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Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947.
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Jane Nartare Beaumont, Arnna Kathleen Beaumont and Grant Ellis Beaumont, collectively referred to in the media as the Beaumont children, were three Australian siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia, on 26 January 1966 in a suspected abduction and murder.
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Chad Daybell is charged with the deaths of his wife Tammy Daybell, and his current wife Lori Vallow Daybell's two youngest children. Trial is set to begin in Idaho this Weds, April 10, 2024.
Chad Daybell’s trial is expected to last up to 10 weeks.
The 55-year-old self-published author is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Tammy Daybell, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and JJ’s big sister, Tylee Ryan, who was last seen a few days before her 17th birthday.
Lori Vallow Daybell sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of killing two of her kids.
Lori Vallow Daybell — who married Chad Daybell shortly after the deaths — was found guilty last year and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The couple claimed they could tell if people had been possessed by dark spirits that could turn them into “zombies,” former friend Melanie Gibb testified in court. They believed the only way to get rid of a zombie was to destroy the possessed person’s body by killing them.
The children’s bodies were found buried in Chad Daybell’s eastern Idaho yard in the summer of 2020.
Chad Daybell also is charged with insurance fraud in connection with Tammy Daybell’s death and two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and grand theft by deception in the children’s deaths.
If convicted, he could face the death penalty.
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LISK= Long Island Serial Killer
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Gilgo Beach Killer/MurdererRex Heuermann, 59, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of three women.
He is also suspected in the disappearance and death of a fourth woman, but that investigation remains ongoing.
A judge remanded him without bail.
*2 more murder charges were added on June 10, 2024
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JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.
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The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer, who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. The case has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case in American history.
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The Jonestown massacre was a mass murder-suicide of the Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their leader, Jim Jones, in 1978.
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Asha Jaquilla Degree went missing at the age of nine from Shelby, North Carolina, United States. In the early morning hours of February 14, 2000, for reasons unknown, she packed her bookbag, left her family home north of the city and began walking along nearby North Carolina Highway 18 despite heavy rain and wind.
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On June 14, 2015, sheriff's deputies in Greene County, Missouri, United States, found the body of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard face down in the bedroom of her house just outside Springfield, lying on the bed in a pool of blood from stab wounds inflicted several days earlier.
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Maura Murray, a university student studying nursing, disappeared from New Hampshire on the evening of February 9, 2004. aged 21. Her car was found abandoned on Route 112 by White Mountain National Forest near a village called Woodsville.
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On April 18, 2016, the body of fitness instructor Terri Leann "Missy" Bevers was found at Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas.
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In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in an off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho. On December 30, 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.
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On February 14, 2017, the bodies of Abigail Williams and Liberty German were discovered near the Monon High Bridge Trail, part of the Delphi Historic Trails in Delphi, Indiana, U.S., after the girls had disappeared from that trail the previous day
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The 1991 Austin yogurt shop killings are an unsolved quadruple homicide which took place at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas, United States on Friday, December 6, 1991.
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Jennifer Dulos is an American woman who went missing on May 24, 2019. Authorities suspect that she was killed in a violent attack at her home in New Canaan, Connecticut.
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Cheyann Klus was only 22 years when she disappeared over the Thanksgiving weekend. Later, it was recognized that she was in fact at her boyfriends residence in Chicago on December 2, 2017 and has never been seen or heard from again. Her boyfriend was questioned, and said that he was sleeping for 18 hours, and when he woke up, she was gone. Her best friend was the last one to actually speak on the weekend of Thanksgiving, and never got a response back from her. No one did.
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40-year old realtor Ana Knezevich from Fort Lauderdale, Florida disappeared in May 2024 having moved to Madrid, Spain.
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Mackenzie was last seen by family in the 300 block of Trent Crescent (Saskatoon, Canada) on December 21st, 2020. Her family members and police are concerned that she may be in a vulnerable state.
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Cousins 10-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins went out for a bike ride in Evansdale, Iowa, and never returned home to their families. Five months later on December 5, 2012, hunters in the Seven Bridges Wildlife Area of rural Bremer County came across two bodies, which were eventually identified as Elizabeth and Lyric — found approximately 25 miles from the Black Hawk County location where they originally went missing.