9th, while asleep in his home in the 1900 block of Gay Drive, Drayton was struck by a bullet to the…

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Benjamin Kaines Her

Male, age 24 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Aug 9, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the late hours of a summer night in Richmond, Virginia, a 31-year-old Black man named Benjamin T. Goode was walking alone along Creighton Road. It was August 16, 2016, and what began as a solitary stroll would end in a tragedy that continues to seek…

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Jerome Edward Thompson Sr

Male, age 50 · Ashburn, Virginia

Killed Aug 9, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the quiet suburban neighborhood of Ashburn, Virginia, a domestic tragedy unfolded on the evening of August 9, 2024. On that day, 50-year-old Jerome Edward Thompson Sr., a male resident of the community, lost his life in a violent confrontation. The…

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Peter Maldonado

Male, age 27 · Azusa, California

Killed Aug 9, 2024 · 2 years ago

On August 9, 2024, at approximately 5:30 a.m., 27-year-old Peter Maldonado was discovered with a fatal gunshot wound inside a vehicle in the 200 block of North San Gabriel Avenue in Azusa, California. The car, which belonged to his mother, was riddled with…

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Marshai Jones

Male, age 27 · Indianapolis, Indiana

Killed Aug 9, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the early evening of August 9, 2022, on the east side of Indianapolis, the life of 27-year-old Marshal Jones was tragically cut short. Responding to reports of a shooting in the 3500 block of North Leland Avenue, near East 36th Street and Emerson Avenue…

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Madgey Saleh

Male, age 23 · Queens, New York

Killed Aug 9, 2020 · 6 years ago

In the early morning hours of a Sunday in August 2020, the life of 23-year-old Madgey Saleh was tragically cut short in a violent encounter on the streets of Queens, New York. Saleh, a resident of the Queensbridge Houses, was standing in front of a deli on…

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Rashad Lamar Johnson

Male, age 26 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 2020 · 6 years ago

Rashad Lamar Johnson, a 26-year-old Black male, tragically lost his life on August 9, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Johnson was shot near 1516 Butler Ave. in the Sawtelle…

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Fernando Vasquez-Vittini

Male, age 25 · Wilkes-barre, Pennsylvania

Killed Aug 9, 2020 · 6 years ago

Fernando Vasquez-Vittini, a 25-year-old Hispanic male from Scranton, PA, tragically died on August 9, 2020, in Hanover Township, Luzerne County, PA, from multiple gunshot wounds. His death was ruled a homicide by investigators. Vasquez-Vittini was found…

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James Earl Alexander

Male, age 34 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Aug 9, 2019 · 7 years ago

James Earl Alexander, a 34-year-old resident of Los Angeles, California, tragically lost his life on August 9, 2019. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records, Alexander was fatally shot in the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw area. This…

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Adrian Miramontes

Male, age 22 · Wittmann, Arizona

Killed Aug 9, 2018 · 8 years ago

On the evening of August 9, 2018, a family gathering in Wittmann, Arizona, turned into a scene of tragedy, leaving three men dead, including 22-year-old Hispanic/Latino male Adrian Miramontes. The young father was at the home of his fiancée, located near…

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Chaz Ashworth

Male, age 29 · Gardena, California

Killed Aug 9, 2018 · 8 years ago

On Thursday, August 9, 2018, Chaz Ashworth, a 29-year-old Black man, lost his life in a homicide in Gardena, California. According to Los Angeles County coroner's records, Ashworth died as a result of strangulation. His death was associated with an address at…

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Shawntaey Alexander

Male, age 43 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 9, 2018 · 8 years ago

Shawntaey Alexander was 43 years old when he was fatally stabbed on Thursday, August 9, 2018, in the 5500 block of Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department investigated the killing, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists his…

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