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Mary Jo Peyton, a 21-year-old woman, was tragically murdered on July 3, 1984, in Cleveland, Ohio. She was one of the many victims of Samuel Little, a notorious serial killer who confessed to killing 93 women across the United States. Little, who often preyed on vulnerable women, met Peyton at a bar on Cleveland's East Side near East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue. After leaving the bar together, he drove her to an abandoned factory, where he strangled her to death and then disposed of her body b ...Read More
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Mary Jo Peyton
Female
White / Caucasian
Cleveland
OH
1984-07-03
21
Mary
Jo Peyton
11/11/2025







