Serial Killer Victims on May 3

Serial Killer Victims (14)

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Virgil Starks

Victim of The Texarkana Phantom Killer

age 37 · Texas

Killed May 3, 1946 · 80 years ago

The Texarkana Phantom Killer A Community Terrorized by an Unknown Assailant The Texarkana Phantom Killer was an unidentified serial murderer associated with a series of nighttime attacks committed near Texarkana, a border community divided between…

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Katie Starks

Victim of The Texarkana Phantom Killer

Texas

Killed May 3, 1946 · 80 years ago

The Texarkana Phantom Killer A Community Terrorized by an Unknown Assailant The Texarkana Phantom Killer was an unidentified serial murderer associated with a series of nighttime attacks committed near Texarkana, a border community divided between…

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Michael Kerkowski

Victim of Hugo Selenski

age 37 · Kingston Township, Pennsylvania

Killed May 3, 2002 · 24 years ago

In May 2002, the story of 37-year-old pharmacist Michael Kerkowski took a dark and violent turn. Believed by many to be on the run to avoid a prison sentence for his role in a significant prescription drug ring, the truth of his disappearance was far more…

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Tammy Fassett

Victim of Hugo Selenski

age 36 · Kingston Township, Pennsylvania

Killed May 3, 2002 · 24 years ago

In May of 2002, 37-year-old Tammy Lynn Fassett and her boyfriend, Michael Kerkowski, also 37, vanished from his home in Hunlock Township, Pennsylvania. Their disappearance sparked a lengthy investigation that would eventually unearth a story of greed…

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Paul J. Cowart

Victim of Faye Della Copeland

age 20 · Mooresville, Missouri

Killed May 3, 1989 · 37 years ago

Paul Jason Cowart, a White 21-year-old man, vanished into the backroads and barn lots of northwestern Missouri at the tail end of a scheme that was already turning deadly. By the time his name surfaced publicly, it wasn’t in a help-wanted ad or a paycheck…

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Paul J. Cowart

Victim of Ray Copeland

age 20 · Mooresville, Missouri

Killed May 3, 1989 · 37 years ago

Paul Jason Cowart, a White 21-year-old man, vanished into the backroads and barn lots of northwestern Missouri at the tail end of a scheme that was already turning deadly. By the time his name surfaced publicly, it wasn’t in a help-wanted ad or a paycheck…

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Carol Christensen

Victim of Gary Leon Ridgway

age 21 · Maple Valley, Washington

Killed May 3, 1983 · 43 years ago

Carol Ann Christensen, a 21-year-old female and a registered member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Browning, Mont., was just beginning a new chapter in her life, separated from her husband and determined to make her own way as a young mother. On May 2, 1983, her…

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Joseph Kimler

Victim of Charles Louman Meach

age 19 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed May 3, 1982 · 44 years ago

On the night of May 3, 1982, in Anchorage, Alaska, white male, Joseph Dean Kimler, age 19, was with friends in Russian Jack Springs Park when a stranger moved through their campsite area and violence erupted. Within the trees and paths on the park's north…

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Vern Sylvester

Victim of Charles Louman Meach

age 19 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed May 3, 1982 · 44 years ago

On the evening of May 3, 1982, 19-year-old white male, Vern Jay Sylvester joined three teenage friends—Joseph Kimler, Sabrina Imlach, and Rebecca Phillips—for a spring outing at Russian Jack Springs Park in Anchorage. What began as an easy night near their…

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Sabrina Imlach

Victim of Charles Louman Meach

age 16 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed May 3, 1982 · 44 years ago

She was a 16-year-old white female from Anchorage on the eve of her seventeenth birthday. On May 3, 1982, Sabrina Lynn Imlach and three friends—Rebecca “Becca” Phillips, 16, Vern Jay Sylvester, 19, and Joseph Dean Kimler, 19—moved through the spring chill of…

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Rebecca Phillips

Victim of Charles Louman Meach

age 16 · Anchorage, Alaska

Killed May 3, 1982 · 44 years ago

On May 3, 1982, Rebecca Dawn “Becca” Phillips—a white 16-year-old female from Anchorage, Alaska—set out with friends for a spring evening in East Anchorage's Russian Jack Springs Park. Sometime around nightfall, the quiet paths and open spaces turned…

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Jess Leroy Lovelady

Victim of Billy Battenfield

age 75 · McKinney, Texas

Killed May 3, 1978 · 48 years ago

Jess Leroy Lovelady, a 75-year-old white male, was brutally murdered on May 3, 1978. Lovelady was stabbed to death by Billy Dean Battenfield, a serial killer, who then disposed of his body by throwing it down a water well. The motive behind this heinous act…

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Sally Jo Tsaggaris

Victim of Joseph Michael Nissensohn

age 46 · Tillicum, Washington

Killed May 3, 1989 · 37 years ago

In the spring of 1989, the community of Tillicum, Washington, was unsettled by the discovery of the body of 46-year-old Sally Jo Tsaggaris. On May 5, 1989, the female victim was found deceased in a brushy area near the Tacoma Country and Golf Club, a location…

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Eoria Dick

Victim of Bigfoot Killer

age 22 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed May 3, 1975 · 51 years ago

In the summer of 1975, the city of Detroit was gripped by fear as a serial killer, later dubbed the 'Bigfoot Killer' and 'The Cass Ripper,' preyed on women in the Cass Corridor neighborhood. Among the victims was Eoria Char Dick, a 22-year-old Caucasian…

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