The Crime Web: Murder calendar

Twenty-two year old Mary Neilson, knocked on the Birnie's front door. She had spoken to David earlier that day at the spare parts place he worked about some tyres. He told her to come around to his place after work for a better deal. As she entered the house she was grabbed by David Birnie who was holding a knife to the young woman's throat. She was dragged to the bed, chained up and gagged. Catherine watched as David repeatedly raped the terrified young girl. Catherine knew to avoid detection the girl would have to die, but the couple hadn't actually discussed the issue. Later in the evening the Birnies drove Mary to Gleneagles National Park, David raped her again and then garrotted her with a rope and tree branch until she died. He then stabbed her to allow the body's gases to speed up decomposition. 'He had read that somewhere'.

October 1	1977	Peter Sutcliffe	Peter Sutcliffe followed Jean Jordan aged 21 into the darkness of the wasteland yards from his car that they arrived in. With the first blow from the hammer, Jean Jordan fell, moaning loudly. Sutcliffe then proceeded to hit her ten more times. There were others around so he could not finish the attack, however he returned to her later to try and find the brand new crisp £5 he had given her, but it was hidden in a secret pocket.
	1888	Jack the Ripper	Another Ripper letter arrives, this one describes the "Double Event" of the previous day.
October 2	1974	Ted Bundy	Ant\other Bundy victim is murdered. Nancy Wilcox is abducted by Bundy and murdered.
	1998	Angel Resendiz	Relatives find 87-year-old Leafie Mason dead in her house near a rail line in Cass County. She was beaten in the head with an antique iron. Resendiz leaves a partial palm print on a windowpane.
October 3	1972	Dean Corll	Wally Simoneaux aged 14 and 13 year old Richard Hembree are abducted and murdered.
October 4	1940	Paul Ogorzov	Gerda Dietich is stabbed and thrown from a moving train.
October 5	1970	The Zodiac	The killer sends a postcard to the Chronicle the card ispunched with 13 holes.
October 6	1936	Andrei Chikatilo	Chikatilo is born
	1977	Angelo Buono and Ken Bianchi	21 year old Elissa Kastin is raped and murdered at Buono's house then dumped on Chevy Chase Drive.
	1986	Catherine and David Birnie	Twenty-two year old Mary Neilson, knocked on the Birnie's front door. She had spoken to David earlier that day at the spare parts place he worked about some tyres. He told her to come around to his place after work for a better deal. As she entered the house she was grabbed by David Birnie who was holding a knife to the young woman's throat. She was dragged to the bed, chained up and gagged. Catherine watched as David repeatedly raped the terrified young girl. Catherine knew to avoid detection the girl would have to die, but the couple hadn't actually discussed the issue. Later in the evening the Birnies drove Mary to Gleneagles National Park, David raped her again and then garrotted her with a rope and tree branch until she died. He then stabbed her to allow the body's gases to speed up decomposition. 'He had read that somewhere'.
October 7	1965	Ian Brady and Myra Hindley	17 year old Edward Evans is murdered by the couple. The plan had been to entice Myra's brother-in-law into their crimes. He was witness the murder but went straight to the police with his story: Ian stood over him, his legs apart, holding an axe in his right hand. The young man groaned. Ian lifted the axe into the air, and brought it down upon the man's head. There was silence for a couple of seconds, and then the man groaned again, only it was much lower this time. Lifting the axe high above his head, Ian brought it down a second time. The man stopped groaning. The only sound he made was a gurgling noise. Ian then placed a cover over the youth's head and wrapped a piece of electric wire around his neck. As he repeatedly pulled on the wire, Ian kept saying "You fucking dirty bastard," over and over again. When the man finally stopped making any noise, Ian looked up and said to Myra, "That's it, it's the messiest yet."
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October 10	1969	The Zodiac	Taxi-driver Paul Stine picks up the killer at the corner of Mason and Geary Streets in Union Square, SF. The killer shoots Paul at point blank range at his right temple. The killer cuts a square from the man's shirt which is soaked in blood. He also takes the man's wallet.
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October 12	1969	The Zodiac	The killer sends another "This is the Zodiac speaking" letter claiming responsibility.
	1990	Aileen Wournos	Charles Humphries is murdered. he has 6 gun shot wounds to the body and one shot to the head.
October 13	1998	Robert Yates	Connie LaFontaine Ellis, 35, was found October 13, 1998, in a ditch near the 1700 block of 108th Street South in Tacoma. Her decomposed body has three plastic bags covering her head. Cause of death, one gunshot wound to the head. Like Melinda L. Mercer, Yates will probably be charged with her death in Pierce County.
October 14	1992	Andrei Chikatilo	Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 murders.
October 15	1992	Andrei Chikatilo	Chikatilo receives the death penalty for his crimes.
October 16	1946	Neville Heath	Heath is executed at Pentonville Prison for murder.
October 17	1977	Angelo Buono and Ken Bianchi	Yolanda Washington was raped and strangled. Her nude body was dumped near the Forest Lawn Cemetery
	1990	Andrei Chikatilo	Sixteen year old Vadim Gromov is murdered near the Donleskhoz station.
October 18	1974	Ted Bundy	17 year old Melissa Smith, was last seen as she left a friend she had been consoling. She was abducted by Bundy who left the young woman battered and nude. Her head had been severely beaten with perhaps a crowbar, and her body had been battered before death. She had been strangled, raped and sodomized.
	1966	John Reg Christie	Tim Evans is given a posthumous pardon for the murders of his wife and daughter.
	1992	Hadden Clark	Wearing women's clothing, Clark grabbed the spare key to Laura Houghteling’s home and entered around midnight. Using his gun to wake the sleeping woman, he demanded she call him Laura. He made her bathe and then began covering her mouth with duct-tape. The plan was to abduct her. However he covered her mouth and nose and Laura soon suffocated. He then stabbed her throat and, using scissors, cut her earlobes to retrieve the girl's earrings as souvenirs. He buried her at a stop on Interstate-270.
	2000	Robert Yates	Melody Ann Murfin, 43, who disappeared in 1998 and was always regularly included in the Spokane Serial Killer victim list. Her body was found October 18, 2000, buried in the side yard under the bedroom window of Yates' home. Although authorities thoroughly searched the yard after his arrest, they found Murfin's body after Yates provided them with a man pinpointing its location. The deal during Yates' trial had been that if authorities were able to locate the body of Murfin in the place that Yates had said she would be then they would not ask for the death penalty.
October 19	1986	Catherine and David Birnie	Susannah Candy, a young girl of only fifteen was hitch-hiking along the highway when she was picked up by the Birnies. Susannah thought that with a woman in the car she would be safe. She was wrong. As soon as she was in the car she was bound and gagged and taken back to the couple's house at knifepoint. Susannah was chained to the bed and raped by David. The couple drugged her with sleeping pills before Catherine strangled the girl with a rope.
October 20	1976	Ted Bundy	Bundy is charged with murder of Caryn Campbell.
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October 25	1975	Edmund Kemper	Kemper is charged with 8 counts of murder.
October 26	2000	Robert Yates	Yates is sentenced to 408 years in prison after confessing to 13 murders. "I pray that God will right the wrongs that I have committed and that justice will bring closure," the repentant prostitute killer told a small courtroom packed with sobbing relatives of his victims. Spokane County Superior Judge Richard Schroeder also fined Yates $60,000, and signed him over to the custody of the Pierce County sheriff where he is to face the charges of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the December 1997 slaying of Melinda Mercer and the September 1998 killing of Connie LaFontaine Ellis.
October 27	1970	The Zodiac	Halloween card sent to the Chronicle.
	1983	Andrei Chikatilo	19 year old Vera Shevkun is murdered and dumped in an industrial area outside of Shakhti
	1974	Ted Bundy	The bludgeoned and strangled remains of Melissa Smith were found in Summit Park. She had been raped and sodomised before her murder. Her skull had been fractured by an instrument similar to a crowbar.
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October 30	1965	The Zodiac	Finding herself with car trouble 18-year-old student Cheri Jo Bates is attacked. She is slashed across her chest, stabbed once in the back, and seven times across the throat. The wounds to Cheri's throat nearly decapitate her, severing her larynx, jugular vein, and carotid artery. She had also been strangled, beaten, and slashed about the face. Near Cheri's body a paint-spattered man's Timex watch with a broken 7" wristband, stopped at around 12:23 was found.
	1975	Peter Sutcliffe	Sutcliffe spotted Wilma McCann thumbing for a lift. He pulled over and she jumped in. Sutcliffe suggested that they do it on the grass, and she stormed off up the hill. He put his coat on the grass, while he concealed his hammer in his right hand. She then sat down on the coat, unfastened her trousers, and sneered, "Come on, get it over with." Sutcliffe replied, "Don't worry, I will." and promptly struck her several times with his hammer.
	1977	Angelo Buono and Ken Bianchi	15 year old Judy Miller is murdered after being raped and sodomized. The bruises on her neck was evidence that she was strangled. She had ligature marks on both wrists and ankles as well as her neck. Insects feasted on her pale skin. The body was placed deliberately where it would be found quickly. There was no indication that the victim had been dragged to the spot where she lay.
October 31	1974	Ted Bundy	Laura Aime, aged 17 had gone to a cafe on Halloween night and, bored with the activity there, left around midnight and headed to a park. Where she disappeared. Her face was beaten beyond recognition and she was found nude. She had been strangled and apparently beaten with an iron crowbar. She had been sexually assaulted.
	1990	Andrei Chikatilo	Vitya Tishchenko joins the rising number of victims of Chikatilo's blood thirst. The sixteen year old is murdered in Shakhti