Deaths by Force on March 21

Deaths by Force (461)

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Trinidad Saucedo

Male · San Diego, California

Found Mar 21, 1973 · 53 years ago

On March 21, 1973, Trinidad Saucedo, a well-known figure in San Diego’s East Village community, was found murdered in his downtown hotel room. Saucedo, who was disabled and used a prosthetic leg, was known for his outgoing personality and frequent visits to…

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Janine Marie Ligotino

Female, age 19 · Gainesville, Florida

Killed Mar 21, 1973 · 53 years ago

On March 21, 1973, the bodies of 19-year-old white female Janine Marie Ligotino and 17-year-old white female Ann Arceneaux were discovered in a vacant lot in Gainesville, Florida. Both young women had been stabbed to death. The brutal nature of the crime…

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Ann Eugenia Arceneaux

Female, age 17 · Gainesville, Florida

Killed Mar 21, 1973 · 53 years ago

On March 21, 1973, the bodies of 17-year-old female Ann Eugenia Arceneaux and 19-year-old female Janine Marie Ligotino were discovered in a vacant lot in Gainesville, Florida. Both victims had been stabbed to death. Ann Eugenia Arceneaux, a white female, was…

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Thomas Wilson

Male, age 66 · Cleveland, Ohio

Killed Mar 21, 1972 · 54 years ago

On March 21, 1972, Thomas Wilson, a 66-year-old male from Cleveland, Ohio, was tragically killed in his own home. Described by his daughters, Alesia and Marcia, as intelligent and benevolent, Thomas left behind cherished memories that continue to inspire his…

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Wilhelmina Susanna Uhde Sailer

Female, age 47 · Mount-vernon, Indiana

Killed Mar 21, 1955 · 71 years ago

In the quiet farming community of Mount Vernon, Indiana, the life of 47-year-old Wilhelmina Susanna Uhde Sailer came to a brutal and tragic end on March 21, 1955. Her death was not an isolated incident but part of a string of violent crimes that had been…

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Fred Samuel Goetz

Male, age 37 · Cicero, Illinois

Killed Mar 21, 1934 · 92 years ago

Fred Samuel Goetz, a 37-year-old Caucasian male, was a notorious figure in the criminal underworld, known by the alias "Shotgun" George Ziegler. Born on February 14, 1897, in Chicago, Illinois, Goetz was deeply entrenched in organized crime, particularly with…

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Frederick H. Barner

Male, age 48 · Pueblo, Colorado

Killed Mar 21, 1909 · 117 years ago

In the early spring of 1909, the city of Pueblo was shaken by the loss of one of its own. Frederick H. Barner, a 48-year-old White/Caucasian male and a dedicated officer with the Pueblo Police Department, met a tragic end on the night of March 21st. Having…

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John Mcnamara

Male, age 45 · Curtis-bay, Maryland

Killed Mar 21, 1905 · 121 years ago

John McNamara, a 45-year-old male, was working the late hours as a police officer in Curtis Bay, Maryland, when the night turned violent on March 21, 1905. Reports describe him encountering a man in the act of stealing coal, and what began as an attempt to…

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George Trewhitt White

Male, age 40 · Bledsoe, Tennessee

Killed Mar 21, 1904 · 122 years ago

In the rural landscape of Bledsoe County, Tennessee, a lawman’s life was cut tragically short on a March day in 1904. George Trewhitt White, a 40-year-old male Deputy Sheriff, was dutifully carrying out his responsibilities, a task he had likely performed…

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Lyle Garrett

Male, age 49 · Kansas City, Kansas

Killed Mar 21, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the early afternoon of March 21, 2024, a call for medical attention brought first responders to the 200 block of Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas. There, they discovered 49-year-old Lyle Garrett suffering from a single gunshot wound. He was a…

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Grosbin Juarez Castro

Male, age 40 · Tallahassee, Florida

Killed Mar 21, 2020 · 6 years ago

Grosbin Juarez Castro, a 40-year-old resident of Tallahassee, Florida, tragically lost his life on March 21, 2020. The incident occurred following an argument over money, which escalated into a fatal shooting. On that fateful day, Castro and Jonathan Andrews…

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Anthony Grandison Jr

Male, age 40 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Mar 21, 2019 · 7 years ago

On a Thursday night in West Baltimore, the life of 40-year-old Anthony Grandison Jr. was tragically cut short. The evening of March 21, 2019, turned fatal when Grandison was shot in the 800 block of West Mulberry Street. Police were called to the scene in the…

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Travis Courtney Ennis

Male, age 26 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Mar 21, 2018 · 8 years ago

In the spring of 2018, the life of Travis Courtney Ennis, a 26-year-old male, was tragically cut short on the streets of Washington, D.C. On the evening of Wednesday, March 21, 2018, events unfolded that would end in his untimely death. In the 2900 block of…

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Jose Antonio Guzman

Male, age 26 · Olathe, Kansas

Killed Mar 21, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the quiet town of Olathe, Kansas, the evening of March 21, 2015, was shattered by a tragic event that would leave a community in shock. On that night, Jose Antonio Guzman, a 26-year-old Hispanic male, was found deceased inside a home in the 200 block of…

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Jonathan Argoe

Male, age 53 · Isle-of-palms, South Carolina

Killed Mar 21, 2015 · 11 years ago

On March 21, 2015, Jonathan Arden Argoe, a 53-year-old man, died from gun violence in his home on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. His wife, Doris Spann Argoe, then 45 years old, called 911 claiming she had shot her husband in self-defense after he…

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David Cardiel

Male, age 37 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Mar 21, 2015 · 11 years ago

David Cardiel, a 37-year-old Latino, was tragically shot and killed on March 21, 2015, near Eastlake Avenue and George Street in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, the incident occurred shortly before 7 p.m.…

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Jacqueline Bush

Female, age 25 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Killed Mar 21, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the early hours of a Saturday in March 2015, the life of a young woman from Bellevue, Pennsylvania, was tragically cut short. Jacqueline Bush, a 25-year-old female, was found deceased in the basement of a home in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood of…

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Ray Keech

Female, age 65 · Garland, Texas

Killed Mar 21, 2015 · 11 years ago

On March 21, 2015, Ray Keech, a 65-year-old man from Garland, Texas, was fatally shot during an altercation at his residence. According to reports, Keech was the live-in boyfriend of a woman whose son, 31-year-old Joseph Robic, came to visit his mother. When…

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Billy House

Male, age 37 · Junction City, Oregon

Killed Mar 21, 2014 · 12 years ago

On the evening of March 21, 2014, in a home in Junction City, Oregon, a family dispute escalated into a fatal encounter. Inside the residence on David Lane, which he shared with his elderly father, 37-year-old Billy Raymond House, a male, was involved in a…

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David Nelson Hammer

Male, age 21 · Fort-mill, South Carolina

Killed Mar 21, 2014 · 12 years ago

David Nelson Hammer Jr., a 21-year-old male, tragically lost his life on Saturday, March 22, 2014, in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The fatal incident unfolded in the driveway of a residence on Fort Mill Highway, forever altering the lives of those involved. An…

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Marcellus Jermaine Jackson

Male, age 33 · Fort-washington, Maryland

Killed Mar 21, 2012 · 14 years ago

In the early hours of a Wednesday morning, the quiet of a Fort Washington, Maryland neighborhood was shattered by the sound of gunshots. On March 21, 2012, at approximately 12:50 a.m., patrol officers from the Prince George's County Police Department were…

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Melvin Howard

Male, age 49 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Mar 21, 2009 · 17 years ago

On a spring evening in Birmingham, Alabama, the life of 49-year-old Melvin Howard was cut short by an act of gun violence. On March 21, 2009, Howard was fatally shot, leaving a community to grapple with the sudden loss. In the wake of the shooting…

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Gerold Jerry Drosky

Male, age 20 · Daytona-beach, Florida

Killed Mar 21, 2009 · 17 years ago

Gerold "Jerry" Drosky, a 20-year-old from Oviedo, Florida, tragically lost his life on March 21, 2009, during a spring break trip to Daytona Beach. Drosky was staying at the Ocean Sands Hotel with friends when they were approached multiple times by a drug…

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Robert Belton Sr.

Male, age 82 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Mar 21, 2007 · 19 years ago

Robert Belton Sr. was 82 years old when he died on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, in a home at 1156 West Adams Boulevard in the University Park area of Los Angeles. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a Los Angeles Police Department case handled…

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David A Schoenberger

Male, age 27 · St. Louis, Missouri

Killed Mar 21, 2007 · 19 years ago

David A Schoenberger was 27 years old when he was killed in St. Louis on Wednesday, March 21, 2007. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated his death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in St. Louis through…

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Leroshard DeCarlo Gooch

Male, age 21 · Durham, North Carolina

Killed Mar 21, 2003 · 23 years ago

Leroshard DeCarlo Gooch, a 21-year-old African American male, tragically lost his life on March 21, 2003, in Durham, North Carolina. Gooch was found in the parking lot of an apartment building on Taylor Street, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds and…

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George Lamoga

Male, age 59 · Montclair, New Jersey

Killed Mar 21, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the quiet, affluent town of Montclair, New Jersey, a horrific act of violence shattered the community's sense of peace on March 21, 1995. George Peter Lomaga, a 59-year-old business consultant from Glen Ridge, was tragically killed during an armed robbery…

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Earl R. Ludlow

Male, age 68 · Temperance, Michigan

Killed Mar 21, 1972 · 54 years ago

In March of 1972, the life of 68-year-old Earl R. Ludlow of Temperance, Michigan, was violently cut short in what was described as an execution-style killing. Ludlow, a male, was abducted from a party store and then shot three times in the head. His body was…

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Bert Casteel

Male, age 32 · London, Kentucky

Killed Mar 21, 1903 · 123 years ago

Deputy Sheriff Bert Casteel, a 32-year-old male lawman serving Laurel County in southeastern Kentucky, met his death on the night of March 21, 1903, in London while carrying out what should have been a straightforward arrest. Born James Alburtis “Burt”…

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Dates are the day last seen (missing), the day of death, or when the date of death is unknown the day found or reported missing (deaths by force), the day found (unidentified and unclaimed), the victim's date of death (serial killers) and the day of the attack (mass murders). Solved, located, identified and claimed cases are not listed.