Serial Killer Victims on September 20

Serial Killer Victims (13)

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Clayborn Kendrick

Victim of Donald Harvey

age 69 · Cincinnati, Ohio

Killed Sep 20, 1986 · 40 years ago

Claborn Laughlin Kendrick, identified in crime reporting as Clayborn Kendrick, was a 69-year-old Black man from Cincinnati, Ohio, whose death on September 20, 1986, became part of one of the most notorious hospital serial-murder cases in American history.…

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Marshall Singer

Victim of Michael Player

age 66 · Los-angeles, California

Killed Sep 20, 1986 · 40 years ago

Marshall Singer, aged 66, was tragically murdered on September 20, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. His death was part of a series of killings attributed to Michael Player, infamously known as "The Skid Row Slayer." Player targeted primarily homeless…

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Cecil Branch

Victim of Robert Earnest Rozier

age 45 · Opa-locka, Florida

Killed Sep 20, 1986 · 40 years ago

On September 20, 1986, the **45-year-old male victim Cecil Branch** was discovered face-down on the floor of his Miami-Dade-County home. He had been bound and gagged with strips torn from bed-sheets, stabbed at least 25 times, and one ear had been severed.…

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Steven Cruze

Victim of Ramon Alberto Escobar

age 39 · Santa Monica, California

Killed Sep 20, 2018 · 8 years ago

Steven Cruze Jr., a 39-year-old Caucasian male, tragically lost his life on September 20, 2018, in a brutal attack beneath the Santa Monica Pier. Cruze, an avid fisherman and father of two, was found bludgeoned to death with a blunt object. He had been…

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Jennifer Hyman

Victim of John Robert Williams

age 24 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Killed Sep 20, 2003 · 23 years ago

In the late summer of 2003, the life of a young woman from Oklahoma City came to a tragic and violent end, leaving a mystery that continues to linger. Jennifer Hyman, a 24-year-old White female, was a student at the University of Central Oklahoma, studying…

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John Henry Sepeda

Victim of Elroy Chester

age 78 · Port Arthur, Texas

Killed Sep 20, 1997 · 29 years ago

On the night of September 20, 1997, 78-year-old John Henry Sepeda was at his home in Port Arthur, Texas, asleep in a room with his wife and grandson. The quiet of the night was shattered when an intruder, Elroy Chester, broke into their residence. Chester…

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Kimberly Creer

Victim of Ray Shawn Jackson

age 22 · Kansas City, Missouri

Killed Sep 20, 1989 · 37 years ago

Kimberly Creer, 22, was a Black woman from Kansas City, Missouri, and on September 20, 1989, she was found dead in Gillham Park—one more life abruptly silenced as the city’s late-summer air turned heavy with fear. In the weeks around her death, the pattern…

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Michele Gordon

Victim of Steven Brian Pennell

age 22 · Newark, Delaware

Killed Sep 20, 1988 · 38 years ago

White/Caucasian female, age 22. On September 20, 1988, the body of Michele Gordon, age 22, was found on the rocky banks of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal after she had last been seen days earlier entering a blue Ford panel van along U.S. Route 40 near the…

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Ellen Blau

Victim of Faryion Wardrip

age 21 · Wichita Falls, Texas

Killed Sep 20, 1985 · 41 years ago

Ellen Blau, a 21-year-old white female, was a part-time student at Midwestern State University and worked as a waitress in Wichita Falls, Texas. On September 19, 1985, she disappeared after leaving work. Her green Volkswagen was later found abandoned in a…

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Debra Estes

Victim of Gary Leon Ridgway

age 15 · Seattle, Washington

Killed Sep 20, 1982 · 44 years ago

In the late summer of 1982, Debra Estes, a White 15-year-old female, disappeared from the Seattle, Washington area. She was a teenage runaway caught in a dangerous world of drugs and prostitution, trying to navigate a life that was far beyond her years. Her…

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Cora Perry

Victim of John Floyd Thomas

age 79 · Los Angeles, California

Killed Sep 20, 1975 · 51 years ago

On September 20, 1975, Cora Perry, a 79-year-old female resident of the Lennox area in Los Angeles County, California, was found murdered in her home. Cora Perry was identified as an elderly white woman, and her death was part of a disturbing pattern of…

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Katherine Schultz

Victim of Harvey Louis Carignan

age 18 · Everett, Washington

Killed Sep 20, 1974 · 52 years ago

Katherine Schultz, 18, a white female, vanished on September 20, 1974, in Minnesota and was found the next day in a cornfield, beaten to death with a hammer. Accounts describe catastrophic head injuries—her skull imploded from the blows. Born and raised in…

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Joanne Mary Zulauf

Victim of Gary Gene Grant

age 17 · Renton, Washington

Killed Sep 20, 1970 · 56 years ago

In the late summer of 1970, the community of Renton, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, was gripped by a growing sense of unease. This feeling would intensify in September with the death of 17-year-old Joanne Mary Zulauf, a White female whose disappearance and…

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