July
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July 1 | 1975 | Ted Bundy | Shelly Robertson, 24, was last seen at a gas station with a man in a beat up old truck. |
July 2 | 1931 | Peter Kurten | Kurten is executed by guillotine. He explains the intense pleasure he looks forward to when he hears his own blood gush from his severed head. |
July 3 | 1941 | Paul Ogorzov | Olga Opell is thrown from a train after being raped. |
1946 | Neville Heath | Doreen Marshall is beaten and mutilated. She si stabbed numerous times and her inner thighs are slashed. | |
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July 5 | 1969 | The Zodiac | Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22, and Michael Renault
Mageau, 19, are ambushed by the unknown killer as they sitin
Ferrin's car at Blue Rock Springs Golf Course. The killer fired a
volley of shots into the car. Michael survived the attack, the
killer heard him moaning as he walked away and so returned to fire
more shots into both victims. Michael survived the attack that
killed Darlene. After the murders a 911 call was received the caller said: "I want to report a double murder. If you go one mile east on Columbus Parkway to the public park, you will find kids in a brown car. They were shot with a 9mm Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Good bye" |
1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Jeremiah Weinberger meets Dahmer, the return to his apartment where Dahmer kills the twenty-three year old and dismembers him. | |
July 6 | 1980 | Wayne Williams | Anthony Carter, age 9, disappears while playing near his home he suffers multiple stab wounds |
July 7 | 1983 | Andrei Chikatilo | Ira Dunenkova, aged 13 is murdered by Chikatilo. The body is found mutilated at Aviators' Park near Rostov Airport. |
1985 | Richard Ramirez | 61 year old Joyce Nelson is beaten and strangled by Ramirez. | |
1988 | Robert Yates | Stacy Elizabeth Hawn, 23, is the first prostitute known to be killed by Yates. As part of a plea bargain to save his life Yates told investigators he killed Hawn, who was last seen alive in Seattle on July 7, 1988. Her skeletal remains were found five months later in Skagit County. | |
1998 | Robert Yates | Michelyn Derning, 47, is found under a hot tub cover by a transient in an area frequented by prostitutes in Spokane's East Central neighborhood. Cause of death is gunshot wound to the head. Unlike the other victims, she was seen alive a week before her body was discovered. The others were found weeks, or sometimes months, after they disappeared. Derning remains the only victim who was not raped and was not transported away from the murder scene and dumped in the outskirts of the city. | |
July 8 | 1974 | The Zodiac | The last letter by the Zodiac is posted to the Chronicle. |
July 9 | 1983 | Andrei Chikatilo | 24 year old Lyuda Kutsyuba is murdered and dumped in the country side outside of Shakhti |
July 10 | 1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Thirteen year old Dima Illarionov is murdered and dumped. |
1997 | Arthur Shawcross | Art marries his longtime sweetheart Clara Neal. | |
July 11 | 1958 | Peter Manuel | Manuel is hanged at Barlinnie for murder. |
July 12 | 1963 | Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | Ian
Brady and Myra Hindley murder their first victim, sixteen-year-old
Pauline Reade.
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July 13 | 1912 | George Smith | Bessie Williams (the surname, Smith was using at the time) is killed in the bath. |
July 14 | 1974 | Ted Bundy | 23 year old Janice Ott was last seen helping a friendly man in a cast. Denise Naslund, 18 walked off to the bathrooms around 4:30 pm. She never returned. Both of the women were abducted by Bundy at Lake Sammamish State park |
1924 | Albert Fish | Eight-year-old Francis McDonnell is abducted by Fish when his mother goes inside for a short period of time. He is beaten and sexually assaulted and strangled with the suspenders he had been wearing. | |
1988 | Andre Chikatilo | Zhenya Muratov aged 15 is killed near Donleskhoz | |
1997 | Fred and Rose West | A pathway built at the site of 25 Cromwell Street is opened to the public. | |
July 15 | 1953 | John Reg Christie | Christie is hanged in Pentonville Prison |
1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Oliver Lacy aged 23 is murdered at Dahmer's apartment. His head would be placed in the freezer along with many others and his heart in the freezer. | |
July 16 | 1983 | Andrei Chikatilo | 24 year old Lyuda Kutsyuba is murdered and his body dumped in the country side outside of Shakhti |
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July 18 | 1967 | John Collins | Mary Fleszar is murdered by Collins. |
July 19 | 1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | 23 year old Joseph Bradehoft is Dahmer's final victim. He is strangled and dismembered. His head is found in the freezer. |
1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Anna Lemesheva aged nineteen is murdered | |
July 20 | 1946 | Leonard Lake and Charles Ng | Lake born in San Francisco to a poor family. There is a history of mental instability in the family. (No Kidding) |
1985 | Richard Ramirez | Max and Lela Knieding are shot dead by
Ramirez. He also slashes Lela so badly that her head is almost
severed.
He then moves on to murder 35 year old Chainarong Khovananth and rapes his wife and sexually assaults their 8 year old son. | |
July 21 | 1979 | Wayne Williams | 14 year old Edward Smith was shot with a .22-caliber weapon. |
1941 | Paul Ogorzov | Ogorzov stands trial for murder. The trial only lasts the one day. He is to be executed. | |
July 22 | 1941 | Paul Ogorzov | Ogorzov is executed by beheading. |
1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Tracy Edwards (male) escapes from Dahmer at his apartment and flags down passing police. who return with the man to the apartment. There is remains of at least 11 bodies found in the apartment. | |
July 23 | 1942 | Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | Myra is born in Gorton, an industrial district of Manchester, she is the first child of Nellie (Hettie) and Bob Hindley |
1958 | Harvey Glatman | 24 year old Ruth Mercado is tied up, raped and murdered by Glatman. | |
July 24 | 1970 | The Zodiac | The "Mount Diablo" letter is sent to the Chronicle. |
1984 | Andrei Chikatilo | Sveta Tsana, 20 years old is murdered and dumped in Aviators' Park | |
July 25 | 1979 | Wayne Williams | 13-year-old Alfred Evans is strangled, like many
of Williams' victims he is black. |
1991 | Jeffrey Dahmer | Dahmer is charged with four counts of murder | |
1982 | Andrei Chikatilo | 14 year old Lyuba Volubuyeva in Krasnodar where Chikatilo is taking a hiatus | |
July 26 | 1984 | Ed Gein | Gein dies of cancer in Waupan State Hospital aged 78. |
July 27 | 1973 | Dean Corll | 17 year old Charles Cobble and 18 year old Marty Jones are murdered after being tortured by Corll. |
July 28 | 1990 | Andrei Chikatilo | 13 year old Vitya Petrov is stabbed and dumped in the Botanic Gardens. |
July 29 | 1987 | Andrei Chikatilo | Ivan Bilovetski, aged 12 is murdered by Chikatilo. |
1976 | David Berkowitz | Donna Lauira is shot and killed as she sits on her front steps talking to a friend. | |
July 30 | 1980 | Wayne Williams | Earl Terrell vanishes from a public swimming pool. |
1997 | Fred and Rose West | Home Secretary Jack Straw imposes a life tariff on Rose West's sentence. She is never to be released. | |
July 31 | 1969 | The Zodiac | The killer sends the same exact letter to the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vallejo Times-Herald confessing to the murders earlier in the month. Each letter also has 1/3 of a cryptogram the killer demands that it is to be published on each newspaper's front page by August 1. |
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Original Written: April 9, 1997
Updated: February 17, 2002