Serial Killer Victims on December 17

Serial Killer Victims (12)

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Pearl Gash

Victim of Golden Years Murders

age 85 · Richmond, Virginia

Killed Dec 17, 1991 · 35 years ago

In the winter of 1991, a palpable fear had already settled over the city of Richmond, Virginia, a community grappling with a staggering number of homicides. It was against this backdrop of violence that 85-year-old Pearl Gash, a Black female, became another…

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Ruth Erikson

Victim of Heather Irene Pressdee

age 89 · Concordia, Pennsylvania

Killed Dec 17, 2020 · 6 years ago

Ruth L. Erikson was an 89-year-old White/Caucasian female whose death on December 17, 2020, was first publicly marked in the quiet language of an obituary: a longtime Richland Township woman, born in Hamilton, Ohio, remembered by family after dying at…

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Rene Cooksey

Victim of Cleophus Cooksey

age 56 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Dec 17, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the winter of 2017, a series of tragic events unfolded in Phoenix, Arizona, culminating in the death of 56-year-old Rene Cooksey. On the evening of December 17th, police responded to a call of shots fired at an apartment complex in central Phoenix. Upon…

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Edward Nunn

Victim of Cleophus Cooksey

age 54 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Dec 17, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the winter of 2017, the life of 54-year-old Edward L. Nunn was brought to a tragic and violent end in Phoenix, Arizona. On December 17th, he and his wife of over 20 years, Rene Cooksey, were found shot to death in their apartment. Affectionately known as…

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Claudia Benton

Victim of Angel Maturino Resendiz

age 39 · West University Place, Texas

Killed Dec 17, 1998 · 28 years ago

Dr. Claudia Benton, a 39-year-old Peruvian woman, was brutally murdered in her home in West University Place, Texas, on December 17, 1998. Benton, a geneticist, was found sexually assaulted, stabbed, and beaten to death inside her residence, which was located…

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June Cicero

Victim of Arthur John Shawcross

age 33 · Rochester, New York

Killed Dec 17, 1989 · 37 years ago

June Cicero, a white 34-year-old woman from Rochester, New York, disappeared on December 17, 1989, at a time when the city was already tightening with fear over a string of killings along the river and its back roads. In life, she was known on the street and…

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Russell Nelson

Victim of John Wayne Gacy

age 21 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Dec 17, 1977 · 49 years ago

On October 17, 1977, 21-year-old white male Russell Lloyd Nelson, a University of Minnesota student from Duluth, Minnesota, called his mother to wish her a happy birthday. He had traveled to Chicago with another young man, reportedly to work for a contractor.…

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Joe Cleveland

Victim of Carl Millard Patton

age 28 · Dekalb County, Georgia

Killed Dec 17, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the winter of 1977, the life of 28-year-old Joseph Thomas Cleveland, a white male, came to a tragic and violent end in DeKalb County, Georgia. A firefighter by profession, Cleveland had become entangled with a man named Carl Millard Patton Jr., a man who…

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Liddie Matthew Evans

Victim of Carl Millard Patton

age 31 · Flint, Michigan

Killed Dec 17, 1977 · 49 years ago

Liddie Matthew Evans, a 31-year-old woman originally from Flint, Michigan, was murdered on December 17, 1977. Her body was discovered three days later in the Flint River in Fayette County, Georgia. She had been shot in the head, placed in a sleeping bag, and…

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Nicole Schneider

Victim of Rory Enrique Conde

Miami, Florida

Killed Dec 17, 1994 · 32 years ago

Nicole Christina Schneider, a 28-year-old Caucasian woman born on August 19, 1966, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, met a tragic end on December 15, 1994, in Miami, Florida. Nicole had faced hardships, including periods of homelessness and multiple arrests related…

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Georgia Ann Wilson Moore

Victim of Henry Lee Moore

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Killed Dec 17, 1912 · 114 years ago

Henry Lee Moore: Convicted Ax Murderer and Suspected Serial Killer Overview Henry Lee Moore was an American murderer whose name became connected to one of the most mysterious series of family killings in early twentieth-century America. Moore was convicted of…

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Mary J. Wilson

Victim of Henry Lee Moore

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Killed Dec 17, 1912 · 114 years ago

Henry Lee Moore: Convicted Ax Murderer and Suspected Serial Killer Overview Henry Lee Moore was an American murderer whose name became connected to one of the most mysterious series of family killings in early twentieth-century America. Moore was convicted of…

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