Serial Killer Victims on February 27

Serial Killer Victims (13)

Serial Killer Victim190th anniversary

Elizabeth McCollan Heller

Victim of Isaac Heller

Liberty, Indiana

Killed Feb 27, 1836 · 190 years ago

White Elizabeth McCollan Heller resided in Liberty, Indiana, with her husband, Isaac Heller, and their three small children. The family’s domestic life appeared ordinary to the outside world, but Isaac, born Isaac Young, harbored a dark and violent past…

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Serial Killer Victim190th anniversary

Sarah Heller

Victim of Isaac Heller

Liberty, Indiana

Killed Feb 27, 1836 · 190 years ago

In the small community of Liberty, Indiana, a grim story unfolded that would leave a lasting mark on its history. The life of a young female named Sarah Heller was tragically cut short, not by a stranger in the shadows, but by the hand of her own father…

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Reynaldo Rivero

Victim of Manuel Pardo

Miami, Florida

Killed Feb 27, 1986 · 40 years ago

Reynaldo “Ray” Rivero, a Hispanic male, was murdered on February 27, 1986, during a violent crime spree in South Florida. He was one of nine victims killed by Manuel Pardo, a former police officer turned serial killer. Pardo claimed he was eliminating drug…

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Serial Killer Victim190th anniversary

John Wesley Heller

Victim of Isaac Heller

Liberty, Indiana

Killed Feb 27, 1836 · 190 years ago

In the winter of 1836, a young boy named John Wesley Heller met a tragic and brutal end in Liberty, Indiana. A white male, John was horrifically killed on February 27th of that year. The person responsible for his death was his own father, Isaac Heller, a man…

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Serial Killer Victim190th anniversary

Mary Heller

Victim of Isaac Heller

age 3months · Liberty, Indiana

Killed Feb 27, 1836 · 190 years ago

In the winter of 1836, a horrific act of violence brought a somber cloud over the small community of Liberty, Indiana. A three-month-old infant girl, Mary Heller, was brutally murdered on February 27th. The innocence of her young life was cut short in an…

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Roberta Butler

Victim of Jack Barron

age 52 · Sacramento, California

Killed Feb 27, 1995 · 31 years ago

On February 27, 1995, 52-year-old Roberta A. Butler, a Caucasian female, was found dead in her Benicia townhouse. Her son, Jack Barron, discovered her lifeless body in bed, with signs indicating she had been smothered. This tragic event marked the fourth…

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Leah Evans

Victim of Joel David Rifkin

age 28 · Brooklyn, New York

Killed Feb 27, 1993 · 33 years ago

In early 1993, the vibrant life of Leah Evans, a 28-year-old white woman residing in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, was tragically cut short. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and a mother to two children, Julian and Eve, she was known…

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Morris Keller Jr.

Victim of Michael Wayne Williams

age 45 · Cumberland, Virginia

Killed Feb 27, 1993 · 33 years ago

In the quiet community of Cumberland, Virginia, the lives of 45-year-old Morris Keller and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Keller, were brutally cut short on the night of February 27, 1993. The couple became the victims of a horrific home invasion that ended in a…

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Mary Elizabeth Keller

Victim of Michael Wayne Williams

age 35 · Cumberland, Virginia

Killed Feb 27, 1993 · 33 years ago

On a tragic night in Cumberland, Virginia, 35-year-old Mary Elizabeth Keller and her husband, Morris C. Keller Jr., became the victims of a brutal and senseless act of violence. On February 27, 1993, their lives were cut short when two men invaded the…

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Lorraine McGraw

Victim of Richard Francis Cottingham

age 26 · South Nyack, New York

Killed Feb 27, 1970 · 56 years ago

Lorraine Montalvo McGraw, a 26-year-old Hispanic/Latina woman, disappeared on February 27, 1970, and within days the woods above the Hudson would become the silent keeper of what happened next. Late on Sunday, March 1, hikers moving along a trail just west of…

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Janice Bolyard

Victim of Mark Alan Smith

age 22 · Des Plaines, Illinois

Killed Feb 27, 1970 · 56 years ago

Janice Bolyard, a 22-year-old white female, was murdered on February 27, 1970, in Des Plaines, Illinois. Born in Toledo, Ohio, she had recently graduated from Northwestern University in 1969 and was working in the research and testing division of a chemical…

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Jade Velasquez

Victim of Cory Deonn Morris

Pheonix, Arizona

Killed Feb 27, 2003 · 23 years ago

In the winter of 2003, the life of 34-year-old Jade Velasquez, an Apache woman, was tragically cut short in Phoenix, Arizona. On February 27, 2003, her body was discovered discarded under a palm tree, a grim finding that would unravel a series of horrific…

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Kathy Schenk

Victim of Joseph Daniel Miller

Steelton, Pennsylvania

Killed Feb 27, 1990 · 36 years ago

On February 27, 1990, the body of a Harrisburg woman, Kathy Novena Schenck, who also went by the name Phoenix Bell, was discovered at a roadside dump in Penn Township, Perry County. The tragic story of her death unfolded as the actions of a serial killer came…

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