Serial Killer Victims on August 17

Serial Killer Victims (16)

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Lynn Vaughn

Victim of Robert Carl Foley

Laurel County, Kentucky

Killed Aug 17, 1991 · 35 years ago

On a humid August night in 1991, Harry Lynn “Lynn” Vaughn, a 30-year-old man from Laurel County, Kentucky, joined friends and relatives at a modest house on White Oak Church Road for what was supposed to be an ordinary gathering. The home belonged to Robert…

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Charmaine Sabrah

Victim of Roger Reece Kibbe

age 26 · Sacramento, California

Killed Aug 17, 1986 · 40 years ago

Charmaine Sabrah, a 26-year-old woman, tragically lost her life in 1986 under circumstances linked to a serial killer known as the 'I-5 Strangler'. Sabrah was a working single mother residing in Sacramento, California. On the day of her disappearance, she and…

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Ruben Watson

Victim of Dean Arnold Corll

age 17 · Houston, Texas

Killed Aug 17, 1971 · 55 years ago

Reuben Watson Haney, a 17-year-old male, tragically lost his life on August 17, 1971, in Houston, Texas. He was one of the victims of Dean Corll, a notorious serial killer and sex offender who operated in Houston and Pasadena, Texas, between 1970 and 1973.…

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Sheri Martin

Victim of Carolyn Mccrary

age 17 · Salt Lake City, Utah

Killed Aug 17, 1971 · 55 years ago

On a summer evening in Salt Lake City, Utah, 17-year-old Sheri Martin was working at a Winchell's Donut Shop. It was August 17, 1971, and what began as a routine night would tragically become her last. Two men, Sherman McCrary and his son-in-law Carl Taylor…

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Sheri Lee Martin

Victim of Ginger Taylor

age 17 · Salt Lake City, Utah

Killed Aug 17, 1971 · 55 years ago

On a summer evening in Salt Lake City, Utah, 17-year-old Sheri Martin was working at a Winchell's Donut Shop. It was August 17, 1971, and what began as a routine night would tragically become her last. Two men, Sherman McCrary and his son-in-law Carl Taylor…

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Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Sheri Lee Martin

Victim of Raymond Taylor

age 17 · Salt Lake City, Utah

Killed Aug 17, 1971 · 55 years ago

On a summer evening in Salt Lake City, Utah, 17-year-old Sheri Martin was working at a Winchell's Donut Shop. It was August 17, 1971, and what began as a routine night would tragically become her last. Two men, Sherman McCrary and his son-in-law Carl Taylor…

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Rodney Vaughn

Victim of Robert Carl Foley

Laurel County, Kentucky

Killed Aug 17, 1991 · 35 years ago

On a summer evening in August of 1991, in Laurel County, Kentucky, Rodney Vaughn, a male, was at a gathering at a home on White Oak Church Road with ten other adults and five children. An argument erupted between Vaughn and another guest, Robert Foley, which…

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Jessica Cain

Victim of I-45 Killer

age 17 · Clear Lake, Texas

Killed Aug 17, 1997 · 29 years ago

Jessica Cain, a 17-year-old Caucasian female, went missing on August 17, 1997, after attending a high school musical cast party in Clear Lake, Texas. She was last seen getting into her truck to drive home, but she never arrived. Her disappearance led to an…

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Jessica Cain

Victim of William Lewis Reece

age 17 · Clear Lake, Texas

Killed Aug 17, 1997 · 29 years ago

Jessica Cain, a 17-year-old Caucasian female, went missing on August 17, 1997, after attending a high school musical cast party in Clear Lake, Texas. She was last seen getting into her truck to drive home, but she never arrived. Her disappearance led to an…

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Jimmie Bramlett

Victim of Ralph Harris

age 43 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 17, 1992 · 34 years ago

Jimmie Bramlett, a 43-year-old African American male, was tragically killed on August 2, 1992, in Chicago, Illinois. His death was part of a series of violent crimes that plagued the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago during that summer.…

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Melinda Ann Garza

Victim of Diana Lumbrera

age 2 · Friona, Texas

Killed Aug 17, 1982 · 44 years ago

On August 17, 1982, Melinda Ann Garza, a 2-year-old Hispanic female from Friona, Texas, died under circumstances that were initially attributed to natural causes. Her death was recorded as resulting from acute heart failure due to congenital heart disease. At…

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Steven Cropper

Victim of Ernesto Soto

age 8 · Manhattan, New York

Killed Aug 17, 1973 · 53 years ago

Steven Cropper, a 7-year-old Black male, was found dead on Friday, August 17, 1973, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side after a woman walking her dog came upon him in a tenement building at 325 East Houston Street and alerted police. The late-summer heat sat heavy…

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Rusty Branch

Victim of Dean Arnold Corll

age 17 · Houston, Texas

Killed Aug 17, 1972 · 54 years ago

In the fall of 1972, a 17-year-old White male named Willard Karmon "Rusty" Branch Jr. vanished while trying to make his way back to Houston, Texas. Known to hitchhike, Willard was last seen in November of that year, setting off a frantic search by his family.…

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Mary E. McGreevy

Victim of Miami Strangler

age 64 · Miami, Florida

Killed Aug 17, 1964 · 62 years ago

On August 17, 1964, 64-year-old white female Mary E. McGreevy was found dead in her home in Miami, Florida. She had been smothered to death with a pillow, and her murder was later attributed to an unidentified serial killer known as the Miami Strangler. The…

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J. R. Green

Victim of Winona Ola Freeman

age 49 · Little Rock, Arkansas

Killed Aug 17, 1924 · 102 years ago

J.R. Green, 55, a white male railroad switchman in Little Rock, left the rail yard just after midnight on August 17, 1924, and started the familiar walk home. He never made it. A shot split the quiet and he fell in the dark, the night swallowing the sound…

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Jennie Connors Knapp

Victim of Alfred Andrew Knapp

Ohio||Indiana

Killed Aug 17, 1894 · 132 years ago

Alfred Andrew Knapp: The Hamilton Strangler Overview Alfred Andrew Knapp was an American serial killer who murdered at least five women and girls in Ohio and Indiana between 1894 and 1902. Frequently called the Hamilton Strangler, the Ohio Strangler, and the…

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