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William Lavaco

Case from Norton, OH dated Aug 06, 1977

Victim Details

William Joseph ″Billy″ Lavaco

Male

White / Caucasian

Norton

OH

1977-08-06

21

William

Lavaco

07/02/2026

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William Joseph “Billy” Lavaco was a 21-year-old white man from the Doylestown area of Ohio whose life was cut short in a brutal double homicide in Norton in early August 1977, with official records listing his death as August 6, 1977. He spent that weekend with his girlfriend, Judith Straub, a local teenager he had been dating for many months, and the two moved in the easy orbit of small-town bars and country roads, part of a close-knit circle of friends and family who never imagined they wo ...
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