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Serial Killer Victims on May 30

744 open cases in our database happened on May 30. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (14)

Betty James - East St. Louis, Illinois
Serial Killer Victim25th anniversary

Betty James

age 46 · East St. Louis, Illinois
Killed May 30, 2001 · 25 years ago

Betty James, a 46‑year‑old Black woman, was one of the confirmed victims of Maury Troy Travis, also known as the “Video Strangler.” She was last known to have been in Illinois, and her body was discovered in the summer of 2001. Law enforcement records and…

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Clarence Odell III - Tucson, Arizona
Serial Killer Victim30th anniversary

Clarence Odell III

age 47 · Tucson, Arizona
Killed May 30, 1996 · 30 years ago

On a tragic day in Tucson, Arizona, Clarence Chip Odell, III, a 47-year-old male, lost his life in a brutal act of violence. On May 30, 1996, two men, Robert Glen Jones Jr., age 26, and Scott Douglas Nordstrom, age 28, entered a local smoke shop with the…

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Carolin Lloyd - Fort Worth, Texas
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Carolin Lloyd

age 76 · Fort Worth, Texas
Killed May 30, 1991 · 35 years ago

Carolin Lloyd, a 76-year-old Black woman, was tragically murdered on May 30, 1991, in Fort Worth, Texas. She was one of three victims in a brutal attack carried out by Edward Lewis Lagrone, a 34-year-old man with a prior murder conviction. The incident…

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Zenobia Lloyd - Fort Worth, Texas
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Zenobia Lloyd

age 83 · Fort Worth, Texas
Killed May 30, 1991 · 35 years ago

Zenobia Lloyd, an 83-year-old woman, was tragically murdered in a brutal crime that took place in Fort Worth, Texas. She was one of three victims in a triple homicide committed by Edward Lagrone, a convicted murderer with a violent past. The incident occurred…

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Shakeisha Lloyd - Fort Worth, Texas
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Shakeisha Lloyd

age 10 · Fort Worth, Texas
Killed May 30, 1991 · 35 years ago

On May 30, 1991, 10-year-old African American girl Shakeisha Lloyd was tragically murdered in Fort Worth, Texas, in a brutal attack that also claimed the lives of her two great-aunts, 83-year-old Zenobia Anderson and 76-year-old Caola Lloyd. The perpetrator…

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Serial Killer Victim30th anniversary

Thomas Hardman

age 26 · Arizona
Killed May 30, 1996 · 30 years ago

Robert Glen Jones Jr.: The 1996 Arizona Murder Spree Background Robert Glen Jones Jr. was an American murderer responsible for seven killings committed during a violent series of armed robberies in Arizona in 1996. Born on December 25, 1969, Jones carried out…

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Melody Wiggins - Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Serial Killer Victim

Melody Wiggins

age 29 · Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Killed May 30, 2005 · 21 years ago

Melody Wiggins, a 29-year-old African-American woman, was reported missing on May 30, 2005. Just a few days later, on June 2, her partially decomposed body was discovered in a rural area of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The autopsy revealed that she had…

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Manuel Reed - Kenner, Louisiana
Serial Killer Victim

Manuel Reed

age 21 · Kenner, Louisiana
Killed May 30, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the spring of 1999, the life of 21-year-old Manuel Reed, a Black male from Kenner, Louisiana, was tragically cut short. On May 21st of that year, his path fatefully crossed with a predator who had been haunting the bayous of Louisiana, a man whose quiet…

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Hardee Schmidt - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Serial Killer Victim

Hardee Schmidt

age 52 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Killed May 30, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the spring of 1999, the life of Hardee Moseley Schmidt, a 52-year-old Caucasian woman and avid runner from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was horrifically cut short. On the morning of May 30th, she embarked on her regular jog through the Pollard Estates…

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Ivy Susanna Williams - El Paso, Texas
Serial Killer Victim

Ivy Susanna Williams

age 23 · El Paso, Texas
Killed May 30, 1987 · 39 years ago

In the spring and summer of 1987, a shadow of fear fell over El Paso, Texas, as a string of young women began to vanish. Among them was 23-year-old Ivy Susanna Williams, a female who was last seen on May 30, 1987. Her disappearance, however, went unreported…

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Bernice Courtemanche - Claremont, New Hampshire
Serial Killer Victim

Bernice Courtemanche

age 17 · Claremont, New Hampshire
Killed May 30, 1984 · 42 years ago

Bernice Courtemanche, a 17-year-old Caucasian female, tragically lost her life under mysterious and violent circumstances. On May 30, 1984, Bernice was last seen in Claremont, New Hampshire, around 3:30 p.m., reportedly hitchhiking to her boyfriend's home in…

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Logan Evans - Cincinnati, Ohio
Serial Killer Victim

Logan Evans

Victim of Donald Harvey
age 88 · Cincinnati, Ohio
Killed May 30, 1970 · 56 years ago

## On May 30, 1970, Logan Evans, an 88-year-old white male patient at Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky, was murdered by 18-year-old hospital orderly Donald Harvey. Evans, who had suffered a debilitating stroke and was incontinent, reportedly smeared…

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Gary Smock - Kalamazoo, Michigan
Serial Killer Victim

Gary Smock

Victim of Larry Lee Ranes
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Killed May 30, 1964 · 62 years ago

On May 30, 1964, the life of Gary Albert Smock, a 30-year-old male schoolteacher from Plymouth, Michigan, was tragically cut short in Kalamazoo. Smock, a married father, had been in the area for a Church of God youth convention. While driving his Chevrolet…

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Zenovia Clegg - New York City, New York
Serial Killer Victim

Zenovia Clegg

age 62 · New York City, New York
Killed May 30, 1963 · 63 years ago

Zenovia Clegg, a 62-year-old Black woman, spent the last hours of her life moving through midtown Manhattan with a stranger she had only just met. Late on May 29, 1963, she approached Charles Terry on the street near Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street and asked him…

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