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Deaths by Force on April 6

655 open cases in our database happened on April 6. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Deaths by Force (437)

Viet Quoc Minh Tran - San-jose, California
Death by Force

Viet Quoc Minh Tran

Male, age 37 · San-jose, California
Killed Apr 6, 2013 · 13 years ago

Viet Quoc Minh Tran, aged 37, tragically passed away on April 6, 2013, in San Jose, California. His death occurred under violent circumstances, as he was found bleeding to death from gunshot wounds in the parking lot of Elite Car and Audio Performance on…

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Rogell Hawkins - Detroit, Michigan
Death by Force

Rogell Hawkins

Male, age 55 · Detroit, Michigan
Killed Apr 6, 2012 · 14 years ago

On April 6, 2012, a violent incident occurred at a residence in Detroit, Michigan, claiming the life of 55-year-old Rogell Hawkins. The Black male victim was discovered at a home located at 13919 Monte Vista Street. This tragedy took place during a Friday in…

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Carl Otto Stallings Jr. - Norfolk, Virginia
Death by Force

Carl Otto Stallings Jr.

Male, age 39 · Norfolk, Virginia
Killed Apr 6, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the spring of 2012, the life of Carl Otto Stallings Jr., a 39-year-old man from Norfolk, Virginia, was tragically cut short. On April 6th, he was found inside a residence in the 2100 block of Ballentine Boulevard, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound. His…

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MiQuan Bart Lawrence - Syracuse, New York
Death by Force

MiQuan Bart Lawrence

Male, age 18 · Syracuse, New York
Killed Apr 6, 2012 · 14 years ago

On a spring evening in Syracuse, New York, the life of 18-year-old MiQuan Bart Lawrence was tragically cut short. On April 6, 2012, Lawrence was shot and killed, a victim of gun violence that shook the local community. Known to his friends and family as…

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Cristian Luna - Paramount, California
Death by Force

Cristian Luna

Male, age 24 · Paramount, California
Killed Apr 6, 2012 · 14 years ago

Cristian Luna, a 24-year-old resident of Paramount, California, was tragically killed on April 6, 2012. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Luna was found lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head in the 6400 block of San Luis…

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Senior Jaime De Luna - Austin, Texas
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Senior Jaime De Luna

Male, age 40 · Austin, Texas
Killed Apr 6, 2012 · 14 years ago

Senior Police Officer Jaime De Luna Padron, aged 40, was shot and killed on April 6, 2012, while responding to a disturbance at a Walmart store on the I-35 Frontage Road in Austin, Texas. Officer Padron, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, had served with the Austin…

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Earl Griffin - Washington, District of Columbia
Death by Force

Earl Griffin

Male, age 27 · Washington, District of Columbia
Killed Apr 6, 2010 · 16 years ago

On a fall evening in Washington, D.C., the life of Earl Clayton Griffin, Jr. was irrevocably altered by an act of violence from which he would not recover. In the late hours of Saturday, November 7, 2009, Griffin was discovered with gunshot wounds in the 2400…

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Raymond Langford - Baltimore, Maryland
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Raymond Langford

Male, age 25 · Baltimore, Maryland
Killed Apr 6, 2010 · 16 years ago

In the spring of 2010, a burst of gunfire shattered the morning calm in a Baltimore neighborhood, leaving one man dead and two others wounded. The deceased was identified as Raymond Langford Jr., a 25-year-old Black male. The incident unfolded on April 6…

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Albert Swartz - Detroit, Michigan
Death by Force

Albert Swartz

Male, age 30 · Detroit, Michigan
Killed Apr 6, 2010 · 16 years ago

On April 6, 2010, authorities in Detroit, Michigan, were alerted to a violent incident on the city's east side. Responding officers arrived at a location in the 5800 block of Concord Street, near the intersection with East Grand Boulevard. It was there that…

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Elroy J Sims - Kansas City, Missouri
Death by Force

Elroy J Sims

Male, age 22 · Kansas City, Missouri
Killed Apr 6, 2010 · 16 years ago

In the spring of 2010, the life of 22-year-old Elroy J. Sims Jr. was tragically cut short in Kansas City, Missouri. On Tuesday, April 6, 2010, the young man from Washington Park, Illinois, became the victim of a violent act that ended his life. The specific…

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Alberto Bague - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Alberto Bague

Male, age 29 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 2010 · 16 years ago

Alberto Bague, a 29-year-old Hispanic male from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was killed in the early morning hours of April 6, 2010, in the Kensington section of the city. Around 12:15 a.m., the night on F and Thayer Streets turned violent when a man on a…

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Patrick Jackson - Greenville, South Carolina
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Patrick Jackson

Male, age 25 · Greenville, South Carolina
Killed Apr 6, 2010 · 16 years ago

On an April evening in Greenville, South Carolina, a young man’s life was abruptly cut short, leaving behind a case that continues to baffle investigators. Patrick Demetrius Jackson, a 25-year-old male, was fatally shot on April 6, 2010, in the parking lot of…

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Flora Thompson - Chicago, Illinois
Death by Force

Flora Thompson

Female, age 83 · Chicago, Illinois
Found Apr 6, 2009 · 17 years ago

Flora Thompson, aged 83, was found murdered on April 6, 2009, in her home in Chicago. She was discovered in her apartment in the Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. Flora had been brutally attacked, suffering stab wounds and blunt trauma to her…

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Eric L Davis - Kansas City, Missouri
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Eric L Davis

Male, age 36 · Kansas City, Missouri
Killed Apr 6, 2009 · 17 years ago

On the morning of January 6, 2008, police officers in Kansas City, Missouri, were dispatched to a residence located at 2716 Grove regarding a reported disturbance. Upon arriving at the scene, law enforcement discovered two victims suffering from gunshot…

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Halim Lindsey - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Halim Lindsey

Male, age 16 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the cool quiet of a West Philadelphia evening, Halim Lindsey, a 16-year-old male with a promising future, walked toward a friend's house on Redfield Street. It was shortly before 9 p.m. on Monday, April 6, 2009, when the night was shattered by a barrage of…

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Thora Sanders - Laurinburg, North Carolina
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Thora Sanders

Female, age 21 · Laurinburg, North Carolina
Killed Apr 6, 2009 · 17 years ago

Thora Dawn Sanders, a 21-year-old woman from Laurinburg, North Carolina, passed away on April 6, 2009. She was pronounced dead at Scotland Memorial Hospital. Thora was survived by her husband, Eurekus R. Pate, and her son, Samier Pate. She was also preceded…

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Raymond E. Williams - Altoona, Pennsylvania
Death by Force

Raymond E. Williams

Male, age 64 · Altoona, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 2009 · 17 years ago

On a tragic day in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Raymond E. Williams, a 64-year-old male, had his life abruptly cut short. On April 6, 2009, Williams became a victim of a shooting spree carried out by Nicholas Adam Horner. At the time of his death, Williams, who had…

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Scott Thomas Garlick - Altoona, Pennsylvania
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Scott Thomas Garlick

Male, age 19 · Altoona, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 2009 · 17 years ago

Scott Thomas Garlick, a 19-year-old male from Altoona, PA, tragically lost his life on April 6, 2009. He was employed at a Subway restaurant on 58th Street in Altoona and was a senior at Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School, preparing for graduation and…

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Andrew Sanders - Birmingham, Alabama
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Andrew Sanders

Male, age 23 · Birmingham, Alabama
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

Andrew D. Sanders, a 23-year-old Black man from Birmingham, was killed on April 6, 2008, in the city’s Southtown housing community. In the dark of that early Sunday morning, he was found near the intersection of 24th Street South and 9th Avenue South, lying…

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Jesus Soto - Colton, California
Death by Force

Jesus Soto

Male, age 24 · Colton, California
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

Jesus Ricardo Soto, age 24, was shot and killed on April 6, 2008, while driving in Colton, California. The incident occurred in the area of 10th and N Street in Colton. Following the shooting, Soto's vehicle collided with a parked car in front of a residence.…

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Billi Ros - London, Ohio
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Billi Ros

Female, age 51 · London, Ohio
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

On April 6, 2008, Billi Romans, age 51, and her two children, Ami (16) and Caleb (12), died in a house fire at their home in London, Ohio. The fire, which started in their 2001 Ford Expedition parked in the carport next to their house, was eventually ruled an…

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Robert Bullock - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Robert Bullock

Male, age 30 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

Robert Bullock, a 30-year-old Black male, died in Philadelphia on April 6, 2008, the same date listed for the assault that led to his death. His name appears among Philadelphia's 2008 homicide victims, placed in the grim sequence of lives lost that year. The…

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Tanya Maki - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Death by Force

Tanya Maki

Female, age 21 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early hours of a Sunday morning in Milwaukee, the life of 21-year-old Tanya R. Maki, a Caucasian female, was tragically cut short. On April 6, 2008, at approximately 2:30 a.m., the sound of several gunshots echoed through the parking lot of an…

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Rick Soto - Colton, California
Death by Force

Rick Soto

Male, age 22 · Colton, California
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

Rick Jesus Soto Jr., aged 22, tragically lost his life on April 6, 2008, in Colton, California. On that fateful day, Soto was driving in the area of 10th and N Street when he was shot. The gunfire caused him to lose control of his vehicle, which subsequently…

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Lonnie Lee Baxter - Bascom, Florida
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Lonnie Lee Baxter

Male, age 47 · Bascom, Florida
Killed Apr 6, 2008 · 18 years ago

Lonnie Lee Baxter, aged 47, passed away on April 6, 2008, in Bascom, Florida. His death was a significant event in the local community, and it was marked by a funeral service held at the Second Macedonia Baptist Church in Malone. The service was attended by…

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Mario Lopez - Chicago, Illinois
Death by Force

Mario Lopez

Male, age 18 · Chicago, Illinois
Found Apr 6, 2007 · 19 years ago

Mario Lopez, an 18-year-old, was fatally shot on April 6, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. His death occurred during a particularly challenging period for the city, which was experiencing high levels of gun violence and gang activity. The homicide took place in a…

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Mario Wilson - Chicago, Illinois
Death by Force

Mario Wilson

Null, age 18 · Chicago, Illinois
Found Apr 6, 2007 · 19 years ago

Mario Wilson, an 18-year-old male, was tragically killed on April 6, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. His death occurred during a time when Chicago faced considerable challenges with violent crime, including a significant number of homicides involving young…

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Lennie Mccloud - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death by Force

Lennie Mccloud

Female, age 52 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 2007 · 19 years ago

On April 6, 2007, 52-year-old Lennie Mccloud, a Black/African American female, was found deceased in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her body was discovered in the 1900 block of North Stanley Street. Information regarding the specific circumstances leading to her…

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Donald Cornett - Houston, Texas
Death by Force

Donald Cornett

Male, age 54 · Houston, Texas
Found Apr 6, 2007 · 19 years ago

Donald Cornett, age 54, was fatally shot on April 6, 2007, at his residence in Houston, Texas. The incident occurred at approximately 2 a.m. at 8309 Hanfro, where Cornett was found lying on the front porch of his home. He was pronounced dead at the scene by…

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Gentria Thomas - Cincinnati, Ohio
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Gentria Thomas

Female · Cincinnati, Ohio
Killed Apr 6, 2004 · 22 years ago

On April 6, 2004, Gentria Lynn Thomas, age 43, was found strangled to death under an expressway overpass at 351 East Third Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her tragic death shocked the local community, and despite efforts by the Cincinnati Police Department, the…

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Philip Guy Billings - Pompano-beach, Florida
Death by Force

Philip Guy Billings

Male, age 25 · Pompano-beach, Florida
Killed Apr 6, 2003 · 23 years ago

Philip Guy Billings, a 25-year-old male deputy from the Broward County Sheriff's Office, tragically lost his life on April 6, 2003, in Pompano Beach, Florida. Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Philip was a dedicated law enforcement officer who had served with the…

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Dorthea K. Hoagland - Somerville, New Jersey
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Dorthea K. Hoagland

Female, age 80 · Somerville, New Jersey
Killed Apr 6, 2003 · 23 years ago

Dorthea K. Hoagland was an 80-year-old woman and a homemaker from Middlesex, New Jersey. In the spring of 2003, she found herself a patient at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. Her life came to an unexpected and tragic end on April 6, 2003, not from a…

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Un Sam Lee - La Mirada, California
Death by Force

Un Sam Lee

Female, age 47 · La Mirada, California
Killed Apr 6, 2002 · 24 years ago

Un Sam Lee was an active businesswoman living in Southern California, known throughout the Korean community in both Los Angeles County and Orange County. Over the years, the forty-seven-year-old Asian woman had established herself as a prominent entrepreneur…

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Dale Hill - Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Dale Hill

Male, age 27 · Tulsa, Oklahoma
Killed Apr 6, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the spring of 1999, the life of Dale Curtis Hill, a 27-year-old African-American man, was tragically cut short in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On the evening of April 6th, a dispute erupted outside the Nugget Club on North Peoria, escalating into a violent altercation…

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Wendy Williams - Storrs, Connecticut
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Wendy Williams

Female, age 48 · Storrs, Connecticut
Killed Apr 6, 1998 · 28 years ago

Wendy Orlean Williams, a 48-year-old White female, died on April 6, 1998, near her home in Storrs, Connecticut. Her death was the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. For many years, she had battled with deep depression and had made previous attempts to…

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Donald Vanhook - Columbus, Ohio
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Donald Vanhook

Male · Columbus, Ohio
Killed Apr 6, 1997 · 29 years ago

On April 6, 1997, 50-year-old Donald Vanhook was found with a fatal gunshot wound in the vicinity of 2066 Interity Drive in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Police Department responded to the scene and began an investigation, but the case remains unsolved to this…

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Delfina Lillelid - Greeneville, Tennessee
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Delfina Lillelid

Female, age 28 · Greeneville, Tennessee
Killed Apr 6, 1997 · 29 years ago

On a quiet Sunday evening in April 1997, the lives of the Lillelid family were irrevocably shattered in a senseless act of violence. Delfina Lillelid, a 28-year-old first-generation Honduran-American, her husband Vidar, 34, and their two children…

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Tabitha Lillelid - Greeneville, Tennessee
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Tabitha Lillelid

Female, age 6 · Greeneville, Tennessee
Killed Apr 6, 1997 · 29 years ago

On a spring evening in Greeneville, Tennessee, the life of six-year-old Tabitha Lillelid was tragically cut short in a brutal act of violence that also claimed the lives of her parents. On April 6, 1997, Tabitha, her father Vidar, mother Delfina, and…

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Vidar Lillelid - Greeneville, Tennessee
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Vidar Lillelid

Male, age 34 · Greeneville, Tennessee
Killed Apr 6, 1997 · 29 years ago

On a quiet Sunday evening, April 6, 1997, the lives of the Lillelid family were irrevocably shattered in a horrific act of violence in Greene County, Tennessee. Vidar Lillelid, a 34-year-old male, his wife Delfina, 28, their 6-year-old daughter Tabitha, and…

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Cuong Huy Tony Trinh - Houston, Texas
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Cuong Huy Tony Trinh

Male, age 25 · Houston, Texas
Killed Apr 6, 1997 · 29 years ago

Cuong Huy "Tony" Trinh, a 25-year-old Vietnamese-American male, was tragically shot and killed on April 6, 1997, in Houston, Texas. Officer Trinh was off-duty and working at his family-owned store when an armed suspect attempted to rob the store. The suspect…

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Jerry Jackson - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Jerry Jackson

Male, age 44 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Killed Apr 6, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the early hours of April 6, 1995, the life of Jerry Jackson, an African American man, came to a violent end inside the Armstrong Tunnels in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His death followed a high-speed chase, culminating in a hail of 51 bullets fired by…

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Lisa Ann Warner - Brooklyn, New York
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Lisa Ann Warner

Female, age 18 · Brooklyn, New York
Killed Apr 6, 1995 · 31 years ago

Lisa Ann Warner was a White 18-year-old woman from Jamaica, Queens, whose violent end surfaced in Brooklyn on April 6, 1995, when workers at a recycling plant stopped a conveyor belt and realized a dismembered body had been carried in with the refuse. Her…

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Raynald J. Levesque - Madison, Maine
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Raynald J. Levesque

Male, age 55 · Madison, Maine
Killed Apr 6, 1994 · 32 years ago

On a Wednesday morning in Madison, Maine, 55-year-old Raynald Levesque, a White male, began his day as he always did. His wife saw him for the last time at 8:15 a.m. on April 6, 1994, before she left for her job at a local bank. Levesque owned and operated a…

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Linda Woods - Portland, Oregon
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Linda Woods

Female, age 33 · Portland, Oregon
Found Apr 6, 1992 · 34 years ago

On the morning of April 6, 1992, the routine movements of a train just north of the intersection of N. Kerby Avenue and N. Watts Street in Portland, Oregon, were abruptly halted by a grim discovery. A train engineer, while maneuvering the train, spotted a…

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Linda Reynolds - Phoenix, Arizona
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Linda Reynolds

Female · Phoenix, Arizona
Killed Apr 6, 1992 · 34 years ago

On April 6, 1992, Linda Reynolds, a Pizza Hut delivery person in Phoenix, Arizona, was tragically killed after being abducted during a delivery to a vacant house. She was a Caucasian female. The events of that day unfolded as a horrific crime orchestrated by…

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Dan Leach - Gastonia, North Carolina
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Dan Leach

Male, age 65 · Gastonia, North Carolina
Found Apr 6, 1990 · 36 years ago

On April 6, 1990, Dan Leach, a 65-year-old man, was found murdered in Gastonia, North Carolina. His death remains an unsolved case, which has haunted the local community for decades. Leach was discovered fatally wounded, but the specific circumstances…

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Richard Schindewolf - Oakland, California
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Richard Schindewolf

Male, age 40 · Oakland, California
Killed Apr 6, 1989 · 37 years ago

Richard E. Schindewolf, aged 40, was tragically found dead on April 6, 1989, in Oakland, California. Schindewolf, a father and husband, was discovered in the parking lot of the trucking school where he worked, "Transportation Careers of America," located on…

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Clifford Sanchez - San-bernardino, California
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Clifford Sanchez

Male, age 31 · San-bernardino, California
Killed Apr 6, 1985 · 41 years ago

Deputy Clifford E. Sanchez, a 31-year-old officer with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, tragically lost his life on April 6, 1985. Sanchez was shot and killed during a robbery in the parking lot behind a cocktail lounge on North Sierra Way in…

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Dates are the day last seen (missing), the day of death, or when the date of death is unknown the day found or reported missing (deaths by force), the day found (unidentified and unclaimed), the victim's date of death (serial killers) and the day of the attack (mass murders). Solved, located, identified and claimed cases are not listed.