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Marcela Rodriguez

Female, age 24 · Clinton, North Carolina

Killed Mar 23, 2009 · 17 years ago

Marcela Rodriguez, a 24-year-old Hispanic woman, tragically lost her life on March 23, 2009, in Clinton, North Carolina. Her death was the result of a murder-suicide incident involving her ex-boyfriend, Francisco Montenegro, aged 52. The incident occurred in…

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Juan Bautista Moreno

Male, age 52 · McFarland, California

Killed Mar 23, 2009 · 17 years ago

Juan Bautista Moreno, a 52-year-old man, was found dead near McFarland, California, in an orange grove south of Elmo Highway. His death was linked to a series of murders allegedly committed by Jose Manuel Martinez, a suspected contract killer with ties to…

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Gregory Bennett

Male, age 30 · San Francisco, California

Found Mar 23, 2008 · 18 years ago

On March 23, 2008, Gregory Bennett, a 30-year-old resident of San Francisco, was killed in a shooting incident in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of the city. The shooting occurred during the night, and Bennett was found with multiple gunshot wounds on…

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David Andrew Rankin

Male, age 21 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Mar 23, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the spring of 2008, the life of 21-year-old David Andrew Rankin was cut short in Baltimore, Maryland. On Sunday, March 23, 2008, Rankin was found in the 3700 block of Ravenwood Avenue, the victim of a homicide. His death marked the 39th killing in the city…

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Jeffrey Clinton Butler

Male, age 18 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Mar 23, 2008 · 18 years ago

On a Sunday evening in southeast Baltimore, a young life was tragically cut short in a senseless act of violence. Jeffrey Clinton Butler, an 18-year-old African-American male, was walking on the 500 block of North Decker Avenue on March 23, 2008, when he was…

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Johnathan Morales-Mont

Male, age 23 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Found Mar 23, 2007 · 19 years ago

Johnathan Morales-Mont, a 23-year-old male, was fatally shot on March 23, 2007, in Philadelphia. The incident took place amidst a year that saw significant levels of violent crime across the city. In 2007, Philadelphia experienced a high number of homicides…

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Daniel C. Martinez

Male, age 33 · Fort Smith, Arkansas

Killed Mar 23, 2007 · 19 years ago

In Fort Smith, Arkansas, Officer Daniel C. Martinez, a 33-year-old male, tragically lost his life in the line of duty on March 23, 2007. On that day, he responded to a call to assist a woman in retrieving her child from a residence. The woman had earlier had…

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Keith Douglas Shutt

Male, age 48 · Paramount, California

Killed Mar 23, 2007 · 19 years ago

Keith Douglas Shutt, aged 48, passed away on March 23, 2007, in Paramount, California. According to reports, Keith was shot while in his car at 7755 E. Monroe St. at approximately 6:13 p.m. He succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at 7 p.m. that…

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Senior Mark Timothy Nix

Male, age 33 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Mar 23, 2007 · 19 years ago

Senior Corporal Mark Timothy Nix, a 33-year-old white male, was tragically killed on March 23, 2007, in Dallas, Texas. Nix, who served with the Dallas Police Department for nearly seven years, was attempting to apprehend a murder suspect when he was fatally…

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John Morgan

Male · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Mar 23, 2005 · 21 years ago

On March 23, 2005, John Morgan was found dead at his residence on Hamilton Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. The incident occurred in the 5900 block of the street, where Morgan, age 20, was fatally shot. His death was one of the 79 homicides reported in Cincinnati…

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Peter Alan Grignon

Male, age 27 · Louisville, Kentucky

Killed Mar 23, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the early morning hours of March 23, 2005, Louisville Metro Police Officer Peter Alan Grignon, a 27-year-old male, was nearing the end of his shift. He had recently returned from an anniversary trip with his wife of just over a year. At approximately 6:30…

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Susan Soogrim

Female, age 44 · Baytown, Texas

Killed Mar 23, 2004 · 22 years ago

On March 23, 2004, in Baytown, Texas, 44-year-old Susan Soogrim was tragically lost to gun violence. Details surrounding the incident indicate that she was shot, leading to her untimely death. Reports suggest that during the incident, her teenage child…

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Virginia O. Hernandez

Female, age 34 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Mar 23, 2004 · 22 years ago

Virginia O. Hernandez, a 34-year-old woman of Hispanic ethnicity, tragically died on March 23, 2004, in Dallas, TX. She was the victim of a brutal murder that shook her community and led to a significant investigation. The incident occurred on March 17, 2004…

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Shana Lee Labatte

Female, age 30 · Kelowna, British Columbia

Killed Mar 23, 2004 · 22 years ago

Shana Lee Labatte, a 30-year-old woman and mother of two, was living in the Kamloops area of British Columbia when her life ended violently in March 2004. Although some later reports listed her as 31, contemporary reporting identified her as 30. She worked…

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Phillip Woody

Male, age 18 · Wilmington, Delaware

Killed Mar 23, 2003 · 23 years ago

Phillip Woody, an 18-year-old Black / African American male, died on March 23, 2003, in Wilmington, Delaware, after being lost to gun violence. The publicly available online information places his death in Wilmington on that date and identifies the incident…

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Nathaniel Brice Jr

Male · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Mar 23, 2002 · 24 years ago

Nathaniel Brice Jr., a 21-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio, was tragically killed on March 23, 2002. The incident took place at 8334 Anthony Wayne Street in the Hartwell neighborhood of Cincinnati. According to reports, Nathaniel was shot at this location, and…

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Lazaro Aranda

Male, age 26 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Mar 23, 2002 · 24 years ago

Lazaro Aranda, a 26-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on March 23, 2002, in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Aranda was fatally shot, marking a violent end to his young life. The incident…

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Maynor Aroldo Sosa

Male, age 22 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Mar 23, 2002 · 24 years ago

Maynor Aroldo Sosa, a 22-year-old Latino male, tragically lost his life on March 23, 2002, in East Hollywood, Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's records, Sosa was fatally shot, marking a violent end to his young life. The incident…

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Jennifer Zoch

Female, age 19 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Mar 23, 1998 · 28 years ago

In the spring of 1998, a young woman's dream of a new life in the nation's capital came to a tragic and violent end. Jennifer Zoch, a 19-year-old female, had journeyed to Washington, D.C., from the small town of Goodman, Wisconsin, in early March of that…

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Vu Huynh

Male · Arlington, Virginia

Killed Mar 23, 1997 · 29 years ago

On the night of March 23, 1997, a male named Vu Huynh was shot and killed in the parking lot of Hi Cue Billiards located on South George Mason Drive in Arlington, Virginia. The case remains an unsolved homicide, with authorities continuing to seek information…

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Andrea Brown

Female, age 17 · Hermitage, Tennessee

Killed Mar 23, 1997 · 29 years ago

On the evening of March 23, 1997, a 17-year-old female named Andrea Michelle Brown was ending her shift at a McDonald's located on Lebanon Road in Hermitage, Tennessee. As she and three of her coworkers were leaving the restaurant after closing, they were…

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Ronald Santiago

Male, age 27 · Hermitage, Tennessee

Killed Mar 23, 1997 · 29 years ago

On a late Sunday evening in Hermitage, Tennessee, the night of March 23, 1997, turned tragic for 27-year-old Ronald Santiago and his co-workers at a McDonald's restaurant. As they were leaving after their shifts, a man forced them back inside at gunpoint. The…

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Robert Sewell

Male, age 23 · Hermitage, Tennessee

Killed Mar 23, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the quiet late hours of a Sunday in Hermitage, Tennessee, the rhythm of a typical closing shift at a McDonald's was shattered by an act of brutal violence that would become part of a chilling chapter in the state's history. On March 23, 1997, Robert Allen…

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Jesse Howell

Male, age 19 · Woodstock, Illinois

Killed Mar 23, 1997 · 29 years ago

Jesse Howell, a 19-year-old male, was tragically killed on March 23, 1997, near railroad tracks in Belleview, Florida. Howell, who was traveling with 16-year-old Wendy Von Huben, had met Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, a notorious serial killer known as 'The…

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Wendy Von Huben

Female, age 16 · Woodstock, Illinois

Killed Mar 23, 1997 · 29 years ago

Sixteen-year-old Caucasian female Wendy Rachel Von Huben left Woodstock, Illinois, in February 1997 with her 19-year-old fiancé, Jesse Howell, chasing a rail-rider's adventure through the Southeast. On 23 March 1997 a locomotive crew spotted Howell's…

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Pedro Galvan

Male, age 26 · Tempe, Arizona

Killed Mar 23, 1995 · 31 years ago

Pedro Galvan, a 26-year-old Hispanic/Latino male, was working the overnight shift alone at the Mobil station at Mill Avenue and Broadway Road in Tempe, Arizona, when he was killed in the early morning hours of March 23, 1995. His body was discovered at about…

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Melissa Ursula Fernandes

Female, age 16 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Mar 23, 1994 · 32 years ago

On a Wednesday afternoon, March 23, 1994, the life of 16-year-old Melissa Ursula Fernandes was tragically cut short. She was standing with classmates outside Ballard High School in Seattle, Washington, waiting for her mother to pick her up. Uninvolved in the…

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Carmen Van Huss

Female, age 19 · Indianapolis, Indiana

Killed Mar 23, 1993 · 33 years ago

In March of 1993, the life of 19-year-old Carmen Van Huss was tragically cut short in her Indianapolis apartment. A vibrant young woman, she was found by her father after she failed to show up for her job as a waitress at a local Pizza Hut. The scene that…

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Elizabeth Huston

Female, age 28 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Mar 23, 1993 · 33 years ago

Elizabeth “Bessie” Hutson was a 28-year-old Hispanic woman living in Washington, D.C., whose ordinary evening routine turned into the most terrifying moment of her life and the end of it. On March 23, 1993, she took her dogs out for a walk in the Mount…

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James Kimbrough

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Mar 23, 1992 · 34 years ago

James Kimbrough, a 40-year-old resident of Columbus, Ohio, was found dead on March 23, 1992. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds, and his body was discovered in an alley located at 149 MacLee Alley, in Franklin County. This tragic incident has remained…

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Beverly J. Swartz

Female, age 47 · Littleton, Colorado

Killed Mar 23, 1989 · 37 years ago

Beverly J. Swartz, a 47-year-old female, was shot and killed on March 23, 1989, in Littleton, Colorado. Public memorial records identify her by name and age and place her death that day in Littleton; cemetery records list her as Beverly Jean Nelson Swartz…

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Janice Irene Swartz

Female, age 68 · Littleton, Colorado

Killed Mar 23, 1989 · 37 years ago

Janice Irene Swartz, 68, female, was at home in Littleton, Colorado, on March 23, 1989, when a young gunman’s rampage reached her door. Before dawn, the assailant—20-year-old Eugene Thompson Jr. of Littleton—had launched a violent spree that authorities said…

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Kenneth Metcalf

Male, age 30 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Mar 23, 1987 · 39 years ago

Kenneth Metcalf, a 30-year-old white male, spent the late winter of 1987 far from home, passing through Denver, Colorado, when his life suddenly intersected with a violence that has never been fully explained. On March 23, 1987, he was staying at a Motel 6 on…

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Edward Wilson

Male · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Mar 23, 1985 · 41 years ago

Edward Wilson, a 32-year-old man, was living in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area when he became one of the non-hospital victims of Donald Harvey, the serial killer later known as the “Angel of Death.” Online accounts identify Wilson as a neighbor within the circle…

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Steven K. Gardner

Male, age 30 · Hazelhurst, Mississippi

Killed Mar 23, 1984 · 42 years ago

A male Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper named Steven K. Gardner was killed in the line of duty on March 23, 1984, near Hazelhurst, Mississippi. He had served with the agency for a period reported to be between four months and one year. The fatal encounter…

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Terry Diane Walden

Female, age 23 · Merritt Island, Florida

Killed Mar 23, 1984 · 42 years ago

Terry Diane Walden, a 23-year-old white female nursing student and mother of two, was abducted and murdered on March 23, 1984, in Beaumont, Texas—not Merritt Island, Florida, though her case is connected to a broader series of crimes that began in Florida.…

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Elizabeth Bessie Hutson

Female, age 28 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Mar 23, 1983 · 43 years ago

In the spring of 1993, a palpable sense of fear gripped the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights in Washington, D.C. A series of seemingly random and unprovoked shootings had left residents on edge, wary of being in the wrong place at the…

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Essie Jackson

Female, age 23 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Mar 23, 1983 · 43 years ago

In the spring of 1983, the life of a young Black/African American woman named Essie Jackson was tragically cut short at the age of 23. On March 23, 1983, her partially clothed body was discovered on the western edge of Overlook Park in North Portland, Oregon.…

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Paula Perrera

Female, age 16 · Plainfield, Connecticut

Killed Mar 23, 1982 · 44 years ago

In March of 1982, the life of 16-year-old Paula Perrera, a White/Caucasian female, was tragically cut short. A student at Valley Central High School, Perrera was known for her bubbly and carefree nature. On what would be her last day, she left school early…

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Eve Wilkowitz

Female, age 20 · Bayshore, New York

Killed Mar 23, 1980 · 46 years ago

In March of 1980, the life of 20-year-old Eve Wilkowitz was tragically cut short, leaving a void in the community of Bayshore, New York. A secretary in Manhattan, she was making her way home late one evening after a date. Having taken the Long Island Rail…

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Emma Jenefor

Female, age 25 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Mar 23, 1979 · 47 years ago

In March of 1979, the life of 25-year-old Emma Jenefor, a female residing in Denver, Colorado, was tragically cut short. For days, her family had been unable to reach her, a silence that grew more concerning with each passing hour. On the morning of March 26…

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Edward Franklin Jackson

Male, age 45 · Honolulu, Hawaii

Killed Mar 23, 1975 · 51 years ago

Edward Franklin Jackson, a 45 year old white man, was killed on March 23, 1975, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in a case that began with what sounded like an ordinary call for help and ended in sudden violence. That day, police were dispatched to Old Farrington Highway…

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Francis Layne Labhart

Male, age 33 · Honolulu, Hawaii

Killed Mar 23, 1975 · 51 years ago

Francis Layne Labhart, a 33-year-old White male from Honolulu, Hawaii, was serving in the U.S. Navy and stationed at Barbers Point Naval Air Station when violence found him on the leeward side of Oahu on March 23, 1975. That day, Honolulu Police were…

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Alma Jean Barra

Female, age 28 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Mar 23, 1972 · 54 years ago

Alma Jean Barra, a 28-year-old white woman from Portland, Oregon, known to friends as “Jeanie,” spent the late hours of March 23, 1972, at the Copper Penny Tavern. Near midnight she was seen leaving with an unidentified man, the two heading south on 92nd…

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Mabel OConnell

Female, age 29 · Orlando, Florida

Killed Mar 23, 1968 · 58 years ago

Mabel Delaney O'Connell, a 29-year-old white female, tragically lost her life on March 23, 1968, in Orlando, Florida. Mabel was shot along with her sister, Elizabeth Ann Delancy DeLoma, who was 26 years old at the time. The incident occurred at 5624 Arundel…

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Johnnie Mae Chappell

Female · Jacksonville, Florida

Killed Mar 23, 1964 · 62 years ago

Johnnie Mae Chappell, a 35-year-old African American woman, was tragically killed on March 23, 1964, in Jacksonville, Florida. On that fateful evening, Chappell, a mother of ten, was walking along U.S. Route 1, northwest of the city, searching for her wallet…

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Tommy Bowman

Male, age 8 · Pasadena, California

Killed Mar 23, 1957 · 69 years ago

On March 23, 1957, eight-year-old Tommy Bowman vanished while on a brief hike in the Arroyo Seco area near Pasadena, California. Tommy was visiting family in Altadena and had run ahead of his cousins, eager to reach the car first. However, he disappeared…

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Louis Wolfson

Male, age 41 · Hartford, Connecticut

Killed Mar 23, 1950 · 76 years ago

On the evening of March 23, 1950, Louis Wolfson, a male liquor store owner, was brutally shot in the face during a robbery at his West Hartford, Connecticut establishment. The violent encounter left him unconscious and in critical condition. He was discovered…

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