Death by Force

Wanda Belle

Female, age 34 · League-city, Texas

Killed May 17, 2010 · 16 years ago

Wanda Belle, a 34-year-old woman from League City, Texas, tragically lost her life on May 17, 2010. The incident was part of a murder-suicide involving her husband, Jerome Belle, who was 37 years old. According to witness accounts, the dispute between Wanda…

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Jessie Gaston

Male, age 37 · Chicago, Illinois

Found May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Jessie Gaston, a 37-year-old man from Chicago, was tragically killed on May 17, 2009. His death occurred amid the rampant gun violence that plagued Chicago during that period. On the day of the incident, Jessie was fatally shot in a neighborhood known for its…

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Death by Force

Lawanda Williams

Female, age 34 · Chicago, Illinois

Found May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Lawanda Williams, age 34, was killed on May 17, 2009, in Chicago. Her death was recorded as part of the city's ongoing struggles with violence during that period. The incident occurred in a year that saw Chicago facing numerous homicides, with much of the…

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Death by Force

Floyd Butler

Male, age 70 · Chicago, Illinois

Found May 17, 2009 · 17 years ago

Floyd Butler, a 70-year-old former running back for the Chicago Bears, was found dead on May 17, 2009, in his South Side Chicago home. Butler's body was discovered by relatives who arrived at the residence around 1 a.m. They found the back door kicked in, and…

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Death by Force

Clifton Chaney

Male, age 26 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed May 17, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the early morning hours of a spring day in Washington, D.C., a violent encounter cut short the life of a young man. Clifton Nate Chaney, a 26-year-old male, was with two other individuals, seated in a car in the 3800 block of 10th Street, NE on Saturday…

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Death by Force

Gary Peterson

Male, age 21 · Jacksonville, Florida

Found May 17, 2008 · 18 years ago

Gary Peterson, a 21-year-old male, was tragically murdered on May 17, 2008, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was found deceased under suspicious circumstances, and the investigation into his death has remained unsolved since that time. The limited information…

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Death by Force

Brandon C. Betts

Unknown, age 24 · Miami, Florida

Found May 17, 2008 · 18 years ago

Brandon C. Betts, a 24-year-old man, was tragically killed on May 17, 2008, in Miami, Florida. His case remains an unsolved homicide, contributing to the growing list of cold cases that continue to puzzle Miami authorities. On the night of the incident, Betts…

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Death by Force

Jose Gilberto-Guerro

Male, age 26 · Las Vegas, Nevada

Killed May 17, 2008 · 18 years ago

On a warm Saturday evening in Las Vegas, on May 17, 2008, the life of 25-year-old Hispanic male Jose Gilberto-Guerro was tragically cut short. He and two friends were gathered near a car on Kolendo Court, in the vicinity of Decatur Boulevard and Twain Avenue…

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Death by Force

Gerald Wright

Male, age 53 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed May 17, 2007 · 19 years ago

On May 17, 2007, Gerald Wright, a 53-year-old Black male, was killed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His death was recorded as a homicide, and he was found in the 4100 block of Pennsgrove Street. Despite the official classification of his death as a homicide…

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Death by Force

Paul Steven Habelt

Male, age 63 · Payne-springs, Texas

Killed May 17, 2007 · 19 years ago

Paul Steven Habelt, a 63-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, was a dedicated law enforcement officer with 43 years of service. On May 17, 2007, Deputy Sheriff Habelt responded to a domestic disturbance call in Payne Springs, Texas, alongside Deputy Sheriff…

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Death by Force

Robert Bosley

Male, age 42 · Alexandria, Kentucky

Killed May 17, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the quiet community of Alexandria, Kentucky, the life of Robert Jeffrey 'Bob' Bosley, a 42-year-old White/Caucasian male, came to a sudden and violent end on May 17, 2005. The owner of a successful roofing and chimney sweep business, Bosley was found…

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Death by Force

Patricia Ann Trish McDermott

Female, age 48 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed May 17, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the pre-dawn hours of May 17, 2005, Patricia Ann 'Trish' McDermott, a 48-year-old White female, followed her daily routine, a path that would tragically lead to her untimely death. A dedicated X-ray technician at Pennsylvania Hospital, she had just stepped…

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Death by Force

Antonio Dumas

Null · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed May 17, 2004 · 22 years ago

On May 17, 2004, 28-year-old Antonio Dumas was fatally shot in Cincinnati, Ohio. The incident took place at 1 West 13th Street in Hamilton County, and his death was classified as a homicide by the Cincinnati Police Department. Unfortunately, no suspects have…

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Death by Force

Vernadene Scott Harris

Female, age 52 · Oplin, Texas

Killed May 17, 2004 · 22 years ago

Vernadene Scott Harris, a 52-year-old woman, tragically lost her life on May 17, 2004, in Oplin, Texas. The incident was part of a horrific crime spree where a man, in a fit of rage, gunned down his estranged wife, Vernadene, along with her brother and mother…

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Vernon Scott

Male · Oplin, Texas

Killed May 17, 2004 · 22 years ago

On May 17, 2004, a tragic incident unfolded in Oplin, Texas, resulting in the deaths of multiple family members. Clayton Harris, 57, fatally shot his estranged wife, Vernadene Scott Harris, 52, her mother, Maurine Tedford Scott, 79, and her brother, Vernon…

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Death by Force

Ira Joe Medley

Male, age 52 · Los Angeles, California

Killed May 17, 2003 · 23 years ago

Ira Joe Medley was 52 years old when he died on Saturday, May 17, 2003, in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma. The public record does not give the address where he was hurt.…

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Death by Force

Frankie Lynn Betterton

Male, age 43 · Danville, Virginia

Killed May 17, 2002 · 24 years ago

In Pittsylvania County, Virginia, on a Friday afternoon, May 17, 2002, the life of a dedicated lawman was tragically cut short. Deputy Sheriff Frankie Lynn Betterton, a 43-year-old male, was on duty when he conducted a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 58 near…

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Death by Force

Steven Sullivan

Male, age 24 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed May 17, 2002 · 24 years ago

On May 17, 2002, 24-year-old Steven Sullivan from Chester, Pennsylvania, was found deceased under circumstances that have not been publicly detailed. Despite extensive searches, there is no publicly available information regarding the events leading to his…

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Death by Force

Ramone Delmar Soto

Male, age 27 · Okemos, Michigan

Killed May 17, 1998 · 28 years ago

In the quiet community of Okemos, Michigan, a tragic and violent event unfolded, resulting in the death of 27-year-old Ramone Delmar Soto, a Hispanic male. On May 17, 1998, Soto was found deceased in an apartment alongside Deborah Anne Miller. A third…

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Death by Force

John Anthony Valenzuela

Male, age 27 · South Tucson, Arizona

Killed May 17, 1993 · 33 years ago

In the late spring of 1993, a sense of sorrow fell over the community of South Tucson, Arizona. John Anthony Valenzuela, a 27-year-old male officer with the South Tucson Police Department, tragically lost his life in the line of duty. He had served on the…

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Death by Force

Barbara Elliott

Female · Columbus, Ohio

Killed May 17, 1988 · 38 years ago

On May 17, 1988, Barbara Elliott, a 39-year-old resident of Columbus, Ohio, was tragically murdered in her home on Millington Road. Barbara was found beaten to death with a blunt instrument, and she was pronounced dead on arrival by responding authorities.…

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Death by Force

Albert Moulton Hagen Jr.

Male, age 27 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Albert Moulton Hagen, Jr. was a male, age 27, Alaska Native, back in Manley Hot Springs in May 1984, visiting his parents in the tiny river village at the end of the road. By the evening of May 17, 1984, the quiet settlement had become the backdrop for a…

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Death by Force

Dale Kevin Madajski

Male, age 20 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

In May 1984, the small community of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, experienced a tragic event involving the disappearance and death of several residents, including 20-year-old Dale Kevin Madajski. On May 17, Madajski, a carpenter and cabin builder originally…

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Death by Force

Fred Burk

Male, age 30 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Athabaskan Alaska Native. Fred Burk, a 30-year-old male from Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, vanished on May 17, 1984, after joining neighbors at the Tanana River boat landing outside the tiny end-of-the-road community. By evening, none of the group returned, and…

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Death by Force

Joyce Henifer Klein

Female, age 30 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

She was a White female, thirty years old, known in Manley Hot Springs as Joyce Henifer Klein, and on May 17, 1984, she vanished along the Tanana River during a spasm of violence that would scar the tiny Interior Alaska community. Records place her living and…

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Larry Joe McVey

Male, age 38 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Larry Joe McVey—male, 38; records—was a Vietnam veteran and trapper living in the tiny Interior Alaska community of Manley Hot Springs when he vanished on May 17, 1984. That afternoon he drove with 24-year-old carpenter Dale Madajski to the Tanana River boat…

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Lyman Lyman Marshall Klein

Male, age 36 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Male, age 36, Lyman “Lyman Marshall” Klein left his small home in Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, on May 17, 1984, for a casual trip to the Tanana River boat landing with his pregnant wife, Joyce and their two-year-old son, Marshall. The landing was a familiar…

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Marshall Lawrence Klein

Male, age 2 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Marshall Lawrence Klein, a 2-year-old male, white/Caucasian, from Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, vanished into the long light of an Interior spring on May 17, 1984, when a simple family outing to the Tanana River turned into a calamity. He was last seen with his…

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Jodie Samuels

Female, age 15 · Los Angeles, California

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Jodie Samuels was a 15-year-old Black/African American girl living in Los Angeles when she was attacked on the morning of May 17, 1984. At about 6:45 a.m., she was on or near 23rd Street and Longwood when a neighbor, Harold Ray, heard her screaming outside.…

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Marshall Klein

Male, age 2 · Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

Killed May 17, 1984 · 42 years ago

Marshall Klein, a 2-year-old white male child, died on May 17, 1984, in Manley Hot Springs, located in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of Alaska. His brief life ended tragically, and his death has been linked to a disturbing series of events that unfolded in…

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Gary Bevel

Male, age 29 · Jacksonville, Florida

Killed May 17, 1983 · 43 years ago

Gary Bevel, a 29-year-old officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, tragically lost his life on May 17, 1983, in Jacksonville, Florida. Officer Bevel was attempting to arrest a woman, Andrea Hicks Jackson, who had made a false report about damage to her…

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Stephan Williams

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed May 17, 1982 · 44 years ago

On May 17, 1982, Stephan Williams, a 21-year-old resident of Columbus, Ohio, was tragically found dead in his home. Williams was discovered by his wife with a gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the scene. The homicide occurred at…

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Death by Force

Clark Randall Stephens

Male, age 26 · Garberville, California

Killed May 17, 1982 · 44 years ago

Clark Randall Stephens, aged 26, tragically lost his life on May 17, 1982, in Garberville, California. His death was a result of a brutal murder that shocked the local community. Stephens was a victim of the notorious serial killers Michael and Susan Carson…

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Blanca Isela Arreola Guerrero

Female, age 18 · Odessa, Texas

Killed May 17, 1982 · 44 years ago

On May 17, 1982, 18-year-old Hispanic female Blanca Isela Arreola Guerrero disappeared in Odessa, Texas. She was three and a half months pregnant and had recently married. That morning, she left home to drive her sister-in-law to work, intending to return…

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Orestes Ferrer

Male, age 31 · Miami, Florida

Killed May 17, 1980 · 46 years ago

On May 17, 1980, 31-year-old Orestes Ferrer was killed during a period of significant unrest in Miami, Florida. His death coincided with the beginning of the 1980 Miami riots, which erupted after an all-white jury acquitted four police officers involved in…

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Death by Force

Fredy Amaro

Male, age 38 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed May 17, 1980 · 46 years ago

On May 17, 1980, the life of 38-year-old Fredy Amaro Jr. was tragically cut short in Chester, Pennsylvania. His death, which has been described as a murder or death by force, left his family and the community with unresolved questions that have lingered for…

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Adam Ashley

Male, age 14 · San Diego, California

Found May 17, 1979 · 47 years ago

On May 17, 1979, the body of 14-year-old Adam Ashley was discovered on the shores of Torrey Pines State Beach in San Diego, California. A bicyclist riding along the beach that morning found Ashley's lifeless body just above the surf, about half a mile south…

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Joseph Vincent Furando

Male, age 39 · Kensington, New Hampshire

Killed May 17, 1979 · 47 years ago

The unsolved murder of Joseph Furando, a 39-year-old businessman from Guilford, Connecticut, remains one of New Hampshire's cold cases. Furando had been on a business trip to New Hampshire in May 1979. He was last seen in Newton, Massachusetts, on May 16…

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Jack Dean Werner

Male, age 33 · Rochester, Minnesota

Killed May 17, 1977 · 49 years ago

Jack Dean Werner, a 33-year-old deputy sheriff from Rochester, Minnesota, tragically lost his life on May 17, 1977. Deputy Werner was attempting to stop a suspect who was driving erratically in the deserted Apache Mall parking lot. The suspect, armed with a…

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Russell James Foote

Male, age 28 · Lafayette, Louisiana

Killed May 17, 1974 · 52 years ago

On the morning of May 17, 1974, Russell James Foote, a 28-year-old male, was driving to his job as the director of the Lafayette, Louisiana Red Cross, a role he had embraced with a dedication that promised a bright future. That future was violently…

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Karen Peaches Hawkins

Female · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed May 17, 1968 · 58 years ago

In the spring of 1968, a young woman named Karen Rena Hawkins, affectionately known as 'Peaches,' disappeared from her Washington, D.C. home. On May 17th, the African-American female vanished from the 2400 block of 18th Street, NW, sparking concern and a…

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Blanche Mittleman

Female, age 40 · East-meadow, New York

Killed May 17, 1962 · 64 years ago

In the quiet suburban landscape of East Meadow, New York, a tragedy unfolded in the spring of 1-9-6-2 that left a lasting mark on the community. Blanche Mittleman, a 40-year-old woman, lost her life in a violent encounter on May 17th of that year. The cause…

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Joseph W Floyd

Male · Houston, Texas

Killed May 17, 1922 · 104 years ago

Joseph W. Floyd, a 46-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, was an agent with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Internal Revenue. He was killed in Houston, Texas, on May 17, 1922, while attempting to serve a search warrant. Floyd was shot by a…

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J. Perry Landrum

Male, age 45 · Odelia, Texas

Killed May 17, 1907 · 119 years ago

J. Perry Landrum, a 45-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, served as the elected constable for Jefferson County's Precinct 4 in Texas. On May 17, 1907, Landrum was fatally shot while riding his horse to work in Odelia, TX. The man who killed him, Tom…

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Death by Force

Ed Battle

Male · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed May 17, 1902 · 124 years ago

In the spring of 1902, a male bailiff named Ed Battle lost his life in the line of duty in Atlanta, Georgia. On Saturday, May 17, 1902, Bailiff Battle, who was associated with the Fulton County Office of Inspector of Roads and Bridges, joined a group of law…

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Charles Crabtree

Male · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed May 17, 1902 · 124 years ago

In the spring of 1902, a violent confrontation in Atlanta, Georgia, resulted in the death of Police Officer Charles Edward Crabtree, a White male. On Saturday, May 17, 1902, Officer Crabtree and his fellow officers were attempting to arrest a group of men…

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Death by Force

Hugh Ozburn

Male · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed May 17, 1902 · 124 years ago

A tragic and violent confrontation on May 17, 1902, claimed the life of Hugh Ozburn, a White male Policeman with the Fulton County Office of Inspector of Roads and Bridges in Atlanta, Georgia. Ozburn, along with a contingent of fellow lawmen, was attempting…

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Thomas S. Grant

Male · Atlanta, Georgia

Killed May 17, 1902 · 124 years ago

In a hail of gunfire on a tragic Saturday, May 17, 1902, Atlanta Police Officer Thomas S. Grant was killed in the line of duty. The incident unfolded along McDaniel Street, near what was then known as Amy Street, as Officer Grant and his fellow officers…

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