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Karen Michalski

Case from Lakewood, OH dated Mar 07, 1979

Victim Details

Karen Michalski

February 11, 2022

Female

Caucasian / White

Lakewood

OH

1979-03-07

1979-03-07

1949-04-15

29

Karen

Michalski

Brown

Grey

5'09

131

07/03/2026


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Karen Michalski, aged 29, was tragically killed on March 7, 1979, in Lakewood, Ohio. On the evening of her death, she had been dining at a restaurant in Rocky River before driving eastward along Clifton Boulevard towards Lakewood. Just before midnight, she turned onto Beach Avenue and then pulled into a driveway at the rear of 12203 Clifton. While still seated in her car, a 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass, Karen was shot with a shotgun at close range by an unknown assailant who is believed to have been ...
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  • Karen Lillian Michalski Unsolved homicide - Ohio Attorney General
  • 1979 murder of Lorain woman remains unsolved - WOIO
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