Death by Force

Sheila Cricket Birl

age 19 · Greeley, Colorado

Killed Oct 25, 1979 · 47 years ago

On October 25, 1979, the body of 19-year-old Sheila Birl, also known as Cricket, was discovered along Interstate 76, near Weld County Road 51 in the vicinity of Hudson, Colorado. The discovery marked the beginning of a homicide investigation into her untimely…

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Christopher Boone

Male, age 31 · Sacramento, California

Killed Oct 25, 1979 · 47 years ago

Detective Christopher W. Boone, aged 31, tragically lost his life on October 25, 1979, in Sacramento, California. Boone was engaged in a surveillance assignment at the residence of a woman who had been receiving a series of obscene and threatening phone…

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Patricia Barrett

Female, age 45 · Magna, Utah

Found Oct 25, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the autumn of 1978, the quiet landscape near Magna, Utah, held a grim secret. On October 25th, a motorist traveling near the old Salt Lake Beach off of I-80 made a startling discovery: the body of a Caucasian female, who would later be identified as…

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Dewey C. Shrewsbury

Male · South Charleston, West Virginia

Killed Oct 25, 1978 · 48 years ago

Dewey C. Shrewsbury, identified in West Virginia State Police records as Corporal Dewey Colen Shrewsbury, was a White/Caucasian man associated with South Charleston, West Virginia. By October 1978, Shrewsbury was an experienced member of the West Virginia…

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Martha Thurmond

Female, age 69 · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Oct 25, 1977 · 49 years ago

Martha Bradford Thurmond, a 69-year-old woman, was tragically murdered on October 25, 1977, in Columbus, Georgia. She was one of the victims of Carlton Michael Gary, a serial killer known as 'The Stocking Strangler'. Gary was responsible for a series of…

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Martha Ryan

Female, age 31 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 25, 1977 · 49 years ago

On October 25, 1977, Martha Ryan, a 31-year-old Caucasian woman, was reported missing in Chicago. Martha Ryan, also known as Martha E. Kowalski, had prior convictions related to sex work. Witnesses last saw her in the company of an unidentified young man…

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Denise Evans

Female, age 15 · Wilmington, Delaware

Killed Oct 25, 1975 · 51 years ago

Denise Evans, a 15-year-old white female from Wilmington, Delaware, vanished on the evening of Friday, October 24, 1975, after leaving her north-side neighborhood with a school friend. By the next day, the search ended in tragedy: around midday on Saturday…

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Israel Gonzalez

Male, age 27 · Arlington, Virginia

Killed Oct 25, 1972 · 54 years ago

On a fall day in Arlington, Virginia, the life of 27-year-old Police Officer Israel Peter Gonzalez Sr. was cut tragically short. It was October 25, 1972, and Officer Gonzalez was conducting a routine check at the Arlington Trust Company in Crystal City when…

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Joe Cooper

Male, age 36 · Bibb, Alabama

Killed Oct 25, 1963 · 63 years ago

In the fall of 1963, a dedicated federal agent met a violent and untimely end in rural Bibb County, Alabama. Joe Brooks Cooper, a 36-year-old Special Agent with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division was a White male and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. On…

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Ralph Holt

Male, age 36 · Bibb, Alabama

Killed Oct 25, 1963 · 63 years ago

On a fall day in Bibb County, Alabama, what began as a routine federal search warrant execution ended in a hail of gunfire and the death of two law enforcement officers. It was October 25, 1963, when 36-year-old Special Agent Ralph A. Holt, a man known for…

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Umberto Anastasia

Male, age 55 · Manhattan, New York

Killed Oct 25, 1957 · 69 years ago

On the morning of October 25, 1957, Umberto 'Albert' Anastasia, a 55-year-old Italian-American male, settled into a barber's chair at the Park Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan. The powerful and feared boss of what would become the Gambino crime family was left…

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James Rose

Male, age 45 · Swain, North Carolina

Killed Oct 25, 1920 · 106 years ago

James H. Rose, born in 1875, was a federal Prohibition Agent from Swain City, North Carolina. On October 25, 1920, he was killed during a raid on an illegal moonshine still near Asheville, Swain County. Rose was attacked by moonshiners, and he succumbed to…

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Charles Doyle

Male · New-orleans, Louisiana

Killed Oct 25, 1902 · 124 years ago

In the autumn of 1902, New Orleans Patrolman Charles Doyle was a dedicated officer serving his city. A husband and father to two children, his life was irrevocably altered one October day. While on duty, he responded to a disturbance near the intersection of…

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Howard Pitezel

Male, age 8 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 25, 1894 · 132 years ago

Howard Robert Pitezel, an 8-year-old boy, met a tragic and gruesome fate in 1894. His remains were discovered in a chilling manner—charred and blackened bones stuffed into a chimney in the cellar of a house linked to the infamous H. H. Holmes. Holmes, a…

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Ariel Isaac Rodriquez-Pineda

age 19 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Killed Oct 25, 2026 · this year

Ariel Isaac Rodriquez-Pineda was just 19 years old when his life was cut short by gunfire in the pre-dawn hours of a Sunday morning in southwest Charlotte, North Carolina. The shooting, which also claimed the life of a 16-year-old boy and wounded two other…

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Trayleon Jones

Male, age 18 · North Little Rock, Arkansas

Killed Oct 25, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the autumn of 2024, a young man's life was abruptly ended on a Thursday evening in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Eighteen-year-old Trayleon La'Sean Jones, a male resident of Bauxite, was found deceased near North Little Rock, the victim of a fatal shooting.…

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Darren Johnson

Male, age 16 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Oct 25, 2024 · 2 years ago

In the afternoon of Friday, October 25, 2024, tragedy struck in the 2800 block of Langston Place, Southeast, Washington, D.C. At approximately 4:16 p.m., the sound of gunshots pierced the air, prompting a response from the Seventh District officers of the…

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Hazma Jamil Mubah-Wrotten

Male, age 18 · Washington, District of Columbia

Killed Oct 25, 2024 · 2 years ago

An evening in Washington, D.C. turned tragic, marking the premature end of a young life. On Friday, October 25, 2024, at approximately 5:47 p.m., the sound of gunshots pierced the air in the 3700 block of Georgia Avenue, Northwest. A Fourth District officer…

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James Riley

Male, age 27 · Saint-louis, Missouri

Killed Oct 25, 2022 · 4 years ago

In the early morning hours of October 25, 2022, the life of James C. Riley III was tragically cut short in the Vandeventer neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The 27-year-old man was discovered lying in the 1100 block of North Sarah Street, just north of…

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Robert Mason

Male, age 25 · Cleveland, Ohio

Killed Oct 25, 2022 · 4 years ago

Robert Mason, a 25-year-old male, was tragically lost to gun violence on October 25, 2022, in Cleveland, Ohio. According to available records, he was fatally shot outside a convenience store on Cleveland's East Side. The specific circumstances surrounding the…

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Emanuel Sturgill

Male, age 32 · Jackson, Mississippi

Killed Oct 25, 2020 · 6 years ago

Emanuel Sturgill was a 32-year-old man from Jackson, Mississippi, whose life ended violently late on a Sunday night in the fall of 2020. On October 25 of that year, as the weekend wound down and most of the city settled in for the night, gunfire erupted along…

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Lawrence McNeal

Male, age 64 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 25, 2020 · 6 years ago

Lawrence McNeal, a 64-year-old African American man, was fatally shot on October 25, 2020, in the Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago. McNeal was talking to someone he knew in a car in the 9000 block of South Laflin Street when shots were fired. He was struck in…

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Luis Hernandez

Male, age 21 · Fort-worth, Texas

Killed Oct 25, 2020 · 6 years ago

Luis Hernandez, a 21-year-old Hispanic male, tragically lost his life on October 25, 2020, in Fort Worth, Texas. The circumstances surrounding his death have been the subject of extensive investigation and legal proceedings. Hernandez's death was a result of…

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Gaudencio Alexander Lopez Mapile

Male, age 51 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Oct 25, 2020 · 6 years ago

Gaudencio Alexander Lopez Mapile VII was 51 years old when he died on Sunday, October 25, 2020, in Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma near 7052…

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Penny J. Nelson

Female, age 64 · Grantville, Kansas

Killed Oct 25, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the quiet community of Grantville, Kansas, a tragedy unfolded on October 25, 2017, shattering the peace of the rural area. On that day, 64-year-old Penny J. Nelson, a female, lost her life in a violent encounter that also claimed the life of another…

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Deborah Payne

Female, age 45 · Descanso, California

Killed Oct 25, 2017 · 9 years ago

Deborah Elaine Payne, aged 45, was found dead on October 25, 2017, in Descanso, California. The tragic incident was classified as a murder-suicide involving her brother, Clifton Lawrence Payne Jr., aged 50. Authorities discovered the siblings' bodies in…

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Anton Balentay Watson

Male, age 35 · Austell, Georgia

Killed Oct 25, 2017 · 9 years ago

In the early morning hours of an October day, the prelude to a grim discovery began with the sound of gunfire outside a package store on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway in Atlanta. When officers arrived at the scene around 2:50 a.m., they found several vehicles…

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Andree Buller

Female, age 85 · Voorhees, New Jersey

Killed Oct 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the quiet setting of the Voorhees Assisted Living Center, a shocking and tragic event unfolded on a Sunday evening. Andree Buller, an 85-year-old female resident, was fatally shot in what was later determined to be a murder-suicide. The incident, which…

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Daniel Chavez

Male, age 25 · Monrovia, California

Killed Oct 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

Daniel Becerra Chavez, a 25-year-old resident of Monrovia, California, tragically lost his life on October 25, 2015. Chavez was fatally shot in an unincorporated area of Monrovia, near Shrode and Lincoln avenues. The incident occurred around 7 p.m. when…

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Ira Wright Jr

Male, age 30 · Oakland, California

Killed Oct 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

Ira Wright Jr., a 30-year-old resident of Oakland, California, was tragically killed on October 25, 2015. The incident occurred during a dominoes game in East Oakland, specifically in the 2700 block of 76th Avenue, near Wright's residence. According to police…

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Jesus Pimental

Male, age 22 · Long Beach, California

Killed Oct 25, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the evening hours of Sunday, October 25, 2015, a fatal encounter unfolded on a sidewalk in Long Beach, California, that would irrevocably alter the lives of two families. On that day, 22-year-old Jesus Pimental, a Hispanic man also known as Jesus Anthony…

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Juan Arenas

Male, age 30 · El-paso, Texas

Killed Oct 25, 2014 · 12 years ago

Juan Arenas, a 30-year-old Hispanic male, tragically died on October 25, 2014, in El Paso, Texas. He was found suffering from gunshot wounds to the stomach in the early hours of the morning after police responded to reports of a fight in the 4100 block of…

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Anderson Bernard Norsworthy

Male, age 62 · Bellflower, California

Killed Oct 25, 2014 · 12 years ago

Anderson Bernard Norsworthy was 62 years old when he died on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, in Bellflower. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 9729 Flower St. His death was ruled a homicide.…

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Jose Augusto Caceros

Male, age 41 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Oct 25, 2009 · 17 years ago

Jose Augusto Caceros, a 41-year-old Latino, was tragically shot and killed on October 25, 2009, in Wilmington, Los Angeles. The incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. as Caceros was climbing the steps to his girlfriend’s home in the 400 block of Gulf Avenue. He…

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Agnes Alene Bratton

Female, age 79 · Bell Gardens, California

Killed Oct 25, 2009 · 17 years ago

Agnes Alene Bratton was 79 years old when she died on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, in Bell Gardens. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 6303 Gotham St. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it…

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Darren Green

Male, age 24 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Oct 25, 2009 · 17 years ago

Darren Green was 24 years old when Green was stabbed in the 1500 block of Montpelier Street in Baltimore on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. The Baltimore Police Department investigated the killing, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists it as a homicide…

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Jeremiah Raymond Gray

Male, age 22 · Glassmanor, Maryland

Killed Oct 25, 2007 · 19 years ago

In the early morning hours of October 25, 2007, a young man's life was tragically cut short in Glassmanor, Maryland. Jeremiah Raymond Gray, a 22-year-old male, was found shot and killed near the intersection of Maury Avenue and Audrey Lane. While the…

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Cipriano Briones

Male, age 34 · Edinburg, Texas

Killed Oct 25, 2004 · 22 years ago

Cipriano Briones, a 34-year-old male of Hispanic ethnicity, tragically died on October 25, 2004, in Edinburg, Texas. The circumstances surrounding his death were part of a larger incident known as the Edinburg massacre, which occurred on January 5, 2003.…

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Victor Lopez Vellanoweth

Male, age 18 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Oct 25, 2003 · 23 years ago

Victor Lopez Vellanoweth was 18 years old when he died on Saturday, October 25, 2003. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is listed as a case of the Downey Police…

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Jaime Omar Rivera

Male, age 27 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Oct 25, 2002 · 24 years ago

Jaime Omar Rivera was 27 years old when he died on Friday, October 25, 2002, in Hollywood. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died after sustaining blunt force trauma at 937 N. Sycamore St. His death was ruled a homicide, and it…

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Sarecho Nalo

Male, age 57 · New-york, New York

Killed Oct 25, 1988 · 38 years ago

Sarecho “Sammy the Arab” Nalo was a 57-year-old man of Iraqi descent, a Detroit-born figure who had drifted through the underworld long enough to become both useful and dangerous to the people who profited from him. By the late 1980s he was tied, in various…

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Yafah Hacohen

Female, age 21 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Oct 25, 1973 · 53 years ago

In the autumn of 1973, in the desert outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, 21-year-old woman Yafah Hacohen—known in contemporary records as Katherine Mestites—was living in a small trailer near Mesa with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Robert Robbins. Friends remembered…

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Luther Jackson

Male, age 27 · Philadelphia, Mississippi

Killed Oct 25, 1959 · 67 years ago

On an autumn evening in 1959, in the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, a 27-year-old Black man named Luther Jackson, a veteran of the Korean War, was fatally shot. On the night of October 25th, Jackson was in a parked car with a woman named Hattie Thompson…

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James S. Payne

Male, age 46 · Newport, Arkansas

Killed Oct 25, 1914 · 112 years ago

In the early morning hours of October 25, 1914, in Newport, Arkansas, Night Officer James S. Payne, a 46-year-old man, was on duty. Having received a tip about a potential burglary at the Hafner Grocery Company on Lower Front Street, he went to investigate…

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Samuel Cooper

Male, age 41 · South-bend, Indiana

Killed Oct 25, 1900 · 126 years ago

In the early hours of a Thursday morning in South Bend, Indiana, Patrolman Samuel Cooper was making his rounds when he spotted a man exiting a closed saloon at 329 South Michigan Street. It was 2:00 a.m. on October 25, 1900, and the officer, a three-year…

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