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Daniel Aldape

Case from Las Vegas, NV dated Jan 04, 2017

Victim Details

Daniel Aldape

March 28, 2022

Male

Caucasian / White

Las Vegas

NV

2017-01-04

46

Daniel

Aldape

Yes

07/29/2026


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On January 4, 2017, 46-year-old Daniel Aldape, a homeless man, was found dead in an empty parking lot near Ogden Avenue and City Parkway in downtown Las Vegas. Aldape had been sleeping outside, wrapped in blankets, when he was brutally killed by a blow to the head with a blunt object, likely a hammer. His body was discovered the next morning, and the police immediately launched an investigation.

A month later, on February 3, 2017, a second homeless man, David Dunn, was found murdered in a ...
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