Serial Killer Victims on October 1

Serial Killer Victims (22)

Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

William Clement Marks

Victim of Douglas Franklin Wright

age 23 · Wasco, Oregon

Killed Oct 1, 1991 · 35 years ago

William Clement Marks, a 23-year-old homeless man, was one of the victims of Douglas Franklin Wright, a serial killer who terrorized Oregon between 1969 and 1991. Marks' death occurred in October 1991, along with two other homeless men, Anthony Arthur Barker…

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Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

William Ray Davis

Victim of Douglas Franklin Wright

age 37 · Wasco, Oregon

Killed Oct 1, 1991 · 35 years ago

William Ray Davis, a white male age 37, was killed on October 1, 1991, after being lured from Portland to a remote stretch of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Wasco County by a man promising day labor at ten dollars an hour. Davis, who was experiencing…

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Serial Killer Victim50th anniversary

Robert Billy Benniefiel

Victim of Patrick Wayne Kearney

age 17 · Redondo-beach, California

Killed Oct 1, 1976 · 50 years ago

Robert Billy Benniefiel, a 17-year-old resident of Redondo Beach, California, tragically lost his life on October 1, 1976. Robert was a sophomore at Aviation High School in Redondo Beach. On the day of his death, he was hitchhiking, a common practice at the…

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Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Nenomoshia Yates

Victim of The Freeway Phantom

age 12 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Oct 1, 1971 · 55 years ago

On the evening of October 1, 1971, 12-year-old Nenomoshia Yates, an African-American female known to her loved ones as 'Neno,' left her home on Benning Road in Southeast Washington, D.C. A sixth-grader at Kelly Miller Junior High School, she was sent on a…

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Serial Killer Victim25th anniversary

Meyer Muscatel

Victim of Iouri Gherman Mikhel

age 58 · Sherman Oaks, California

Killed Oct 1, 2001 · 25 years ago

Meyer Muscatel was a man looking for a new direction in life. At 58 years old, the successful Sherman Oaks, California, real estate developer was a man of deep spiritual values who was considering a change. According to his daughter, he hoped to soon leave…

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Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Claude J. Henderson

Victim of Edward Castro

age 46 · Auburndale, Florida

Killed Oct 1, 1986 · 40 years ago

In the autumn of 1986, Claude J. Henderson, a 46-year-old male veteran, was looking forward to a new chapter in his life. He had just moved into a new mobile home in the quiet town of Auburndale, Florida, a place to settle down and make his own. On October…

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Majeed Kayhan

Victim of Thomas Donald Bruce McArthur

age 58 · Toronto, Ontario

Killed Oct 1, 2012 · 14 years ago

Majeed Kayhan, a 58-year-old man who had immigrated to Canada from Afghanistan, was a father with two children and three grandchildren. Known to some as "Hamid," he was part of a large, traditional family. Though he had divorced his wife in 2002, he had not…

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Pearl Stevenstar

Victim of Terry Lee Hankins

age 20 · Mansfield, Texas

Killed Oct 1, 2000 · 26 years ago

Pearl “Sissy” Stevenstar, a 20-year-old woman, was brutally murdered on October 1, 2000, by her half-brother, Terry Lee Hankins. Stevenstar was fatally beaten with a jack stand, and her remains were later discovered stuffed into a plastic ice chest hidden in…

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Danny Fry

Victim of David Waters

age 42 · Seagoville, Texas

Killed Oct 1, 1995 · 31 years ago

Danny Raymond Fry, a 42-year-old white male from Florida, was found dead on October 2, 1995, near Seagoville, Texas. His mutilated body—headless and handless—was discovered along the East Fork of the Trinity River in Dallas County. The corpse had been dumped…

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Lana Patricia Derrick

Victim of Highway of Tears

age 19 · Terrace, British Columbia

Killed Oct 1, 1995 · 31 years ago

Lana Patricia Derrick, a 19-year-old Gitanyow First Nation woman, was a bright and determined student with a love for the outdoors. Friends and family knew her as a bit of a prankster who made friends easily. In the fall of 1995, she was enthusiastically…

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Bernadette Lynda Ahenakew

Victim of The Edmonton Killing Fields Killer

age 22 · Sherwood Park, Alberta

Killed Oct 1, 1989 · 37 years ago

Bernadette Lynda Ahenakew was a spontaneous and nurturing person who loved to cook and was fluent in the Cree language. A member of the Métis community of Ile-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, the 22-year-old woman is remembered for her kindness, like the way she…

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Christie Proctor

Victim of David Elliott Penton

age 9 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Oct 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

Christie Proctor, a nine-year-old Caucasian girl from Dallas, Texas, was abducted and murdered on October 1, 1984. She was last seen near her North Dallas apartment complex while walking home from a friend’s house. Her disappearance sent shockwaves through…

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Paula Prince

Victim of Tylenol Murders

age 35 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 1, 1982 · 44 years ago

Paula Prince, a 35-year-old female flight attendant based in Chicago, Illinois, became the seventh confirmed victim of the infamous Chicago Tylenol murders. On October 1, 1982, she was found deceased in her high-rise apartment on the Near North Side of…

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Gale Ann Weys

Victim of Highway of Tears

age 19 · Clearwater, British Columbia

Killed Oct 1, 1973 · 53 years ago

Gale Ann Weys was a bright, independent, and caring 19-year-old woman with a promising future ahead of her. The second oldest of nine siblings in a Kamloops, British Columbia, family, she was remembered by her sisters as a protective and supportive figure…

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Gloria Levina Moody

Victim of Highway of Tears

age 26 · Williams Lake, British Columbia

Killed Oct 1, 1969 · 57 years ago

Gloria Levina Moody, a 26-year-old mother of two from the Nuxalk Nation, was a woman remembered for her happy, fun-loving nature and her dedication to helping others. Known to her loved ones as Lee or Levina, she was the second oldest of eight siblings and…

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Trinh Thi Vu

Victim of Sabrina Kauldhar

age 66 · Toronto, Ontario

Killed Oct 1, 2024 · 2 years ago

A quiet street in West Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood became the first scene in a shocking three-day wave of violence that would span across southern Ontario. On the afternoon of October 1, 2024, police were called to a residence near Keele Street and…

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Amritraj Rana

Victim of Kenneth Law

age 21 · Ontario, Ontario

Killed Oct 1, 2022 · 4 years ago

Amritraj Rana, a 21-year-old man from Ontario, was remembered by his mother for the simple, everyday moments. She cherished the memory of the sound of his "gallop" down the stairs to ask if the chicken and rice were ready. "Such an ordinary question. Such an…

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Maryann Hope Helmbright

Victim of Eugene Blake

age 13 · Wheeling, West Virginia

Killed Oct 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the autumn of 1984, Maryann Hope Helmbright was a 13-year-old girl living in Wheeling, West Virginia. On Tuesday, October 23, she and a friend skipped school and spent the evening on Main Street. That evening, they encountered a man named Eugene Blake, who…

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Sylvester Ayon

Victim of Jose Manuel Martinez

age 30 · Santa Ynez, California

Killed Oct 1, 1982 · 44 years ago

Sylvester Ayon, a 30-year-old man, was fatally shot on October 1, 1982, while working on a ranch near Santa Ynez in Santa Barbara County. Ayon suffered multiple gunshot wounds and succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Alongside him, a 17-year-old individual…

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Everlena Ogle

Victim of Raymond Eugene Brown

age 82 · Ashland, Alabama

Killed Oct 1, 1960 · 66 years ago

In the small, quiet town of Ashland, Alabama, the autumn of 1960 was shattered by an act of unimaginable violence that took the life of a disabled great-grandmother, 82-year-old Everlena Ogle. Her death on October 1, 1960, was not an isolated tragedy but the…

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Ethel Ogle

Victim of Raymond Eugene Brown

age 63 · Ashland, Alabama

Killed Oct 1, 1960 · 66 years ago

In the small town of Ashland, Alabama, the Ogle family lived a quiet life, deeply rooted in their community. Ethel Ogle, a loving 63-year-old grandmother, shared her home with her own mother, the disabled 82-year-old great-grandmother Everlena Ogle, and her…

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Berta Mae Martin

Victim of Raymond Eugene Brown

age 31 · Ashland, Alabama

Killed Oct 1, 1960 · 66 years ago

In the quiet, early hours of October 1, 1960, in the High Pine community near Ashland, Alabama, a noise from the kitchen stirred 31-year-old Berta Mae Martin from her sleep. When she went to investigate, she found a familiar face in the darkness of her home…

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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.