Obsessed with True Crime discussion

...Because a day without a crime anniversary is like a day without a maniac chasing you with a knife!

New Year's Day is full of sorry episodes to remember:

This is the day Devin Howell killed Melanie Camilini. For reasons best known to himself, he slept with her ravaged remains for the next 2 weeks before moving on to some other pursuit. See His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer.

Juan Kimbrough convinced his brother to shoot him, believing that a D&D "dungeon master" is bulletproof. He wasn't. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
In another fairly odd crime, racist skinhead Erik Banks was shot and killed by Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) member John Bair. The killer got 5 years in prison and had to pay Banks's family $4,606 in restitution. The racist skinheads were not pleased, to put it mildly. See A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America.

Erik
Ruby Jean Doss was murdered. The case went cold, but not forever. See https://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...

Meredith Emerson fell prey to Gary Michael Hilton. See 9http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/10/m...

John Doe #2 was found in the notorious Hog Trails case. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cona...
Patricia Coleman was found dead on this day in 1984. Exactly one year later, sister victim Frankie Bell was murdered. See the "Southside Slayer" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
This is once again the anniversary of the day John WAYNE Wilson killed Roseann Quinn, in a disgraceful episode that was later fictionalized into Looking for Mr. Goodbar. See the true story in Closing Time: The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder.

the killer in custody

A family of 4 got an unlooked-for New Year's Day bonus when they escaped being killed by Francis Nemechek. See https://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/neme...
And both Kim Edmiston and Calvin Crippen escaped Joe Christopher with their lives. The police did not take their reports very seriously. See Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided.

I cannot believe this frikkin site. It wiped out my first and second posts for this year when I was almost through typing them, and now it just wiped out the third. Nevertheless, I persist.

1/2 is the anniversary of the day Larry Little successfully fought off Joe Christopher. See, again, Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided.
Stacey Gage died untimely. See https://www.wesh.com/article/daytona-...

Mir Hussain was stabbed to death at his job. The case has not been cleared in the 16 years since it happened. Edmonton police are waiting for your call. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.

We lost Rita Nelson to a necrophilac strangler. See Murder with a Difference.
Richard Stean was gunned down. When Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2 went to press, this case was unsolved, but look here: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/21/ar...
Shirley Stewart died violently. See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
Dorothy Eggers was found dead. Most of her was found, anyway. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.

Carl, Thelma, Ronald, Gary and Pamela Mosser and their dog all died, pretty much out of nowhere. See The Mosser Massacre: The Southwest's Greatest Manhunt.

1/3 is a very sad anniversary for me. We lost my very favorite Manson Family associate and Spahn's Movie Ranch employee, Juan Flynn. See Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders.

Donovan Swartz died, more or less on this day, at the hands of Norman Simons, an apparently kindly schoolteacher working through some issues. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story

Willy Maas died of poisoning at the hands of Sjef Rijke. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
John Leras, called "Skates" on Randy Kraft's scorecard, died a horrific death on this day in 1975. One year to the day later, someone found the battered body of Mark Hall. If there was any doubt about when he died, his notation on the same scorecard -- "New Year's Eve" -- made everything clear. See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Ilse Brandt, who was 8 months pregnant at the time, was taken out by her own son, Charlie. See Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask.
Paul Runge killed Stacy Frobel. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
Walter Byers and his wife and son were killed with a hatchet. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
We lost Lubie Geter to the Atlanta Child Murderer. See The List.

And Timothy McCoy died horribly at the hands of John WAYNE Gacy. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.

Finally, a really clear photo of him!

1/4 is the day Stanley Bernson killed Diane Remington. I have no doubt she deserved better. See https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no...
Ruth Anne O'Neil, whose Christmas presents had just been stolen from her family's home in a mysterious break-in, was herself waylaid and killed -- by the very same burglar. See https://ididitforjodie.com/2017/04/24...

An unnamed victim of Moses Sithole was found. I hope that by now they have put a name to the poor creature. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
This is the approximate day Norman Simons killed Jeremy Benjamin. See, again, Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
We also lost Mary Bjornson. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cana...
David Bullock killed Eric Fuller. See https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/27/ny...
We also lost Belinda Hutchens, in an unusually cruel way. See Hangman: Life and Crimes of Serial Killer & Police Officer Gerard Schaefer.

Belinda, R, with sister victim Candy Hallock
Ronald Cabo died a hideous death at the hands of "Mr. Gaybar." See https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/18/ar...

Lyndon Pace killed Johnnie Mae Martin. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.

1/5 is the day Mona Tinsley lost her life to Frederick Nodder. See The Child Killers.

Tammy Scretchings died a horrible death at the hands of the Southside Slayer. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
We also lost Sandra Postell. See https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/09/ar...
Eleven rest-home residents died in a fire deliberately set by Bruce Lee. No, the other Bruce Lee. See, again, Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Tammy Williams died too soon. See The Man in the Monster: An Intimate Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Ernst Speiker died a hideous death, and the indignities didn't stop there. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
Picknickers found the pitiful remains of Collette Goodenough and Barbara Wilcox. See Hangman: Life and Crimes of Serial Killer & Police Officer Gerard Schaefer.

I think the two photos at upper R are of the unlucky girls

We also lost Lee Gooch, for a while there anyway. He was originally thought to have been killed by the Atlanta Child Murderer, but the author of The List, Chet Dettlinger, later found him alive and well.

1/6 is the anniversary of the day we lost Rollande Asselin-Beaucage to Serge Archambault, a bad actor if there ever was one. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Melissa Munch fell prey to Thomas Svekla. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.

Joe Christopher, still enlisted in the Army at this point, got busted for slashing a fellow GI. The victim, needless to say, was black. See Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided.
We lost Sunny Thach to the Nut Cases gang. Two other intended victims got away alive, luckily. See https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rall...

Faye Yearby was found tied to a tree after her murder, in circumstances so similar to the death of Angel Lenair that Chet Dettlinger said in The List that they must have been committed by the same guy.
This is once again the anniversary of the horrid death of Evelyn Foster at Wolf's Nick. See The Burning of Evelyn Foster.

1/7 is the day we lost Harold and Shirley Dresbach to their son WAYNE. Harold had been ventilated with 6 bullets -- one or two of them apparently aimed to go right up Main Street after he fell facedown on the floor. Shirley was naked as a jaybird and her husband was unclothed from the waist down. Based on what I read in Life for Death, this was probably just a normal morning for them, roaming the house naked in front of their kids.

(these are almost all the photos I could find on this very old case -- they're in the 2nd row down)
We lost Elino Sprinkle, on approximately this day, to the Station Strangler. I have no doubt that as usual, he was anally raped and left facedown on the ground with his hands tied behind his back. It was a bit of a signature for this killer. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Elaine Scott was taken from us in a scenario so upsetting that it appeared in the pages of Torture Killers II.

Mauricio Silva killed the unlucky Troy Crovella. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Image linky: https://www.facebook.com/TodayInHorro...
Timothy Dean was waylaid and killed exactly one year ago today. Spellcheck keeps trying to change his name to "Timothy Dead," and the coincidence only underscores the wrongness if you ask me. See https://www.losangelesblade.com/2019/...

Ronald Gray killed the unsuspecting Kimberly Ruggles. See https://militaryjusticeforall.com/198...

The police caught Earl Daughtrey in the act of strangling Brenda Debruhal, saving her life and ending his murder series on the spot. It was a beautiful moment that all of us should remember. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.

This is also the day they executed Theo Durrant. He protested his innocence all the way to the gallows. See The Girl in the Belfry.

1/8 is the day we lost Halle Cox, Cecil Dotson, Marissa Williams, Hollis Seals, Shindri Roberson, and Cemario and Cecil Dotson II to Cecil's brother Jessie, after an argument. It was a wild overreaction and a good example of why some people should not be allowed to carry guns. See https://fruitloopspod.com/2018/12/06/...

(a survivor of the massacre, 3-mo-old Ceniyah Dotson, in ICU after the killings)
But wait! There was another atrocious mass murder on this day! Scott Bennett, Rodolfo Ayan, Nicomedes Hernandez and John Merino all lost their lives in one fell swoop. See Torture Killers II.
We lost Elaine Witte to her grandson, John Witte, and his trusty crossbow. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime, or try the whole book on the case by Clifford Linedecker, Blood Money.
We lost Monique Pitre, probably to good old Thomas Svekla. But to see a table graph of confounding factors that cast doubt on any conclusions drawn from this case, see Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.

Orville Majors killed Luella Hopkins. See Cold Blooded Care.
Claude Lastennet killed the unlucky Violette De Ferluc. See https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/last...
Maria Fasching died a terrifying death. See The Door-To-Door Killer.

Donald McNiven and P.W. Beardsley both died at the hands of a man we know only as "Mr. Gaybar." See https://ididitforjodie.com/2014/10/21...

Donald McNiven

P.W. Beardsley

1/9 is the day in 1900 that they executed Louise Massett. See Trial of Louise Masset.

(the contented smile is TOTALLY out of keeping)
This is the approximate day someone found Yussuf Hoffmann dead. It was the Station Strangler again. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Pauline Brazeau was found dead, halfway around the world from poor Yussuf. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2 under "Highway."

Roxene Roggash came to a terrible end. See LIST OF 10: The True Story of Serial Killer Joseph Naso.


This is also the day they hanged Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson for killing Edith's husband, Percy Thompson. See Trial of Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson.

L to R: Frederick, Edith, Percy

1/10 is the day Angelo Colalillo killed himself. Boo hoo! See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.

This is the approximate day the Station Strangler killed Mario Thomas. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
And it's the exact day Stewart Wilken killed Mercia Papenfus. See The Evil Within.
Paul Runge killed the unlucky Dorota Dzubiak. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.

(Dorota is the really hard-to-make-out one, on the far R in the top row of this lineup)

In better news, this is the day a couple escaped serial killer Roy Mitchell with their lives. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
And a 15-year-old boy escaped Frank Davis with his life. Not everyone was that lucky. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.

1/11 is the day Tom Sullivan Jr. killed his mom, set his house on fire and then killed himself. His dad and brother got away alive, but still. A copy of Anton LaVey's The Satanic Bible was found in Tommy's room. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. Or, for something a little more florid, see here: http://colinjmccracken.com/the-devil-... AND, for a total reframe suggesting Tommy isn't the one who's the problem here, see https://www.nickperon.com/trouble-cit...

John Hilyar, or Hillyer, was killed in front of witnesses by Michael and Suzan Carson. The police caught them the same day but it was too late for John. See Cry For War: The Story of Suzan and Michael Carson.
Joseph Brant killed Jody Johnson, who probably deserved better that this. I mean, who doesn't? See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...

We lost Fabian Wilmore and Owen Hoffman on the same day, at the same time, to the same child-raping serial killer. You guessed it: the Station Strangler again. See https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/blog...
Carlos Mejia was killed by parties unknown, who left him full of stab wounds on his bedroom floor. The RCMP await your call. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.

This is the anniversary of the last time anyone except Bill Roy Tame saw Brenda McClenaghan alive. Her car was found a few days later, locked and empty except for her jeans, which were turned inside out. See, again, Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
This is already the 38th anniversary of the day we lost Shanda Sharer to a group of girlfiends. I just mistyped "girlfriend" but I think I will leave the typo to stand. See -- frig it all, the search isn't working again! -- wait, it's back! -- Cruel Sacrifice.


This is the day Vernon Butts finally succeeded at killing himself in his cell, on the 5th try. He gets an A for persistence in doing one thing right, although in all other areas of his life he's an F-. See Born to Kill: the William Bonin Story.

1/12 is the day we lost Rhonda Dunn to a man who went on a killing spree after he blew a gasket at a hooker he hired, who turned out to be a man. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.

Marie Warner and her 3 children were killed in their beds. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Cynthia Westbury and Juanita Walls were found dead. See the "Maryland" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Kathleen Maloney was strangled to death as her killer raped her. She was almost certainly already out cold when this happened, but that doesn't make it THAT much better. See Crime Archive: John Christie.

Kathleen, "before"

(Kathleen, "after" -- she was one of the three dead women found in Reggie's kitchen cupboard. I have the impression she is the shrouded body pictured at R, but don't quote me.)
Lawrence Reese was shot dead by Joseph Franklin. See https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki...
Patrick Mackay, a loose cannon if there ever was one, killed Stephanie Britton and her 4-year-old grandson, Christopher. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.

1/13 is the anniversary of the day Reyna Marroquin disappeared, along with her unborn child. This state of affairs would not last forever; sooner or later the killer was going to have to sell his house. Alas for him, he made the mistake of disposing of her body in the same place as he did her address book. See https://forensicfilesnow.com/index.ph...

This is the approximate day we lost Jeremy Smith to the Station Strangler. See https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/simo...
This is the exact day Angela Wilkerson was found dead. See, again, the "Maryland" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
LaCresia Tisdale was shot in the back by David WAYNE McCall. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!top...
Teaira Batey lost her life to Darren Vann. It's already been 6 whole years. See http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.c...

Brenda Rode survived being raped by her stepson, Jimmy. This was to remain her little secret for years afterwards. See Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer.

1/14 is the day we lost Thomas, Janice and Gregg Sanders in a murder-suicide scenario. See Death on the Devil's Teeth: The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey.
Marie-Therese Marchadier was murdered by her new husband, Henri Desire Landru. See Landru's Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France's Lonely Hearts Serial Killer.

We also lost Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale. See Prince Jack: The True Story of Jack the Ripper.

(Jack, is that you..?)
Horst Wessel started on the path of becoming a victim-hero to millions. See The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of Horst Wessel.

Clara Stewart and Georgina Green both fell prey to serial killer Charles Floyd. Not the bank robber; the other Charles Floyd. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
Joseph Franklin killed Thomas Watkins. See Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin.
We lost Cynthia Cadieux, maybe to the Oakland County Child Killer. Then again, maybe not. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1, or http://greatadthulhu.angelfire.com/pa...

Craig Jonaitis was added to Randy Kraft's scorecard with the notation "Golden Sails." See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.
Robert Hayes killed Julie Green. I think in the photo below she looks just like Gilda Radner if she were completely raddled by drugs and street life. See https://www.news965.com/news/local/po...

(Julie's in the middle)

1/15 is the day we lost Alexander Cochran III and Dennis Kief in the workplace. See In the Line of Duty: The Story of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Janice Morton was killed. See the "Maryland" section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
It's once again the anniversary of the terrible day that Tony Walker set fire to the house in Adrian, Michigan where two women and a baby were left tied up and unable to escape. See this article which FINALLY offered photos of the victims: https://www.lenconnect.com/article/20...
Jane Toppan attended the death of her latest poisoning victim, Florence Calkins. See Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer.
Lisa Haenel lost her life to Alexander WAYNE Watson, Jr. See https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/wats...

(Lisa is at R)
The three older kids in the Otero family came home from school to find Josie, Joey, Julie and Joe Otero murdered. See Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door.
Heinrich Koch was waylaid and killed by Fritz Haarmann. As usual, after the rape and murder he was sliced up into steaks and sold as horsemeat on the street. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.

(the unlikely bronze sculpture memorializing how the killings happened)
Kathy Kleiner, Karen Chandler and Cheryl Thomas escaped Ted Bundy with their lives. Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy were not nearly as lucky. See The Only Living Witness.

(Margaret, as the police found her when it was already too late)

(Lisa)
This is already the tenth anniversary of the day Greg Wainio was dragged to death behind a car driven a couple of junkies fleeing pursuit for shoplifting a few CDs. See https://www.macombdaily.com/news/vide...

Greg

1/16 is the day Alan Lord killed David Gilbert in the course of the Strangeways prison riot. See Life in Strangeways - From Riots to Redemption, My 32 Years Behind Bars.
Mary Opitz vanished, maybe thanks to Christopher Wilder. Then again, maybe not. See The Beauty Queen Killer.

Adolf Seefeld waylaid and killed 11-year-old Hans Korn. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
David WAYNE McCall killed Ida Gee. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!top...
We lost Anne-Marie Cuchet and, rather unusually, her adult son Andre to a bluebeard killer. See Landru's Secret: The Deadly Seductions of France's Lonely Hearts Serial Killer.

WAYNE Boden killed Jean Wray. Or was her name Way? Depends on who you ask. See The Dracula Syndrome.

Jacqueline McDonnell made the horrible mistake of agreeing to a business transaction with a local pig farmer. See On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women.


This is also the day they executed Albert Fish. Legend has it he eagerly helped them strap him into the electric chair so he could try this new sadomasochistic thrill. Weirdo. See Albert Fish In His Own Words.

1/17 is the day someone found smoke pouring out of an abandoned house in Flint, Michigan, called 911, and when they got there they found Lawrence White on fire. See Torture Killers II.
Stacy, Tia, and Jordan Forsee burned to death too. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Connie Thompson fell prey to the Cook brothers. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.

Danny Barber killed Mercedes Mendez. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b1/bar...
Bob and Kay Swartz were axed to death. See Sudden Fury.

The Reverend William Radcliffe was taken out by Gerald WAYNE Bivens. See, again, Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Robben Borrero and Robert Koleda were both found dead. Robben was definitely thought to have been a victim of "Mr. Gaybar." See RIVER DEATHS RAISE HOMOSEXUALS' FEAR https://nyti.ms/1MNS7ZO

Calvin D. Perry III hanged himself in his jail cell after his arrest for the murders of Dan & Jane Osborne and their 11-year-old son Ben, plus the family dog. Their 2-year-old daughter was also clubbed and sexually assaulted, but survived and was found wandering the blood-spattered house. See, again, Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties. Did I mention this happened in Fort WAYNE?

1/18 is the day we lost Shari Hull to the depredations of Randy Woodfield. Lisa Garcia remarkably escaped alive and called 911. The dispatcher did not believe her claim that she'd been shot twice in the head, but when the EMTs got there it turned out to be true. See The I-5 Killer, where she is called Beth Wilmot.
Bonnie Brown died at the hands of Paul Sargent. For the details of this sorry crime, see Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
We lost Robbin Brandley to Andrew Urdiales. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.

Mary Lewis was found after going missing. If I recall correctly, one of the searchers sank into her sodden remains up to the ankle. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
Mared Malarik and Karen Ferrell vanished. But not forever. They were found together in the woods, with their heads missing, long after their cases were published in Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime. For the update, see https://www.timeswv.com/news/explorin...

Dieter Pfennig killed Michael Black. See https://fletchermarple.com/post/15416...

A man identified in the papers only as Vyacheslav X. was done to death by Alexander Pichushkin. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Dee Davis was bound, tortured and killed. See Nightmare in Wichita: The Hunt For The BTK Strangler.
This is also the day Old Football Head captured the unlucky Jacqueline Askins. See Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik.

1/19 is the day we lost Sheila Shrock to a guy named Oliver Andrews. In the fullness of time, Oliver went to prison for killing her, based on the testimony of a man who apparently saw the crime go down while he was out shovelling snow. Regardless of all this hard fact, she is listed as a possible victim of the Oakland County Child Killer in Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
Faryion Wardrip definitely killed Toni Gibbs. See A Rapist In The Church.


Marie, Pearl, Harriet and Garey Warner were killed with a hatchet as they slept. It almost goes without saying that they were victims of the Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Carole Voyce died a terrifying death at the hands of an older child. See By Reason of Insanity: The David Michael Krueger Story.

Carole in situ at the crime scene

the killer
Mikeal Laine was entered on Randy Kraft's secret list as "SD DOPE." See Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree.

Cynthia Coon went missing. She may be a victim of Michigan braggart and imprisoned child killer Arthur Ream. See https://crimeola.com/cynthia-coon-mis...


David Maust hanged himself in prison. It appears he would have agreed with me when I say "good riddance." See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.

1/20 is the day they found Elino Sprinkle where Norman Simons had left him. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Tania Murrell was killed. The RCMP awaits your call. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.

Joseph Tinning, Jr. came a cropper. As usual in this family, he was sacrificed to his mother's bottomless need to be the center of attention. See From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children.

Felix Broussard and his wife and 5 kids became the latest victims of the God Sacrifice Church. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
John Szyc vanished. For a while, anyway. See Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.

We also lost Jennifer Colhouer, quite unnecessarily. See A Perfect Gentleman.

Roy Mitchell took out his issues on W.E. Holt and Ethel Denecamp. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
Romelia Vargas and Mirna Palma-Roman were taken from us by the Baseline Killer. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.

Romelia

Mirna

1/21 is the day Wesley WAYNE Miller killed Retha "Kelly" Stratton. See https://cowtowncrime.com/tag/murder/

We lost 6 members of the Wexford family to the Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Elton Jackson killed Stacey Reneau on approximately this day. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Carl Switzer was gunned down. It was an argument over money. See The Murder of Alfalfa.

This is also the anniversary of the day Marion, Velda and Betty Lou Bartlett were killed -- maybe by their 14-year-old daughter Caril Ann, maybe by her boyfriend, maybe by both. Depends on whom you ask. See Caril.

1/22 is the day Theresa Simmons was killed, supposedly in a Satanic ritual, by Terry Belcher, Robert McIntyre and Malisa Earnest. See Cult Killers. But also see https://www.nickperon.com/trouble-cit...

Sean Goble killed Brenda Kay Hagy. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 2.
We lost Louisa Steel to a nipple-biting maniac who has yet to be identified. See Murder Most Mysterious

Henry Bakers died a terrible death at the hands of a man who called himself Boetie Boer, t/n Stewart Wilkin. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.

The Atlanta Child Murderer took Terry Pue from everything and everyone he loved. See The List.

1/23 is the day the Happy Face Killer ended the life of Taunja Bennett. See I: The Creation of a Serial Killer.
Gerald Archer, aka the London Chambermaid Slayer, killed Belva Russell. Belva's live-in boyfriend bumped into a stranger racing out of the building as he came home. A minute later he found Belva, mostly unclothed and beaten to death. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
We lost Kushpreet Dillon to Sukhwinder Dillon. See, again, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.

(Kushpreet, one of his many unsuspecting brides, is 2nd from R)
Danny Harmon lost his life to Donald Miller. The California one, I mean. See https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
Joseph Vite was shot by his foster son Daniel Dower. Daniel's friend, Ed Nelson, delivered the coup de grace with a bullet to the head. The murder was later blamed on their involvement with Dungeons & Dragons. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.

(Across the top, L to R, you can see Joseph, Ed and Dan)
Bill Kamp, an intinerant farm worker, was killed pretty much out of nowhere. See The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders.

Josslyn Hay was murdered in what turned out to be almost a "Murder On the Orient Express" scenario. See White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll.

(Scrod knows why he ever chose to wear this crazy outfit, but that was the reason I chose this photo)
This is also the day Ira Pomerantz's torso was found in a Dumpster. See https://www.12news.com/article/news/s...

1/24 is the day we lost Ervin Gibson. He may be a victim of Larry Eyler. See here: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago...
We lost Kimberly Thompson to Harold Smeltzer. See https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-...

Mohammed Dada was found lying in an alley with his head beaten in. He died more than a week later in a hospital. The killer proved to be WAYNE Lambert. See Racist Violence in the United Kingdom.
David Garland was polished off with 5 bullets to the head. For that story read Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties or see here: https://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions...
We lost Mary Ann Wysocki and Patricia Walsh on or about this day. See In His Garden: The Anatomy of a Murderer.

1/25 is the day someone found the bodies of Donovan Swartz and Jeremy Benjamin. See the Station Strangler section of Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Catherine, Dawn, Melody, Matthew, Timothy, Jeffrey and Daniel Belcher died in a housefire in fashionable Ferndale, Michigan. See http://www.gendisasters.com/michigan/...
Blanche Holley was found dead. See https://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/...

Katie Coleman, a 4th grader, vanished while out running errands. She would be found 5 days later, raped and drowned. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.

Lynn Tuski was waylaid and killed as she was walking to her car. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cana...
Nadezha Yerofim had the dubious honor, in 1970, of becoming Nicolai Dzhumagaliev's very first murder victim. See Born to Kill in the USSR.

This is also the day they hanged Sweeney Todd. Now there was a real old-fashioned cutthroat entrepreneur for you. See Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.

(the putative location of Sweeney's barbershop and the meat-pie emporium below, run by Mrs. Lovett)

1/26 is the anniversary of the day we lost Malissa Thomas, 13, to Dondi Craig. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/crai...
Mohammed Ansari became the victim of WAYNE Lambert. See Racist Violence in the United Kingdom.
Theresa Clark died at the hands of John Paul Phillips. See https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/phil...

John W. Ross Jr. fell prey to Elton Jackson. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Delores Wells was captured by Bill Benefiel. Her troubles were just beginning. See Torture Killers.

Ricky Abeyta blew a gasket and killed Trooper Glen Huber, Deputy Jerry Martinez, Ignacita and Maryellen Sandoval, Mickey Gonzalez, the 5-month-old Gonzales baby, and Cheryl Rendon. Eloy Sandoval escaped with his life. See https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/abey...
This is also the anniversary of the day a woman escaped alive from a "Satanic rape" in the back of a van. A woman her assailant had already raped and killed was there in the van with them. At the time Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime went to press, the criminal had not yet been identified.
Karin and Karissa Lofton, a mother and daughter, died terrifying deaths. See https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jason-thom...

John Du Pont killed Dave Schultz for reasons best known to himself. See Wrestling With Madness: John E. Du Pont and the Foxcatcher Farm Murder.

1/27 is the day Robert Jensen and Carol King, a young couple out on a date, were waylaid and killed by Chuck Starkweather. For more ugly details than you ever wanted to know about this crime, see Caril.

(where their bodies were found)
This is also the day someone found the ravaged remains of Elroy van Heerden, John Doe, Marcellino Cupido, Neville Samaai, Owen Hoffman and Fabian Wilmore. It answered a lot of parents' questions at once, but they still hadn't identified, let alone caught, Norman Simons. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
William Ingraham breathed his last. See Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer.
Gerald Cavanaugh became the first victim of the man later identified in the true-crime press as The Doodler. See Young, Queer, and Dead: A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, The Doodler.

We lost Jean Bianchi. It was ugly. See Legally Sane.

Nelson Roberts and Lance Raiford were found dead. At one point they were thought to be victims of "Mr. Gaybar," but it proved to be the work of Frederick Matthews and Joseph Lawson. See https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/04/ar...
We also lost Jesse James Spencer to serial killer Elton Jackson. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6 or here: https://prezi.com/yumdwqoamkaz/elton-...

EDIT: GREAT anniversary I never knew the date of before just now. This is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. See Night.

Eli Wiesel is at far R in this photo taken in the barracks on liberation day; an American GI carried him outside the gates and set him on the ground just so he would no longer have to be inside the concentration camp.

1/28 is the day Eva Nieforth's newborn fell prey to Lila and William Young. See http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2...
We lost Jessica Lloyd to Russell Williams. See Beyond Suspicion: Russell Williams: A Canadian Serial Killer.

Kara Leas and Jennifer Esson crossed paths with Bobby Jack Fowler. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.

(Jennifer is at L, Kara on the R)
This was a quite a busy day for the Death Angels. They shot and paralyzed Roxanne McMillan, shot and wounded Thomas Bates, and outright killed Tana Smith, Vincent Wollin, John Bambic, and Jane Holly. See The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights.
This is the approximate day Haijun Xie went missing. You guessed it -- Zhang Yongming was up to his old tricks. Xie may have been sold later on as "ostrich meat." See https://murderpedia.org/male.Y/y/yong...

More happily, this is the day Fernando Eros Caro croaked in his Death Row cell. See https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...

Best of all, this is the day Darrell Night got the last laugh on a couple of Saskatchewan cops who thought it would be funny to drive him out to the middle of nowhere and drop him off, in his sneaks and a light denim jacket, on an evening when it was 30 degrees below zero. See Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild.

1/29 is the day we lost Andrew Veselovsky to the Chessboard Killer. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
Willie Pickton did Kerri Lynn Koski to death. See On the Farm.

Vaughn Greenwood killed George Frias. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
Matthew Granger, who badly wanted to get into the Aryan Brotherhood, killed Officer Boyd Spiker. It didn't get him anywhere. See The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison.
We lost Deborah Glover to Bruce Mendenhall. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.

(Deborah is 2nd from R in top row -- he confessed to this murder)
Charles Bannon was lynched by an angry mob on this day in 1931. They had a perfect right to be angry with him. See https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bann... or End of the Rope: The True Story of North Dakota's Last Lynching.


On the brighter side, this is the second anniversary of the day Nicholas Johnson escaped alive from Amy Brown. See https://myedmondsnews.com/2017/10/edm...

1/30 is the day Colleen McNamee was found dead. See https://www.longislandpress.com/2017/...

(Colleen is at R, shown with sister victim Rita Tangredi)
The skeleton of an unidentified woman was found. She is thought to be a victim of Maury Travis. See Maury Travis - Serial Killers Unauthorized & Uncensored.
We also lost the unlucky Sherry Lynn Rail, who surely deserved better than to vanish into thin air from the Low Track area of vancouver. See The Pig Farm Murders.

We lost Christine Freund to the .44 Caliber Killer. Her date that night, John Diel or Diehl, escaped with his life. He may not have been all that happy about this, as he had been planning to pop the question to her. See Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer.

(in happier times)
This is also the day, exactly 20 years ago now, we lost Lawrence Wegner for no good reason on this earth. See Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild

1/31 is the 46th anniversary of the day we lost Lynda Healy. She was bludgeoned unconscious in her bed and spirited away into the night. See The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy.
Gerald Archer killed Jane Wooley for similarly idiotic reasons. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Lacie Fontenot's body was found lying in a ditch in Lake Arthur, Louisiana. She may or may not be connected to the other cases described in Jeff Davis 8: The True Story Behind the Unsolved Murder That Allegedly Inspired True Detective, Season One.

Vaughn Greenwood, still on his killing spree, ended the life of Clyde Hays. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.
This is the day we lost Billy Clay Payne and his de facto wife, Billie Jean Hayworth. Their infant son Tyler was found at the murder scene, clinging to his mother, dehydrated, hungry and I daresay traumatized beyond description. See Too Pretty To Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee.

We also lost Misty McGugin. See https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lewi...
D.A. Mark Hasse was gunned down in the parking lot at work. See In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders.

In other VERY unhappy anniversaries, this is Bob Berdella's birthday. See Rites Of Burial.

This is also the day Ralph Andrews twitched his last in a prison cell, taking who knows how many hideous secrets with him. See True Crime Story: I Survived A Monster.

Fishface wrote: "1/24 is the day"

Thirty-one years ago, at 7am on January 24th, 1989, at Starke State prison in Florida USA, Theodore Robert Bundy was executed in the electric chair.

Thx for adding. I have had the Bundy case on leave of absence the past couple of years.

2/1 is the anniversary of the day an unbalanced woman named Kathleen Miller, an avowed Satanist, killed the Reverend Carol Ruth Knox. Her housemate, Dorothy Jo Dunning, escaped with her life. Kathleen did not. She crashed Reverend Knox's stolen car into a tree and shot herself, taking her unborn child with her -- presumably to hell. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Eva Nieforth fell prey to William and Lila Young. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.

George F. Robb died a terrible, out-of-nowhere death. See Torture Killers II.
As long as we're talking about murdered ministers, this is also the day we lost Rev. Horace Rickerson to bizarro dinkweed serial killer Frank Spisak. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.

This is the day in 1910 that Belle Elmore, t/n Cunegonde Mackamotski, breathed her last. Her friends were very concerned at the way she seemed to disappear on them; her husband Pete Crippen much less so. See Thunderstruck.

This is also the day we lost Wen Yunwei to the local serial killer in his village, Zhang Yongming. See https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-c...

(some of the victims -- can't read Chinese so I can't even guess who is who)
This is the day Pearl Bryan lost her head. I mean that literally. See The Perils of Pearl Bryan: Betrayal and Murder in the Midwest in 1896.
As long as we're talking about murder victims named Pearl, this is the day we lost journalist Daniel Pearl to the Taliban. See A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl.

This is the sad day we lost August Norry to a sweet young girl named Penny Bjorkland, who said later that she just wanted to know what it would be like to kill someone. Honestly, where do they all come from? See Bloodletters and Badmen.

2/2 is the day a Mexican boy was found shot to death and beheaded. The police never found out his name, but Gordon Northcott later explained he'd hired him, rather briefly, to work on his chicken farm. See Nothing Is Strange with You: The Life and Crimes of Gordon Stewart Northcott.
Lloyd Gamble was shot dead in his bed in Monroe, Michigan, about an hour from here. Apparently Groundhog Day is a Satanic sabbath of some sort and Lloyd's brother Phil thought the time was right for a sacrifice. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Willi Senger lost his life to a man who tore his throat out with his teeth while raping the poor kid, then finished the job by slicing him up and selling him as black-market pork chops. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.

(the remains of some of the boys he killed, fished out of the nearby river)
Mary Frances Tinning was murdered because her mom felt she -- by "she" I mean the mom -- was not getting enough attention lately. See From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children.

On exactly the same day in the same year, Tia Phillips died of the same thing Mary Frances did. See A Mother's Trial.
Leonie and Genevieve Papin were waylaid and killed by their maids. See Killer Couples: Terrifying True Stories of the World's Deadliest Duos.


On the bright side, this is also the day Aida Demirjian got away alive from Gerald Parker, the "Bedroom Basher." See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.

2/3 is the day we lost Donna Eckard and Janelle Jarvis to Randy Woodfield. See The I-5 Killer.

Parvesh Dillon fell prey to her bluebeard husband, Sukhwinder. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder

(Parvesh is at far R)
Eldon Anson was clobbered 6 times with an axe, then shot 6 times because he wasn't dying the way his killers wanted. See Fear No Evil.

(paramedics working on Eldon in his driveway, where he was found clinging to life -- he lasted just a few more days after this photo was taken)

(Jarrod Wall, one of the killers, who has made all his own life dreams come true despite killing a guy with an axe in a spasm of homophobia)
James McCabe and Charles Miranda were waylaid and killed by Bill Bonin and his pack of accomplices. See The Freeway Killer: The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer William Bonin.

James

Charles
Yolanda Guttierez and Jessica Muniz lost their lives to Paul Runge. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.
This is also the day we lost Patricia Rosansky. See https://www.deseret.com/2010/12/28/20...

In contrast to all this death, this is the day Apollonia Kuhn got away alive from Peter Kurten. See The Sadist.
AND a 12-year-old girl managed to fight off her would-be rapist, Rex Krebs, and turned him in to the police. See Dead And Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast.

2/4 is the day we lost Geneva Hardman. It was ugly. See The Murder of Geneva Hardman and Lexington's Mob Riot of 1920. The book's cover had the only photo of her I could scare up:

Raymond Terry was stabbed and mutilated by Dana Jones. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Edward McGregor killed Mandy Rubin. See https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mcgr...
Jane Doe, a victim of WAYNE Horton, was found dead. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
Kate Jackson was murdered under circumstances that remain very, very unclear. See Murder Most Mysterious.
Clifford and Leona Barnett were killed by their grandson, David. See https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

We lost Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber to the still-unidentified Santa Rosa killer. See In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980.

Cesar Barone, t/n Jimmy Rode, killed Joyce Scarborough. See Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer.

2/5 is the day Sean Sellers was executed. It was high time. He was pretty unbearable. See Devil Child.
Clyde Wilkerson killed Jeri Martin. See https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/dn...

Calvin Spire lost his life to the Station Strangler. See Catch Me a Killer: Serial Murders: A Profiler's True Story.
Harold Jones killed Freda Burnell. He would go on to be acquitted of this crime, freeing him to go kill someone else. See Every Mother's Nightmare: Abertillery in Mourning.

We also lost Siobhan McGuinness. WAYNE Nance was a suspect for a while there but he was ultimately cleared by forensic testing. See To Kill and Kill Again.

Larry Hall killed Dean Marie Peters. See Urges: A Chronicle of Serial Killer Larry Hall.
Francisco Acevedo killed Maria Ramos, who surely deserved better. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
Zhang Yongming killed Yunwei Cai and in all likelihood sold him to his neighbors as "ostrich meat." See https://murderpedia.org/male.Y/y/yong...
We lost Jim Pierson. It was overall a pretty good thing, but still.
See A Deadly Silence: The Ordeal of Cheryl Pierson: A Case of Incest and Murder.

(Jim, posing with the mastermind of his murder)
We also lost Margaret Spevick to the father of one of her friends. See The Child Killers.

2/6 is the day the Atlanta Child Killer took Patrick Baltazar from us. See The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker.

Morris Solomon Jr. took Cherie Washington's life. See The Homicidal Handyman of Oak Park: Morris Solomon Jr.: The Sexual Crimes & Serial Murders of Morris Solomon Jr..
Margaret and Justin Raymond were found set on fire in their bathtub. See The Sex Killers.
We lost Tanya Emery as well. She was thought to be a victim of Willie Pickton, but she later turned up alive, somewhat surprised to learn that anyone thought she was missing in the first place. See http://www.missingpeople.net/woman_be...

Nathaneal Bar-Jonah ended the life of Zachary Ramsay, pretty cruelly I would say. See Eat the Evidence: A Journey Through the Dark Boroughs of a Pedophilic Cannibal's Mind.
Marylou Jenkins was murdered. She had a fingernail torn out in the process, which proved to be useful information for the investigators. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.

Henry Roan was killed in a pretty cold fashion, out of pure greed. See Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

In the most interesting anniversary of the day, Ernest Brown hanged for killing his boss and setting him on fire in his parked car. The fire spread to all the buildings on the victim's property, leaving his family homeless on top of everything else. When asked if he had anything else to get off his chest before they sent him to his maker, the convict uttered 3 syllables that could have been "ought to burn" or possibly "Otterburn." Otterburn was the site of an unsolved murder that involved a taxi driver being set on fire in her parked car. See The Burning of Evelyn Foster.

2/7 is a day of horrible, extended suffering that usually ended in death.
Eldon Anson finally died, after valiant efforts by EMTs and hospital staff and an impressive fight put up by the victim himself. You can probably do only so much when a guy has been shot 6 times and clobbered 6 more times with an axe. See Fear No Evil.

Delores Wells, who had been held captive for some time by Bill Benefiel and tortured in a variety of horrific ways, finally died when he Superglued her mouth and nose shut. See Torture Killers.
Omar Orea Ochoa, imprisoned for his role in the Matamoros ritual murders described in Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice, died in his cell of AIDS while awaiting trial. That seems pretty fair to me.
Jane Gibson -- or was her name Easton? -- died of the cancer that forced her to testify to the murder she witnessed from a gurney rolled into the courtroom. See Fatal Tryst: Who Killed the Minister and the Choir Singer?

Gloria Fravel fell prey to serial killer (and former police officer) Jack Sully. He was a lot more merciful with his other victims -- if you can call murder merciful -- but in Gloria's case he thought she wanted torturing, so he hung her up by the neck for a few days, doing horrific things to her until he finally finished her off. See https://www.sfweekly.com/news/yesterd...
This is also the day that Edith Toro, who had just started working the night shift in a home for wayward girls, was stripped of most of her clothes, roughed up, tortured, doused with alcohol and set on fire by residents Angenika Carter, Erica Mateo, Crystal Silver, Takiyah Miller, Lidia Orellana, Nicole Infante, Mary Brown, and Latoya Barcliff. Remarkably, she survived. All 8 of the felonious lasses were busted for attempted murder. See Seventeen Real Girls, Real-Life Stories: True Crime.

Fishface wrote: "Delores Wells, who had been held captive for some time by Bill Benefiel and tortured in a variety of horrific ways, finally died when he Superglued her mouth and nose shut. See Torture Killers."

OMG!

Indeed. SMDH

2/8 is the approximate day Michelle Edwards was held captive and raped at knifepoint for 6 hours by the inappropriately-named George Lovie. He informed her that if she reported the crime, he would kill her family. See https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
This is the exact day Merle Reeder, who went by "Chet," was killed by Lisa Dunn, Mark Walter and Danny Remeta. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
This is such a big day for Satanists! This is also the day we lost Karen Marsden in a Satanic ritual. See Mortal Remains: A True Story of Ritual Murder.

This is also the day LeRoy Carter was found, sans head, in what appeared to be a Santeria ritual. See, again, Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Anna Marie Patterson died untimely. She is thought to be a victim of "Dr. No," pretty recently identified as Samuel Legg, the resident of a group home for the mentally ill. See https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/s...

Eileen Lockhart died in a rape-murder that has never been cleared. See The Child Killers.
Tracie Clark died untimely. See the David Rogers section of Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.

We lost Vera Hill and Betty Williams to Kenneth Granviel. Lizzie Phillips escaped alive. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 6.
Larme Price killed John Freddy and Sukhjit Khajala. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 5.

Ah, February 9th. If I listed everything for this day I wouldn't be done until after Valentine's Day. Here we go with a selection:

We lost Nancy Kinghammer to James Ruzicka. See https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/ruzi...

They finally found Beauty Soko. It was too late to help her, thanks entirely to Moses Sithole. See The Top Serial Killers Of Our Time (Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4): True Crime Committed By The World's Most Notorious Serial Killers. (Good old Mose can be found in Volume 2.)
We lost Michelle Moore to Joseph Beeson and Edward Bennett. Derrick Franklin escaped with his life. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
This is also the day we lost Tiffany Sessions. See
https://2paragraphs.com/2015/08/48-ho...
This is the anniversary of the day William Etherington, Benjamin Carrier, L.M. King, John Thomas, James Masengle and John Rogers were shot dead by police during a riot outside the courthouse where they were trying Will Lockett for murder. 50 others were injured but lived. See Death at the Court-House. (The new book on this case refused to come up using the search box, for some reason.)
Carol Ann Dudley was found dead. See under the names of her parents, Kenneth Dudley and Irene Gwynne, in Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1.
It's the anniversary of the last day anyone saw any member of the Haven family alive. Months later, Albert, Lulia, Daniel, Leland, Charles and Mary Haven -- ranging from 59 years to 2 months old -- were found dead around the property where they lived and farmed. See End of the Rope: The True Story of North Dakota's Last Lynching.
Maria Korp was confined to a car trunk by Joe Korp and his thing on the side, Tania Herman. See https://www.themercury.com.au/news/na...
An 11-year-old boy vanished and was found a few hours later, drugged insensible by WAYNE Garrison. See https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/ju...
Kim Leach was seen being bundled into a van by a scruffy-looking man outside her middle school. An onlooker thought she must have been in trouble with her dad because she seemed so upset. See The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy.

It's the anniversary of the day Maura Murray vanished. See True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray.


My favorite crime anniversary on this day remains the sorry incident in which Myrlene Severe was busted at the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida airport with a human head in her carry-on. Haiti was happy to let her buy it, because it's quite legal there, but it's contraband here in the USA. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4...

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KERMIT GOSNELL! Here's wishing you hate every remaining minute of your sorry life. See Gosnell's Babies: Inside the Mind of America's Most Notorious Abortion Doctor.

2/10 is the day we lost Rebecca Boutilier to a man still known only as the Calgary Prostitute Killer. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.

This is also the last day anyone saw a certain young lady alive at an inn owned by the Laborde family. Martin Dumollard claimed she was his niece. She almost certainly went the way of his other unnamed victims. We know this because after they retired for the night, his "niece" was seen fleeing for her life from the inn, with Dumollard in hot pursuit. See Dumollard, Ou L'Assassin Des Servantes.
Kevin Collins vanished. Jon Dunkle was considered a fairish suspect for a while there, but in the years since suspicion has fallen instead on a lovely fellow named WAYNE Jackson. See either The Boy Next Door or https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...

Cammelia Carroll was shot 5 times, but survived. The would-be killers were Lisa Dunn, Mark Walter and Danny Remeta. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Walter and Sylvina Byers and their son were killed with an axe in their beds. You guessed it: it was the God Sacrifice Church again. See Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South.
Jerilyn Peoples was killed. Lucas and Toole later claimed credit for this killing. See Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories.
Courtney Schulhoff and her boyfriend killed Courtney's dad, Steve. See Teen Killer Courtney Schulhoff & Other Stories: An anthology of True Crime.

Jeanne Axford French was murdered by someone we know only as the Lipstick Killer. This murder has often been connected to that of the Black Dahlia. Not only was it pretty close in time and place to that killing, but her killer wrote "FnCK YOU B.D." (or was it "FnCK YOU P.D."?) on the poor woman's body. See Corroborating Evidence: The Black Dahlia Murder.

Peter Tobin took Vicky Hamilton from everything and everyone she loved. See Escape from Evil: Married at 17 to a Serial Killer, She's One Victim Who Escaped.

2/11 is the day we lost Virginia Brooks to a man who has gone down in history as the Coast Fiend. See http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/the...

(found a photo of her on the cover of this book -- adding it to the shelves!)
"Vera" Chesney and her mom, Lady Menzies, were killed by Vera's husband, a real dinner winner who went by Donald Chesney but whose real name, unbeknownst to his wife, was Merrett. See Murderer's Moon.

(Vera)

(Lady Menzies -- I can only assume the feller in full regalia next to her is Lord Menzies)
Myra Connors fell prey to Jane Toppan, the killer nurse. See Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer.
Barbara Ann Derry, a likely victim of serial killer Warren Forrest, vanished while hitchhiking. She would be found later at a scenic tourist attraction. See https://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/forr...

(the police, searching the woods for signs of D.B. Cooper, were led to this spot when a passerby found a woman's hand. Apparently the hand was NOT Barbara's, but a further search turned up Barbara's pitiful remains. I have no idea what became of the hand.)
Linda Marvin was killed by the Satanic comedy tag team of Danny Remeta, Lisa Dunn and Mark Walter. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
We lost Sally Quintiliano. See https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/18/ny...\
On the same day a year apart, someone discovered the remains of Patricia Dennis and Lorna Reed. Both killings were attributed to the Southside Slayer in Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2, but that killer turned out later to be at least 3 different guys.
In a rare, really excellent piece of GOOD February crime news, this is the day Alicia Elmore was rescued from Bill Benefiel by the police. See Torture Killers.

(execution bound)

2/12 is the day Sam Pirrera killed himself. See Vanished: Cold-Blooded Murder in Steeltown.
And Johnny Ray Johnson was executed. See 50 American Serial Killers You've Probably Never Heard Of: Volume 3.
Robert Sanderson died in a hospital, where he had been lying unconscious since Donald Miller -- the California one -- clobbered him with an unknown weapon on November 29th of the previous year. See https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
Terry Monroe fell prey to William Scott Smith. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers: Volume 1

Sal Mineo, a well-liked TV and movie actor, was knifed to death. See Who Killed Sal Mineo?.
Juan Casillas died not long after his business partner, David Dowler, wondered aloud whether his psychic vision of Juan dying might come true. See https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dowl...

Mary Altman and her son Charles were done in by Mary's husband, Charles's dad, William. The other kids -- Laura, Mary, Eddie and Albert -- escaped with their lives. See Notorious 92: Indiana's Most Heinous Murders in All 92 Counties.
Robert McCann, his mother Dorothy, and his girlfriend Christine Herdman all lost their lives to the Lewingdon brothers. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.
John "Rick" Schroeder, Glenn Moore, and erstwhile murder accomplice Mark Walter were done in by Lisa Dunn and Danny Remeta. Maurice Christie and Ben Albright escaped with their lives -- barely. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Fritz Franke was raped, murdered and sold as horsemeat in the streets of Hanover, Germany. See Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten.
This is also the day Pearl Corens was beheaded. I am starting to wonder why so many people named Pearl in this listing seem to wind up decapitated. See 45 Murderers: A Collection of True Crime Stories.

2/13 is the anniversary of the day Brian Arp killed Theresa Umphrey. See Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder.
Daniel Lee Corwin killed Alice Martin, who had made the fatal mistake of deciding to go out for a walk. See https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c1/cor...
Elizabeth Taylor -- no, the OTHER Elizabeth Taylor -- lost her life to Severin Koslowski, aka George Chapman. See Jack the Ripper at Last? The Mysterious Murders of George Chapman.

(Bessie Taylor with her killer, who was also her husband)
We lost Rhonda Ward Goodwin to Fredrick Evins. See https://www.goupstate.com/article/NC/...
We lost Larry McFarland to Lisa Dunn and Danny Remeta. Those two again! See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
Yuri Chumakov died at the hands of Aleksandr Pichushkin. See Born to Kill in the USSR.
This already the 3rd anniversary of the incredibly public murder of Kim Jong Nam. See https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kim-jo...

We lost Mary Gency, maybe to a serial killer. See Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2 under "Pennsylvania."

Iris Deeley lost her life, completely out of nowhere. See The Sex Killers.

John Arthur Getreu killed Leslie Marie Perlov. See https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/2...
Melissa Jane Letain was killed by someone who has not yet been identified. See Deadmonton: Crime Stories from Canada's Murder City.
We also lost Ruth Cruger on this day in 1917, but where she got to was not immediately apparent. The methods used in tracking her and her killer down are wonderfully described in Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.

Ernesto Ramirez was killed by the California Donald Miller. See https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...

And now for the good news:
Matilda Gardner escaped Jimmy Rode, aka Cesar Barone, alive. See Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer.
And Monique Hoyt got away alive from Rodney Alacala. It could definitely have been worse. See The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders.
And Paul Rowles died in prison on this day exactly 7 years ago. Boo hoo! See https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/justic...

Just to give you all an idea of how cruddy February is for crime, I am going to list every single item I have listed in my Book of the Dead for February 14th. It is quite a theme day for horrific mass murders, for one thing. But first the individual killings:

Randy Woodfield killed Julie Reitz. See The I-5 Killer.

Szilagy Emma Ilona died at the hands of Romulus Veres. See Romanian Serial Killers: The Punisher.
Lynette White was taken from us by Jeffrey Gafoor. See https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-141...

David White killed Marjorie Knox. See under "Missing" in Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2.

Sable Pickett lost her life as well. The killers proved to be a couple of dream dates named Steven Gordon and Frank Cano. See https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/...

This is also the day that some of the members of a wedding party found the legs of Monica Leman where her killer, John Lee Fryman, had left them. See Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime.
We lost Reeva Steenkamp to her live-in boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius. See BEHIND THE DOOR :The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story.

Someone found a dead woman still known only as "Valentine Sally." See Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot.
Pamela Murray died, maybe at the hands of Lesley Warren. See The Babyface Killer.
We lost Sharon Ward, maybe to Willie Pickton. See http://stolenandsilent.weebly.com/mis...

Larry King was shot in his 8th-grade English class for seeming too gay to another student. See Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims.

We lost Isabella Griffiths to Patrick Mackay. See Psychopath: The Case of Patrick MacKay.

By far the most horrible individual killing on this day -- at least I hope nothing worse has ever happened -- was the time Trooper Ronald Ruecker followed a puzzling trail of jackets and backpacks into a cemetery, where he found Delmar Anholt Jr. digging out the eyes of his hugely-pregnant girlfriend, Tara Lea McCarthy, using his thumbs. She didn't move or make a sound when her eyes popped out of their sockets so the trooper knew she must already be dead. Sure enough, she was punctured through and through with what looked like railroad spikes and she was covered with other injuries. Delmar had convinced himself that their unborn child was the Antichrist. See Torture Killers.

Now on to the massacres:

I'm sure you've all been hearing all week that today is the 2nd anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, which killed 17 people and injured 17 more. Parkland: Birth of a Movement.


Ezequiel Luna, Ruben Garza and Ernesto Diaz were tortured to death by Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo and his band of followers. See Buried Secrets: A True Story of Drug Running, Black Magic, and Human Sacrifice.
Fred Cowan, who had been planning this for some time, decided that the moment was right to kill Joseph Hicks, Frederick Holmes, James Green, Pariyathu Varghese, Joseph Russo, Officer Allen McCleod and himself. See Spree Killers: The world's most notorious gunmen and their deadly rampages.
This is of course the anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. See The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone.

It was also the day of the Hollandsburg Massacre. See Choking in Fear: a memoir about the Hollandsburg murders.


(Betty Spencer, who survived to testify against her sons' killers)

Speaking of survivors, this is the day 2 women in separate incidents escaped Gordon Cummins with their lives. See In the Dark: The True Story of the Blackout Ripper.
And Sheila Comeaux was dragged from her car and beaten with baseball bats. She was a survivor for a year or so, anyway. See Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?

And there were some comeuppances on this day, too.
Andrei Chikatilo was taken out and shot. See The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History.
Yang Xinhai was executed for 67 murders and 23 rapes. See https://murderpedia.org/male.X/x/xinh...

(one of his mass murders)
WAYNE Boden got life in prison for gnawing several Canadian women to death. See The Dracula Syndrome.

To the chagrin of many later on, William Guatney was born. See Slayer of Innocence.

And you people wonder why I go through so much aspirin.