JANUARY
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
January 1 | 1995 | Fred and Rose West | Fred West commits suicide while awaiting trial for the murders of 12 women and girls including two of his own daughters and his first wife. |
1978 | Ted Bundy | Ted Bundy escapes from custody in Colorado while on trial | |
January 2 | 1977 | Christopher Worrell and James Miller | 15 year old Tania Kenny is killed at Miller's sister's house. Miller claims to have been waiting in the car outside at the time and that Worrell alone raped and murdered the girl. |
1611 | Elizabeth Bathory | Elizabeth Bathory is charged with the murder of 610 people, which she apparently committed as Countess of Csejthe Castle. Bathory had the theory that the blood of youth would give her everlasting youth. An eviscerated victim would have blood drained into a vat for her bathing. | |
1981 | Peter Sutcliffe | Sutcliffe is arrested. He has killed at least 16 young women. (Thank you to Ariemes for this addition) | |
1956 | Peter Manuel | Manuel abducts 17 year old Annie Knielands, he beats her continuously around the head and chest before dumping the body on a golf course to be found early the next day. There is semen found on the girl's clothes but no evidence of sexual intercourse. | |
1938 | Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | Ian Brady was born in Gorbals, one of the roughest slums in Glasgow at the time. His mother, Margaret (Peggy) Stewart was a tearoom waitress in a hotel. He never knew his father | |
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January 4 | 1964 | Albert DeSalvo | 19 year old Mary Sullivan is murdered. She is found propped up, on display on her bed, her buttocks are on her pillows her back resting against the head board, there is semen dripping from her mouth and a broom handle protruding from her vagina. A card is leaning against her foot and reads "Happy New Year". |
1974 | Ted Bundy | Student Joni Lenz aged 18 is still in bed on January 4, 1974 when a friend goes to see if she is still asleep, when the friend gets close enough she finds Joni surrounded by a pool of blood, Joni had been beaten around the head . Her roommates removed the covers from Joni's body only to find an even more horrific injuries. A bed rod had been torn away from the bedhead and savagely rammed into her vagina. She is taken to hospital where she remains for several months in a coma. Joni is left with brain damage by the brutal attack. | |
January 5 | 1941 | Paul Ogorzov | 23 year old Sonia Marke is murdered, she is thrown from a moving train after being assaulted. |
January 6 | 1982 | William Bonin | William G Bonin, the truck driving "Freeway Killer", convicted in Los Angeles. He had murdered 14 boys and young men. |
January 7 | 1946 | William Heirens |
6 year old Suzanne Degnan
is abducted from her bed, murdered and dismembered.
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1953 | Werner Boost |
Dr Lothar Serve is shot
in the head while sitting in a car with a male companion. Companion
survived to identify Boost and accomplice. | |
January 8 | 1973 | Edmund Kemper |
Cindy Schall is picked up
by Kemper, while hitch-hiking, he puts a gun to her side and tells her he just
wants to talk because he is suicidal. He drives for hours before
telling her to get into the boot of the car where he shoots her
instantly. He drives home, and has sex with the corpse in his room.
He dissects the body in the bathtub and throws the corpse into a
ravine. the next day he buries Cindy's head in the front garden
looking up into mother's window. |
January 9 | 1984 | Andrei Chikatilo |
17 year old Natalya
Shalapinina is murdered in Aviators' Park |
1984 | Bianchi and Buono | Angelo Buono is given a life sentence for his active role in the Hillside Stranglings | |
1967 | Albert DeSalvo | DeSalvo goes to trial for the Green Man assaults at Middlesex County Superior Court. The charges against DeSalvo are 10 counts of indecent assault and armed robbery, for which he pleads not guilty by virtue of insanity | |
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January 11 | 1872 | George Smith | George Smith - The Brides in the Bath serial killer is born |
January 12 | 1975 | Ted Bundy | Caryn Campbell was on a trip to Aspen Colorado with her fiancé and his children. She went back to their room to grab a magazine and was never seen alive again. On February 18th, she was found in a snow bank off of Owl Creek Rd, not far from the inn where she had been vacationing. She lay in the bloodstained snow bank nude, battered and cut. It was highly likely that she was raped. |
January 13 | 1928 | Earle Nelson | Nelson, known as the Gorilla murderer is hanged in Winnipeg Prison, begging for forgiveness. Yeah right buddy!!!! |
January 14 | 1990 | Andrei Chikatilo |
11 year old Andrei
Kravchenko is killed and mutilated. |
January 15 | 1977 | Ted Bundy |
Ted Bundy went on a murder spree, killing two and injuring three others Lisa Levy, 20 Lisa didn't wake to all the hysteria coming from the other girls' rooms. She would never awaken again. An officer found her without a pulse, and began CPR and cardio pulmonary massage. She died before she reached the hospital. Her right nipple had been almost bitten off, her left collarbone was broken, and she had been strangled. A Clairol hairspray bottle had been jammed into her vagina. There was a complete bite mark on her left buttock, which would later be used to Ted Bundy. Margaret Bowman, 21 Margaret went to bed around 2:30 am. She was found lying on her stomach in bed, her skull shattered as she slept. A nylon stocking had been pulled so tightly around her neck it was nearly broken. Her skull was so smashed that it was impossible to tell the injuries apart.Cheryl Thomas, Karen Chandler and Kathy Keiner survived the attack |
January 16 | 1988 | Jeffery Dahmer | James Doxtator a young Native American
disappeared from his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin January 16,
1988 at the age of 14 after his encounter with Dahmer. James's
criminal record consisted of Car theft, and prostitution, which is
most likely why he was approached by Dahmer.
In order to find "clients" James would stand outside of gay bars for he was too young to enter. On this unsuspecting day Dahmer would offer money to James to pose nude for photos. Obviously in the need for money James agreed and went back with Dahmer to his Grandmothers home. After sex, Dahmer then drugged and strangled the young boy. The remains were destroyed with the aid of
acid, and other remaining parts were crushed to
oblivion. |
1936 | Albert Fish |
Fish is executed in the
electric chair in Sing Sing Prison, for the strangulation
murder of Grace Budd in 1928. It took two attempts to actually kill
him as the first attempt was short-circuited by the needles Fish had
embedded in his genitals. | |
January 17 | 1954 | Christopher Worrell and James Miller | Worrell is born in South Australia |
January 18 | 1967 | Albert DeSalvo | The jury for DeSalvo's Green Man case retire to consider their verdict. They took 3 hours and 45 minutes to return a verdict of guilty on all charges. Judge Moynihan sentenced DeSalvo to a life term, to be carried out at Bridgewater Hospital. |
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January 20 | 1976 | Peter Sutcliffe | Emily Jackson, aged forty-two, was a part-time
prostitute.
One of the Jackson's favourite haunts was the Gaiety pub on Roundhay Road, Leeds. Peter Sutcliffe saw Emily Jackson some time after 7:00 pm and she said it would cost £5. After she got in his car, they drove on Roundhay Road about half a mile in the direction of the city centre, and parked on a piece of derelict land away from the lights of the main road. He later claimed that her overpowering cheap perfume caused him to hate her all the more, even though he didn't know her. Sutcliffe decided to pretend the car wouldn't start. He asked her to help him by holding a light while he looked under the bonnet at the engine. As she did so, he took a couple of steps back and hit her twice with his hammer and she crumpled to the road. Sutcliffe then dragged her body into a yard and pushed up her sweater, cardigan, and bra, and pulled down her pants. Taking a cross-ply Phillips screwdriver, and "seething with hate for her", he viciously stabbed her a total of 52 times in the neck, breasts, lower abdomen, and back. He then searched the yard until he found a piece of wood between two and three feet long and thrust it between her legs. |
1991 | Ivan Milat |
Simone Schmidl a German
native backpacking around Australia accepts a ride from Milat, she
is taken to Belanglo Forest, NSW and stabbed and shot.
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1977 | John Gacy | Nineteen-year-old John Szyc drives off in his 1971 Plymouth Satellite and is never seen alive again. | |
January 21 | 1978 | Peter Sutcliffe | Yvonne Pearson, a 21-year-old prostitute, was
murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper and her body was not found until
two months later.
Sutcliffe picked the woman up in his car and drove to a secluded area near his father's place of employment. When Yvonne Pearson had gotten out of the car, Sutcliffe hit her over the head several times with a heavy ball-pein hammer, which he had kept under his car seat. Almost immediately, another car appeared and pulled in alongside his. Sutcliffe pulled her body beside an old sofa, and, to stop her from moaning and making noise, he grabbed handfuls of horsehair from it and began stuffing it into her mouth and down her throat, at the same time as holding her nose. After a while, he released her nose to see if she was still making a noise, and as she was, grabbed it and held it again. Eventually, the car parked alongside his drove away, to Sutcliffe it "seemed like hours" before it finally left. Left alone with his victim, he dragged her trousers down, bared her breasts, and proceeded to start kicking her in the head and body. At one point he jumped down on her chest with the weight of both feet. Finally, he hid Yvonne Pearson by throwing soil, rubble, and turf on her body, and then covering the makeshift grave with the old sofa. |
January 22 | 1977 | Christopher Worrell and James Miller |
16 year old Juliet Mykyta
is picked up by Worrell and Miller outside the Ambassadors
Hotel/Motel, she is taken to a secluded area and raped and strangled
by Worrell. |
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January 24 | 1989 | Ted Bundy | Ted Bundy takes his final seat in the arms of Old Sparky at Starke Prison Florida. |
January 25 | 1971 | Charles Manson | Manson and three of his followers are found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. |
January 26 | 1968 | Jerry Brudos |
19 year old Linda Slawon,
a door to door salesgirl, knocks on the door She is confronted by
serial killer Jerry Brudos. He instantly knocks her unconscious and
pulls her inside the house. After strangling her and making sure she
is dead, he has sex with the corpse. He later dumps the body after
chopping off her left foot and keeping it in the fridge.
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January 27 | 1971 | Dean Corll | Corll abducts, rapes and murders 14 year old Donald Waldrop and 13 year old Jerry Waldrop |
January 28 | 1829 | William Burke and William Hare | Burke is hanged for his part in the murders. |
January 29 | 1974 | The Zodiac | After a three year absence, the Zodiac resumes his letters to the Chronicle. |
January 30 | 1989 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Dahmer is convicted of for child sexual assault. |
January 31 | 1974 | Ted Bundy | 21 year old Lynda Healy is abducted from her room at Washington State, when her friends realise she is missing they called the police. Upon investigation, the police pulled back her bedcovers and found a heavily blood stained pillowcase and blood-soaked sheets. Her nightgown was found stuffed in her closet, the neck line crusted with dried blood. The clothes she'd worn that day were missing. Not one trace of the attacker or her body could be found. |
1977 | Peter Sutcliffe | Helen Rytka is murdered in Huddersfield.
He told her to get into the back of the car, so with her back to him, trying to get into the rear of the car, Sutcliffe swung his hammer, but it caught the roof of the car and only grazed Helen Rytka, who assumed he had hit her with his hand. But he then hit her hard on the head with the hammer and she crumbled to the ground and began making a loud moaning noise. Sutcliffe grabbed Helen by the hair and dragged her to the end of the wood yard. Though she had stopped moaning, she wasn't dead yet, her eyes were open and her hands were up to ward off further blows. He then got on top of her and covered her mouth with his hand while she was still struggling. He told her to keep quiet and she would be all right. As she had got him aroused moments earlier he had sex with her. |
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