Serial Killer Victims (13)

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Paula Fabrizius

age 16 · Castle Rock, Kansas

Killed Aug 21, 1976 · 50 years ago

In the late summer of 1976, Paula Fabrizius, a 16-year-old Caucasian female, was working as a park rangerette at Cedar Bluff State Park in Kansas. An active and popular high school cheerleader, she was a familiar face to those who frequented the park. On the…

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Daryle Cole

Victim of Anthony H. Cook

age 31 · Ohio

Killed Aug 21, 1981 · 45 years ago

Anthony H. Cook: The Toledo Serial Killer Background Anthony H. Cook was born on March 9, 1949, in Mobile, Alabama, and later grew up in the Toledo, Ohio, area. He became one of the most prolific serial killers in Toledo history, eventually admitting…

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Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Stacey Balonek

Victim of Anthony H. Cook

age 21 · Toledo, Ohio

Killed Aug 21, 1981 · 45 years ago

Stacey Balonek, a 21-year-old woman, tragically lost her life on August 21, 1981, in Toledo, Ohio. Stacey, who was of Caucasian ethnicity, was brutally murdered alongside her boyfriend, Daryle Cole, aged 31. The couple was abducted, and Stacey was subjected…

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Carlton Crawford

Victim of Raymont Hopewell

age 82 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Aug 21, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the summer of 2005, a string of violent home invasions targeting the elderly cast a shadow of fear over the city of Baltimore. One of the victims of this brutal crime spree was Carlton Crawford, an 82-year-old disabled man. On August 21, 2005, his life was…

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Stanley Jagodowski

Victim of Kristen Heather Gilbert

age 66 · Northampton, Massachusetts

Killed Aug 21, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the late summer of 1995, the quiet life of Stanley Jagodowski, a 66-year-old Caucasian male and an Army veteran, came to a startling and tragic end. On August 21, 1995, Jagodowski, who was a patient at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton…

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James Williamson

Victim of Ralph Harris

age 60 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Aug 21, 1995 · 31 years ago

James Williamson Jr., a 60-year-old African American male, was fatally shot on August 21, 1995, in Chicago, Illinois. His death was part of a violent crime spree that plagued the city during that period. Williamson was laid to rest at Oak Woods Cemetery in…

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Ocinena Waymer

Victim of Benjamin Thomas Atkins

age 22 · Highland Park, Michigan

Killed Aug 21, 1992 · 34 years ago

In the bleak landscape of a city plagued by a string of brutal murders, the story of Ocinena Waymer, a 21-year-old woman, came to a tragic end. Her disappearance had not initially been linked to the series of killings that had instilled fear in the…

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Deborah Lee Smith

Victim of Nassau County Serial Murders

age 20 · Manhattan, New York

Killed Aug 21, 1984 · 42 years ago

Deborah Lee Smith, a 20-year-old woman, surfaced in the public record as the first named victim in what investigators later described as an unsolved string of killings in Nassau County. She was described as White. In August 1984, her life ended violently, and…

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Karen Robinson

Victim of Wilbur Lee Jennings

age 21 · Fresno, California

Killed Aug 21, 1983 · 43 years ago

Karen Robinson, a 21-year-old woman from Fresno, California, was tragically murdered on August 21, 1983. Her death was later linked to Wilbur Lee Jennings, a convicted serial killer known as "The Ditchbank Murderer." Jennings was responsible for multiple…

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Annette Edwards

Victim of Darrell Keith Rich

age 17 · Anderson, California

Killed Aug 21, 1978 · 48 years ago

Seventeen-year-old Annette Edwards, a female high-school student from the Anderson area of Shasta County, vanished on the night of August 21, 1978. Online case archives report that she was abducted, raped, and then pushed from a bridge outside Anderson…

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Roy Bunton

Victim of Dean Arnold Corll

age 19 · Houston, Texas

Killed Aug 21, 1972 · 54 years ago

Roy Eugene "Ikie" Bunton, a 19-year-old male of African American ethnicity, disappeared on August 21, 1972, while hitchhiking to his job at a shoe store in Houston, Texas. His body was later discovered on August 8, 1973, in a mass grave in Dean Corll's boat…

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Virginia Maines

Victim of William Joseph Pierce

age 20 · Gaston, North Carolina

Killed Aug 21, 1970 · 56 years ago

Virginia Carol “Ginny” Main, a 20-year-old Caucasian woman, was tragically murdered on August 21, 1970, in Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina. Born on May 13, 1950, in Watauga County, North Carolina, she was the daughter of Thomas Marvin Main and Biddie…

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Reverend William Elder

Victim of Roberta Elder

age 47 · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed Aug 21, 1952 · 74 years ago

In the summer of 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia, the Reverend William M. Elder, a 47-year-old Black man who worked as a construction worker by day, fell violently ill at his job after eating a meal of bananas and cheese packed by his wife, Roberta. He was taken to…

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Serial Killer Victims (13)