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Serial Killer Victims on October 1

966 open cases in our database happened on October 1. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (9)

William Clement Marks - Wasco, Oregon
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

William Clement Marks

age 23 · Wasco, Oregon
Killed Oct 1, 1991 · 35 years ago

William Clement Marks, a 23-year-old homeless man, was one of the victims of Douglas Franklin Wright, a serial killer who terrorized Oregon between 1969 and 1991. Marks' death occurred in October 1991, along with two other homeless men, Anthony Arthur Barker…

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William Ray Davis - Wasco, Oregon
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

William Ray Davis

age 37 · Wasco, Oregon
Killed Oct 1, 1991 · 35 years ago

William Ray Davis, a white male age 37, was killed on October 1, 1991, after being lured from Portland to a remote stretch of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Wasco County by a man promising day labor at ten dollars an hour. Davis, who was experiencing…

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Robert Benniefiel - Redondo-beach, California
Serial Killer Victim50th anniversary

Robert Benniefiel

age 17 · Redondo-beach, California
Killed Oct 1, 1976 · 50 years ago

Robert Billy Benniefiel, a 17-year-old resident of Redondo Beach, California, tragically lost his life on October 1, 1976. Robert was a sophomore at Aviation High School in Redondo Beach. On the day of his death, he was hitchhiking, a common practice at the…

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Nenomoshia Yates - Washington, District of Columbia
Serial Killer Victim55th anniversary

Nenomoshia Yates

age 12 · Washington, District of Columbia
Killed Oct 1, 1971 · 55 years ago

On the evening of October 1, 1971, 12-year-old Nenomoshia Yates, an African-American female known to her loved ones as 'Neno,' left her home on Benning Road in Southeast Washington, D.C. A sixth-grader at Kelly Miller Junior High School, she was sent on a…

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Pearl Stevenstar - Mansfield, Texas
Serial Killer Victim

Pearl Stevenstar

age 20 · Mansfield, Texas
Killed Oct 1, 2000 · 26 years ago

Pearl “Sissy” Stevenstar, a 20-year-old woman, was brutally murdered on October 1, 2000, by her half-brother, Terry Lee Hankins. Stevenstar was fatally beaten with a jack stand, and her remains were later discovered stuffed into a plastic ice chest hidden in…

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Danny Fry - Seagoville, Texas
Serial Killer Victim

Danny Fry

Victim of David Waters
age 42 · Seagoville, Texas
Killed Oct 1, 1995 · 31 years ago

Danny Raymond Fry, a 42-year-old white male from Florida, was found dead on October 2, 1995, near Seagoville, Texas. His mutilated body—headless and handless—was discovered along the East Fork of the Trinity River in Dallas County. The corpse had been dumped…

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Christie Proctor - Dallas, Texas
Serial Killer Victim

Christie Proctor

age 9 · Dallas, Texas
Killed Oct 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

Christie Proctor, a nine-year-old Caucasian girl from Dallas, Texas, was abducted and murdered on October 1, 1984. She was last seen near her North Dallas apartment complex while walking home from a friend’s house. Her disappearance sent shockwaves through…

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Paula Prince - Chicago, Illinois
Serial Killer Victim

Paula Prince

Victim of Tylenol Murders
age 35 · Chicago, Illinois
Killed Oct 1, 1982 · 44 years ago

Paula Prince, a 35-year-old female flight attendant based in Chicago, Illinois, became the seventh confirmed victim of the infamous Chicago Tylenol murders. On October 1, 1982, she was found deceased in her high-rise apartment on the Near North Side of…

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Serial Killer Victim

Sylvester Ayon

age 30 · Santa Ynez, California
Killed Oct 1, 1982 · 44 years ago

Sylvester Ayon, a 30-year-old man, was fatally shot on October 1, 1982, while working on a ranch near Santa Ynez in Santa Barbara County. Ayon suffered multiple gunshot wounds and succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Alongside him, a 17-year-old individual…

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