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Robert Hedderman

Case from Albany, NY dated Nov 24, 1976

Victim Details

Robert Hedderman

Male

White / Caucasian

Albany

NY

1976-11-24

48

Robert

Hedderman

07/25/2026

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Robert Hedderman, 48, a white man, spent the afternoon of November 24, 1976, working inside the Hedderman Religious Shop at 50 Columbia Street in Albany, New York. Sometime around midafternoon, the ordinary rhythm of the store was shattered. When the violence was over, Hedderman and his secretary, Margaret Byron, were dead, each attacked with multiple stab wounds and then slashed across the throat—an intimate, relentless kind of killing that left no doubt the assailant had been close enough to ...
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