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Serial Killer Victims on January 6

647 open cases in our database happened on January 6. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (12)

Joan Marie Stewart - Montclair, California
Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Joan Marie Stewart

Victim of Charles Jackson
age 44 · Montclair, California
Killed Jan 6, 1981 · 45 years ago

Joan Stewart, a 44-year-old white female biology professor at San Francisco City College, was found murdered on January 6, 1982, in the woodlands near Montclair, California. She had been raped, strangled, and stabbed multiple times. Investigators discovered a…

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Sam Carroll - London, Kentucky
Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Sam Carroll

Victim of Donald Harvey
age 80 · London, Kentucky
Killed Jan 6, 1971 · 55 years ago

Sam Carroll, an 80-year-old man from the London, Kentucky, area, was a patient at Marymount Hospital during a period that would later become associated with one of the most notorious hospital serial killers in American history. Online accounts identifying…

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Valerie Dawn China Schultz - Pittsburg, California
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Valerie Dawn China Schultz

age 27 · Pittsburg, California
Killed Jan 6, 1999 · 27 years ago

Valerie Schultz, aged 27, was found dead on January 6, 1999, in Pittsburg, California. Her body was discovered in an industrial area, which had also been the site of other murders around the same time. Valerie, who was reportedly a sex worker, had suffered…

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Fitzroy Reid - Brooklyn, New York
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Fitzroy Reid

age 21 · Brooklyn, New York
Killed Jan 6, 1993 · 33 years ago

Fitzroy Reid, a 21-year-old man, was killed in Brooklyn during a period of gang-related violence that investigators later connected to Richard “Babyface” Jameswhite. Although the supplied date places Reid’s death on May 1, 1993, contemporary reporting…

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Frank T. Merrifield - Clinton, Missouri
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Frank T. Merrifield

Clinton, Missouri
Killed Jan 6, 1990 · 36 years ago

Frank Merrifield, a male from Clinton, Missouri, was spending a winter day at home when three fugitives on the run drifted into his life. The visitors were Robert Wesley Knighton, Lawrence Lingle Brittain, and Ruth Renee Williams, traveling together after…

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Roy E. Donahue - Montrose, Missouri
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Roy E. Donahue

age 40 · Montrose, Missouri
Killed Jan 6, 1990 · 36 years ago

In the early days of January 1990, a violent series of events began to unfold across the Midwest, eventually claiming the life of 40-year-old male Roy Eddie Donahue. Roy was visiting the home of his stepfather, Frankie Thomas Merrifield, located in the…

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Kimberly Ann Ruggles - Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Kimberly Ann Ruggles

Victim of Ronald Gray
age 23 · Fayetteville, North Carolina
Killed Jan 6, 1987 · 39 years ago

Kimberly Ann Bowman Ruggles, a 23-year-old Caucasian woman, tragically lost her life on January 6, 1987, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She was working as a taxi driver near Fort Bragg when she was brutally raped and murdered. Her body was discovered in a…

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Christopher Forsblade

age 40 · Los Angeles, California
Killed Jan 6, 1987 · 39 years ago

Christopher Forsblade, a 40-year-old male, was tragically killed on January 6, 1987, in Los Angeles, California. His death was the result of a brutal stabbing, marking him as the first victim in a series of murders committed by Joseph Martin Danks, also known…

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Kenneth "Kenny" Martin

age 9 · Massachusetts
Killed Jan 6, 1970 · 56 years ago

Kenneth Francis Harrison: The Boston Serial Killer Known as “The Giggler” Kenneth Francis Harrison was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in Boston, Massachusetts, between 1967 and 1969. His victims included two children, an…

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Floyd Omar Harvey

age 61 · Shasta County, California
Killed Jan 6, 1967 · 59 years ago

Floyd Omar Harvey, a 61-year-old white male, was murdered on January 6, 1967, alongside his 60-year-old wife, Reba Elizabeth Harvey. Their deaths marked the beginning of the known killing spree of serial killer Gary Don Franklin. Franklin's criminal…

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Reba Elizabeth Harvey

age 60 · Pointe Coupee, Louisiana
Killed Jan 6, 1967 · 59 years ago

Reba Elizabeth Harvey, a 59-year-old woman, died on January 6, 1967, with later online records preserving her in fragments rather than in a full public narrative: a memorial entry places her death on that date and lists her burial at Oakwood Memorial Park in…

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Robert Turper

Victim of Pearl Jackson
Alabama
Killed Jan 6, 1923 · 103 years ago

Pearl Jackson and the Birmingham Axe Murders Overview Pearl Jackson was an Alabama murder defendant associated with the notorious Birmingham axe-murder panic of the early 1920s. Jackson and his spouse, Odell Jackson, were accused of belonging to a loosely…

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