Serial Killer Victims on October 9

Serial Killer Victims (17)

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David Allen

Victim of Patrick Wayne Kearney

age 27 · Fallbrook, California

Killed Oct 9, 1976 · 50 years ago

David Allen, a 27-year-old resident of Fallbrook, California, tragically lost his life on October 9, 1976. His death was a result of a heinous crime committed by Patrick Kearney, a notorious serial killer also known as the "Trash Bag Killer." Kearney was…

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Benjamin Edward Mitchell

Victim of Howell Emanuel Donaldson

age 22 · Tampa, Florida

Killed Oct 9, 2017 · 9 years ago

Benjamin Edward Mitchell, a 22-year-old African American male, was tragically shot and killed on October 9, 2017, in Tampa, Florida. Benjamin was waiting at a bus stop on North 15th Street when he was gunned down. His death was part of a series of seemingly…

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Dean Harold Meyers

Victim of Lee Boyd Malvo

age 53 · Manassas, Virginia

Killed Oct 9, 2002 · 24 years ago

Dean Harold Meyers, a 53-year-old civil engineer, had just finished a long day at work on the evening of October 9, 2002. He stopped at a Sunoco gas station on Sudley Road in Manassas, Virginia, to fuel his car for the commute home. As he stood by his gray…

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Dean Harold Meyers

Victim of John Allen Muhammad

age 53 · Manassas, Virginia

Killed Oct 9, 2002 · 24 years ago

Dean Harold Meyers, a 53-year-old civil engineer, had just finished a long day at work on the evening of October 9, 2002. He stopped at a Sunoco gas station on Sudley Road in Manassas, Virginia, to fuel his car for the commute home. As he stood by his gray…

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Martha Bryant

Victim of Cesar Francesco Barone

age 41 · Hillsboro, Oregon

Killed Oct 9, 1992 · 34 years ago

On October 9, 1992, Martha Bryant, a 41-year-old nurse-midwife, was brutally murdered in Hillsboro, Oregon. The incident began shortly after 3:00 a.m. when the Washington County 9-1-1 Center received a call about shots being fired on Cornell Road, on the…

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Stephanie Gach

Victim of Jack Trawick

age 21 · Birmingham, Alabama

Killed Oct 9, 1992 · 34 years ago

In the fall of 1992, a 21-year-old female college student named Stephanie Gach was going about her evening, unaware that she was being watched. On October 9th, after a trip to the Eastwood Mall in Birmingham, Alabama, she drove back to her apartment. As she…

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Michael Allen Cates

Victim of Juan Chavez

age 46 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Oct 9, 1989 · 37 years ago

Michael Allen Cates, a 46-year-old man, tragically lost his life on October 9, 1989, in Los Angeles, California. His death was part of a series of murders committed by Juan Chavez, a serial killer who targeted gay men during the late 1980s. Chavez, also known…

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Frederick LaGois

Victim of Richard Angelo

age 65 · West Islip, New York

Killed Oct 9, 1987 · 39 years ago

Frederick LaGois, a 60-year-old man, came into Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, New York, expecting treatment and time to heal, not a final reckoning. On October 9, 1987, while hospitalized and awaiting surgery for a prostate condition, he died inside…

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Shawnda Summers

Victim of Gary Leon Ridgway

age 16 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Oct 9, 1982 · 44 years ago

Shawnda Leea Summers, a 17-year-old Black female, was last seen in Seattle, Washington, near Yesler Way on October 9, 1982. For nearly a year, her whereabouts remained unknown, a period of agonizing uncertainty for her loved ones. The grim discovery of her…

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Luis Rodriguez

Victim of Joseph Gerard Christopher

Tonawanda, New York

Killed Oct 9, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the autumn of 1980, a chilling discovery was made on the banks of the Niagara River in Tonawanda, New York, that would leave a lasting scar on the community. On October 9th, the body of 40-year-old Ernest Jones, a male taxi driver, was found. The scene was…

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Cherie Lynn Ayers

Victim of Randall Brent Woodfield

age 29 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Oct 9, 1980 · 46 years ago

In the autumn of 1980, the life of a 29-year-old White / Caucasian woman named Cherie Lynn Ayers was tragically cut short in her Portland, Oregon apartment. An X-ray technician and a graduate of the University of Oregon, Cherie was found by her fiancé on…

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Vivian Geanett Thompson

Victim of Robert Charles Ladd

age 18 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Oct 9, 1978 · 48 years ago

Vivian Geanett Thompson, an 18-year-old woman, was tragically murdered in her Dallas, Texas home on October 25, 1978. She was brutally stabbed multiple times in the back, neck, chest, and abdomen before her body was placed in a closet and set on fire. The…

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Maurice Thompson

Victim of Robert Charles Ladd

age 3 · Dallas, Texas

Killed Oct 9, 1978 · 48 years ago

Maurice Thompson, a 3-year-old child, tragically lost his life on October 9, 1978, in Dallas, Texas. His death was part of a horrific crime in which his mother, Vivian, and his infant sister, Latoya, were also killed. Vivian, who was only 18 years old at the…

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Jay Fry

Victim of Russell Smrekar

age 24 · Lincoln, Illinois

Killed Oct 9, 1977 · 49 years ago

On October 9, 1976, not 1977, 24-year-old white male Jay Fry and his 24-year-old pregnant wife, Robin Fry, were brutally murdered in their home in Lincoln, Illinois. Jay Fry worked as a produce manager at a local Kroger grocery store. The couple, both…

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Robin Fry

Victim of Russell Smrekar

age 24 · Lincoln, Illinois

Killed Oct 9, 1977 · 49 years ago

On October 9, 1976, not 1977, 24-year-old white female Robin Fry and her husband Jay Fry, also 24, were murdered in Lincoln, Illinois. The couple, who were expecting their first child, were shot and killed in what authorities later connected to a series of…

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Johnnie Mae Williams

Victim of Sean Vincent Gillis

age 45 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Killed Oct 9, 2003 · 23 years ago

On a grim day in October 2003, the body of Johnnie Mae Williams, a 45-year-old African American woman, was discovered in a wooded area in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A divorced mother of three, Williams had struggled with drug addiction and was involved in…

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Baby Boy Johnson

Victim of Milos Klvana

California

Killed Oct 9, 1984 · 42 years ago

Milos Klvana: The Physician Convicted of Murdering Infants Background and Medical Career Milos Klvana was a Czechoslovak-born physician whose reckless obstetrical practices resulted in the deaths of infants and unborn children in Southern California. After…

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