AUGUST
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August 1 | 1957 | Harvey Glatman | Judy Dull is raped and murdered by Glatman |
1985 | Andrei Chikatilo | 18 year old Natalya Pokhilstova and dumped her body near Domodyedovo Airport | |
August 2 | 1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Chikatilo murders Natasha Golosovskaya aged 16 near Aviator's Park |
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August 4 | 1969 | The Zodiac | The killer, in response to a request by police for further proof that he wrote the previous letter, writes a three page letter calling himself the Zodiac. |
1990 | Aileen Wournos | Troy Burress is killed with two shots from a .22 calibre gun, one to the chest and one to the back. | |
August 5 | 1979 | Fred and Rose West | The Wests murdered a troubled teenager named Alison Chambers . Police believe after they raped and tortured her, she, was killed and cut into smaller pieces easier for burial. |
August 6 | 1976 | John Gacy | Rick Johnston disappears after going to a rock concert, he meets Gacy who offers him a lift. |
1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | 8 more counts of murder (equally 12) are added to Dahmer's charges. | |
August 7 | 1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Lyuda Alekeseva, 17 is murdered and dumped into the River Don, in Moscow |
August 8 | 1929 | Peter Kurten | Maria Hahn is murdered. |
1983 | Andrei Chikatilo | Seven year old Igor Gudkov is murdered and left in Aviators' Park | |
1969 | Charles Manson | The Sharon Tate murders are committed. Manson was not at the scene. | |
1973 | Dean Corll | Corll is shot dead by accomplice Elmer Henley. | |
1985 | Richard Ramirez | Ramirez shoots dead Elyas Abowath. He beats and rapes his wife Sakina. | |
August 9 | 1969 | Charles Manson | The LaBianca murders occur. Manson is in attendance. |
August 10 | 1949 | John Haig | Haig is executed by hanging at Wandsworth Prison. |
1974 | Harvey Carignan | Eileen Hunley is abducted by Carignan. | |
August 11 | 1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Chikatilo kills another unknown victim |
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August 13 | 1982 | Andrei Chikatilo | Nine-year old Oleg Pozhidayev is killed, his body is never recovered. |
1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | 12 year old Akmaral Seidealieva is murdered. | |
1996 | Mark Dutroux | Mark Dutroux, his wife Michelle and one of their accomplices, Michel Lelievre,25 years old, are arrested. Michel Lelievre, who lived in Dutroux's Charleroi house, amid claims that he acted as guard for the kidnapped children. | |
August 14 | 1990 | Andrei Chikatilo | Ivan Fomin, aged eleven is murdered at the river-beach of Novocherkassk |
August 15 | 1989 | Andrei Chikatilo | 19 year old Yelena Varga is murdered by Chikatilo |
August 16 | 1975 | Ted Bundy | Bundy is arrested for traffic offences and later the DaRonch attempted abduction is added to the charges. |
1982 | Andrei Chikatilo | Olga Kuprina, 16 years old, crosses the path of Chikatilo and is murdered. Her body is found near the village of Kamenolomni | |
August 17 | 1971 | Dean Corll | 17 year old Ruben Watson is murdered by Corll |
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August 19 | 1962 | Albert DeSalvo | 75-year-old Ida Irga had been found strangled in her apartment, she has also been raped with a bottle. |
1970 | John Collins | Collins trial concludes with a guilty verdict | |
August 20 | 1980 | Peter Sutcliffe | Peter Sutcliffe was driving through Farsley on his way to Chapeltown when he spotted Marguerite Walls walking home from work. Sutcliffe jumper out his car past her and kept his distance before attacking her with a hammer blow to the back of the head, shouting "filthy prostitute" as he struck further blows to her head. He then looped a length of rope around her neck, tightening it as he half-carried, half-dragged her into a secluded spot off the street. There, while kneeling on her chest, he strangled her. After she was dead, he stripped her of all her clothing except her tights. When he left her, he partially covered the body with grass cuttings and leaves |
1962 | Albert DeSalvo | DeSalvo strangles 67-year-old nurse, Jane Sullivan, she is found in a kneeling position in the bath, her face in 6 in of water, there are two stockings looped around her neck and tied in a bow. A broom handle protrudes from her vagina. | |
August 21 | 1614 | Elizabeth Bathory | Bathory dies at the age of 54, she has been a prisoner in her own bricked-up room for many years after her murderous rampage was discovered. |
1975 | Ted Bundy | Shelly Robertson's naked and defiled body was found on August 21 inside a mine by 2 mining students. | |
August 22 | 1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Three more murder charges are added, now equalling 15 charges of homicide in all. |
August 23 | 1936 | Henry Lucas | Lucas is born to a prostitute and her crippled partner. |
August 24 | 1929 | Peter Kurten | 5 year old Gertrude Hamacher and 14 year old Louise are raped and strangled. Their throats are also cut. |
August 25 | 1983 | Andrei Chikatilo | 22 year old Valya Chuchulina is murdered and dumped outside Shakhti |
August 26 | 1997 | Robert Yates | Jennifer Joseph, 16, is found. Her body was found in an advanced state of decomposition in a small secluded spot at the corner of Forker and Judkins Roads on the Peone Prairie. The cause of her death was a close-range gunshot wound to the chest. DNA from semen swabs were matched to Yates. A sleeve button found in the white Corvette formerly owned by Yates was matched to the shirt worn by Joseph at the time of her death. The analysis of blood smears found in the Corvette produced a match with a DNA profile generated through samples from Joseph's parents. |
August 27 | 1986 | Andrei Chikatilo | Chikatilo murders 18 year old Irina Gulyayeva |
1964 | Edmund Kemper | Kemper shoots dead his paternal Grandmother for snapping at him, then kills grandpa when he arrives to save him the horror of seeing his dead wife. | |
1906 | Ed Gein | Gein is born in Wisconsin | |
August 28 | 1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Eleven year old boy Sasha Chepel is murdered and dumped in the River Don |
1986 | Andrei Chikatilo | Ten year old Alyosha Khobotov, is murdered and buried in a grave Chikatilo had dug for himself. The boy's tongue is bitten off and his genitals where removed. | |
August 29 | 1997 | Angel Resendiz | On August 29, 1997, University of Kentucky student Christopher Maier, 21, and his girlfriend are attacked while walking along railroad tracks. Resendiz bludgeons Maier to death with a rock and rapes his girlfriend, beating her so badly he breaks her nose and crushes one of her eye sockets. Left for dead, she survives the attack. |
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August 31 | 1888 | Jack the Ripper | Mary Anne Nicholls is murdered in Bucks Row, her body is mutilated and her viscera is slung out over the ground. |
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