Serial Killer Victims on January 15

Serial Killer Victims (20)

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Kenneth Edward Jones

Victim of Tracy Walker

age 26 · Rancho Dominguez, California

Killed Jan 15, 2021 · 5 years ago

Kenneth Edward Jones, a 26-year-old African American male, was found dead on January 15, 2021, in Rancho Dominguez, California. His body was discovered near the Compton Creek riverbed, an area known for its homeless encampments. Jones had suffered blunt force…

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Maggie Rawlins

Victim of Donald Harvey

age 84 · London, Kentucky

Killed Jan 15, 1971 · 55 years ago

Maggie P. Rawlings, an 84-year-old woman, was a patient at Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky, when she became one of the patients later identified as victims of hospital orderly Donald Harvey. Rawlings had reportedly been admitted after suffering a…

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Joseph Crumpler

Victim of Rebecca Auborn

age 30 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 15, 2023 · 3 years ago

Joseph Crumpler, a 30-year-old man, died on January 15, 2023, from a drug overdose in the North Linden neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. On the morning of his death, police received a report of a drug overdose at the 2900 block of Azelda Avenue. When officers…

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Torrey Marie Foster

Victim of Richard Paul White

age 25 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Jan 15, 2002 · 24 years ago

In the winter of 2002, a 25-year-old woman named Torrey Marie Foster vanished from Denver, Colorado. For three years, her family held onto a sliver of hope, a painful uncertainty clouding their days. Foster, a mother of two, was described as an outgoing woman…

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Lisa Haenel

Victim of Alexander Watson

age 14 · Glen Burnie, Maryland

Killed Jan 15, 1993 · 33 years ago

Lisa Haenel, a 14-year-old White girl from Glen Burnie, Maryland, set out on the morning of January 15, 1993, on a route she knew well—heading toward Old Mill High School along her usual path. When she didn’t arrive, worry quickly hardened into panic, and the…

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Jose Ramos

Victim of Allan Patterson Newman

age 31 · Rockville, Maryland

Killed Jan 15, 1992 · 34 years ago

In the winter of 1992, the life of 31-year-old Jose Ramos, a Hispanic male, was tragically cut short in a parking lot outside his Wheaton apartment in Rockville, Maryland. On the evening of January 15th, Ramos was fatally shot during what authorities…

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Carl Estep

Victim of Nicholas Sutton

age 44 · Morgan County, Tennessee

Killed Jan 15, 1985 · 41 years ago

In the quiet confines of the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility in Tennessee, a violent end came for 43-year-old Carl Isaac Estep, a white male inmate, on January 15, 1985. Estep, who was serving a life sentence for aggravated rape, was found in his…

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Bruce Allen Bennett

Victim of Alex Christopher Ewing

age 27 · Aurora, Colorado

Killed Jan 15, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the quiet suburbs of Aurora, Colorado, a horrific scene shattered the tranquility of a January morning in 1984. Inside their home, the lifeless body of 27-year-old Bruce Allen Bennett, a white male, was discovered, the victim of a brutal and senseless act…

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Debra Lynn Bennett

Victim of Alex Christopher Ewing

age 26 · Aurora, Colorado

Killed Jan 15, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the winter of 1984, a horrifying act of violence shattered the peace of a quiet Aurora, Colorado neighborhood, leaving a lasting scar on the community. On the morning of January 16th, when Bruce and Debra Lynn Bennett failed to arrive at work, Bruce's…

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Melissa Marie Bennett

Victim of Alex Christopher Ewing

age 7 · Aurora, Colorado

Killed Jan 15, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the winter of 1984, a quiet cul-de-sac in Aurora, Colorado, became the scene of a horrific crime that would haunt the community for decades. Seven-year-old Melissa Marie Bennett, a young White girl just two days shy of her eighth birthday, was brutally…

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Cynthia Ann McGee

Victim of Joseph Michael Swango

age 19 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 15, 1984 · 42 years ago

Cynthia Ann McGee, a 19-year-old white female from Dublin, Ohio, died on January 15, 1984, while recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident. She had been struck by a vehicle while riding her bicycle in Illinois, where she was attending the…

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Margaret Bowman

Victim of Ted Bundy

age 21 · Tallahassee, Florida

Killed Jan 15, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the early morning hours of January 15, 1978, a sense of terror descended upon the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Margaret Elizabeth Bowman, a 21-year-old white female student, was brutally murdered in her sleep. An…

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Lisa Levy

Victim of Ted Bundy

age 20 · Tallahassee, Florida

Killed Jan 15, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the early morning hours of January 15, 1978, a sense of security within the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee was shattered. Lisa Levy, a 20-year-old female student, was asleep in her room when an intruder entered the…

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Stanley Edward Sandage

Victim of Randall Greenawalt

age 33 · Flagstaff, Arizona

Killed Jan 15, 1974 · 52 years ago

In January of 1974, Stanley Edward Sandage, a 33-year-old male truck driver for Whitfield Tank Lines, was found shot to death in his tank truck at a rest area near Flagstaff, Arizona. The motive appeared to be robbery, as $42 had been stolen from his wallet.…

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Josephine Otero

Victim of Dennis Lynn Rader

age 11 · Wichita, Kansas

Killed Jan 15, 1974 · 52 years ago

On the morning of January 15, 1974, Josephine Otero, an 11-year-old Hispanic female, was at home with her family—her father Joseph mother Julie and brother Joseph Jr. —at 803 North Edgemoor Street in Wichita, Kansas. A gun-wielding intruder cut the telephone…

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Elaina Bear

Victim of Larry M. Ralston

age 15 · Northside, Ohio

Killed Jan 15, 1977 · 49 years ago

Elaina Marie Bear, a 15-year-old female from Northside, Ohio, was last seen alive on January 15, 1977. She had spent time with a friend, Debbie Whitt, that evening, engaging in social activities, including smoking marijuana and eating chili dogs at a…

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Joseph Otero

Victim of Dennis Lynn Rader

age 39 · Wichita, Kansas

Killed Jan 15, 1974 · 52 years ago

Thirty-eight-year-old Hispanic male Joseph Otero had been born in Puerto Rico, grown up in New York's Spanish Harlem, and spent two decades in the U.S. Air Force before settling in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife Julie and their children. The retired technical…

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Julia Maria Otero

Victim of Dennis Lynn Rader

age 33 · Wichita, Kansas

Killed Jan 15, 1974 · 52 years ago

Julia Maria Otero, a 33-year-old Puerto Rican woman, was tragically murdered on January 15, 1974, in Wichita, Kansas. She was known as Julie Burgos Ruiz Otero and was a devoted wife and mother. Julia, along with her husband Joseph Otero and two of their…

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Joseph Otero, Jr.

Victim of Dennis Lynn Rader

age 9 · Wichita, Kansas

Killed Jan 15, 1974 · 52 years ago

Nine-year-old Hispanic male Joseph Otero Jr. was the youngest of Joseph and Julie Otero’s five children. His father, a Puerto-Rican-born Air Force master sergeant and boxing enthusiast, had moved the family into a modest frame house at 803 North Edgemoor…

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Florence Calkins

Victim of Jane Toppan

age 45 · Massachusetts

Killed Jan 15, 1900 · 126 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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