Serial Killer Victims on May 15

Serial Killer Victims (31)

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Leslie Lizet Basilio

Victim of Keith Gibson

age 28 · Elsmere, Delaware

Killed May 15, 2021 · 5 years ago

On May 15, 2021, 28-year-old Hispanic female Leslie Ruiz-Basilio was tragically shot and killed during a robbery at the Metro by T-Mobile store where she worked in Elsmere, Delaware. The incident occurred in broad daylight, and police reported that the…

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Barbara Goodkin

Victim of Adrienne Simpson

age 71 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed May 15, 2021 · 5 years ago

On the night of May 15, 2021, tragedy struck in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, when 71-year-old Jewish female Barbara Gayle Rich Goodkin was traveling home with her husband. The couple was driving eastbound along the 8200 block of Delmar…

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Sergei Zacharev

Victim of Adrienne Simpson

age 58 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed May 15, 2021 · 5 years ago

Dr. Sergei Zacharev, a 58-year-old White man, was nearing the end of an ordinary Saturday night on May 15, 2021, when violence found him in Brentwood, Missouri. He was a physician whose life story stretched far beyond St. Louis—born in Minsk, Belarus, to…

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Barbara Goodkin

Victim of Tyler Terry

age 70 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed May 15, 2021 · 5 years ago

On the night of May 15, 2021, tragedy struck in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, when 71-year-old Jewish female Barbara Gayle Rich Goodkin was traveling home with her husband. The couple was driving eastbound along the 8200 block of Delmar…

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Dr. Sergei Zacharev

Victim of Tyler Terry

age 58 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed May 15, 2021 · 5 years ago

Dr. Sergei Zacharev, a 58-year-old White man, was nearing the end of an ordinary Saturday night on May 15, 2021, when violence found him in Brentwood, Missouri. He was a physician whose life story stretched far beyond St. Louis—born in Minsk, Belarus, to…

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Teresa Wilson

Victim of Maury Troy Travis

age 36 · West Alton, Missouri

Killed May 15, 2001 · 25 years ago

In the spring of 2001, the body of 36-year-old Teresa Wilson was discovered by a road crew mowing grass alongside Highway 67 near West Alton, Missouri. Her death marked another tragic chapter in a series of brutal killings that had been terrorizing the St.…

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Linda Sue Boards

Victim of Samuel Little

age 23 · Warren County, Kentucky

Killed May 15, 1981 · 45 years ago

On May 15, 1981, the body of 23-year-old Linda Sue Boards, a Black female, was discovered on a farm located on Hydro-Pondsville Road, southeast of Smiths Grove in Warren County, Kentucky. An investigation revealed that she had been raped and strangled to…

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Donna Payant

Victim of Lemuel Warren Smith

age 31 · Stormville, New York

Killed May 15, 1981 · 45 years ago

In the spring of 1981, Donna Payant, a 31-year-old female corrections officer, was just beginning her career at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York. A mother of three, she came from a family with a history in corrections; her husband…

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Lydia Renfroe

Victim of William A. Renfroe

age 28 · Washington

Killed May 15, 1931 · 95 years ago

William A. Renfroe: The Washington Logging Camp Killer Overview William A. Renfroe was a Washington logging-camp worker responsible for four known killings between 1930 and 1931. Although he is sometimes classified as a serial killer because his first known…

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Mary Louise Renfroe

Victim of William A. Renfroe

age 7 · Washington

Killed May 15, 1931 · 95 years ago

William A. Renfroe: The Washington Logging Camp Killer Overview William A. Renfroe was a Washington logging-camp worker responsible for four known killings between 1930 and 1931. Although he is sometimes classified as a serial killer because his first known…

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Joseph C. Grisdale

Victim of William A. Renfroe

age 23 · Washington

Killed May 15, 1931 · 95 years ago

William A. Renfroe: The Washington Logging Camp Killer Overview William A. Renfroe was a Washington logging-camp worker responsible for four known killings between 1930 and 1931. Although he is sometimes classified as a serial killer because his first known…

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Delores Dewitt

Victim of Jason Thomas Scott

age 42 · Prince George County, Maryland

Killed May 15, 2009 · 17 years ago

Delores DeWitt, a 42-year-old African American woman, was living in Prince George’s County, Maryland, when an ordinary night in the Largo area turned into a scene that felt staged for maximum terror. In the dark hours of Monday morning, March 16, 2009…

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Ebony Dewitt

Victim of Jason Thomas Scott

age 16 · Prince George County, Maryland

Killed May 15, 2009 · 17 years ago

Ebony DeWitt was a 20-year-old Black female from Prince George’s County, Maryland, whose final hours became tangled in a crime that looked, at first, like it might vanish into smoke. In the early-morning darkness of March 16, 2009, firefighters were called to…

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Monica Candelaria

Victim of Albuquerque Serial Killer

age 22 · Albuquerque, New Mexico

Killed May 15, 2003 · 23 years ago

Monica Candelaria, 22, a woman from Albuquerque, vanished on May 15, 2003. Friends told police, even then, that they had heard Monica Candelaria, 22, had been killed and buried out on the city's windswept West Mesa, a rumor that would haunt the margins of her…

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Michael T. Strenko

Victim of Charles Edmund Cullen

age 21 · Somerville, New Jersey

Killed May 15, 2003 · 23 years ago

In what should have been a routine hospital stay, 21-year-old Michael T. Strenko, a male from Manville, New Jersey, lost his life on May 15, 2003, at the Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. Strenko, a former high school soccer and track athlete who worked…

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Monica Candelaria

Victim of West Mesa Bone Collector

age 22 · Albuquerque, New Mexico

Killed May 15, 2003 · 23 years ago

Monica Candelaria, 22, a woman from Albuquerque, vanished on May 15, 2003. Friends told police, even then, that they had heard Monica Candelaria, 22, had been killed and buried out on the city's windswept West Mesa, a rumor that would haunt the margins of her…

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Gino Booker

Victim of Angelo Howard

age 34 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed May 15, 2002 · 24 years ago

Gino Booker, a 34-year-old African American man, was murdered in Cincinnati, Ohio. His death was one of several homicides connected to a series of violent crimes committed by Angelo Howard. Howard was indicted for the aggravated murder and aggravated robbery…

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Rita Payne

Victim of Robert Gene Rembert

age 47 · Cleveland, Ohio

Killed May 15, 1997 · 29 years ago

On May 15, 1997, **47-year-old African American female Rena Mae Payne** was found deceased in an employee restroom at a Cleveland Regional Transit Authority bus turnaround. Her body exhibited signs of a brutal assault, including beating, rape, and…

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Gwendolyn Faye Simmons

Victim of Samuel Little

age 23 · Little Rock, Arkansas

Killed May 15, 1994 · 32 years ago

In the spring of 1994, a young woman named Gwendolyn Faye Simmons, aged 23, was reported missing in the Little Rock, Arkansas area. A month later, on May 15, 1994, her skeletal remains were discovered by two men driving through a swampy field just east of…

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Patsy Vineyard

Victim of Lesley Eugene Warren

age 20 · Sackets Harbor, New York

Killed May 15, 1987 · 39 years ago

Patsy Diane Vineyard, a 20-year-old White woman, vanished from Sackets Harbor, New York, in the spring of 1987, leaving behind the kind of silence that makes a small lakeside community feel suddenly watched. The date attached to what happened next was May 15…

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Rima Traxler

Victim of Joseph Robert Kondro

age 8 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Killed May 15, 1985 · 41 years ago

On the evening of June 14, 2012, a sense of unease settled over the Windsor Village Apartments in northwest Oklahoma City. The relative quiet was shattered around 9:45 p.m. by the sound of multiple gunshots, a violent interruption that would end the life of…

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Angela Monroe

Victim of Terry Blair

age 19 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed May 15, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the spring of 1982, the life of a young woman named Angela Monroe was tragically cut short in Kansas City, Missouri. On May 15, the 19-year-old African American mother of two was killed. At the time of her death, she was pregnant with her third child. The…

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Lorraine Borowski

Victim of Robin Gecht

age 21 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed May 15, 1982 · 44 years ago

Lorraine Borowski, a 21-year-old Caucasian woman, tragically lost her life on May 15, 1982, in a horrifying case that shook the Chicago area. Lorraine, affectionately known as 'Lorry,' was abducted in broad daylight while she was on her way to open the real…

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Lorraine Borowski

Victim of Andrew Kokoraleis

age 21 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed May 15, 1982 · 44 years ago

Lorraine Borowski, a 21-year-old Caucasian woman, tragically lost her life on May 15, 1982, in a horrifying case that shook the Chicago area. Lorraine, affectionately known as 'Lorry,' was abducted in broad daylight while she was on her way to open the real…

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Lorraine Borowski

Victim of Thomas Kokoraleis

age 21 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed May 15, 1982 · 44 years ago

Lorraine Borowski, a 21-year-old Caucasian woman, tragically lost her life on May 15, 1982, in a horrifying case that shook the Chicago area. Lorraine, affectionately known as 'Lorry,' was abducted in broad daylight while she was on her way to open the real…

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Lorraine Borowski

Victim of Edward Spreitzer

age 21 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed May 15, 1982 · 44 years ago

Lorraine Borowski, a 21-year-old Caucasian woman, tragically lost her life on May 15, 1982, in a horrifying case that shook the Chicago area. Lorraine, affectionately known as 'Lorry,' was abducted in broad daylight while she was on her way to open the real…

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Jean Reyner

Victim of Richard Francis Cottingham

age 25 · New York City, New York

Killed May 15, 1980 · 46 years ago

Jean Reyner was a 25-year-old female whose life ended on May 15, 1980, inside Manhattan’s Seville Hotel, where a fire drew emergency responders into a room that had been turned into a crime scene. What they found was evidence of a deliberate attempt to erase…

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Walter Rowland

Victim of Tom Williams

age 68 · Moultrie, Georgia

Killed May 15, 1954 · 72 years ago

Walter Cleveland Rowland, a 68-year-old White/Caucasian man, was killed alongside his wife, Gladys Harvey Rowland, on May 15, 1954, in the Moultrie area of Colquitt County, Georgia. Rowland was identified in historical accounts as a former warden, a position…

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Gladys Rowland

Victim of Tom Williams

age 43 · Moultrie, Georgia

Killed May 15, 1954 · 72 years ago

Gladys Rowland was a 48-year-old White woman who was killed on May 15, 1954, at her rural home near Moultrie in Colquitt County, Georgia. She and her husband, William T. Rowland, were found dead after a brutal attack that shocked the community. Investigators…

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Panta Lou Liles

Victim of Charles Floyd

age 20 · Oklahoma

Killed May 15, 1945 · 81 years ago

Charles Floyd: The Tulsa Serial Killer Who Was Charles Floyd? Charles Floyd was an American serial killer responsible for a series of murders and violent attacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the 1940s. He should not be confused with Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy"…

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Anna Carolyn Martin (Garrett)

Victim of Rhonda Belle Martin

age 6 · Alabama

Killed May 15, 1940 · 86 years ago

Rhonda Belle Martin: The Poisoner of Montgomery A Pattern of Death Inside One Family Rhonda Belle Martin was an American serial poisoner who killed members of her own family over a period extending from 1937 to 1951. Born Rhonda Belle Thomley on November 4…

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