Death by Force

Rudolph Baker

Male · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Sep 1, 1990 · 36 years ago

On September 1, 1990, 34-year-old Rudolph Baker was found dead in Columbus, Ohio, near 1469 E. Main Street. He had sustained multiple stab wounds, and despite an ongoing investigation by the Columbus Police Department, the case remains unsolved. This brutal…

View case

Death by Force

Leah Salina Sousa

Female, age 13 · Cumberland Beach, Ontario

Killed Sep 1, 1990 · 36 years ago

Leah Salina Sousa, a 13-year-old White female, was killed during a violent home invasion in Cumberland Beach, Ontario, in the early morning hours of September 1, 1990. The Labour Day weekend was supposed to mark the end of summer before she began high school.…

View case

Death by Force

Joan Heaton

Female, age 39 · Warwick, Rhode Island

Killed Sep 1, 1989 · 37 years ago

On a quiet street in Warwick, Rhode Island, the sense of security for a neighborhood was shattered in early September of 1989. Concern grew for 39-year-old Caucasian female Joan Heaton when her mother, Marie Bouchard, and sister, Mary Lou, could not reach her…

View case

Death by Force

Jennifer Heaton

Female, age 10 · Warwick, Rhode Island

Killed Sep 1, 1989 · 37 years ago

In the quiet community of Warwick, Rhode Island, the end of summer in 1989 was shattered by a horrific act of violence that claimed the lives of 10-year-old Jennifer Heaton, a White female, her mother Joan, and her younger sister Melissa. On September 4th…

View case

Death by Force

Melissa Heaton

Female, age 8 · Warwick, Rhode Island

Killed Sep 1, 1989 · 37 years ago

In the late summer of 1989, the quiet community of Warwick, Rhode Island, was shattered by a crime of unimaginable brutality. Eight-year-old Melissa Heaton, a White female, became the youngest victim in a horrific triple homicide that also claimed the lives…

View case

Death by Force

Mark Murphy

Male, age 35 · Palmer-park, Maryland

Killed Sep 1, 1988 · 38 years ago

In the late summer of 1988, a dedicated police sergeant named Mark Kevin Murphy was preparing for what would be his final call of duty. At 35 years old, the male officer had served with the Prince George's County Police Department for approximately a decade…

View case

Death by Force

Maximino Pena-Segura

Male, age 29 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Sep 1, 1987 · 39 years ago

On a quiet morning in Portland, Oregon, the first day of September in 1987, a caretaker at the Beth Israel Temple on NW Flanders Street made a grim discovery. Lying in the courtyard was the body of 29-year-old Maximino Pena-Segura, a Hispanic man. The…

View case

Death by Force

Colin Fowles

Male · Miami, Florida

Killed Sep 1, 1985 · 41 years ago

Colin Fowles, a 32-year-old Jamaican-born professional soccer player, tragically lost his life on September 1, 1985, in Miami, Florida. Fowles, who had a notable career in the North American Soccer League (NASL) and United Soccer League (USL), was playing in…

View case

Death by Force

Kathy Kelly

Female, age 22 · Wichita, Kansas

Killed Sep 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

On a hot Saturday, the first of September in 1984, the body of a young Caucasian female named Kathy Kelly was discovered in a cornfield just northwest of Wichita, Kansas. Kelly, who was either 21 or 22 years old, had been shot five or six times in her head…

View case

Death by Force

Damani Garner

Male, age 12 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Sep 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

On the morning of August 31, 1984, a tragic event unfolded in the Alexander home in Los Angeles, California. Damani Garner, aged 13, was among the victims of a brutal shooting that claimed the lives of his grandmother, Ebora Alexander, aged 58, his aunt…

View case

Death by Force

Henry Howell

Male, age 41 · Hope-valley, California

Killed Sep 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

Henry Howell, a 41-year-old resident of Santa Clara, California, was tragically killed on September 1, 1984, near Hope Valley, California. Howell was found shot to death near his car on Highway 88. His death was part of a series of murders attributed to a…

View case

Death by Force

Gary Carter

Male, age 37 · Tulsa, Oklahoma

Killed Sep 1, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the late summer of 1982, a sense of unease settled over a Tulsa neighborhood when 37-year-old Gary Lee Carter was found dead in his home. On September 1st of that year, a phone call originating from outside of Oklahoma prompted police to conduct a welfare…

View case

Death by Force

Cynthia Marie Clements

Female, age 19 · Pinellas County, Florida

Killed Sep 1, 1980 · 46 years ago

A female victim, 19-year-old Cynthia Marie Clements, a white woman, disappeared from Pinellas County, Florida, on **September 1, 1980**. She worked as a night clerk at the Li'l General convenience store in Kenneth City. At about 5:30 a.m. that Labor Day, a…

View case

Death by Force

Linda Hutchings

Female, age 17 · Arvada, Colorado

Killed Sep 1, 1979 · 47 years ago

In the late summer of 1979, the life of a vibrant and artistic 17-year-old White female from Arvada, Colorado, was tragically cut short. Linda Hutchings, a young woman known for her effervescent personality and love for simple pleasures like stargazing and…

View case

Death by Force

Juan Ortiz

Male, age 39 · Rociada, New Mexico

Killed Sep 1, 1978 · 48 years ago

Juan Leo Ortiz, a 33-year-old Hispanic male, was a Deputy Sheriff with the San Miguel County Sheriff's Department in New Mexico. His life was cut short in an act of retaliation on Sunday, September 17, 1978, just three weeks after a fateful encounter in the…

View case

Death by Force

J. B. Hamby

Male, age 46 · Catoosa, Oklahoma

Killed Sep 1, 1978 · 48 years ago

On September 1, 1978, the town of Catoosa, Oklahoma, lost its sole police officer, Chief J. B. Hamby, a 46-year-old male, in a violent shootout. A veteran of 20 years in law enforcement, Hamby was responding to a robbery in progress at a local driver's…

View case

Death by Force

Jesse Tanner

Male, age 19 · Centerville, Georgia

Killed Sep 1, 1978 · 48 years ago

In the late summer of 1978, a dedicated 19-year-old male, Jesse Eugene Tanner, Jr., had been serving his community as a Deputy Sheriff with the Houston County Sheriff's Office for a year. His aspirations in law enforcement were well known among his friends…

View case

Death by Force

Christine Michelle Jones

Female, age 18 · Boulder, Colorado

Killed Sep 1, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the late summer of 1977, a young woman named Christine Michelle Jones, an 18-year-old white female, tragically lost her life in Boulder County, Colorado. On the afternoon of September 1st, concern grew for Christine when she did not come back from washing…

View case

Death by Force

Anita Lias

Female · Columbus, Ohio

Killed Sep 1, 1975 · 51 years ago

On September 1, 1975, Anita Lias, a 16-year-old girl from Columbus, Ohio, was found dead in front of a garage at 862 S. Champion Avenue. She had been brutally attacked, sustaining multiple puncture wounds to her upper torso and chest. Her hands were tied…

View case

Death by Force

Belinda June Cowden

Female, age 22 · Copper, Oregon

Killed Sep 1, 1974 · 52 years ago

On a last-minute camping trip over Labor Day weekend in 1974, the Cowden family vanished from the Siskiyou Mountains near Copper, Oregon. White Caucasian Belinda June Cowden, age 22, her husband Richard, 28, and their two young children, David, 5, and…

View case

Death by Force

David Phillips

Male, age 5 · Copper, Oregon

Killed Sep 1, 1974 · 52 years ago

In the late summer of 1974, a young White boy named David James Phillips, aged five, embarked on what was meant to be a pleasant Labor Day weekend camping trip. He was with his mother, Belinda Cowden, his stepfather, Richard Cowden, and his five-month-old…

View case

Death by Force

Linda Marie Pagano

Female, age 17 · Strongsville, Ohio

Killed Sep 1, 1974 · 52 years ago

Linda Marie Pagano, a 17-year-old white female from Akron, Ohio, disappeared on September 1, 1974, following an argument with her stepfather, Byron Claflin. Linda was last seen returning to Claflin's apartment after attending a rock concert with her…

View case

Death by Force

Amy E Alden

Female, age 15 · Skokie, Illinois

Killed Sep 1, 1972 · 54 years ago

Amy E. Alden, a 15-year-old Caucasian girl from the north suburbs of Chicago, died in September 1972, after having been missing for weeks; memorial and genealogy records list her birth as November 13, 1956, with death occurring that month in Skokie, Illinois.…

View case

Death by Force

James Boatwright

Male, age 25 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 1, 1972 · 54 years ago

In the early morning hours of September 1, 1972, a violent encounter in a Philadelphia after-hours club brought a tragic end to the life of James Boatwright, a 25-year-old African American man. Boatwright had entered the establishment with his friend, Samuel…

View case

Death by Force

Thomas Pfeiffer

Male · Dayton, Ohio

Killed Sep 1, 1970 · 56 years ago

Thomas Pfeiffer, aged 34, was the victim of a homicide on September 1, 1970, in Dayton, Ohio. The incident is classified as an unsolved case, and it remains part of the cold case records held by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Dayton Police…

View case

Death by Force

Gail Snelling

Female, age 27 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Sep 1, 1969 · 57 years ago

In the late summer of 1969, a tragedy unfolded in Portland, Oregon, that would claim the life of Gail Snelling, a 27-year-old woman, and her mother. On the night of September 1st, or in the early hours of September 2nd, a man named Douglas Wright entered…

View case

Death by Force

Margaret Rosenberry

Female, age 71 · Portland, Oregon

Killed Sep 1, 1969 · 57 years ago

In the late summer of 1969, a shocking act of violence shattered the peace of a Portland, Oregon, home. On a date reported as either late September 1st or early September 2nd, 71-year-old Margaret Rosenberry was brutally murdered in her residence. She was not…

View case

Death by Force

Loyd Dewey Choat

Male, age 58 · Fort-worth, Texas

Killed Sep 1, 1969 · 57 years ago

Loyd Dewey Choat, a 58-year-old male of Caucasian ethnicity, was tragically murdered on September 1, 1969, in Fort Worth, Texas. Choat was working as a gas station attendant when he was abducted and shot by Charles Wooten and an unnamed 16-year-old…

View case

Death by Force

Lafayette Lafe Shadley

Male, age 49 · Ingalls, Oklahoma

Killed Sep 1, 1893 · 133 years ago

Lafayette 'Lafe' Augustus Shadley, a 49-year-old male Deputy United States Marshal, died on September 3, 1893, two days after being shot in a fierce gun battle in Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory. Shadley, a former Sheriff of Montgomery County, Kansas, was part of…

View case

Death by Force

Richard Dick Speed

Male, age 26 · Ingalls, Oklahoma

Killed Sep 1, 1893 · 133 years ago

In the small, dusty town of Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, a chapter of Old West history was violently written on September 1, 1893, ending in the death of 26-year-old Special Deputy U.S. Marshal Richard 'Dick' Speed. On that fateful day, Speed was part of a…

View case

Death by Force

Heath Ward Taylor

Male, age 47 · Nampa, Idaho

Killed Sep 1, 2026 · this year

In a quiet Nampa, Idaho home, a welfare check on the evening of September 1, 2026, led to a tragic discovery that left a family and community in mourning. Responding to a call at a residence on Deer Flat Road, deputies from the Canyon County Sheriff's Office…

View case

Death by Force

Daquon Rice

Male, age 26 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Sep 1, 2023 · 3 years ago

Daquon Rice, a 26-year-old man, was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 2023. The incident occurred in the Armour Square neighborhood, approximately a block and a half south of Guaranteed Rate Field. Rice was outside in the 3800 block of South…

View case

Death by Force

Kevin Celestine

Male, age 59 · Compton, California

Killed Sep 1, 2023 · 3 years ago

On the evening of September 1, 2023, at approximately 10:19 p.m., deputies from the Compton Sheriff's Station responded to reports of a shooting on the 1200 block of South Whitemarsh Street, west of Wilmington Avenue, in Compton, California. Upon arrival…

View case

Death by Force

Fredrick Williams

Male, age 43 · San-bernardino, California

Killed Sep 1, 2022 · 4 years ago

Fredrick Williams, aged 43, tragically lost his life on September 1, 2022, in San Bernardino, California. He was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest in an alley near the 1200 block of North Wall Avenue. Despite efforts to save him, Williams…

View case

Death by Force

Andra Williams

Male, age 52 · Chicago, Illinois

Killed Sep 1, 2018 · 8 years ago

Andra Karl Williams, 52, was found stabbed to death on Saturday, September 1, 2018, the start of the Labor Day weekend, his body dumped in a shopping cart in an alley in the 700 block of South Campbell Avenue on Chicago's Near West Side. The Chicago Sun-Times…

View case

Death by Force

Andrew Jackson

Male, age 23 · York, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 1, 2015 · 11 years ago

In the late summer of 2015, the city of York, Pennsylvania, was struck by a wave of violence that culminated in the tragic death of 23-year-old Andrew Jackson. On the evening of September 1st, police were dispatched to the 300 block of East Cottage Place…

View case

Death by Force

Edward Taylor

Male, age 54 · Chester, Pennsylvania

Killed Sep 1, 2015 · 11 years ago

Edward Taylor, a 54-year-old man from Chester, PA, was tragically shot and killed on September 1, 2015. He was shot as he was getting into his vehicle in the early morning hours, and later died at Crozer-Chester Medical Center. The incident occurred in the…

View case

Death by Force

Gregory Thomas Jones

Male, age 58 · Greenville, South Carolina

Killed Sep 1, 2014 · 12 years ago

In the quiet city of Greenville, South Carolina, the life of 58-year-old Gregory Thomas Jones, a successful architect, came to a tragic and violent end on the night of September 1, 2014. The male victim was at his home when he was fatally shot by his stepson…

View case

Death by Force

Richard Muir

Male, age 29 · Baltimore, Maryland

Killed Sep 1, 2014 · 12 years ago

On a late summer night, the life of Richard Muir, a 29-year-old Black male, was tragically cut short in a burst of violence. In the early hours of August 31, 2014, or possibly in the evening of September 1, 2014, Muir was fatally shot in the 1800 block of…

View case

Death by Force

Mario King

Male, age 26 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Sep 1, 2014 · 12 years ago

Mario Deandra King, a 26-year-old man, was tragically shot and killed on September 1, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. The incident occurred around 2:10 p.m. at the Green Forest Car Wash located in the 900 block of West Florence Avenue in the Vermont-Slauson…

View case

Death by Force

Brasilio Cun Cutzal

Male, age 26 · Compton, California

Killed Sep 1, 2013 · 13 years ago

Brasilio Cun Cutzal was 26 years old when he died on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, in Compton. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, he died of stab wounds in the 4600 block of East Alondra Boulevard. His death was ruled a homicide, and it is…

View case

Death by Force

Cecil Taylor

Male · Chesapeake, Virginia

Killed Sep 1, 2008 · 18 years ago

In the late summer of 2008, a violent act shattered the quiet of a Chesapeake, Virginia apartment complex, leaving a man dead and a case that would grow cold over the years. On September 1st, Cecil Taylor was shot and killed in his residence at 3153 Fairview…

View case

Death by Force

Jimmie Sargeant

Male, age 52 · St. Louis, Missouri

Killed Sep 1, 2008 · 18 years ago

Jimmie Sargeant was 52 years old when he was killed in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday, September 1, 2008. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department investigated his death, and the Washington Post's homicide database, which tracked killings in St. Louis…

View case

Death by Force

Lisa Vanessa Wilkens

Female, age 36 · Inglewood, California

Killed Sep 1, 2002 · 24 years ago

Lisa Vanessa Wilkens was 36 years old when she died on Sunday, September 1, 2002, in the city of Inglewood. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, she died of stab wounds at 721 S. Larch Street. Her death was ruled a homicide, and it is…

View case

Death by Force

Helen Dean

Female, age 91 · Phillipsburg, New Jersey

Killed Sep 1, 1993 · 33 years ago

Helen Dean was a 91-year-old Caucasian woman from the Phillipsburg–Lopatcong Township area of New Jersey who entered Warren Hospital in 1993 for cancer surgery and never came home. She had lived long enough to see her family grown and settled, and in the late…

View case

Death by Force

Chari McCline

Female, age 14 · Oakland, California

Killed Sep 1, 1987 · 39 years ago

Chari McCline, a 14-year-old girl from Oakland, California, tragically lost her life on September 1, 1987. The incident occurred when Chari returned home unexpectedly and interrupted a burglary in progress at her stepfather's apartment. The perpetrator, her…

View case

Death by Force

Herbert Collins

Male, age 54 · Chesapeake, Virginia

Killed Sep 1, 1977 · 49 years ago

In the late summer of 1977, the life of Herbert Collins, a 54-year-old male, was brought to an abrupt and violent end in Chesapeake, Virginia. On the first day of September, Collins was discovered deceased inside his residence at 4109 Sunkist Road. An…

View case

Death by Force

John Wesley OBryen

Male, age 43 · Steele, Alabama

Killed Sep 1, 1929 · 97 years ago

On a quiet Sunday morning in Steele, Alabama, the life of Deputy Sheriff John Wesley O'Bryen, a 43-year-old male, was brought to a tragic and abrupt end. On September 1, 1929, as he was leaving a church service, he was ambushed and fatally shot. The brazen…

View case

Deaths by Force on September 1

Deaths by Force (533)