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Serial Killer Victims on June 5

721 open cases in our database happened on June 5. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (14)

Christine L. Lugo - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Serial Killer Victim5th anniversary

Christine L. Lugo

Victim of Keith Gibson
age 41 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Killed Jun 5, 2021 · 5 years ago

In the early morning hours of Saturday, June 5, 2021, Christine L. Lugo, a 40-year-old Hispanic female, was preparing to open the Dunkin' donut shop she managed on Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. Tragically, it was a morning she would not survive. As she…

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Phoebe Perry - Plano, Texas
Serial Killer Victim10th anniversary

Phoebe Perry

Victim of Billy Chemirmir
age 94 · Plano, Texas
Killed Jun 5, 2016 · 10 years ago

Phoebe Perry, a 94-year-old woman, tragically lost her life on June 5, 2016, in what was later determined to be a homicide. She was among several elderly women whose deaths were linked to Billy Chemirmir, a former healthcare worker accused of being a serial…

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Darylnn Washington - Detroit, Michigan
Serial Killer Victim20th anniversary

Darylnn Washington

age 45 · Detroit, Michigan
Killed Jun 5, 2006 · 20 years ago

For nearly two decades, she was a ghost, a name waiting to be spoken. The woman known only as Jane Doe, found in an abandoned house on Detroit’s east side, was finally given her name back in 2022: Darylnn Washington. A 45-year-old Black female, Darylnn was…

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Gladys Hensley - Eugene, Oregon
Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Gladys Hensley

age 62 · Eugene, Oregon
Killed Jun 5, 1986 · 40 years ago

Gladys May Hensley, a 62-year-old White female, was found deceased in her Eugene, Oregon, apartment on June 5, 1986. An employee of the senior citizen complex where she lived discovered her body during a welfare check after she hadn't been seen for several…

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Joan Rae Caudle - Portland, Oregon
Serial Killer Victim65th anniversary

Joan Rae Caudle

age 23 · Portland, Oregon
Killed Jun 5, 1961 · 65 years ago

On the evening of June 5, 1961, Joan Rae Caudle, a 23-year-old wife and mother of two young children, left her home in Portland, Oregon. She told her husband, Lawrence, that she was going downtown to shop for a Father's Day gift for her father. She carried…

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Unnamed Fetus

Victim of Milos Klvana
California
Killed Jun 5, 1986 · 40 years ago

Milos Klvana: The Physician Convicted of Murdering Infants Background and Medical Career Milos Klvana was a Czechoslovak-born physician whose reckless obstetrical practices resulted in the deaths of infants and unborn children in Southern California. After…

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Ida Russell - San Francisco, California
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Ida Russell

Victim of David Silva
age 91 · San Francisco, California
Killed Jun 5, 1998 · 28 years ago

The 91-year-old female white victim, Ida Russell, was discovered dead on June 5 1998 inside her small home at 343 London Street in San Francisco's Excelsior District. A neighbor, concerned by the smell of decomposition, alerted authorities. Examiners noted…

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Elandra Joyce Bunn - Los Angeles, California
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Elandra Joyce Bunn

age 33 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Jun 5, 1987 · 39 years ago

Elandra Joyce Bunn, a 33-year-old African-American woman from Los Angeles, California, was found dead on June 5, 1987. Her body was discovered in an alley along the Figueroa corridor in South Los Angeles by an 11-year-old boy. The scene was grim—she had been…

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Ann Iecile Maxham - Skokie, Illinois
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Ann Iecile Maxham

age 22 · Skokie, Illinois
Killed Jun 5, 1977 · 49 years ago

On June 5, 1977, the body of 22-year-old white female Ann Iecile Maxham was discovered in Skokie, Illinois. Maxham, who had prior convictions for prostitution, was found strangled, marking a grim end to her young life. Her death occurred shortly after the…

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Josephine Ross - Chicago, Illinois
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Josephine Ross

age 43 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed Jun 5, 1945 · 81 years ago

In the summer of 1945, Josephine Ross, a 43-year-old female widow, was starting a new chapter in her life. Having raised two daughters, Mary Jane and Jacqueline, she now found herself with more time for herself. She lived in a Chicago apartment on North…

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Tamara Jones

age 55 · Detroit, Michigan
Killed Jun 5, 2019 · 7 years ago

In the spring of 2019, the discovery of a body in an abandoned house on Detroit's east side marked a somber chapter in the life of a local family. The deceased was identified as Tamara Jones, a 55-year-old female known affectionately to her loved ones as…

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Nirad Jay Patel

age 22 · Anderson, South Carolina
Killed Jun 5, 1982 · 44 years ago

A young man’s life was cut tragically short in the summer of 1982, a death that would remain a mystery for a year before being linked to a string of violent crimes along a major Southern highway. Nirad Jay Patel, a 22-year-old male resident of Spartanburg…

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Molly Hoyt

New York
Killed Jun 5, 1970 · 56 years ago

Waneta Ethel Hoyt: The Murder of Five Children Background Waneta Ethel Nixon Hoyt was an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering her five biological children. She was born on May 13, 1946, in Richford, New York, and later lived with her husband…

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Joseph Lillenthal

Victim of Joseph Eisele
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Killed Jun 5, 1867 · 159 years ago

In the bustling post-Civil War town of Parkersburg, West Virginia, many German immigrants sought to build new lives. Among them was Joseph Lillenthal, a male proprietor who ran a saloon on Market Street. His establishment was a familiar spot for locals and…

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