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Serial Killer Victims on October 27

669 open cases in our database happened on October 27. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (10)

Victor Rossi - St. Amant, Louisiana
Serial Killer Victim30th anniversary

Victor Rossi

age 41 · St. Amant, Louisiana
Killed Oct 27, 1996 · 30 years ago

Victor Rossi, a 41-year-old male of Italian descent, was found beaten to death in his St. Amant, Louisiana, home on October 27, 1996. The investigation into his death would unravel a chilling series of violent crimes that had plagued the River Parishes area…

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Albert Buehimann - Cincinnati, Ohio
Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Albert Buehimann

Victim of Donald Harvey
age 69 · Cincinnati, Ohio
Killed Oct 27, 1986 · 40 years ago

Albert Buehlmann was an 86-year-old White male living in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area when he became one of the patients targeted by hospital orderly Donald Harvey. Although some later accounts give differing details about Buehlmann’s age and the date of his…

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Hugh McCurnagan - Westmount, Quebec
Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Hugh McCurnagan

Victim of Yves Trudeau
Westmount, Quebec
Killed Oct 27, 1981 · 45 years ago

In the affluent Montreal suburb of Westmount, the morning of October 27, 1981, was shattered by a powerful explosion. The blast emanated from a Mercedes-Benz, instantly killing its occupant, a man named Hugh McCurnagan. Known in the criminal underworld as…

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Myron Robert Martinez - Alamosa, Colorado
Serial Killer Victim

Myron Robert Martinez

age 38 · Alamosa, Colorado
Killed Oct 27, 2020 · 6 years ago

Myron Robert Martinez, a 38-year-old man from Del Norte, Colorado, had not been in contact with his family since late October 2020. Worry grew, and on November 6, 2020, his family officially reported him missing to the Rio Grande Sheriff's Office. Just days…

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Shayla Jenna Hammel - Alamosa, Colorado
Serial Killer Victim

Shayla Jenna Hammel

age 34 · Alamosa, Colorado
Killed Oct 27, 2020 · 6 years ago

In the autumn of 2020, Shayla Jenna Hammel, a 34-year-old mother of two young children, was living in the small town of Saguache, Colorado. Known to those who loved her as a "beautiful light," her life was intertwined with the rugged landscape of the San Luis…

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Josephine Selvage - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Serial Killer Victim

Josephine Selvage

age 81 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Killed Oct 27, 2005 · 21 years ago

On October 27, 2005, Josephine Selvage, an 81-year-old White/Caucasian female, was tragically killed in her Albuquerque, New Mexico, home. A retired school teacher who was living with Alzheimer's disease, she was confronted by an intruder who had slipped into…

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Gayle Botelho - Fall River, Massachusetts
Serial Killer Victim

Gayle Botelho

Victim of Daniel Tavares
age 32 · Fall River, Massachusetts
Killed Oct 27, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the fall of 1988, Gayle Botelho, a 32-year-old Caucasian woman and mother of three, vanished from her Fall River, Massachusetts apartment on Prospect Street. On October 27th, she told her live-in boyfriend's brother she would be back in five minutes…

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Karen Patterson

age 13 · Charleston, South Carolina
Killed Oct 27, 1985 · 41 years ago

Karen Patterson was a 13-year-old Black girl from North Charleston, South Carolina, whose life was stolen in the early hours of October 27, 1985, in an attack that shattered both her family and her neighborhood. She lived in a small tenant house behind a…

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Benjamin Frank Atkins

age 75 · Charleston, South Carolina
Killed Oct 27, 1985 · 41 years ago

In the quiet, pre-dawn hours of a Sunday morning in North Charleston, South Carolina, a violent chain of events unfolded that would leave two people dead. On October 27, 1985, 75-year-old Benjamin Frank Atkins was killed in his home. His adoptive son, Joseph…

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Mike Pepitone

New Orleans, Louisiana
Killed Oct 27, 1919 · 107 years ago

For more than a year, a terrifying figure known as "The Axeman" had haunted the city of New Orleans, his name whispered in fear from the back streets of the French Quarter to the quiet neighborhood groceries. The city held its breath, living under the shadow…

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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.