Serial Killer Victims on July 5

Serial Killer Victims (13)

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Fred Davis

Victim of Phillip Lee Ingle

age 68 · Cherryville, North Carolina

Killed Jul 5, 1991 · 35 years ago

On July 5, 1991, William Fred Davis, a 68-year-old white male, and his 67-year-old wife, Margaret Davis, were brutally murdered in their rural Rutherford County, North Carolina home. The assailant, Phillip Lee Ingle, entered their unlocked residence armed…

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Marie B. Parker

Victim of David Parker Ray

Elephant Butte, New Mexico

Killed Jul 5, 1997 · 29 years ago

On a summer day in 1997, the life of 22-year-old Marie B. Parker was tragically cut short in the high desert landscape of Elephant Butte, New Mexico. On July 5th, she was last seen at a local saloon, a place not far from the chillingly infamous residence of…

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Robert Castro

Victim of Angel Maturino Resendiz

age 54 · Colton, California

Killed Jul 5, 1997 · 29 years ago

Robert Castro, a 54-year-old Hispanic male, was murdered on July 5, 1997, in Colton, California. He was a drifter who was beaten to death with a piece of plywood in a rail yard. Though not officially charged, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, also known as the…

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Karen Baker

Victim of David Leonard Wood

age 20 · El Paso, Texas

Killed Jul 5, 1987 · 39 years ago

Karen Baker, a 20-year-old white woman and mother of three young children, disappeared on June 5, 1987, after being last seen at the Hawaiian Royale Motel on Dyer Street in El Paso, Texas. Witnesses reported that she had a date with a man named David Wood, a…

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Jerry Howell

Victim of Robert Andrew Berdella

age 19 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Jul 5, 1984 · 42 years ago

Jerry Howell, a 19-year-old man described in reporting as white, disappeared in Kansas City, Missouri after accepting what sounded like a simple favor from a familiar face: Robert Berdella, a local shopkeeper and flea-market regular who had known Howell and…

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Anna Annie Williams

Victim of Henry Howard Holmes

age 23 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 5, 1983 · 43 years ago

Anna “Nannie” Williams, a 23-year-old white woman from Texas, met a tragic end on July 5, 1893, in Chicago, Illinois. She had traveled to the city to visit her sister, Minnie Williams, who was romantically involved with Dr. H. H. Holmes, a man later unmasked…

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Minnie R. Holmes

Victim of Henry Howard Holmes

age 25 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Jul 5, 1983 · 43 years ago

Minnie R. Holmes, a 25-year-old white woman, was among the confirmed victims of H.H. Holmes, one of America's earliest known serial killers. She died on July 5, 1893, in Chicago, Illinois. Born Wilhelmina Rayford Williams in Mississippi, Minnie was raised by…

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John Cade

Victim of Tommy Lynn Sells

age 39 · Port-gibson, Mississippi

Killed Jul 5, 1979 · 47 years ago

In the summer of 1979, the community of Port Gibson, Mississippi, was shaken by a violent home invasion that claimed the life of 39-year-old John Robert Cade. On the evening of July 5th, an intruder forced their way into Cade's home, and the encounter turned…

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Matthew Bowman

Victim of John Wayne Gacy

age 19 · Harwood Heights, Illinois

Killed Jul 5, 1977 · 49 years ago

Matthew Bowman, a 19-year-old male from Harwood Heights, Illinois, tragically lost his life on July 5, 1977. Bowman was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer and sex offender who operated in Illinois. Gacy was responsible for the…

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Mary Thill

Victim of Robert Christian Hansen

age 22 · Greensboro, North Carolina

Killed Jul 5, 1975 · 51 years ago

On February 4, 1973, Anderson Brooks was found dead at the bottom of a staircase on Cottage Grove Avenue in Greensboro, North Carolina. The 53-year-old had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the discovery occurred at approximately 1:30 a.m. Despite the…

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Claudia Bidstrup

Victim of Danny Arthur Ranes

age 19 · Kalamazoo, Michigan

Killed Jul 5, 1972 · 54 years ago

In the summer of 1972, the lives of two young women from Chicago, 19-year-old Claudia Bidstrup and her friend Linda Clark, were tragically cut short in Kalamazoo, Michigan. On July 5th, the two friends were on their way to Ann Arbor when they pulled into a…

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Pearl D. Robinson

Victim of Frederick Charles Wood

age 33 · Elmira, New York

Killed Jul 5, 1933 · 93 years ago

Pearl D. Robinson, a 33-year-old white woman, was killed in Elmira, New York, on the night of Wednesday, July 5, 1933, after an evening that—on the surface—looked ordinary. Witness accounts later pieced together a rough final itinerary: she was seen with a…

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Harry L. Hancock

Victim of Coleen Thompson

age 69 · Rockville, Maryland

Killed Jul 5, 2003 · 23 years ago

Harry L. Hancock, a 69-year-old White man, died on July 5, 2003, and was described in published death notices as being of Boyds, Maryland. In the years after his death, his name surfaced again in a disturbing account tied to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in…

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