Serial Killer Victims on January 26

Serial Killer Victims (11)

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John V. Combs

Victim of Donald Harvey

age 68 · London, Kentucky

Killed Jan 26, 1971 · 55 years ago

John V. Combs, a 68-year-old man from the London, Kentucky, area, died at Marymount Hospital on January 26, 1971, in what initially passed without recognition as a homicide. More than sixteen years later, his death was tied to hospital orderly Donald Harvey…

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Karen Lofton

Victim of Jason Thomas Scott

age 45 · Temple-hills, Maryland

Killed Jan 26, 2009 · 17 years ago

Karen Antoinette Lofton, 45, was a Black woman living in Prince George’s County, Maryland, when a quiet winter night turned into a nightmare on January 26, 2009. In the early hours, a desperate 911 call came from inside the Lofton home, her daughter’s voice…

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Karissa Lofton

Victim of Jason Thomas Scott

age 16 · Temple-hills, Maryland

Killed Jan 26, 2009 · 17 years ago

In the quiet suburban neighborhood of Largo, Maryland, a horrific tragedy unfolded in the early morning hours of January 26, 2009. Sixteen-year-old Karissa Olivia Lofton and her 45-year-old mother, Karen Lofton, were brutally murdered inside their home on…

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Rhonda Jackson

Victim of Ivan Jerome Hill

age 23 · Pomona, California

Killed Jan 26, 1987 · 39 years ago

Rhonda Jackson was a 23-year-old woman from Pomona whose life ended in January 1987. Her body was discovered inside a dumpster in Pomona, reportedly in or near a parking area associated with Palomares Park. She had been left nude, and investigators determined…

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Gerald Cavanagh

Victim of The Doodler

age 49 · San Fransisco, California

Killed Jan 26, 1974 · 52 years ago

Gerald Earl Cavanagh, a 49-year-old Canadian-American man, was found dead at the water’s edge on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach in the early hours of January 27, 1974. His body bore multiple stab wounds, including a defensive wound on his left hand, indicating…

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Lisa Ann Beery

Victim of Philip Joseph Hughes

age 15 · Oakland, California

Killed Jan 26, 1974 · 52 years ago

Lisa Ann Beery, a 15-year-old Caucasian girl, was kidnapped at knifepoint on January 26, 1974, while hitchhiking near her home. Her abductors were Philip Joseph Hughes Jr., a convicted serial killer, and his wife, Suzanne Perrin. The couple took Lisa to a…

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John M. Rosenthal

Victim of Joseph Taborsky

age 69 · Hartford, Connecticut

Killed Jan 26, 1957 · 69 years ago

John M. Rosenthal, a 69-year-old Caucasian male, was working in his family-owned business, Rosenthal's Drug Store, in Hartford, Connecticut, on the evening of January 26, 1957. At approximately 9:00 p.m., two men, Joseph Taborsky and Arthur Culombe, entered…

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Carol Miller

Victim of Otha Harrison Hart

age 89 · Eugene, Oregon

Killed Jan 26, 1979 · 47 years ago

Carol Dudley Miller, 89, a white female, lived a quiet life in Eugene, Oregon, until her death on January 26, 1979, and was later named among four elderly patients authorities said were killed that year by a nursing-home orderly who used insulin overdoses.…

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Katie Smith

Victim of Michaiah Shobek

age 17 · Nassau, Bahamas

Killed Jan 26, 1974 · 52 years ago

On January 26, 1974, 17-year-old American female tourist Katie Smith was murdered in Nassau, Bahamas. Katie Smith, a white teenager from Detroit, Michigan, was one of three American victims killed over a two-month span by a man later identified as Michaiah…

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Eric Hoyt

Victim of Waneta Ethel Hoyt

New York

Killed Jan 26, 1965 · 61 years ago

Waneta Ethel Hoyt: The Murder of Five Children Background Waneta Ethel Nixon Hoyt was an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering her five biological children. She was born on May 13, 1946, in Richford, New York, and later lived with her husband…

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William Roderic Cofer

Victim of Lauren Porter

age 69 · Georgia

Killed Jan 26, 1947 · 79 years ago

Lauren Porter: The Goose Pond Murderer Background Lauren Porter was a male serial killer who committed four known murders in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, between 1939 and 1947. Although his first name has sometimes caused confusion about his gender, Porter was…

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