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Caffery Woods

Female, age 49 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On the evening of January 4, 2008, Evangelist Caffery D. Woods, a 49-year-old Black female, was fatally shot in Birmingham, Alabama. The incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. as she sat in her SUV behind a duplex in the 7400 block of 2nd Avenue South. Woods was…

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Paul Vann

Male, age 54 · Jacksonville, Florida

Found Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On January 4, 2008, Paul Dewey Vann, age 54, was found dead in Jacksonville, Florida, in an incident that was classified as a homicide. Vann's case remains unsolved and is included in the list of unsolved homicides in the Jacksonville area. Despite efforts by…

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Lisa Roeder

Female, age 30 · Jacksonville, Florida

Found Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On January 4, 2008, 30-year-old Lisa Roeder was found murdered in Jacksonville, Florida. Her body was discovered in circumstances that led investigators to classify her death as a homicide, but specific details regarding the manner of death or potential…

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Tommy Majors

Male, age 47 · Jacksonville, Florida

Found Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Tommy Majors, age 47, was killed on January 4, 2008, in Jacksonville, Florida. The circumstances of his death remain unsolved, and it is listed among the cold cases being actively monitored by local authorities. According to the Project Cold Case database…

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Michael Rocha

Male, age 19 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Michael Rocha, a 19-year-old from Chicago, was tragically killed on January 4, 2008. He was shot in what was described as a senseless act of violence, adding to the already concerning homicide statistics for the city in that year. Rocha's death took place…

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Jerome Anthony Waters

Male, age 32 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the winter of 2008, the life of 32-year-old Jerome Anthony Waters was tragically cut short in Baltimore, Maryland. On the night of Friday, January 4th, he was fatally shot in the 2800 block of Kentucky Avenue. The incident was one of the early homicides in…

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Derick Huff Jr

Male, age 20 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On January 4, 2008, 20-year-old Derick Huff Jr. was tragically killed in Columbus, Ohio. The incident occurred at 1160 Oak Street in Franklin County, where Huff was found to have sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The homicide was reported late in the…

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Hajj Blackwell

Male, age 35 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Hajj Blackwell, a 38-year-old Black male from Philadelphia, was found dead inside the North Philadelphia rowhouse where he lived after a fire broke out in the early morning hours on Taylor Street near Thompson Street. A news report published on January 15…

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Andrew Cunningham

Male, age 26 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Andrew Cunningham, a 26-year-old male from Cincinnati, OH, tragically died on January 4, 2008. His death was the result of a shooting incident in the Oakley neighborhood of Cincinnati. The case quickly turned into a high-profile investigation, with law…

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Derick Huff

Male, age 20 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

On January 4, 2008, Derick L. Huff Jr., a 20-year-old Black male from Columbus, OH, was tragically killed by multiple gunshot wounds outside his apartment at 1160 Oak Street. He was found lying on the sidewalk and was later pronounced dead at Grant Medical…

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Tarika Wilson

Female, age 26 · Lima, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 2008 · 18 years ago

Tarika Wilson, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot on January 4, 2008, by Lima, Ohio, police officer Joseph Chavalia during a raid on her home. Wilson was unarmed and holding her one-year-old son when she was killed. The police were…

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Rami Abunimeh

Male, age 31 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Jan 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

Middle Eastern male Rami M. Abunimeh, 31, was killed in Chicago on January 4, 2007. A remembrance entry created by a local nonprofit that documents Chicago homicide victims notes that he was fatally shot inside a retail store in the Humboldt Park…

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Meredith White

Male, age 37 · Chicago, Illinois

Found Jan 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

Meredith White, a 37-year-old male, was shot and killed on January 4, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. The incident took place in the Washington Park neighborhood, a part of the South Side of Chicago, which has experienced persistent issues with crime and…

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Joyce A Parham

Female, age 59 · Indianapolis, Indiana

Killed Jan 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the winter of 2007, the community on the near east side of Indianapolis was shaken by the tragic death of 59-year-old Joyce A. Parham. On the evening of Thursday, January 4th, firefighters were dispatched to the Sedona Apartments at 38th and Emerson to…

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Helen Wingard Hill

Male, age 36 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Jan 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the early morning hours of January 4, 2007, the life of 36-year-old filmmaker and artist Helen Wingard Hill was tragically cut short in her New Orleans home. An unknown intruder broke into her house in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood at approximately…

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Denita Monique Smith

Female, age 25 · Durham, North Carolina

Killed Jan 4, 2007 · 19 years ago

Denita Monique Smith, a 25-year-old African American woman, was tragically murdered on January 4, 2007, in Durham, North Carolina. Denita was a graduate student at North Carolina Central University, aspiring to be a photojournalist. She was engaged to Jermeir…

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Kheuangham Singharath

Male · Merced, California

Found Jan 4, 2005 · 21 years ago

Kheuangham Singharath was found murdered on January 4, 2005, in Merced, California. He, along with Kesone Singharath, was discovered inside their home on South Highway 59, both having suffered fatal blunt force trauma to the head. The brutal killings left…

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Kesone Singharath

Female · Merced, California

Found Jan 4, 2005 · 21 years ago

Kesone Singharath, along with Kheuangham Singharath, was found deceased on January 4, 2005, in Merced, California. The couple was discovered inside their home on South Highway 59, and both had suffered severe blunt force trauma to the head, resulting in their…

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Maria Reyes

Female · Chino Hills, California

Found Jan 4, 2002 · 24 years ago

Maria Reyes, a resident of Garden Grove, California, was found murdered on January 4, 2002, in Chino Hills. Her body was discovered in a dirt field, and authorities determined that she had been stabbed to death. Investigations revealed that Reyes was last…

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Maria Pastora Reyes

Female, age 21 · Santa Ana, California

Found Jan 4, 2002 · 24 years ago

On January 4, 2002, Maria Pastora Reyes, a 21-year-old woman from Santa Ana, California, was found murdered in Chino Hills. She was discovered in a dirt field, having been brutally stabbed to death. Reyes had been last seen alive the previous night, between…

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Angela Devries-Woltjer

Female, age 32 · Hampton, Iowa

Killed Jan 4, 2002 · 24 years ago

In the quiet town of Hampton, Iowa, the life of 32-year-old Angela Devries-Woltjer was tragically cut short on January 4, 2002. On that day, she was shot to death by her 37-year-old husband, Gordon Woltjer. The violence that unfolded was a domestic tragedy…

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Debra Cox

Female · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 2000 · 26 years ago

On January 4, 2000, 43-year-old Debra Cox was found dead in her apartment located at 911 Wayne Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. It is believed that she had died several days earlier, on December 31, 1999. The Dayton Police Department classified her death as a…

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Jaeqon Nicholes Soloman

Male · Vermont-Slauson, California

Killed Jan 4, 2000 · 26 years ago

The new millennium was only four days old when a tragedy unfolded in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Vermont-Slauson. On January 4, 2000, emergency responders were called to a scene involving a newborn infant in grave condition. The child, Jaeqon…

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Maria Del Carmen Villegas

Female, age 38 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Jan 4, 2000 · 26 years ago

Maria Del Carmen Villegas was 38 years old when she died on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2000. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died of stab wounds. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Compton Police Department case. The…

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Stanley Humphrey III

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 1999 · 27 years ago

On January 4, 1999, Stanley Humphrey III, a 26-year-old male, was tragically killed in a homicide in Columbus, Ohio. The incident took place at 512 Barnett Road, where Humphrey sustained gunshot wounds to both the head and the back. Authorities from the…

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Robert Bolden

Male · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 1999 · 27 years ago

Robert Bolden, aged 44, was tragically shot and killed on January 4, 1999, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The incident took place at the Elder Cafe, located at 128 W Elder Street in Hamilton County. On the day of the incident, Bolden was sitting inside the cafe when he…

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Katherine Hall

Female, age 29 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Killed Jan 4, 1999 · 27 years ago

Katherine Hall, a 29-year-old female, was found dead on January 4, 1999, in the southeast corner of East Baton Rouge Parish, left in the Vignes Lake subdivision off Hoo Shoo Too and Tiger Bend roads, where a quiet stretch of pavement gave way to a scene that…

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James Graves

Male, age 25 · Durham, North Carolina

Found Jan 4, 1998 · 28 years ago

James Vincent "Bootie" Graves, a 25-year-old from Durham, North Carolina, was found shot to death on January 4, 1998. His body was discovered inside a house located at 131 Chestnut Street in South Durham. The circumstances surrounding his death remain…

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Christopher Thomas

Male, age 34 · Houston, Texas

Killed Jan 4, 1998 · 28 years ago

On January 4, 1998, Christopher Thomas, a 34-year-old Black male, was tragically shot and killed in Houston, Texas. At the time of the incident, Thomas was sitting in his car outside his residence, listening to music, when he was approached by Franklin…

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Will Harold

Male, age 56 · Tyler, Texas

Found Jan 4, 1994 · 32 years ago

On January 4, 1994, officers discovered Will C. "Chatt" Harold, a 56-year-old African American male, shot to death inside his residence at 2518 Franchel Street in Tyler, Texas. Investigators believe that a disturbance erupted inside the home, culminating in…

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Vincent Gage

Male · Norfolk, Virginia

Killed Jan 4, 1992 · 34 years ago

On a cold winter day in Norfolk, Virginia, the life of Vincent Gage was cut short. On January 4, 1992, he was fatally wounded by gunfire. The specific details of the events that transpired on that Saturday remain unclear, as does the motive behind the…

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George Rose

Male, age 40 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Jan 4, 1992 · 34 years ago

George A. Rose Jr., a 40-year-old police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, tragically succumbed to injuries sustained from a gunshot wound on January 4, 1992. The incident that led to his death occurred nine years earlier, in 1992, when Officer…

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Lydia Madison

Female, age 29 · New Orleans, Louisiana

Killed Jan 4, 1992 · 34 years ago

On a chilling day, the body of 29-year-old Lydia Madison was discovered, marking another grim chapter in a series of slayings that haunted New Orleans. A female victim of strangulation, her death was quickly linked to a string of similar murders attributed to…

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Cynthia Marie Jones

Female, age 15 · Milford, Michigan

Killed Jan 4, 1992 · 34 years ago

In the winter of 1992, the community of Milford, Michigan, was shaken by the disappearance of 15-year-old Cynthia Marie Jones. A white female, Cynthia was a bright and promising student, an honor roll student who played the flute and was a cheerleader. She…

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Suzanne Lee Kays

Male, age 33 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Jan 4, 1989 · 37 years ago

Deputy Sheriff Suzanne Lee Kays, aged 33, was tragically shot and killed on January 4, 1989, while working for the Dallas County Sheriff's Department in Texas. She was escorting a homeless man who had just been released from jail from the Lew Sterrett Justice…

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Ruth J. Bresnahan

Female, age 83 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Killed Jan 4, 1988 · 38 years ago

Ruth J. Bresnahan, an 83-year-old female from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died on January 4, 1988, in what became part of a frightening cluster of attacks against elderly Milwaukee-area residents inside their homes. Online records identify her birth date as April…

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Peter Arthur Larsen

Male, age 51 · Beloit, Wisconsin

Killed Jan 4, 1985 · 41 years ago

Peter Arthur Larsen was a 51-year-old White/Caucasian male and longtime Beloit Police Department patrol officer whose death was the result of wounds inflicted during a January 4, 1985 shooting in Beloit, Wisconsin. Although January 4, 1985 is the date of the…

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Eric Michael Fuller

Male, age 28 · New-york, New York

Killed Jan 4, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the winter of 1982, a wave of fear had been quietly spreading across New York City, a chilling undercurrent to the bustling metropolis. The city was in the grip of a spree of seemingly random and brutal killings, the work of a man who would come to be…

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Raymond Davis

Male, age 48 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Jan 4, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the cold of a Philadelphia winter, the city's sense of security was shaken by the loss of one of its own. On January 4, 1982, Raymond H. Davis, a 48-year-old Black male and a dedicated police officer with the Philadelphia Housing Authority Police…

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George Sonnenberg

Male, age 65 · Jacksonville, Florida

Killed Jan 4, 1982 · 44 years ago

On January 4, 1982, George Sonnenberg, a 65-year-old white male residing in Jacksonville, Florida, was the victim of a fatal arson attack. Sonnenberg lived in a boarding house where he had reportedly begun a personal relationship with Ottis Elwood Toole, a…

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Phyllis Tamm

Female, age 27 · Houston, Texas

Killed Jan 4, 1982 · 44 years ago

On January 4, 1982, the body of Phyllis Ellen Tamm, a 27-year-old white female, was discovered in an affluent neighborhood near Rice University in Houston, Texas. She was found hanging by the neck from a small tree, dressed in jogging clothes. The position of…

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Margaret Moser

Female, age 22 · Jackson Twp, Indiana

Killed Jan 4, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the winter of 1978, a young couple's life was brutally cut short in their rural home in Montpelier, located in Blackford County, Indiana. Margaret Moser, a 22-year-old female, and her 20-year-old husband, Bruce, were found murdered on January 6, 1978…

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Bruce Moser

Male, age 20 · Jackson Twp, Indiana

Killed Jan 4, 1978 · 48 years ago

On January 4, 1978, the quiet of rural Montpelier, Indiana, was shattered by a brutal crime that has remained a haunting mystery for decades. Inside their small mobile home, 20-year-old Bruce Moser and his 22-year-old wife, Margaret, were discovered murdered.…

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Harry Flamburis

Male · Daly City, California

Killed Jan 4, 1977 · 49 years ago

On January 4, 1977, Harry "The Horse" Flamburis, aged 37, was found murdered along with his girlfriend, Dannette Barrett, in their home in Daly City, California. Flamburis was the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.…

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Dannette Barrett

Female · Daly City, California

Killed Jan 4, 1977 · 49 years ago

On January 4, 1977, Dannette Barrett was found murdered alongside her boyfriend, Harry "the Horse" Flamburis, the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. The couple was discovered shot in the head at their home in Daly…

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Jill Cull

Female, age 20 · Westerville, Ohio

Killed Jan 4, 1975 · 51 years ago

Jill Cull, a 20-year-old woman from Westerville, Ohio, was tragically found dead on January 4, 1975. Her body was discovered in a creek in the area of 5500 Central College Road in Westerville. Jill Cull had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the case was…

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John William Leras

Male, age 17 · Huntington Beach, California

Killed Jan 4, 1975 · 51 years ago

White/Caucasian male, age 17, John William Leras died on January 4, 1975, in the Sunset Beach stretch of the Huntington Beach shoreline in Orange County, California. On the evening before his death, the 17-year-old male was last seen boarding a bus in Long…

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Charlotte Cook

Female, age 19 · Daly City, California

Found Jan 4, 1974 · 52 years ago

On January 4, 1974, 19-year-old Charlotte Cook was found murdered near Thornton Beach in Daly City, California. Her body was discovered behind a ranger station, and she had been strangled to death. This tragic incident occurred just a day after Cook had…

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