Serial Killer Victims on October 25

Serial Killer Victims (15)

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Raquel Estrada

Victim of Itzcoatl Misael Ocampo

age 53 · Yorba Linda, California

Killed Oct 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

Raquel Estrada, a 53-year-old Hispanic woman, was tragically killed on October 25, 2011, in her home in Yorba Linda, California. She was found stabbed more than 30 times in the kitchen of her residence, while her son, Juan Herrera, 34, was discovered in the…

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Kenneth Parker

Victim of John Wayne Gacy

age 16 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 25, 1976 · 50 years ago

Kenneth Ray Parker, a 16-year-old white male from Chicago, Illinois, was last seen on October 24, 1976, alongside his close friend, 14-year-old Michael Marino. The two teenagers were spotted near a restaurant at the intersection of Clark Street and Diversey…

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Michael Marino

Victim of John Wayne Gacy

age 14 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 25, 1976 · 50 years ago

Michael Marino, a 14-year-old boy, disappeared on October 25, 1976, in Chicago, Illinois. He was initially identified as one of the 33 victims of John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer known for targeting young males. Gacy, often referred to as the…

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Juan Herrera

Victim of Itzcoatl Misael Ocampo

age 34 · Yorba Linda, California

Killed Oct 25, 2011 · 15 years ago

On the night of October 25, 2011, 34-year-old Hispanic male Juan Herrera was found brutally murdered in his family's home in Yorba Linda, California. He had been stabbed more than 60 times and left in a hallway. His 53-year-old mother, Raquel Estrada, was…

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Robin M. Atkins

Victim of Alfred J. Gaynor

age 29 · Springfield, Massachusetts

Killed Oct 25, 1997 · 29 years ago

In the autumn of 1997, the life of a 29-year-old Caucasian woman named Robin M. Atkins came to a brutal and tragic end in Springfield, Massachusetts. Her death was not an isolated incident but part of a string of violent crimes that had been terrorizing the…

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Jimmy Dale Harvey

Victim of Faye Della Copeland

age 27 · Mooresville, Missouri

Killed Oct 25, 1988 · 38 years ago

Jimmy Dale Harvey was a 27-year-old White man, and on October 25, 1988, his life ended in rural Missouri, tied to a quiet farm outside Mooresville that, for a time, swallowed men without anyone noticing they were gone. The farm belonged to Ray and Faye…

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Jimmy Dale Harvey

Victim of Ray Copeland

age 27 · Mooresville, Missouri

Killed Oct 25, 1988 · 38 years ago

Jimmy Dale Harvey was a 27-year-old White man, and on October 25, 1988, his life ended in rural Missouri, tied to a quiet farm outside Mooresville that, for a time, swallowed men without anyone noticing they were gone. The farm belonged to Ray and Faye…

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Howard Pitezel

Victim of Henry Howard Holmes

age 8 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Oct 25, 1984 · 42 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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Martha Thurmond

Victim of Carlton Michael Gary

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 (Kowalski)

Victim of Joseph Robert Miller

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

Victim of Robert Reldan

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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Katherine Mestites

Victim of Douglas Edward Gretzler

age 21 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Oct 25, 1973 · 53 years ago

In the autumn of 1973, a 21-year-old woman named Katherine Mestites found her life tragically cut short in a house trailer near Mesa, Arizona. Her death was not an isolated act of violence but a chapter in a horrifying saga of crime that spanned two states…

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Bob Robbins

Victim of Willie Luther Steelman

age 19 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Oct 25, 1973 · 53 years ago

Robert Robbins was living in the Phoenix, Arizona area in the fall of 1973, sharing a trailer in the Apache Junction area outside the city with his girlfriend, Katherine Mestites, as the couple tried to build a life together on the outskirts of Phoenix.…

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Katherine M. Mestites

Victim of Willie Luther Steelman

age 21 · Phoenix, Arizona

Killed Oct 25, 1973 · 53 years ago

In the autumn of 1973, a 21-year-old woman named Katherine Mestites found her life tragically cut short in a house trailer near Mesa, Arizona. Her death was not an isolated act of violence but a chapter in a horrifying saga of crime that spanned two states…

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Yafah Hacohen

Victim of Willie Luther Steelman

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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