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Serial Killer Victims on October 20

637 open cases in our database happened on October 20. Every one is a family still waiting for answers.

Serial Killer Victims (10)

Anthony Shawn Tony Nelson - Wasco, Oregon
Serial Killer Victim35th anniversary

Anthony Shawn Tony Nelson

age 31 · Wasco, Oregon
Killed Oct 20, 1991 · 35 years ago

In the fall of 1991, a 27-year-old man named Anthony Shawn "Tony" Nelson was looking for an opportunity. It was in Portland, Oregon, that he and another homeless man, Randy Scott Henry, crossed paths with a man named Douglas Franklin Wright. Wright offered…

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Daryl O. Williams - Atlanta, Georgia
Serial Killer Victim40th anniversary

Daryl O. Williams

Victim of Michael Terry
age 20 · Atlanta, Georgia
Killed Oct 20, 1986 · 40 years ago

In the fall of 1985, the city of Atlanta was grappling with a series of violent crimes that instilled fear within the community. It was during this tense period, on October 20, 1985, that the body of a young man was discovered in a desolate, abandoned…

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Danny Davis - Salt Lake City, Utah
Serial Killer Victim45th anniversary

Danny Davis

Victim of Arthur Bishop
age 4 · Salt Lake City, Utah
Killed Oct 20, 1981 · 45 years ago

On a fall day in 1981, four-year-old Danny Davis, a White male, was at a supermarket in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his grandmother. The young boy was reportedly near the gumball machine when a man named Arthur Gary Bishop approached him. Bishop, who would…

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Rose Winstel - Cincinnati, Ohio
Serial Killer Victim60th anniversary

Rose Winstel

Victim of Posteal Laskey
age 61 · Cincinnati, Ohio
Killed Oct 20, 1966 · 60 years ago

Rose Winstel, an 81-year-old widow, was tragically murdered on October 20, 1966, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the fifth victim in a series of brutal killings that had terrorized the city. The attacker, dubbed the "Cincinnati Strangler," had been targeting…

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Joseph Brown - Kenner, Louisiana
Serial Killer Victim

Joseph Brown

age 16 · Kenner, Louisiana
Killed Oct 20, 1999 · 27 years ago

Joseph Brown, a 16-year-old male from Kenner, Louisiana, vanished into an October night in the late 1990s, one more teenager moving through familiar streets until he wasn’t there anymore. In the days that followed, the worry that clung to friends and family…

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Kimberly Gaye Pappas - Tustin, California
Serial Killer Victim

Kimberly Gaye Pappas

Victim of Gerald Parker
Tustin, California
Killed Oct 20, 1979 · 47 years ago

Killed on October 20, 1979, in Tustin, CA. She had just moved into her new apartment. Parker assaulted and murdered her in a similar fashion to his previous victims.

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Debra Lynn Senior - Anaheim, California
Serial Killer Victim

Debra Lynn Senior

Victim of Gerald Parker
age 17 · Anaheim, California
Killed Oct 20, 1979 · 47 years ago

Debra Lynn Senior, a 17-year-old white female from Anaheim, California, was tragically murdered on October 20, 1979. Her death was part of a series of brutal assaults and killings that plagued Orange County during the late 1970s, attributed to a serial…

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Susan Pack - Columbus, Ohio
Serial Killer Victim

Susan Pack

Victim of Richard Tingler
age 18 · Columbus, Ohio
Killed Oct 20, 1968 · 58 years ago

On the night of October 20, 1968, 18-year-old white female Susan Pack was working at a Lawson Milk Company store in Columbus, Ohio, alongside fellow employee Jimmy Stevens and store manager Phyllis Crow. At approximately 10:30 p.m., a white male suspect…

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Jimmy Stevens - Columbus, Ohio
Serial Killer Victim

Jimmy Stevens

Victim of Richard Tingler
Columbus, Ohio
Killed Oct 20, 1968 · 58 years ago

On October 20, 1968, Jimmy Stevens, a teenage male employee at a dairy bar in Columbus, Ohio, was brutally murdered during a violent robbery. Stevens, a white male, was working alongside another teenage employee, Susan Pack, and their manager, Phyllis Crowe…

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Serial Killer Victim

Oleeta McWaters

age 67 · St. Petersburg, Florida
Killed Oct 20, 1963 · 63 years ago

On October 20, 1963, 67-year-old Oleeta Lavina Beard McWaters, a white female resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, was found dead in her home. Her body was discovered the following day, and the cause of death was determined to be strangulation. Due to the…

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