Serial Killer Victims on September 1

Serial Killer Victims (17)

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Mary Ellen DeLuca

Victim of Joel David Rifkin

age 22 · Long Island, New York

Killed Sep 1, 1991 · 35 years ago

A sense of profound loss and bewilderment gripped a quiet Long Island neighborhood following the tragic death of a family in a shocking murder-suicide. The devastating event unfolded in Syosset, New York, where a dispute over the family home culminated in a…

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Helen Dean

Victim of Charles Edmund Cullen

age 91 · Phillipsburg, New Jersey

Killed Sep 1, 1991 · 35 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…

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Sylvestre

Victim of Michel Peiry

Killed Sep 1, 1981 · 45 years ago

Michel Peiry: The “Sadist of Romont” Background Michel Peiry is a Swiss serial killer whose crimes occurred between 1981 and 1987 in Switzerland and several other countries. Born on February 28, 1959, he became known in the European press as the “Sadist of…

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Tamara Walls

Victim of Larry Bright

age 29 · Peoria, Illinois

Killed Sep 1, 2004 · 22 years ago

Tamara Walls, a 29-year-old African American woman, tragically lost her life on September 1, 2004. Her death was a result of a brutal murder that shocked the community. Tamara was found dead in her apartment, and the cause of death was determined to be…

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Terry Kimball

Victim of Scott Lee Kimball

age 60 · Broomfield, Colorado

Killed Sep 1, 2004 · 22 years ago

In the summer of 2004, Terry Lynn Kimball, a 60-year-old Caucasian male, made the move to Colorado to live with his nephew, Scott Lee Kimball. Not long after his arrival, Terry, who was originally from the Broomfield area, seemed to vanish without a trace.…

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Mitchell Johnson

Victim of Ronald Joseph Dominique

age 34 · Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Killed Sep 1, 1999 · 27 years ago

Mitchell Johnson, 34, a Black man, was found dead in Metairie in Jefferson Parish in the final days of summer 1999, his life ending in violence that investigators would later come to recognize as part of a terrifying pattern. Accounts of the case place his…

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Peggy Lynn Grimes

Victim of Gerald Patrick Lewis

age 22 · Douglas County, Georgia

Killed Sep 1, 1993 · 33 years ago

In the summer of 1993, a sense of unease settled over a family when 22-year-old Peggy Lynn Grimes, a woman on the cusp of motherhood, vanished. Eight months pregnant, her sudden silence was alarming, prompting her mother to report her missing in Fulton…

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Joan Heaton

Victim of Craig Chandler Price

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…

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Jennifer Heaton

Victim of Craig Chandler Price

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…

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Melissa Heaton

Victim of Craig Chandler Price

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…

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Henry Howell

Victim of Loren Joseph Herzog

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…

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Paula Godfrey

Victim of John Edward Robinson

age 19 · Overland Park, Kansas

Killed Sep 1, 1984 · 42 years ago

In the late summer of 1984, a promising young White/Caucasian woman named Paula Godfrey, 19, vanished from Overland Park, Kansas, leaving behind a mystery that would remain unsolved for years. An accomplished amateur figure skater and a recent high school…

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Henry Howell

Victim of Wesley Howard Shermantine

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…

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Martha Marie Morrison

Victim of Warren Leslie Forrest

age 17 · Eugene, Oregon

Killed Sep 1, 1974 · 52 years ago

In the late summer of 1974, seventeen-year-old Martha Marie Morrison, a White female, disappeared from Portland, Oregon. She had a history of running away and had been in foster care near Eugene, Oregon. Morrison had recently been in Arizona for the Job Corps…

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Margaret Rosenberry

Victim of Douglas Franklin Wright

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…

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Gail Snelling

Victim of Douglas Franklin Wright

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…

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Edwin W. Morey

Victim of John Frank Hickey

age 34 · Massachusetts||New York

Killed Sep 1, 1883 · 143 years ago

John Frank Hickey: The Postcard Killer Overview John Frank Hickey was an American murderer, child molester, and confessed serial killer whose known crimes stretched across nearly three decades. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on October 29, 1865, Hickey…

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