Serial Killer Victims (13)

Serial Killer Victim60th anniversary

Charles Clayton Gibbs

age 39 · Cordele, Georgia

Killed Jan 21, 1966 · 60 years ago

In the small town of Cordele, Georgia, the death of 39-year-old Charles Clayton Gibbs on January 21, 1966, was initially attributed to liver disease, a seemingly unremarkable tragedy that left behind his wife, Janie Lou Gibbs, and their three sons. However…

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LeRoy Sinn

Victim of Charles Edmund Cullen

age 71 · Raritan Township, New Jersey

Killed Jan 21, 1996 · 30 years ago

LeRoy Sinn, a 71-year-old male, passed away on January 21, 1996, while a patient at the Hunterdon Medical Center. A respected patent attorney and an active member of the Gardeners of Somerset Valley, he had even used his legal expertise to help the club…

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Marguerite Laskovich

Victim of Heather Irene Pressdee

age 80 · Butler, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 21, 2023 · 3 years ago

Marguerite “Peggy” Laskovich, an 80-year-old White/Caucasian female, died on January 21, 2023, after her stay at Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Butler Township, Pennsylvania became part of a much larger criminal investigation into former nurse…

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John Owens

Victim of Michael Elijah Adams

age 46 · Roseville, California

Killed Jan 21, 2000 · 26 years ago

On January 21, 2000, the lifeless body of 46-year-old John Semler Owens, a male transient, was discovered on a gravel service road adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near PFE Road in Roseville, California. Owens had suffered fatal blunt force…

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Taunja Bennett

Victim of Keith Hunter Jesperson

age 23 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Jan 21, 1990 · 36 years ago

Taunja Bennett, a 23-year-old woman from Portland, Oregon, was reported missing on January 21, 1990. The following day, her body was discovered near a switchback in the Columbia River Gorge along the Old Columbia River Highway. She had been beaten, sexually…

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Jose Gutierrez

Victim of Abelino Manriquez

Compton, California

Killed Jan 21, 1990 · 36 years ago

Jose Gutierrez was murdered on January 21, 1990, in Compton, California. According to court records, Gutierrez was at the Mazatlan Bar when he was fatally shot by Abelino Manriquez. Witnesses described Gutierrez as sitting at the bar, asleep, with his head…

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Eva Holman

Victim of Robert Wirth

age 79 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Jan 21, 1988 · 38 years ago

Eva Holman, a 79-year-old female, was murdered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during a violent series of home-invasion killings carried out by Robert J. Wirth in the winter of 1987 and 1988. Her death came on January 21, 1988, ten days after Louis and Lillian…

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Luis Alvarez

Victim of The Skid Row Stabber

age 26 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jan 21, 1979 · 47 years ago

Luis Alvarez, a 26-year-old Hispanic male, was one of the victims in a chilling series of murders that plagued Los Angeles between October 1978 and January 1979. His death occurred on January 21, 1979, during a spree attributed to a serial killer later dubbed…

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Kathy Gregoroff

Victim of Gary Don Franklin

age 22 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed Jan 21, 1969 · 57 years ago

Kathy Gregoroff, 22, female, White, was killed by gunfire on January 21, 1969, in Anchorage, Alaska. That winter day ended in a burst of violence that would later be tied to a wider pattern of killings stretching beyond the state. In accounts of the case, the…

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Melissa Gregoroff

Victim of Gary Don Franklin

age 3 · Kodiak, Alaska

Killed Jan 21, 1969 · 57 years ago

Melissa Gregoroff, a 3-year-old white female, tragically lost her life on January 21, 1969, in Kodiak, Alaska. Her death was the result of a shooting incident that also claimed the lives of her siblings, Kathy Gregoroff, aged 22, and Genai Gregoroff, a…

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Genai Gregoroff

Victim of Gary Don Franklin

age 10months · Kodiak, Alaska

Killed Jan 21, 1969 · 57 years ago

Genai Gregoroff, a 10-month-old white female from Kodiak, Alaska—whose immediate family was identified in contemporary accounts as white—died on January 21, 1969, in a shooting that also claimed the lives of close family members that day. Reports naming the…

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Dorothy Waterstreet

Victim of Lemuel Warren Smith

age 46 · Amsterdam, New York

Killed Jan 21, 1958 · 68 years ago

In the winter of 1958, the city of Amsterdam, New York, was shaken by a brutal crime that would linger in the community's memory for decades. On the evening of January 21st, 46-year-old Dorothy Waterstreet was walking home from church, just a block and a half…

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Louiza Catharine Fox

Victim of Thomas David Carr

age 13 · Ohio (convicted)||Virginia (confessed)||South Carolina (conf

Killed Jan 21, 1869 · 157 years ago

Thomas David Carr: The Civil War Veteran and Self-Confessed Serial Killer Thomas David Carr was a 19th-century American murderer whose violent history stretched from the Civil War era into the years immediately following the conflict. Born on March 6, 1846…

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