Serial Killer Victims on December 8

Serial Killer Victims (21)

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Debbie Ann Friday

Victim of Benjamin Thomas Atkins

age 30 · Highland Park, Michigan

Killed Dec 8, 1991 · 35 years ago

In the winter of 1991, the body of 30-year-old Debbie Ann Friday, a female, was discovered in a vacant building in Highland Park, Michigan, on December 14th. She had been reported missing six days earlier, on December 8th. An investigation revealed that she…

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Gail Leslie Slocum

Victim of Charles Jackson

age 34 · Oakland, California

Killed Dec 8, 1981 · 45 years ago

On December 8, 1981, Gail Leslie Slocum, a 34-year-old white woman, was found stabbed to death in the yard of her home in Oakland's Rockridge District. Her murder was one of several brutal killings in the East Bay area during that period, which remained…

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Saudia Banks

Victim of Chicago Strangler

age 39 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Dec 8, 2001 · 25 years ago

On December 8, 2001, 39-year-old Saudia Banks was found murdered in Chicago, Illinois. Her death by strangulation was not an isolated tragedy but one thread in a dark and terrifying pattern of violence that would haunt the city for nearly two decades. Ms.…

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Randell Two Crow

Victim of Rapid City Creek Drownings

age 48 · Rapid City, South Dakota

Killed Dec 8, 1998 · 28 years ago

Randell Two Crow, a 48-year-old Native American man, was found dead on December 8, 1998, near Rapid Creek by the East Boulevard bridge in Rapid City, South Dakota. Contemporary accounts place his body in a pool of water along the bank beneath the bridge, one…

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Henry Hudon

Victim of Kristen Heather Gilbert

age 35 · Northampton, Massachusetts

Killed Dec 8, 1995 · 31 years ago

On a cold December day in 1995, Henry Hudon, a 35-year-old White male and an Air Force veteran, found himself back at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was suffering from the flu and complications from his schizophrenia…

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Kelly Sue Bunting

Victim of Robert Yale Shulman

age 28 · Long Island, New York

Killed Dec 8, 1995 · 31 years ago

On December 11, 1995, the body of a woman was discovered by a worker in a dumpster behind a sheet metal contracting company in Melville, New York. The victim was later identified as 28-year-old Kelly Sue Bunting of Hollis, Queens. An investigation revealed…

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John Wayne Freeman

Victim of Faye Della Copeland

age 27 · Mooresville, Missouri

Killed Dec 8, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the rural landscape of Mooresville, Missouri, the life of 27-year-old John Wayne Freeman, a white male, came to a brutal end on December 8, 1988. His death was not an isolated act of violence but a chilling chapter in the story of an elderly couple, Ray…

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John Wayne Freeman

Victim of Ray Copeland

age 27 · Mooresville, Missouri

Killed Dec 8, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the rural landscape of Mooresville, Missouri, the life of 27-year-old John Wayne Freeman, a white male, came to a brutal end on December 8, 1988. His death was not an isolated act of violence but a chilling chapter in the story of an elderly couple, Ray…

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Sandra Botelho

Victim of New Bedford Highway Killer

New Bedford, Massachusetts

Killed Dec 8, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the late summer of 1988, a shadow fell over the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, as a string of women began to disappear, their fates unknown. Among them was Sandra Botelho, a 24-year-old Caucasian woman, who vanished into the night on August 11, 1988.…

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Donald Crump

Victim of Yusef Abdullah Rahman

Riverhead, New York

Killed Dec 8, 1988 · 38 years ago

Donald J. Crump, a 31-year-old Black male, was at home in Riverside on the evening of December 8, 1988, settling in to watch television with his mother when a single shot shattered the ordinary quiet. A. 22-caliber round tore through the window and struck him…

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Lance Taggs

Victim of Randy Steven Kraft

age 19 · Wilsonville, Oregon

Killed Dec 8, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the winter of 1982, the life of 19-year-old Lance Trenton Taggs was tragically cut short, his body discovered on December 9th beside a road in Wilsonville, Oregon. A former resident of Hawaii, the Caucasian male had moved to Oregon to live with his…

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Frieda Sophia Mueller

Victim of Girvies L. Davis

age 78 · Millstadt, Illinois

Killed Dec 8, 1978 · 48 years ago

On December 8, 1978, in Millstadt, Illinois, 78-year-old Frieda Sophia Mueller, a white female, was tragically murdered during a home invasion. The assailants fatally shot her before stealing her television set, billfold, and checkbook. This homicide was part…

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Frieda Sophia Mueller

Victim of Richard Holman

age 78 · Millstadt, Illinois

Killed Dec 8, 1978 · 48 years ago

On December 8, 1978, in Millstadt, Illinois, 78-year-old Frieda Sophia Mueller, a white female, was tragically murdered during a home invasion. The assailants fatally shot her before stealing her television set, billfold, and checkbook. This homicide was part…

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Nancy Fox

Victim of Dennis Lynn Rader

age 25 · Wichita, Kansas

Killed Dec 8, 1977 · 49 years ago

The 25-year-old white female Nancy Fox was living alone in a duplex at 843 South Pershing Street, Wichita, when she caught the attention of serial killer Dennis Rader, later unmasked as “BTK.” Rader studied the young white woman's routines, even tracing her…

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Mary J. Cuvan Hogan

Victim of Edward Theodore Gein

age 51 · Bancroft, Wisconsin

Killed Dec 8, 1954 · 72 years ago

Patricia Marie Birmingham was a 16-year-old White/Caucasian female and a high school student from West Allis, Wisconsin, whose disappearance in February 1949 became one of Milwaukee’s most widely reported murder cases of the period. Although March 20, 1949…

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Charles Douglas Martin

Victim of Jeffrey Brian Motts

age 26 · Pelzer, South Carolina

Killed Dec 8, 2005 · 21 years ago

On the morning of December 8, 2005, Charles “Chuck” Douglas Martin, a 26-year-old male originally from Tennessee, was just weeks away from freedom. He was serving a five-year sentence for assault and trespassing at the Perry Correctional Institution in…

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Cheryl Cross

Victim of Andre Crawford

age 38 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Dec 8, 1998 · 28 years ago

Cheryl Cross was a 38-year-old African-American woman whose killing became one of the cases ultimately attributed to Chicago serial killer Andre Crawford. Her decomposing body was discovered on December 8, 1998, in the attic of an abandoned house at 1220 West…

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Martha Catlin

Victim of Steven David Catlin

age 79 · Bakersfield, California

Killed Dec 8, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the quiet agricultural community of Bakersfield, California, Martha Catlin, a 79-year-old woman, lived a life that would end in a dark and calculated betrayal. Adopted as an infant in 1944 by Martha and her husband Glenn, Steven David Catlin grew up in…

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Moses Yakanac

Victim of Vaughn Orrin Greenwood

age 47 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Dec 8, 1974 · 52 years ago

On December 8, 1974, Moses Yakanac, a 47-year-old Native Alaskan man, was found brutally murdered in a Skid Row alley in downtown Los Angeles. Yakanac, who was reportedly homeless and likely struggling with alcoholism, became an easy target for a killer who…

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Alice Gardner

Victim of Earl Gardner

San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona

Killed Dec 8, 1935 · 91 years ago

On a cold winter day on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, a young mother’s life was brutally cut short, leaving a legacy of sorrow that would span generations. Alice Gardner, a 21-year-old female, was a member of the Apache community…

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Edward Gardner

Victim of Earl Gardner

San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona

Killed Dec 8, 1935 · 91 years ago

On a cold winter day, a mother and her infant son’s lives were brutally cut short in their home on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. The date was December 8, 1935, when a young mother named Alice Gardner was murdered by her husband, Earl…

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