Serial Killer Victims on July 17

Serial Killer Victims (18)

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Alfred Rowswell

Victim of Juan Chavez

age 45 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jul 17, 1986 · 40 years ago

Alfred Rowswell, a 46-year-old Caucasian male, was tragically murdered on July 17, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. His death was the result of strangulation, and it occurred in his apartment in the LaFayette Park area. Rowswell had reportedly encountered…

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Arvid Ostlund

Victim of Lloyd Gomez

age 40 · California

Killed Jul 17, 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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Kim Yvette Smith

Victim of Anthony Edward Sowell

age 44 · Cleveland, Ohio

Killed Jul 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Kim Yvette Smith, a 44-year-old African-American woman from Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the eleven known victims of convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell. Smith, also known by the nickname “Candy,” was an artist, cosmetologist, and former backup singer for…

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Mandy Ann Raite

Victim of Lawton Serial Killer

age 21 · Lawton, Oklahoma

Killed Jul 17, 2000 · 26 years ago

In the early morning hours of June 17, 2000, a Comanche County sheriff's deputy on a routine check of a rural area off Bethel Road, known as a dumping ground for remnants of meth labs, discovered the body of a young woman in a small creek. The woman was…

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Melissa Faye Dingess

Victim of Reinaldo Javier Rivera

age 17 · Graniteville, South Carolina

Killed Jul 17, 1999 · 27 years ago

On a summer day in Graniteville, South Carolina, 17-year-old Melissa Faye Dingess vanished. It was July 17, 1999, and the teenager, a young woman with blond hair and brown eyes, was last seen wearing blue jean shorts and a blue tank top, with no shoes on her…

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Lisa Marie Whitney Gibbens

Victim of Patrick Baxter

age 25 · Tuckahoe, New York

Killed Jul 17, 1990 · 36 years ago

In the summer of 1990, the life of 25-year-old Lisa Marie Whitney Gibbens was tragically cut short. A resident of Tuckahoe, New York, the young woman's death on July 17, 1990, would become a cold case that lingered for years, leaving a void in the lives of…

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Julie McGhee

Victim of Andrew Urdiales

age 29 · Cathedral-city, California

Killed Jul 17, 1988 · 38 years ago

Julie McGhee, a 29-year-old woman, was tragically murdered on July 17, 1988, in Cathedral City, California. Her death was part of a series of killings committed by serial killer Andrew Urdiales. According to court records and Urdiales' confession, he picked…

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Michael Foulk

Victim of John Francis Wille

age 19 · Fairhope, Alabama

Killed Jul 17, 1985 · 41 years ago

In a case that spanned multiple states and a string of violent crimes, Michael Foulk, a cab driver from Pensacola, Florida, met a tragic end. His life was cut short when he was abducted and murdered, his body later discovered discarded in a ditch near the…

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Mary Edith Silvani

Victim of James Richard Curry

age 33 · Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Killed Jul 17, 1982 · 44 years ago

Mary Edith Silvani, born on September 29, 1948, in Pontiac, Michigan, was a 33-year-old woman whose life was tragically cut short on July 17, 1982. Her body was discovered by hikers in the Sheep's Flat area, a popular hiking trail near Lake Tahoe in Washoe…

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Gisele Lovvorn

Victim of Gary Leon Ridgway

age 17 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Jul 17, 1982 · 44 years ago

Gisele Ann Lovvorn, a 17-year-old Caucasian female, had a background that contrasted with the circumstances of her final days. Raised in a middle-class family in California, she was a bright individual with a high IQ who had a passion for reading. However…

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Michael Sean OFallon

Victim of Randy Steven Kraft

age 17 · Sublimity, Oregon

Killed Jul 17, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the summer of 1980, Michael Sean O'Fallon, a 17-year-old Caucasian male from a suburb of Denver, Colorado, was celebrating his recent high school graduation with a hitchhiking adventure. His journey had taken him through Canada, and by July, he was making…

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Julie Ann Hall

Victim of The Mad City Murderer

age 18 · Waunakee, Wisconsin

Killed Jul 17, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the summer of 1978, the life of eighteen-year-old Julie Ann Hall was tragically cut short, leaving behind a mystery that has endured for decades. Having recently relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, from Fennimore, she was embracing a new chapter, working as a…

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Diane McCrobie

Victim of Larry M. Ralston

age 16 · Springfield Township, Ohio

Killed Jul 17, 1977 · 49 years ago

Diane Sue McCrobie, a 16-year-old Caucasian female from Springfield Township, Ohio, was tragically murdered on July 17, 1977. Her death was part of a series of killings attributed to Larry Ralston, a convicted serial killer who preyed on young women in the…

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Sydney Gans

Victim of Thomas Otis Knight

age 64 · Bay-harbor-islands, Florida

Killed Jul 17, 1974 · 52 years ago

Sydney A. Gans, aged 64, tragically lost his life on July 17, 1974, in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. The incident began when Sydney and his wife, Lillian Gans, were kidnapped by Thomas Knight, who later changed his name to Askari Abdullah Muhammad. Knight…

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Lillian Levine Gans

Victim of Thomas Otis Knight

age 60 · Bay-harbor-islands, Florida

Killed Jul 17, 1974 · 52 years ago

Lillian Levine Gans, aged 60, tragically lost her life on July 17, 1974, in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida. She and her husband, Sydney Gans, were victims of a brutal kidnapping and murder. The couple was abducted by Thomas Knight, who later changed his name to…

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Deborah Januszko

Victim of Joseph Baldi

age 15 · Queens, New York

Killed Jul 17, 1972 · 54 years ago

Deborah Januszko, 15, a White female from the Jamaica section of Queens, was asleep in the ground-floor bedroom of her family home in the early hours of June 17, 1972, when violence came through the night air. Around 3:30 a.m., a knife was driven into her…

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Jacalyn Harp

Victim of Richard Francis Cottingham

age 13 · Midland Park, New Jersey

Killed Jul 17, 1968 · 58 years ago

On a summer evening in July 1968, 13-year-old Jacalyn Harp, a white female, was walking home from band practice in her quiet town of Midland Park, New Jersey. Known affectionately as 'Jackie,' she was a flag twirler for her school's all-girls drum and bugle…

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Anthony Hackett

Victim of Milton Johnson

age 18 · Wilmington, Illinois

Killed Jul 17, 1983 · 43 years ago

Anthony Hackett, an 18-year-old teenager, was tragically murdered on July 17, 1983. Hackett was fatally shot four times while he slept in a car parked along Interstate 55 near Wilmington, Illinois. He and his girlfriend had been returning home from Great…

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