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James Woods

Case from Aurora, MI dated May 02, 1985

Victim Details

James Woods

Male

White / Caucasian

Aurora

MI

1985-05-02

81

James

Woods

07/19/2026

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James Woods, an 81-year-old White man, is remembered today mostly through scattered public records rather than headlines. Online memorial and genealogy listings identify him as James Orlando Woods, born October 31, 1903, in Aurora, Lawrence County, Missouri, and recorded as having died on May 31, 1985, with burial in Marionville’s IOOF Cemetery in the same county.

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