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Joyce Faye Sellers

Case from Mesa, AZ dated Nov 12, 1966

Victim Details

Joyce Faye Sellers

Female

White / Caucasian

Mesa

AZ

1966-11-12

27

Joyce

Faye Sellers

06/23/2026

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On November 12, 1966, a day that began with the mundane errand of a salon visit, turned into a scene of unimaginable horror for Joyce Faye Sellers, a 27-year-old mother. Joyce had taken her two young daughters to the Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona. What should have been a routine outing descended into terror when an 18-year-old man named Robert Benjamin Smith entered the salon armed with a. 22-caliber revolver and other weapons.

Without any apparent motive, Smith herded seven ...
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  • Joyce Faye Luth Sellers (1939-1966) - Find a Grave Memorial
  • Joyce Faye Sellers, age 27 - National Gun Violence Memorial
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