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Serial Killer Victims on August 15

749 open cases in our database happened on August 15. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (10)

Sophia Glover - San Diego, California
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Sophia Glover

Victim of San Diego Serial Murders
age 37 · San Diego, California
Killed Aug 15, 1986 · 40 years ago

On August 15, 1986, Sophia Glover—a 37-year-old African-American female—was discovered dead in the Normal Heights neighborhood of San Diego. Her nude body, wrapped in a blanket and left alongside a residential alley, bore severe blunt-force injuries to the…

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Jose Alfaro - Los Angeles, California
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Jose Alfaro

Victim of Efren Saldivar
age 82 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 15, 1997 · 29 years ago

An 82-year-old male patient, **Jose Alfaro**—whose publicly available records do not specify his ethnicity—was one of the elderly in-patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, California, whose unexpected death was later traced to a hospital serial-murder…

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Balbino Castro - Los Angeles, California
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Balbino Castro

Victim of Efren Saldivar
age 87 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 15, 1997 · 29 years ago

Balbino Castro, an 87-year-old male, died on August 15, 1997, in Glendale, California. He was one of several elderly patients who fell victim to a series of murders committed by Efren Saldivar, a former respiratory therapist at Glendale Adventist Medical…

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Shiraleen Crawford - Hartford, Connecticut
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Shiraleen Crawford

Victim of Robert Jimmy White
age 30 · Hartford, Connecticut
Killed Aug 15, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the summer of 1997, the life of 30-year-old Shiraleen Crawford, a Black woman from Hartford, Connecticut, came to a tragic and violent end. On August 14th, her body was discovered in her third-floor apartment on Martin Street. The state of her remains…

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Sally Nicholson - Athens, Georgia
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Sally Nicholson

Victim of Clinton Bankston
age 59 · Athens, Georgia
Killed Aug 15, 1987 · 39 years ago

In the quiet suburban neighborhood of Carr's Hill in Athens, Georgia, a horrific scene unfolded on the night of August 15, 1987, forever altering the community's sense of security. Inside their home, 59-year-old Sally Nicholson, a White/Caucasian female, her…

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Helen Nicholson - Athens, Georgia
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Helen Nicholson

Victim of Clinton Bankston
age 22 · Athens, Georgia
Killed Aug 15, 1987 · 39 years ago

On the night of August 15, 1987, a horrific scene unfolded in the suburban Carr's Hill neighborhood of Athens, Georgia, forever altering the community. Helen Nicholson, a 22-year-old Caucasian female, was brutally murdered in her home alongside her…

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Gail Ficklin - Los Angeles, California
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Gail Ficklin

Victim of Louis Craine
Los Angeles, California
Killed Aug 15, 1985 · 41 years ago

Gail Ficklin, a 24-year-old Black woman, tragically lost her life on August 15, 1985. Her body was discovered in an alley located on the 9800 block of Grandee Avenue in Willowbrook, Los Angeles. The cause of death was determined to be strangulation. This…

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William Dean - Portland, Oregon
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William Dean

Victim of Thomas Eugene Creech
age 22 · Portland, Oregon
Killed Aug 15, 1974 · 52 years ago

On August 17, 1974, in Portland, Oregon, 22-year-old White/Caucasian male William Joseph Dean was found shot to death inside the living quarters at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Accounts indicate his body was discovered in that residence on August 17; some…

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Ann Morris

Victim of Clinton Bankston
age 63 · Athens, Georgia
Killed Aug 15, 1987 · 39 years ago

Ann Orr Morris, a 63-year-old female American silversmith, goldsmith, and enamelist, was tragically killed in her hometown of Athens, Georgia. On August 15, 1987, Morris was the victim of a brutal triple homicide that also claimed the lives of her sister…

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Olga Cannon

Victim of Wilbur Lee Jennings
age 23 · Fresno, California
Killed Aug 15, 1984 · 42 years ago

Olga Cannon, a 23-year-old African American woman, was murdered on August 15, 1984, in Fresno County, California. Her body was discovered on December 8, 1984, in an irrigation ditch near Easton, California. The cause of death was determined to be bludgeoning…

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