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Serial Killer Victims on April 20

729 open cases in our database happened on April 20. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (13)

Cynthia Jocelyn Zarzycki - Eastpointe, Michigan
Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Cynthia Jocelyn Zarzycki

age 13 · Eastpointe, Michigan
Killed Apr 20, 1986 · 40 years ago

In the spring of 1986, thirteen-year-old Cynthia 'Cindy' Jocelyn Zarzycki, a white female, vanished from her Eastpointe, Michigan neighborhood. On April 20th, she left her home with plans to meet a friend at a local Dairy Queen. Witnesses last saw her there…

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Virginia Bayless - Perris, California
Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Virginia Bayless

age 84 · Perris, California
Killed Apr 20, 1981 · 45 years ago

Virginia Bayless, an 84-year-old woman, was a patient at Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris, California, when her hospitalization became part of one of the most disturbing series of patient deaths in the state's history. On the night of April 19 into…

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Henry Lucero Castro - Perris, California
Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Henry Lucero Castro

age 65 · Perris, California
Killed Apr 20, 1981 · 45 years ago

Henry Lucero Castro, a 65-year-old man, was a patient at Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris, California, when what initially appeared to be a serious cardiac illness became part of a far more disturbing pattern of deaths inside the hospital’s…

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Scott Andrews - Renton, Washington
Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Scott Andrews

Victim of Gary Gene Grant
age 6 · Renton, Washington
Killed Apr 20, 1971 · 55 years ago

Scott Andrews, a six-year-old boy, tragically lost his life on April 20, 1971, in Renton, Washington. He was one of two young victims brutally murdered by Gary Gene Grant, a serial killer who terrorized the area between 1969 and 1971. Scott Andrews, along…

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Bradley Lyons - Renton, Washington
Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Bradley Lyons

Victim of Gary Gene Grant
age 6 · Renton, Washington
Killed Apr 20, 1971 · 55 years ago

On a spring day in Renton, Washington, April 20, 1971, six-year-old Bradley Lyons, a Caucasian male, was playing near his home with his friend, Scott Andrews, who was also six. The two boys were last seen around 11:15 a.m. that morning. When they did not…

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Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Ernesto Ramirez

age 28 · California
Killed Apr 20, 1981 · 45 years ago

Donald Miller: The Los Angeles Serial Killer Known as Robert Maxie Background Donald Miller was an American serial killer and attempted murderer who attacked men and women in Los Angeles County, California. He was born in Los Angeles in 1941 and grew up in…

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Serial Killer Victim135th anniversary

Matilda Clover

age 27 · Illinois||England (Middlesex)
Killed Apr 20, 1891 · 135 years ago

Thomas Neill Cream: The Lambeth Poisoner A Doctor Who Became a Serial Poisoner Thomas Neill Cream was a Scottish-born physician whose criminal career stretched across Canada, the United States, and England during the late nineteenth century. Better known as…

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Sheryl Johnson - Chicago, Illinois
Serial Killer Victim

Sheryl Johnson

Victim of Andre Crawford
age 44 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed Apr 20, 1999 · 27 years ago

Sheryl Johnson, a 44-year-old Black / African American woman, was killed in Chicago during the third week of April 1999. Court records place her homicide in April 1999 rather than August 1990. Her body was discovered around midnight on April 20, 1999, inside…

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Vera E. Hallums - Springfield, Massachusetts
Serial Killer Victim

Vera E. Hallums

age 45 · Springfield, Massachusetts
Killed Apr 20, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the spring of 1995, the life of 45-year-old Vera E. Hallums, a Black/African American female, was tragically cut short in her Springfield, Massachusetts apartment. On April 20, 1995, she was found brutally murdered, having been beaten, tied up with…

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Cherie Washington - Sacramento, California
Serial Killer Victim

Cherie Washington

Victim of Morris Solomon
age 26 · Sacramento, California
Killed Apr 20, 1987 · 39 years ago

Cherie Washington, a 26-year-old African-American woman from Sacramento, California, was one of several victims in a series of murders that occurred in the mid-1980s. Her body was discovered on April 20, 1987, buried in a shallow grave in Sacramento’s Oak…

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Chila Silvernails - Kalama, Washington
Serial Killer Victim

Chila Silvernails

age 8 · Kalama, Washington
Killed Apr 20, 1982 · 44 years ago

On a spring morning in Kalama, Washington, eight-year-old Chila Silvernails, a Caucasian female, walked down her driveway on Martins Bluff Road to catch the school bus on April 20, 1982. It was a routine she followed every school day, but on this particular…

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Shirley Small - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Serial Killer Victim

Shirley Small

Victim of Carl Watts
age 17 · Ann Arbor, Michigan
Killed Apr 20, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 20, 1980, the life of 17-year-old Shirley Small was tragically cut short in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A white female and a senior at Pioneer High School, Small was found stabbed to death on a lawn at 2820 Page Street…

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Clarnell Strandberg - Aptos, California
Serial Killer Victim

Clarnell Strandberg

age 52 · Aptos, California
Killed Apr 20, 1973 · 53 years ago

Clarnell Elizabeth Strandberg, a 52-year-old Caucasian woman, was murdered on April 20, 1973, in Aptos, California. Her death was part of a series of killings committed by her son, Edmund Kemper III, a notorious serial killer. Kemper had a deeply troubled…

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