Serial Killer Victims (14)

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Angela Polidore

age 25 · Sacramento, California

Killed Jul 20, 1986 · 40 years ago

Angela Polidore, a 25-year-old African American woman, was found dead on July 20, 1986, in Sacramento, California. Her body was discovered partially undressed and tied up, hidden beneath debris at a residence where a local handyman, Morris Solomon Jr., had…

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Beatrice Meabon

Victim of Richard J. Fox

age 82 · Brant, New York

Killed Jul 20, 1976 · 50 years ago

For nearly half a century, the death of Beatrice Meabon remained a painful, unsolved mystery in the small town of Brant, New York. An 82-year-old woman, Beatrice was a member of a family with local roots, including her sister, Maxine. But on a summer day…

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Fallon Flood

Victim of Lorenzo Fayne

age 9 · St. Louis, Illinois

Killed Jul 20, 1992 · 34 years ago

Fallon Flood, a 9-year-old African American girl, was tragically murdered on July 20, 1992, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her body was discovered in an abandoned locker room at East St. Louis Senior High School, with a belt tightened around her neck and her…

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Donna Gene Ferguson

Victim of Sebastian Alexander Shaw

age 18 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Jul 20, 1992 · 34 years ago

In the summer of 1992, the life of 18-year-old Donna Gene Ferguson, a White / Caucasian female, was tragically cut short in her Southeast Portland, Oregon mobile home. On July 20th, she and her 28-year-old boyfriend, Todd A. Rudiger, were discovered murdered…

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Todd Alexander Rudiger

Victim of Sebastian Alexander Shaw

age 29 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Jul 20, 1992 · 34 years ago

Todd Alexander Rudiger, a 29-year-old white male from Portland, Oregon, was murdered on July 17, 1992, alongside his partner, 18-year-old white female Donna Gene Ferguson. The couple lived together in a trailer home in Portland. Their families became…

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Brenda L. Whiteside

Victim of Nathaniel White

age 20 · Middletown, New York

Killed Jul 20, 1992 · 34 years ago

Brenda L. Whiteside, a 20-year-old Black woman, vanished on July 20, 1992, after what began as an ordinary night out in the Hudson Valley. She and her cousin, Angelina Hopkins, were in Poughkeepsie when they crossed paths with a man who seemed like just…

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Lela Kneiding

Victim of Richard Ramirez

age 66 · Glendale, California

Killed Jul 20, 1985 · 41 years ago

Lela Ellen Reed Kneiding, born on August 20, 1918, in Iowa, lived a significant portion of her life in Glendale, California. She married Maxson Carl Kneiding on August 29, 1938, and together they built a life in the Los Angeles area. Tragically, Lela Ellen…

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Maxson Kneiding

Victim of Richard Ramirez

age 68 · Glendale, California

Killed Jul 20, 1985 · 41 years ago

Maxson Kneiding, a 68-year-old man, was tragically killed on July 20, 1985, in his Glendale, California home. His wife, Lela Kneiding, 66, was also murdered in the same attack. The couple was shot to death in what was later identified as part of a series of…

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Chainarong Khovananth

Victim of Richard Ramirez

age 32 · Glendale, California

Killed Jul 20, 1985 · 41 years ago

Chainarong Khovananth, aged 32, tragically lost his life on July 20, 1985, in Sun Valley, Los Angeles County, California. He was a victim of the infamous serial killer Richard Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker." Ramirez's crime spree terrorized…

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Ellen Ruth Fried

Victim of Connecticut River Valley Killer

age 26 · Newport, New Hampshire

Killed Jul 20, 1984 · 42 years ago

Ellen Ruth Fried, a 26-year-old nurse from Claremont, New Hampshire, went missing in 1984, marking the beginning of one of the area's most enduring unsolved cases. On the evening of July 22, 1984, Ellen was last seen using a payphone outside a convenience…

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Sharon Vaughn

Victim of Jack Wayne Reeves

age 34 · Copperas Cove, Texas

Killed Jul 20, 1978 · 48 years ago

On July 20, 1978, 34-year-old white female Sharon Vaughn was found dead from a single shotgun wound to the chest at her home in Copperas Cove, Texas. At the time, her death was ruled a suicide, and no autopsy was performed. The incident occurred just one day…

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Shiela Heiman

Victim of Richard Francis Cottingham

age 33 · North Woodmere, New York

Killed Jul 20, 1973 · 53 years ago

Sheila Heiman, a 33-year-old White woman, was killed on July 20, 1973, inside her family’s home on Mulberry Place in North Woodmere, New York. That morning began with the ordinary rhythms of a quiet neighborhood, but the house was unusually empty of noise…

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Shirley Jean Gretzinger

Victim of Ray Dempsey Gardner

age 17 · Ogden, Utah

Killed Jul 20, 1949 · 77 years ago

In the summer of 1949, seventeen-year-old Shirley Jean Gretzinger was a kind and responsible young woman living in Ogden, Utah. On the evening of July 20th, she wasn't planning on leaving her mother's house, but a call came for a babysitter. A friend of…

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Joseph Diacone

Victim of Heriberto Seda

age 40 · Queens, New York

Killed Jul 20, 1993 · 33 years ago

In the summer of 1993, a wave of fear that had sporadically gripped New York City for three years found its way to a quiet corner of Highland Park. It was there, on July 20, that Joseph Diacone, a 40-year-old man, became the final murder victim of a serial…

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