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Serial Killer Victims on December 26

664 open cases in our database happened on December 26. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (4)

Lorraine Orvieto - Long Island, New York
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Lorraine Orvieto

Victim of Joel David Rifkin
age 28 · Long Island, New York
Killed Dec 26, 1991 · 35 years ago

Lorraine Orvieto, a 28-year-old White woman from Long Island, New York, vanished in the days after Christmas in 1991, leaving her family with only a growing dread that something had gone terribly wrong. In time, investigators would link her death to Joel…

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Samuel Cohn - Hartford, Connecticut
Serial Killer Victim70th anniversary

Samuel Cohn

Victim of Joseph Taborsky
age 67 · Hartford, Connecticut
Killed Dec 26, 1956 · 70 years ago

On the evening of December 26, 1956, Samuel Cohn, a 65-year-old White/Caucasian male, was working in his East Hartford, Connecticut, liquor store. Between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m., two men, Joseph Taborsky and Arthur Culombe, entered the establishment with the…

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Serial Killer Victim120th anniversary

John Moe

Victim of Belle Gunness
age 40 · La Porte County, Indiana
Killed Dec 26, 1906 · 120 years ago

In the agricultural heartland of LaPorte County, Indiana, the story of a man named John Moe serves as a chilling chapter in one of the nation's most infamous true crime sagas. A Norwegian immigrant who had settled in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, Moe was lured to…

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Chantee Woodman - Vernonia, Oregon
Serial Killer Victim

Chantee Woodman

Victim of Cesar Francesco Barone
age 23 · Vernonia, Oregon
Killed Dec 26, 1992 · 34 years ago

In the final days of 1992, the life of a 23-year-old Black / African American woman named Chantee Alyce Woodman was tragically cut short. On December 30th, she accepted a ride from two men in downtown Portland: Cesar Barone and his acquaintance, Leonard…

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