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Lisa Gilligan

Case from Evansville, IN dated Jan 14, 1980

Victim Details

Lisa Gilligan

Female

White / Caucasian

Evansville

IN

1980-01-14

5

Lisa

Gilligan

07/24/2026

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In the quiet city of Evansville, Indiana, a horrific crime shattered the community's sense of peace. On the night of January 14, 1980, five-year-old Lisa Gilligan, her four-year-old brother Gregory, and their parents, Patrick and Theresa, were tragically killed in their own home. The family had unknowingly walked in on a burglary in progress, a fateful encounter that would end in unimaginable violence.

The perpetrator was Donald Ray Wallace Jr., a man who had recently been paroled from pr ...
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  • https://www.14news.com: Donald Ray Wallace: Indiana's Dead Man Walking
  • Courier & Press: Investigation Discovery to explore 1980 mass murder of Evansville's Gilligan family
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