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Deaths by Force on May 8

675 open cases in our database happened on May 8. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (485)

Death by Force

Joseph Finzel

Male, age 29 · Torrance, California
Killed May 8, 1993 · 33 years ago

Joseph Finzel, a 29-year-old resident of Torrance, California, tragically lost his life on May 8, 1993, during a violent home invasion. The incident occurred late at night when Randy Eugene Garcia, an Oregon man, broke into the Finzel home armed with a gun.…

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Death by Force

Paul T. Grannis

Male, age 35 · Grange-city, Kentucky
Killed May 8, 1987 · 39 years ago

In the rural landscape of Grange-city, Kentucky, a dedicated public servant named Paul T. Grannis, a 35-year-old male, met a tragic and untimely end. On May 8, 1987, while in the course of his duties as a social worker for the state, Grannis was involved in a…

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Death by Force

Boyd Wayne Johnson

Male, age 24 · Alameda, California
Killed May 8, 1982 · 44 years ago

Boyd Wayne Johnson, a 24-year-old male, was murdered on May 8, 1982, while incarcerated in the Alameda County jail in California. His death was the result of strangulation at the hands of his cellmate, David Edwin Mason, a convicted serial killer. Mason, who…

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Death by Force

Michael Priest

Male, age 24 · Forsyth, Georgia
Killed May 8, 1975 · 51 years ago

In May of 1975, a chance encounter in Forsyth County, Georgia, set the stage for a brutal and senseless crime that would cut short the life of Michael Priest. The harrowing ordeal began when Jack Howard Potts and his companion, Norma Blackwell, sought a ride…

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Death by Force

Silvio Tagliagamba

Male, age 28 · Manhattan, New York
Killed May 8, 1922 · 104 years ago

In the violent and turbulent world of early New York mobsters, Silvio Tagliagamba, a 28-year-old male of Sicilian descent, found his life cut short in a maelstrom of bullets and betrayal. A member of the Morello crime family, he served as a bodyguard for the…

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Dates are the day last seen (missing), the day of death, or when the date of death is unknown the day found or reported missing (deaths by force), the day found (unidentified and unclaimed), the victim's date of death (serial killers) and the day of the attack (mass murders). Solved, located, identified and claimed cases are not listed.