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Venora Hyatt

Case from Mobile, AL dated Apr 16, 1976

Victim Details

Venora Hyatt

Female

White / Caucasian

Mobile

AL

1976-04-16

44

Venora

Hyatt

07/05/2026

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Venora Hyatt, a 44-year-old woman from Mobile, Alabama, was swept into one of the darkest murder cases the Gulf Coast had seen in the mid-1970s. By the time her death was tied to a known killer, the picture that emerged was grim and deeply unsettling. Court records and later reporting describe Hyatt as one of the women Thomas Whisenhant targeted in Mobile after his release on parole. Those records say that on April 16, 1976, she was kidnapped and murdered, and that the killer returned the next d ...
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  • Thomas Whisenhant - Wikipedia
  • Thomas Whisenhant executed for 1976 kidnapping, rape and murder
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