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Serial Killer Victims on December 28

656 open cases in our database happened on December 28. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (7)

Mary Colwell - Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania
Serial Killer Victim5th anniversary

Mary Colwell

age 92 · Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania
Killed Dec 28, 2021 · 5 years ago

Mary Anna Colwell, a 92-year-old female, passed away on Tuesday, December 28, 2021, while a resident at Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania. For nearly two years, her family believed she had died of natural causes.…

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Serial Killer Victim15th anniversary

Lloyd Middaugh

age 42 · Anaheim, California
Killed Dec 28, 2011 · 15 years ago

Lloyd Middaugh, a 42-year-old homeless man, was found dead on December 28, 2011, near a riverbed trail in Anaheim, California. His death was part of a disturbing string of murders targeting homeless individuals in Orange County. Middaugh, who was Caucasian…

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Felicia Stephens - Rochester, New York
Serial Killer Victim

Felicia Stephens

age 20 · Rochester, New York
Killed Dec 28, 1989 · 37 years ago

Felicia Stephens, a 20-year-old Black woman from Rochester, New York, vanished at the end of December 1989, one more name swallowed by winter streets and a city already living with a growing dread. Investigators would come to believe she was killed on or…

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Henry Gaw - New York City, New York
Serial Killer Victim

Henry Gaw

Victim of James Baker
New York City, New York
Killed Dec 28, 1928 · 98 years ago

Henry S. Gaw, a 29-year-old white man, was found dead in New York City in the days just after Christmas of 1928, inside the Guggenheim Brothers metallurgical laboratory near 202nd Street and Tenth Avenue. He worked there as a laboratory assistant and was also…

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Lily Gienke Hasel - Hardscrabble, Ohio
Serial Killer Victim

Lily Gienke Hasel

Victim of Martha Wise
Hardscrabble, Ohio
Killed Dec 28, 1924 · 102 years ago

Lily Gienke, a white female from Hardscrabble, Ohio, died in late December 1924 under suspicious circumstances that would later be linked to a string of poisonings within her extended family. Although some sources list her surname as Hasel, she was more…

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Serial Killer Victim

James Crist

Atlanta, Georgia
Killed Dec 28, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the late 1980s, an elderly white male named James Crist Sr., 88, and his wife, Elizabeth 'Betty' Crist, were living in Atlanta, Georgia, and in need of care. A woman named Patricia Vann Taylor Allanson, using the alias Pat Taylor, was hired as a caregiver…

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Mary McNear

Victim of Jane Toppan
age 70 · Massachusetts
Killed Dec 28, 1899 · 127 years ago

Jane Toppan: The Poisoning Nurse Known as “Jolly Jane” Early Life Jane Toppan was an American nurse and serial poisoner who murdered patients, employers, friends, relatives, and members of families who trusted her with their care. Born Honora Kelley in…

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