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Serial Killer Victims on March 2

612 open cases in our database happened on March 2. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (15)

Jorge Martinez - Los Angeles, California
Serial Killer Victim25th anniversary

Jorge Martinez

Los Angeles, California
Killed Mar 2, 2001 · 25 years ago

On May 4, 1996, Jorge Martinez, a 26-year-old Latino male, was fatally shot near 14th Street and Linden Avenue in Long Beach, California. At approximately 10:30 p.m., police responded to reports of gunfire and discovered Martinez lying face up on the…

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Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Michael Tinning

age 3
Killed Mar 2, 1981 · 45 years ago

Marybeth Tinning: The Suspicious Deaths of Nine Children Background Marybeth Roe Tinning was born on September 11, 1942, in Duanesburg, New York. She later worked as a nursing assistant and married Joseph Tinning in 1965. Between 1967 and 1985, the couple had…

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Serial Killer Victim100th anniversary

Laura Beal

California||Oregon||Washington||Iowa||Missouri||Pennsylvania
Killed Mar 2, 1926 · 100 years ago

Earle Leonard Nelson: The “Gorilla Man” and “Dark Strangler” Introduction Earle Leonard Nelson was an American serial killer whose crimes spread across the United States and into Canada during 1926 and 1927. Newspapers called him the “Gorilla Man,” the…

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Cecil Dotson - Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Killer Victim

Cecil Dotson

age 30 · Memphis, Tennessee
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early morning hours of March 2, 2008, a horrific scene of violence unfolded inside a house on Lester Street in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, forever changing the lives of the Dotson family. Cecil Dotson, a 30-year-old man, was…

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Marissa Williams - Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Killer Victim

Marissa Williams

age 27 · Memphis, Tennessee
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

In a tragic turn of events that shook the city of Memphis, Tennessee, Marissa Rene Williams, a 27-year-old African American woman, was killed on March 2, 2008. Her life was cut short in a brutal mass shooting that claimed the lives of six people, an event…

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Hollis Seals - Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Killer Victim

Hollis Seals

age 33 · Memphis, Tennessee
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early days of March 2008, a horrific scene was discovered in a home on Lester Street in Memphis, Tennessee, where 33-year-old Hollis Seals, a Black male, was found deceased along with five other individuals. The tragic event, which came to be known as…

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Shindri Roberson - Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Killer Victim

Shindri Roberson

age 22 · Memphis, Tennessee
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

In early March of 2008, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, was rocked by a horrific discovery on Lester Street. Inside a small brick house, police performing a welfare check uncovered a scene of unimaginable violence. Among the victims was 22-year-old Shindri…

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Cemario Dotson - Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Killer Victim

Cemario Dotson

age 4 · Memphis, Tennessee
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early hours of a Sunday in March 2008, a home in Memphis, Tennessee, became the scene of a horrific discovery. Inside, law enforcement found the bodies of six people, including a 4-year-old male named Cemario Dotson. The initial scene was chaotic…

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Cecil Dotson - Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Killer Victim

Cecil Dotson

age 2 · Memphis, Tennessee
Killed Mar 2, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early morning hours of March 2, 2008, a horrific scene of violence unfolded inside a house on Lester Street in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, forever changing the lives of the Dotson family. Cecil Dotson, a 30-year-old man, was…

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John Bartlett - Newton County, Indiana
Serial Killer Victim

John Bartlett

age 19 · Newton County, Indiana
Killed Mar 2, 1983 · 43 years ago

In the autumn of 1983, a grim discovery was made in the rural landscape of Lake Village in Newton County, Indiana. On an abandoned farm, the remains of four young men were unearthed on October 18th and 19th, sending a chill through the quiet community. One of…

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Mary Leah Rodermund - Morgan City, Louisiana
Serial Killer Victim

Mary Leah Rodermund

age 16 · Morgan City, Louisiana
Killed Mar 2, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the quiet town of Morgan City, Louisiana, sixteen-year-old Mary Leah Rodermund, a white female, vanished on the evening of March 2, 1978, leaving a void in the community that has yet to be filled. A sophomore at Morgan City High School, Mary was described…

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Francisco Mangana

Victim of Antonio Reyes
age 31 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed Mar 2, 2020 · 6 years ago

On the evening of March 2, 2020, Francisco Mangana, a 31-year-old man, was simply walking home from his job in Chicago, Illinois. He had just stopped at a gas station to buy a soda and was crossing the street in the 2600 block of West 59th Street when his…

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Barbara Ann Tinning

age 4
Killed Mar 2, 1972 · 54 years ago

Marybeth Tinning: The Suspicious Deaths of Nine Children Background Marybeth Roe Tinning was born on September 11, 1942, in Duanesburg, New York. She later worked as a nursing assistant and married Joseph Tinning in 1965. Between 1967 and 1985, the couple had…

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Rose Valdez

Victim of Robert Nixon
California||Illinois
Killed Mar 2, 1937 · 89 years ago

Robert Nixon: The Chicago and Los Angeles Brick Murders Early Life and Escalation into Violence Robert Nixon was a young American serial killer whose crimes spread fear through Chicago and Los Angeles during the late 1930s. Born in Tallulah, Louisiana, in…

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Magnolia Jones

Victim of J. C. Williams
Georgia||Alabama
Killed Mar 2, 1925 · 101 years ago

J. C. Williams: A Detailed Account of His Crimes Background J. C. Williams was the name used by Garfield Robinson, an American serial killer linked to a short but deadly series of murders in Georgia and Alabama during the early 1920s. Records connected to his…

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