Death by Force

Michael Roderick

Male, age 52 · Augusta, Maine

Killed Oct 16, 2008 · 18 years ago

On a Thursday in the autumn of 2008, a sense of unease settled over a home on Eastern Avenue in Augusta, Maine. That evening, on October 16th, a friend arrived at the residence of Michael Roderick, a 52-year-old White/Caucasian male, to find a scene that…

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Kimani Pouncil

age 19 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Oct 16, 2008 · 18 years ago

On what was supposed to be a milestone celebration, the life of Kimani Pouncil was tragically cut short. On October 16, 2008, his eighteenth birthday, his body was discovered in an alley near 34th and Wyoming in Kansas City, Missouri. It was determined that…

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Catherine Solinski-Blain

Female, age 21 · Oakland, Michigan

Killed Oct 16, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the quiet darkness of an October night in 2008, the life of 21-year-old Catherine Solinski-Blain was tragically cut short in Lathrup Village, Michigan. A dedicated manager at the local Rib Rack restaurant, she was leaving work after closing when she was…

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Christopher Walker

Male, age 16 · Detroit, Michigan

Killed Oct 16, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the autumn of 2008, the life of 16-year-old Christopher Walker, a Black male, was cut short in a burst of violence that unfolded near his Detroit high school. On the afternoon of October 16, Walker, an 11th-grader at Henry Ford High School, was with a…

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Brian Austin

Male, age 29 · San Francisco, California

Found Oct 16, 2007 · 19 years ago

Brian Austin, a 29-year-old man, was killed on October 16, 2007, in San Francisco, California. The incident occurred late at night in the South of Market (SoMa) area, a neighborhood known for its nightlife and mixed residential and commercial spaces. Austin…

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Ronald Reed

Male, age 33 · Louisville, Kentucky

Killed Oct 16, 2007 · 19 years ago

Ronald R. Reed was a 33-year-old Black man from Louisville, Kentucky, whose life was cut short on October 16, 2007. That day, violence found him at 956 South Hancock Street, a modest single-family home in the Smoketown/Jackson area just southeast of downtown.…

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Denise Ledbetter

Female, age 39 · Boston, Massachusetts

Killed Oct 16, 2007 · 19 years ago

Denise Ledbetter, 39, a Black woman, was found shot outside 231 Talbot Avenue in Mattapan on the evening of October 16, 2007. Responding officers from Boston Police Area B-3 arrived just before 8 p.m. after reports of gunfire. She was rushed to Brigham and…

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Anita Ruffner

Female · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Oct 16, 2007 · 19 years ago

On October 16, 2007, Anita Ruffner, aged 48, was found dead from a gunshot wound in her home at 1754 Bostwick Road, Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Police Department responded to the incident and has since been handling the investigation. The case has remained…

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Lakota Renville

Female, age 22 · Independence, Missouri

Killed Oct 16, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the fall of 2005, a young Native American woman's life was tragically cut short, leaving a mystery that continues to haunt her family and investigators. Lakota Rae Renville, a 22-year-old member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe, was found deceased on…

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Justin Holston

Male · Akron, Ohio

Killed Oct 16, 2005 · 21 years ago

On October 16, 2005, Justin Earl Holston, a 57-year-old resident of Akron, Ohio, was killed during an apparent burglary at his residence on South Hawkins Avenue. The incident took place around 2:00 AM when Justin, who was in the basement, heard noises coming…

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Dennis Dale Woodruff

Male, age 43 · Royse City, Arkansas

Killed Oct 16, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the quiet town of Royse City, Texas, a horrific discovery shattered the peace on October 18, 2005. Dennis Dale Woodruff, a 43-year-old male, and his wife, Norma, were found brutally murdered in their new home. A concerned family friend, after being unable…

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Norma Faye Johnston Woodruff

Female, age 42 · Royse City, Arkansas

Killed Oct 16, 2005 · 21 years ago

In the quiet town of Royse City, Texas, a horrific discovery shattered the community's sense of peace. On October 18, 2005, the bodies of Norma Faye Johnston Woodruff, a 42-year-old female, and her husband, Dennis Woodruff, were found brutally murdered in…

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Christopher Griffin

Male, age 22 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Oct 16, 2004 · 22 years ago

In the early morning hours of a Friday in June 1996, the quiet near the grounds of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. was broken by a grim discovery. A 22-year-old man, Christopher Griffin, was found fatally shot inside his white Pontiac. Police were…

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Idrissa Salifou

Male · Greensboro, North Carolina

Found Oct 16, 2004 · 22 years ago

On October 16, 2004, Idrissa Salifou, a 44-year-old Nigerian immigrant, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Colonial Apartments in Greensboro, North Carolina. Salifou was unloading groceries from his car when he was attacked. Despite police efforts…

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Vickie Ann Bivins Bowen

Female, age 44 · Livingston, Texas

Killed Oct 16, 2003 · 23 years ago

Vickie Ann Bivins Bowen, a 44-year-old woman of Caucasian ethnicity, tragically died on October 16, 2003, at her home in Livingston, Texas. Born on February 11, 1959, in Greenville, Mississippi, she was the daughter of Clifford and Norma Bivins. She is…

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Vicki Anderson

Female, age 46 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Killed Oct 16, 2003 · 23 years ago

Vicki Anderson, a 46-year-old White female, was last seen alive at a truck stop near Oklahoma City, a place frequented by long-haul drivers and travelers. Her life was cut short in a brutal manner, and her body was discovered on October 16, 2003, in Gray…

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Kevin Russell

Null · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Oct 16, 2000 · 26 years ago

On October 16, 2000, 18-year-old Kevin Russell was shot and killed in Columbus, Ohio. The incident took place near the intersection of Maynard Avenue and Cleveland Avenue, located in Franklin County. The Columbus Police Department investigated the shooting…

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Buddy Gene Bolding Jr.

Male, age 23 · Pawnee County, Oklahoma

Killed Oct 16, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the fall of 1999, a grim discovery shattered the quiet of a secluded area near Appalachia Bay on Keystone Lake in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. Buddy Gene Bolding Jr., a 23-year-old male, and his live-in girlfriend, Sarah Evangeline York, were found shot to…

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Sarah Evangeline York

Female, age 21 · Pawnee County, Oklahoma

Killed Oct 16, 1999 · 27 years ago

In the autumn of 1999, a heart-wrenching discovery was made in a quiet, secluded area of Pawnee County, Oklahoma. Twenty-one-year-old Sarah Evangeline York, a young woman with her life ahead of her, was found shot to death in the home she had recently moved…

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Cynthia Lynn Davis

Female, age 18 · Huntsville, Alabama

Killed Oct 16, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the autumn of 1997, a hunter walking through a wooded area near Indian Creek Road in Huntsville, Alabama, made a grim discovery that would remain a mystery for over a decade. On October 16, the skeletal remains of a young woman were found wrapped in…

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Malcomb Hobbs

Male, age 79 · North Berwick, Maine

Killed Oct 16, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the quiet, rural town of North Berwick, Maine, the life of Malcomb Hobbs, a 79-year-old white male, came to a brutal and mysterious end on October 16, 1997. A lifelong resident of the area, Hobbs lived a quiet and frugal existence in the same farmhouse…

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Robert Escobedo

Male, age 28 · Denver, Colorado

Killed Oct 16, 1997 · 29 years ago

On an autumn day in Denver, Colorado, the life of 28-year-old Robert Escobedo, a male who worked at the High Rise Liquor Store, was tragically cut short. On October 16, 1997, his body was discovered lying behind the High Rise Lounge, the victim of multiple…

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Brent Andrew Holloway

Male, age 27 · Teller, Colorado

Killed Oct 16, 1995 · 31 years ago

In the crisp autumn of October 1995, the tranquil community of Teller County, Colorado, was unsettled by a large fire that authorities suspected was the work of an arsonist. This event set in motion a tragic chain of events that would culminate in the death…

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John Bananola

Male, age 36 · Tacoma, Washington

Killed Oct 16, 1995 · 31 years ago

On October 16, 1995, the life of 36-year-old White/Caucasian male John Bananola, an eight-year veteran of the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, was tragically cut short. Bananola was part of a six-man team serving a narcotics-related search warrant at a…

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Marqueit Dalvin Ward

Male · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Oct 16, 1994 · 32 years ago

On a fall day in Washington, D.C., the lives of two young men were tragically cut short in a violent encounter that remains a mystery to this day. Marqueit Dalvin Ward, a male, and his companion, Sean McNeil Anderson, were found murdered on October 16, 1994.…

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Sean McNeil Anderson

Male, age 25 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Oct 16, 1994 · 32 years ago

On Sunday, October 16, 1994, in Southeast Washington, D.C., 25-year-old Sean McNeil Anderson, an African-American male, was found dead alongside another young man, Marqueit Dalvin Ward, behind the Benning Stoddert Recreation Center near East Capitol Street…

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Barrington King

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Oct 16, 1994 · 32 years ago

On October 16, 1994, Barrington King, aged 33, was found with a gunshot wound at an address on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio. He was pronounced dead on the same day. Despite initial investigative efforts by the Columbus Police Department, the case…

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Lester Dodd

Male, age 38 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Oct 16, 1994 · 32 years ago

Lester Edward Dodd, a 38-year-old male, was killed on October 16, 1994, in what became a grim discovery at the Changing Times Lounge in Birmingham, Alabama. Dodd, who worked at the neighborhood bar, was found alongside his wife, Pamela Jo Hogg Dodd, 37, and…

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Eddie Tucker

Male, age 34 · Oconee, Georgia

Killed Oct 16, 1994 · 32 years ago

In the autumn of 1994, the life of 34-year-old Eddie Tucker, a white male from Oconee, Georgia, came to a brutal and untimely end. His body was discovered on October 16, 1994, in a wooded area, the victim of a calculated murder. The events leading to his…

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Norman Michael Montion

Male, age 42 · El-paso, Texas

Killed Oct 16, 1989 · 37 years ago

Norman Michael Montion, a 42-year-old detective with the El Paso Police Department, tragically lost his life on October 16, 1989, during a violent shooting spree. Montion, who had served with the department for 17 years, was on his lunch break at a local…

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Gregory Bass

Male, age 34 · Douglas, Georgia

Killed Oct 16, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the quiet hours of a Saturday night in Douglasville, Georgia, the lives of two young men were tragically cut short in a brutal act of violence. On October 16, 1988, Gregory Bass, a 34-year-old African American male, was working at a local fast-food…

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Sherry Boyd

Female, age 44 · Colorado Springs, Colorado

Killed Oct 16, 1987 · 39 years ago

On October 16, 1987, the body of 44-year-old Sherry Boyd, a Black female, was discovered floating in Prospect Lake in Colorado Springs. A decade prior to her death, Ms. Boyd had been the victim of a violent assault that left her crippled and dependent on a…

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Lillian Collins

Female, age 17 · Moraine, Ohio

Found Oct 16, 1987 · 39 years ago

Lillian Gayle Collins was a 17-year-old from Dayton, Ohio, who went missing in late June 1987. Her disappearance took a tragic turn when her body was discovered four months later, on October 16, 1987, in Moraine, Ohio. The site of her discovery was at 1975…

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Anthony Greene

Male, age 57 · West Islip, New York

Killed Oct 16, 1987 · 39 years ago

Anthony Greene, a 57-year-old Black man, entered Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Islip, New York, already burdened by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the kind of illness that makes every breath feel like work. In the cardiac and intensive-care…

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Tyrone Johnson

Male, age 42 · Camden, New Jersey

Killed Oct 16, 1985 · 41 years ago

Tyrone Johnson, a 42-year-old Black/African American man from Camden, New Jersey, grew up with music woven into nearly every corner of his life. Born in Camden on October 18, 1942, he spent his childhood in nearby Chesilhurst after his parents moved there and…

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Chevelle Wheeler

Female, age 16 · Stockton, California

Killed Oct 16, 1985 · 41 years ago

Chevelle "Chevy" Wheeler, a 16-year-old Caucasian female, disappeared on October 16, 1985, after skipping school in Stockton, California. She was last seen getting into a red pickup truck outside Franklin High School. Before leaving, she told a friend she was…

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Richard Dan Edmonson

Male, age 48 · San Antonio, Texas

Killed Oct 16, 1983 · 43 years ago

Richard Dan Edmonson, a 48-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas, was tragically found dead on October 16, 1983. He was discovered by a security guard at The University of Texas at San Antonio, near John Peace Boulevard and Loop 1604. Edmonson had been shot…

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Nor Liver

Male, age 57 · Lakewood, Ohio

Killed Oct 16, 1980 · 46 years ago

On October 16, 1980, Norman Liver, a 57-year-old bachelor, was found murdered in his apartment at 11720 Edgewater Drive in Lakewood, Ohio. Liver had sustained multiple stab wounds, along with significant mutilation, including his sexual organs being removed.…

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Nor Davis

Null · Springfield, Ohio

Killed Oct 16, 1980 · 46 years ago

On October 16, 1980, Norman Davis was found dead in Springfield, Ohio, located in Clark County. At the time of his death, Davis was 52 years old. He was shot, and his death was subsequently classified as a homicide. The details of his death are largely…

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George Moulat

Male, age 33 · Reeds-spring, Missouri

Killed Oct 16, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the small town of Reeds Spring, Missouri, a chilling event unfolded on the night of October 16, 1980, forever marking the community. George August Moulat, a 33-year-old patrolman with the Reeds Spring Police Department, was tragically killed in what was…

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Daniel Lee Hay

Male, age 22 · Maysville, Kentucky

Killed Oct 16, 1979 · 47 years ago

On the cool autumn night of October 16, 1979, a young White / Caucasian patrolman named Daniel Lee Hay was on duty, serving the community of Maysville, Kentucky. At 22 years old, the male officer had been with the Maysville Police Department for 18 months…

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Karen Wine

Female, age 35 · Marlborough, Connecticut

Killed Oct 16, 1974 · 52 years ago

On a tragic day in Marlborough, Connecticut, the lives of a mother and her daughter were brutally cut short. On October 16, 1974, 35-year-old Karen Wine and her 16-year-old daughter, Dawn Marie Wine, were found deceased in their home. The two had been bound…

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Dawn Marie Wine

Female, age 16 · Marlborough, Connecticut

Killed Oct 16, 1974 · 52 years ago

On October 16, 1974, Dawn Marie Wine, a 16-year-old girl, was at the Marlborough, Connecticut, home she shared with her mother, Karen Wine. Dawn was reportedly doing schoolwork when a stranger appeared at the door and calmly asked whether her parents were…

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Albert Clayton Johnston

Male, age 47 · Elaine, Arkansas

Killed Oct 16, 1965 · 61 years ago

In the small town of Elaine, Arkansas, a dedicated public servant's life was tragically cut short in the line of duty. City Marshal Albert Clayton Johnston, a 47-year-old male, had honorably served his community for four years, having previously served his…

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Frank Allen Mather

Male, age 49 · Russellville, Kentucky

Killed Oct 16, 1932 · 94 years ago

In the autumn of 1932, a 49-year-old white male named Frank Allen Mather, a federal prohibition investigator, met a violent end in Russellville, Kentucky. His death on October 16 was the culmination of a tense and ultimately fatal confrontation with a local…

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Isaac Lincoln Hicks

Male, age 47 · Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Killed Oct 16, 1903 · 123 years ago

In the early morning hours of Friday, October 16, 1903, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the life of 47-year-old Isaac Lincoln Hicks, a Special Officer with the Bartlesville Police Department, came to an untimely and tragic end. Hicks, a married father of eight…

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David Hennessy

Male, age 31 · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Oct 16, 1890 · 136 years ago

In the late hours of October 15, 1890, New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy was ambushed and shot multiple times by a group of assailants as he walked home. The 32-year-old male chief of police, an Irish Catholic, reportedly whispered to a responding…

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Keeran Angol

Male, age 29 · Elkton, Maryland

Killed Oct 16, 2026 · this year

Keeran Angol was a friend who showed up to help. The 29-year-old man from New Castle, Delaware, had crossed state lines into Elkton, Maryland, to do a favor for a friend’s mother. On Danford Drive, in the Delancy Village Townhouses community, he was…

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