DECEMBER
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
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December 2 | |||
December 3 | 1940 | Paul Orgozov | 22 year old Matilfa Hollesh is clubbed
to death and raped
20 year old Irmagard Frank is clubbed to death, there is no signs of sexual molestation. |
1979 | Dennis Nilsen | 19 year old Kenneth Ockendon is murdered as he sits listening to headphones. Nilsen had crept up behind the man and strangled him. | |
December 4 | |||
December 5 | 1962 | Albert DeSalvo | Twenty-year-old Sophie Clark is murdered by DeSalvo. Unlike the others victims to this point she is raped before being strangled. |
2001 | Gary Ridgway | Ridgway was formally charged with the murders of Opal Mills, Marcia Chapman, Cynthia Hinds and Carol Christensen. | |
December 6 | 1973 | Ted Bundy | The body of Katherine Devine is found by a couple walking in McKenny Park, Washington on December 6, 1973. The corpse is severely decomposed from being exposed to the elements for two weeks. Though medical examiners cannot be sure, they claim she had been sexually assaulted before being strangled. |
December 7 | 1997 | Robert Yates | Melinda L. Mercer, 24, is found December 7, 1997, on S. 50th St. in Tacoma. Four plastic bags covered her head. The cause of death is three gunshots to the head. |
December 8 | 1954 | Ed Gein | Mary Hogan is murdered at the Tavern she owns before being taken to the Gein Farmhouse. |
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December 10 | |||
December 11 | 1913 | George Smith | Alice Burnham is murdered by Smith drowning her in the bath. |
1976 | John Gacy | Gregory Godzik is abducted and murdered by Gacy. His car is found the next day. | |
1978 | John Gacy | 15 year old Robert Piest is abducted from outside a Chemist as his mother waits inside. He told her he was going to see Gacy about a job. Gacy takes Piest to his house, where he strangles him with rope. And sleeps with the corpse for the night. | |
1982 | Andrei Chikatilo | Ten year old Olya Stalmachenok is murdered in Novocherkassk | |
December 12 | 1979 | Angelo Buono and Ken Bianchi | A car is found in a secluded area. Inside the car were the bodies of Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder. Both had been strangled. Other bruises suggested that they had been subjected to other injuries as well. However the girls had told friends they were going to do a house sitting job for Ken Bianchi, who is soon picked up by police. |
December 13 | 1989 | Aileen Wournos | Fingerprints carefully taken from the badly decomposed hands proved that this was Richard Mallory. He had been killed with three shots from a .22. several days earlier. |
1977 | Angelo Buono and Ken Bianchi | Kimberly Diane Martin, is hired from a escort service. The woman is found dead the next day. | |
December 14 | 1952 | John Reg Christie | Christie murders his wife Ethel Christie, in bed. She is hidden under the floor boards of their apartment. |
December 15 | 1970 | Dean Corll | 14 year old James Glass and 15 year old Danny Yates are murdered by Corll, they were procured for him by Brooks. |
December 16 | |||
December 17 | 1998 | Angel Resendiz |
A co-worker at the Baylor College of Medicine finds Dr.
Claudia Benton, 39, dead in her house. Police say Benton was raped,
stabbed three times and clubbed in the head as many as 19
times. |
December 18 | |||
December 19 | 1997 | Robert Yates | Shawn L. Johnson, 36, found December 18, 1997. Her decomposing remains were found off Hangman Valley Road. Two plastic bags cover her head. The cause of death is two gunshots to the head. Semen found in her body was matched to Yates' DNA. |
December 20 | 1968 | The Zodiac | David Arthur Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen ar shot to death at Lake Hermann. A man had pulled up beside them and just began firing into the parked car. Betty had tried to run away and was shot down her back by the killer. David had died from one single shot to the head. |
December 21 | |||
December 22 | 1978 | Andrei Chikatilo |
Chikatilo follows 9 year
old Lena Zakotnova and lures her to his house, his teaching skills
meant he was able to befriend the little girl easily. Yet at his
house in Mezhevoi Pereulok, Shakhti the kindly man turns into a
monster. He jumps on top of the frightened girl as she screams for
her life. He covers her mouth and began tearing at her
clothes. He tears off her underwear and rubs his genitals against
her. But he fails to get an erection even though he wants to rape
the frightened little girl. This inability to get an erection makes
the anger in him rise, he begins tearing at her before penetrating
her with a finger. He sees the blood trickle out of her vagina as he
breaks her hymen, and the pleasure he felt at that moment gives him
an immediate orgasm, one, he says was the most pleasureable and
strongest he ever felt. At
that moment he knew, fondling and rape was not what he was after, he
needed the sight of a victim's blood. So he retrieved the
pocket knife he carried and thrust it into the young girl's stomach.
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1978 | John Gacy | Gacy confesses that he has killed at least thirty boys and most are in the crawl space of his house | |
December 23 | 1976 | Christopher Worrell and James Miller | Veronica Knight is abducted and murdered by Worrell and Miller. |
1990 | Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka | The couple drug Tammy Homolka then perform sexual acts on her until she drowns in her own vomit. | |
December 24 | |||
December 25 | 1939 | Dean Corll | Corll is born |
December 26 | 1991 | Ivan Milat | Anja Habscheid and Gabor Neugebauer are murdered in Belanglo State forest. |
1964 | Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | Ten-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, disappears from a local fair, in Hulme Hall Lane. She is taken to Myra's house where se is tied up and made to pose crudely for pornographic photos. The couple also tape-record the entire event. | |
1997 | Robert Yates | Laurel A. Wason,
31, found December 26, 1997, in a gravel pit near the Hangman Valley
Road. Three plastic bags cover her head. Cause of death, two gunshot
wounds to the head. Non-indigenous vegetation, peanut shells,
packing Styrofoam and chips of broken concrete were found covering
her body that matched debris found in Yates' backyard. Semen found
in her body was genetically matched to Yates.
Shawn A. McClenahan, 39, also found December 26, 1997, next to Laurel Wason. Her head was also covered in three plastic bags. The cause of death, two gunshots to the head. DNA evidence from semen was matched to Yates as well as a fingerprint on one of the plastic bags. Clippings, peanuts shells, chips of broken concrete and packing Styrofoam were found covering her body that probably came from Yates' backyard. Semen found in her body genetically matched to Yates' DNA. | |
December 27 | 1983 | Andrei Chikatilo |
Chikatilo murders 14 year
old Sergei Markov and dumps his body in vacant wasteland outside of
Novocherkassk. |
1944 | Ivan Milat | Milat is born | |
1973 | Fred and Rose West | Lucy Partington is picked up by the Wests at a busstop. She is kept alive for whatever hideous purposes the Wests had in mind and then murdered, dismembered and buried in Fred's construction projects. Lucy had been dismembered with a cord knotted below the jaw and a sharp knife next to her | |
December 28 | 1978 | John Gacy | James Mazzara's body is excavated from the crawlspace under Gacy's house. |
December 29 | 1957 | Harvey Glutman | the body of the top model Judy Dull is
found. She has answered to an Harvey Glatman 's advertisement
(thank you to Ariemes for this addition) |
1978 | John Gacy | Rick Johnston's body is found under the laundry in the crawlspace, there is another body intermingled with his. | |
1985 | John Duffy | Duffy murders Alison Day in Hackney, London. Her hands are tied behind her back and she is strangled | |
December 30 | 1989 | Ivan Milat | Milat picks up hitchhikers Deborah Everist and James Gibson. They are taken to Belanglo forest where they are stabbed and shot. |
1978 | Dennis Nilsen | Nilsen picks up an unknown 18 year old Irishman and takes him back to the house. There he strangles him after they have sex. | |
December 31 | 1957 | Peter Manuel | Manuel murders an entire family. Mr and Mrs Smart and 10 year old son are shot dead at close range. |
1962 | Albert DeSalvo | The Strangler rapes and murders Patricia Bissette aged 23. Unlike the others DeSalvo actually cover this victim after the attack. It is later revealed she is pregnant. |
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