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National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/national-day-of-remembrance-for-murder.html]
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For this year’s 2015 National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims,
Unit 1012 will remember more than 121 murdered victims + victims of war crimes
from the United States and around the world. Let us remember how they lived on
this earth and treasure their memories.
"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a part of us as we remember them."- Gates of Prayer
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William McKinley
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1. William McKinley
(January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901), the 25th President of
the United States.
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Janusz Korczak and the children, memorial
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2. Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879
– August 1942), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and
pediatrician known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary
Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as
director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused freedom and stayed with his
orphans when the institution was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination
camp, during the Grossaktion Warsaw
of 1942.
3. The
Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg (3 December 1875 – 5 November 1943) was a
German Roman Catholic priest and theologian, who died while in the custody of
forces of the Third Reich. He has been awarded the title of Righteous among the Nations, and has been
beatified by the Catholic Church.
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Claus
von Stauffenberg’s Quote
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://izquotes.com/quote/176861]
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4. Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,
commonly referred to as Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs ˈʃɛŋk
ˈɡʁaːf fɔn ˈʃtaʊfənbɛɐ̯k]), Claus von Stauffenberg, or Colonel Claus von
Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944), was a German army officer and
aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of
1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party
from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster,
he was one of the central figures of the German
Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht.
For his involvement in the movement he was executed by firing squad shortly
after the failed attempt known as Operation Valkyrie.
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Anne Frank’s Quote
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5. Anne Frank
A.K.A Annelies Marie "Anne"
Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk], German
pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk], pronunciation (help·info); 12 June 1929 – early
March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her
wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several
plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived
most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German
national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame
posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
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The Hall of Names containing Pages of
Testimony commemorating the millions of Jews who were murdered during the
Holocaust.
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Ghetto Litzmannstadt:
Children rounded up for deportation to the Kulmhof death camp
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Solomon Mikhoels
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6. Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (16 March [O.S. 4
March] 1890 – 13 January 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic
director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels
served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the Second
World War. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Semitic
line after the War, Mikhoels' position as a leader of the Jewish community
led to increasing persecution from the Soviet state. In 1948, Mikhoels was
murdered on the orders of Stalin and his body was run over to create the
impression of a traffic accident.
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Night
of the Murdered Poets
Clockwise from top left: Peretz Markish, Itsik
Feffer, Leyb Kvitko, Dovid Hofshteyn and Dovid Bergelson
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7 to 19. On this date, August 12, 1952, 13 prominent Jewish
intellectuals were murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. This case is also
known as The Night of The Murdered Poets.
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Leib
Kvitko
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Leib Kvitko
(Russian: Лейб Квитко,
Yiddish: לייב קוויטקאָ)
(October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an
author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one
of the editors of Eynikayt (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine.
He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members
of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. Kvitko was
rehabilitated in 1955.
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Emmett Till in a
photograph taken by his mother on Christmas Day 1954, about eight months before
his murder. When the photo ran in the Jackson Daily News Till and his
mother were given "a profound pathos in the flattering photograph",
which "humanized the Tills".
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20. Emmett Louis Till (July 25,
1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in
Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till
was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in
the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the
married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later,
Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's
great-uncle's house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged
out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his
body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin
fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till's body was
discovered and retrieved from the river.
21. John F. Kennedy A.K.A John
Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known as
"Jack" or by his initials JFK,
was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 1961 until he
was assassinated in November 1963.
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This is a photograph
of Etan Patz taken by his father, Stanley K. Patz, on September 16th, 1978
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22. Etan Kalil Patz (October 9, 1972 - declared
legally dead in 2001) was an American child who was six years old when
he disappeared in Lower Manhattan, New York City, on May 25, 1979. He is the
most famous missing child of New York City. His disappearance helped spark the
missing children's movement, including new legislation and various methods for
tracking down missing children, such as the milk-carton campaigns of the
mid-1980s. Etan was the first ever missing child to be pictured on the side of
a milk carton.
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| Terri Winchell |
23. Terri Winchell (1963 to January 8, 1981)
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Daniel J. Faulkner
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24. Daniel J. Faulkner (December
21, 1955 – December 9, 1981): Faulkner was the youngest of seven children in an
Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, who drove
a trolley car, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother
went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. Faulkner
dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate's degree in
criminal justice while serving in the United States Army. In 1975, he left the
army, worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia
Police Department. Aspiring to be a city prosecutor, Faulkner enrolled in
college to earn his bachelor's degree in criminal justice. He married in 1979.
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Jeanine Nicarico
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25. The Jeanine Nicarico murder case was a complex
and influential homicide investigation and prosecution which took place in
DuPage County, Illinois that sent two men to prison who were later exonerated
and released, and contributed to the death penalty moratorium imposed by
then-Governor George H. Ryan.
In July
2009, Brian
Dugan pleaded guilty to the murder of Nicarico after having previously
confessed to the crime. Dugan is jailed on two unrelated murder charges, one of
a 27-year old woman and one which began with the abduction of two seven-year
old girls, one of whom escaped and the other of whom was raped and murdered by
Dugan. On November 11, 2009, after deliberating about 10 hours over two days, a
DuPage County jury sentenced Brian Dugan to death for the rape and murder of
Jeanine Nicarico 26 years earlier.
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Leslie Shelley
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26. Leslie Shelley (May 1969 to April 22, 1984)
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Nurse Donna Schnorr
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27. Nurse Donna Schnorr (1957 to July 15, 1984).
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Reverend Jean Ernest
Darter
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Kermit's 24-year-old sister, Dietra, and his nephews, 8-year-old Damon
and 13-year-old Damani, were in the wrong place at the wrong time. [PHOTO
SOURCE: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=100513/KermitAlexander]
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29-32. Kermit Alexander’s
mother, sister and two nephews, ages 8 and 13, were murdered in South Central Los Angeles during a home invasion by members of the Rollin 60’s
Neighborhood Crips, whose intended victims lived two doors away.
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Melvyn Otterstrom
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| Anita Cobby |
34. Anita Lorraine Cobby (2 November 1959 – 2
February 1986) was an Australian registered nurse and beauty pageant winner. At
26 years old, she was abducted from Blacktown, and raped and murdered at nearby
Prospect, on the evening of 2 February 1986. Five men, including three brothers,
were convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, never to be
released.
35. On this date, July 20, 1987, 16-year-old Kevin Swaney
and his friend, Carlos Froyan Cruz-Ramos were murdered by Daniel Wayne Cook in
Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Justice came 25 years later, when Daniel Cook was
put to death by lethal injection in Arizona on August 8, 2012.
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Janine Balding
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36. The murder of Janine Balding
was the killing of a woman in New South Wales, Australia by multiple
perpetrators. 20-year-old Janine Balding was raped and murdered by a gang of
five youths on 8 September 1988. Balding's murder is often compared to the 1986
murder of Sydney nurse Anita Cobby.
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Debra Dietz
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37. Debra Dietz and her
father, Eugene were murdered by Joseph Wood on August 7, 1989. The Killer was
executed in Arizona on July 23, 2014.
38. Officer Mark MacPhail (END OF WATCH: AUGUST 19, 1989)
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Denise Collins
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39. Denise Collins (1963 to October 3, 1991)
41-42. The murder of Jennifer "Jenny" Ertman and Elizabeth Peña,
two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, occurred on June 24, 1993. The murder of
the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime
and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims
to view the execution of the murderers.
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Polly
Klaas
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43. Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 –
October 1, 1993) is an American murder victim whose case gained national
attention. At the age of twelve, she was kidnapped at knife point from her
mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California, on
October 1, 1993. She was later strangled. Richard Allen Davis was
convicted of her murder in 1996 and sentenced to death.
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Baby Brandon Baugh
(October 16, 1993 to January 21, 1994)
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44.
Brandon Duane Baugh (October 16,
1993 to January 21, 1994)
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Tracie Joy McBride
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45. Private Tracie Joy McBride
was murdered by Louis Jones, Jr on February18, 1995. He was executed by lethal
injection in Texas on March 18, 2003. We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will
remember how Tracie live and not remember how she died. We encourage people to
donate money to the Tracie
Joy McBride Scholarship Fund.
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Jimmy Ryce
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46. Samuel James "Jimmy" Ryce
(September 26, 1985 – September 11, 1995) was a child who was abducted, raped
and killed by Juan Carlos Chavez in Redland, Florida, United States. On
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Chavez was executed at Florida State Prison in
North Florida.
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47. Thien Minh Ly, a Vietnamese
American who was murdered by Gunner Lindberg due to a hate crime on January 28,
1996.
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Stacey Lee Stites
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49. Michael Lyons (September
28, 1987 to May 17, 1996)
50. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey
(August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty pageant queen
who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's
body was found in the basement of the family home about eight hours after she
was reported missing during a police search of her home. She had been struck on
the head and strangled. The case remains unsolved, even after several grand
jury hearings, and continues to generate public and media interest.
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Laura Kate Smither
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51. Laura Kate Smither (April 23,
1984 - April 3, 1997).
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Young death ...
Jennifer Neal (aged 6 in the photo) was 17 when she died of a heroin overdose
in 1997. Her mother Beverley says she prays that Andrew Chan and Myuran
Sukumaran die for their role in drug trafficking. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied
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52. Jennifer Neal, a victim of heroin overdose who
died in 1997
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53. James Byrd, Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998)
was an African-American who was murdered by three men, of whom at least two
were white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry,
Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John King dragged Byrd for three miles behind a
pick-up truck along an asphalt road. Byrd, who remained conscious throughout
most of the ordeal, was killed when his body hit the edge of a culvert,
severing his right arm and head. The murderers drove on for another mile before
dumping his torso in front of an African-American cemetery in Jasper. Byrd's
lynching-by-dragging gave impetus to passage of a Texas hate crimes law. It later led to the federal
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention
Act, commonly known as the Matthew Shepard Act, which passed on
October 22, 2009, and which President Barack Obama signed into law on October 28,
2009.
Lawrence
Russell Brewer was executed by lethal injection for this crime by the state of
Texas on September 21, 2011. King remains on Texas' death row while appeals are
pending, while Berry was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Melissa Trotter
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54. Melissa Trotter (November 26, 1979 to December8, 1998)
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Rachel
Joy Scott
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55. Rachel Joy Scott
(August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student and the first murder
victim of the Columbine
High School massacre, which claimed the lives of 12 students and a
teacher, as well as both perpetrators.
She has
since been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge,
a nationwide school outreach program for the prevention of teen violence, based
on her life and writings.
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Cassie René Bernall
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56. Cassie René Bernall
(November 6, 1981 - April 20, 1999) was a student killed in the Columbine
High School massacre, at age 17.
57. Teresa Del Rio (November 8, 1978 to June 7, 1999)
Teresa Del
Rio was a student at Glendale Community College and born in Los Angeles to
parents Anna Soto Del Rio and Fernando Del Rio. She attended Eagle Rock
Montessori Pre-School; Glendale Lutheran School; 32nd Street Middle School and
Eagle Rock High School. Teresa performed in the Eagle Rock Recreation Center’s
ballet Folklorico, sang in the Glendale Lutheran Children’s Choir and played
piano. She worked as an extra in television and motion pictures. Among her
credits were the “New Munster TV series”, The Music Video for “The Faculty,”
KHJ-TV “Children’s Christmas specials,” Public affairs special “Instant Crib
Death Syndrome” and others. Her major extra film credits included “Terminator
II,” “American Me,” and “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me.” From the age of two
Teresa traveled every year with her parents and had visited most of the leading
museums in Europe, Mexico, Canada and others in the United States. Teresa
recently completed a 16 week course in Computer Science at the Mexican American
opportunity foundation and worked for Centro De Ninos in Los Angeles. Ms. Del
Rio was currently enrolled in Glendale Community College to attain an AA degree
and later planned to attend UCLA or San Diego State University to major in Sociology.
Teresa was the only child of Anna and Fernando Del Rio.
58-59. Kleber Santos and his wife, Lilian – A Brazilian couple who were
murdered by Michael Adam Sigala on August 22, 2000. He was executed by the
state of Texas on March 2, 2010.
60. Bobbie Jo Barry (February 2, 1993 to August 27,
2000)
61. Charlotte Murray Pace (June 28, 1979 to May 31, 2002)
62. Samantha Bree Runnion
(July 26, 1996 – July 15, 2002) was a five-year-old American murder victim. She
was born in Boston, Massachusetts on July 26, 1996, and her family were
residents of Stanton, California.
63-64. On 4 August 2002, two English girls were murdered
in the village of Soham, Cambridgeshire. The victims were Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman,
both aged 10.
Ian Kevin
Huntley, a caretaker at local secondary school Soham Village College, was
convicted in December 2003 of the girls' murder and sentenced to two terms of
life imprisonment, with the High Court later setting a minimum term of 40
years. Huntley had disposed of the bodies near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, where
they were discovered on 17 August 2002 by a local farm worker.
His
girlfriend, Maxine Ann Carr, was the girls' teaching assistant at St Andrew's
Primary School. Carr had provided Huntley with a false alibi and was sentenced
to 21 months in prison for perverting the course of justice.
65. Dru Katrina Sjodin (September 26, 1981 – c.
November 22, 2003) was a murder victim who was abducted from the Columbia Mall
parking lot in Grand Forks, North Dakota, by Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., on
November 22, 2003. Her disappearance garnered great media coverage throughout
the United States and prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex
Offender Public Registry.
66. Kim Sun-il
(September 13, 1970 – c. June 22, 2004) was a South Korean translator and
Christian missionary who was kidnapped and executed in Iraq.
67. Huang Na
(simplified Chinese: 黄娜;
traditional Chinese: 黃娜;
pinyin: Huáng Nà) (26 September 1996 – 10 October 2004) was an eight-year-old
Chinese national living at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre in Singapore, who
disappeared on 10 October 2004. Her mother, the police and the community
conducted a three-week-long nationwide search for her. After her body was
found, many Singaporeans attended her wake and funeral, giving bai jin (帛金 bójīn, contributions
towards funeral expenses) and gifts. In a high-profile 14-day trial,
Malaysian-born Took Leng How (Chinese: 卓良豪; pinyin: Zhuó Liángháo), a vegetable packer at the
wholesale centre, was found guilty of murdering her and hanged after an appeal
and a request for presidential clemency failed.
68.
Jessica Marie Lunsford
(October 6, 1995 – February 27, 2005) was a nine-year-old American girl who was
abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida in the early morning of February
24, 2005. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later
murdered by 46-year-old John Couey who lived nearby. The media covered the
investigation and trial of her killer extensively. On August 24, 2007,
a judge in Inverness, Florida sentenced Couey, a convicted sex offender, to
death for kidnapping, sexually battering, and first degree murder of Jessica.
69. Police
Officer Larry Elwood Lasater Jr. (End of Watch: Sunday, April 24, 2005)
70-71. On this date, June 20, 2005, a couple, Javad Jay Marshall Fields and Vivian Wolfe
were both gunned down in Aurora, Colorado.
Sally Anne Bowman
born (11 September 1987 – 25 September 2005), an up and coming British model.
She was robbed, raped and murdered near her home in Croydon, South London, two
weeks after her 18th birthday.
73. Cameron Donovan Hamlin
(May 10, 1981 to September 24, 2006)
74. Jodi Sanderholm (September
26, 1987 to January 5, 2007)
Jodi was
born Sept. 26, 1987, in Arkansas City, to Brian J. and Cindy A. (Shanks)
Sanderholm. Jodi attended Arkansas City schools, graduating from Arkansas City
High School in 2006. She was one of four valedictorians in her graduating
class. While in high school, Jodi was a member of the National Honor Society, a
Kansas State Scholar, a Kansas Board of Regents Scholar and earned the
Outstanding Physics Student of the Year Award presented by David Stinemetze.
She was a member of the Ark City High School Dance Team for four years. Two of
those four years she was the captain. Jodi was a member/instructor of Ark City
Dance and a Universal Dance Association Instructor. After high school, she
attended Cowley College where she studied pre-pharmacy. While at Cowley, she
was a member of the Cowley Tigerette Danceline.
75-76. Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, were an unmarried couple
from Knoxville, Tennessee. They were kidnapped the evening of January 6, 2007
when Christian's vehicle was carjacked, and taken to a rental house, where they
were raped, tortured, and murdered. Five people were arrested and charged in
the case. The grand jury indicted four of the suspects on counts of capital
murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, and theft, while a fifth was indicted on
federal charges of carjacking.
Of the four charged at the state
level, three (Letalvis D. Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, and George Thomas) had
multiple prior felony convictions. After a jury trial, Lemaricus Davidson was
convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Letalvis Cobbins and
George Thomas were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
of parole. Vanessa Coleman was convicted and sentenced to 53 years in prison
for facilitating the crimes, and Eric Dewayne Boyd was convicted and sentenced
to 18 years in federal prison for being an accessory after the fact to
carjacking.
The state convictions were all
initially set aside because of misconduct by the presiding judge, who has since
been disbarred. Retrials were originally slated for the summer and fall of
2012. The orders for retrials of Davidson and Cobbins were subsequently overturned
by the Tennessee State Supreme Court, and their convictions and sentences
stand. The Coleman and Thomas retrials resulted in convictions, but with
reduced sentences. Coleman's sentence was reduced to 35 years, and Thomas'
sentence was reduced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
77-79. The Cheshire,
Connecticut, home invasion murders occurred on July 23, 2007, when a
mother and her two daughters were murdered during a home invasion in Cheshire,
Connecticut. The Hartford Courant referred to the case as "possibly the
most widely publicized crime in the state's history". In 2010, Steven
Hayes was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death. His accomplice,
Joshua Komisarjevsky, was found guilty on October 13, 2011, and sentenced to
death on January 27, 2012. In August 2015, the state of Connecticut abolished
the death penalty, which means that both Hayes and Komisarjevsky would have
their death sentences turned into life sentences.
80-82. Neal
Williams and his two sons, Ian and Devon (Died: August 8, 2007)
83. Rie Isogai (磯谷 利恵 Isogai Rie, 20 July 1976 – 25 August
2007) was a 31-year-old Japanese office clerk who was robbed and murdered in
Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the night of 24 August 2007 by three men who became
acquainted through an underground message board. Her murder led to a signature
campaign to call for the death penalty on the three murderers, one of whom was
sentenced to death on 18 March 2009, and two of the murderers were sentenced to
life in prison on 13 April 2011.
84. Jamiel Shaw II (December 22, 1990 to March 2, 2008)
85-86. The Murder of Jan Paweł Pietrzak and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak relates to the events
surrounding the 2008 deaths of United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jan
Paweł Pietrzak (March 13, 1984 – October 15, 2008) and his wife Quiana
Jenkins-Pietrzak (February 16, 1982 - October 15, 2008).
87. Sandeep Unnikrishnan (15 March 1977 – 28 November 2008)
was an officer in the Indian Army serving in the elite Special Action Group of the National Security Guards. He was killed
in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. He was
consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace time gallantry
award, on 26 January 2009.
89.
Shaniya Davis (June 14, 2004 to November 16, 2009)
90.
Ariel Allison (July 25, 1990 to July 4, 2009)
91.
The
murder of Jim Pouillon occurred on
September 11, 2009, when pro-life activist James Pouillon was shot dead while
protesting abortion in front of Owosso High School in Owosso, Michigan. It was
evidently the first time an activist had ever been murdered while protesting
abortion. Soon after the shooting, police were alerted to another murder, that
of local businessman Michael Fuoss, which they linked to Pouillon's killer.
Police arrested Harlan James Drake and charged him with both crimes. Drake was
later declared fit to stand trial, where he was convicted of two counts of
first-degree murder, and was subsequently sentenced to two life sentences.
92.
Fabiana Malave (1988/1989
to October 29, 2009)
93.
Eloy Conrad Duran III (November 10, 1984 to January 3, 2010)
94. Joanna Clare "Jo" Yeates (19 April 1985 - 17
December 2010) was a 25-year-old landscape architect from Hampshire, England,
who went missing on 17 December 2010 in Bristol after an evening out with work
colleagues. Her body was subsequently discovered on 25 December 2010 in
Failand, North Somerset; post-mortem analysis determined that she had died from
strangulation. Vincent Tabak was eventually found guilty of her murder. The
murder inquiry, named "Operation Braid", became one of the largest
police investigations in the Bristol area. The case dominated news coverage in
the United Kingdom as Yeates' family reached out through social network
services and press conferences for assistance from the public. Rewards
totalling £60,000 were offered for information leading to those responsible for
Yeates' death. The police initally suspected Yeates' landlord, who lives in the
same building, and arrested him, but soon released him on bail. Vincent Tabak,
a 32-year-old Dutch engineer and neighbour of Yeates, was arrested on 20
January 2011. Media attention at the time centred on the filming of a
re-enactment of her disappearance for the BBC's crime programme, Crimewatch.
After two days of questioning, he was charged on 22 January 2011 with Yeates'
murder. On 5 May 2011, Tabak, now aged 33, pleaded guilty to Yeates's
manslaughter, but denied murdering her. On 20 September he appeared at Bristol
Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing, attending in person having previously
appeared from prison via videolink. His trial started on 4 October 2011. Tabak
was found guilty of murder on 28 October 2011 at Bristol Crown Court, and
subsequently sentenced to serve a minimum of 20 years in prison.
95.
Correctional Officer Jayme Biendl (February 6, 1976 to January 29, 2011)
96. Reverend Clint Dobson (July 15, 1982 to March 3,
2011)
97-101. The
Itamar attack, also called the Itamar massacre, was an attack on
a Jewish family in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank that took
place on 11 March 2011, in which five members of the same family were murdered
in their beds. The victims were the father Ehud (Udi) Fogel, the mother Ruth Fogel, and three of their six children—Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, the
youngest, a three-month-old infant. According to David Ha'ivri, and as reported
by multiple sources the infant was decapitated. The settlement of Itamar had
been the target of several murderous attacks before these killings.
104. Jessie Cate (6 March 1996 to 12
December 2011)
105. Saskia Burke (November 6, 1993 to December
20, 2011)
107. Alexander Kamara Jr. (January 7, 1996 to July 8, 2012)
109. American Sniper - Christopher Scott "Chris" Kyle (April 8, 1974 − February
2, 2013) was a United States Navy SEAL and the most lethal sniper in U.S.
military history with 160 confirmed kills. Kyle served four tours in the Iraq
War and was awarded several commendations for acts of heroism and meritorious
service in combat. He received two Silver Star Medals, five Bronze Star Medals,
one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, two Navy and Marine Corps
Achievement Medals and numerous other unit and personal awards.
Kyle was
honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2009 and wrote a bestselling
autobiography, American Sniper, which was published in January 2012. A film
adaptation of Kyle's autobiography, directed by Clint Eastwood, was released in
December 2014. On February 2, 2013, Kyle was shot and killed at a shooting
range near Chalk Mountain, Texas, with his friend, Chad Littlefield. The man
accused of killing them, Eddie Ray Routh, was found guilty of both murders and
later sentenced to life in prison without parole.
110.
Andrea Kruger (November
21, 1979 to August 21, 2013)
Obituary
BELTON, Delbert "Shorty" (Age 88) Passed
away on August 22, 2013. He was born on December 21, 1924, in Sunnyside, WA to
Luther and Marion Belton. Shorty was one of 13 children in his family. He
served in the army during WWII. Shorty was a 30 year employee at Kaiser
Aluminum Plant at Trentwood. He is survived by his son Bill and wife Bobbie,
grandchildren; Carlton and Dana and great-granddaughter; Natasha. A graveside
service will be held on Thursday, August 29th at noon at Greenwood Memorial
Terrace. A reception will follow at Heritage Funeral Home.
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Jolissa Rangel (October
29, 1992 to October 25, 2013)
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112. Jolissa
Rangel (October
29, 1992 to October 25, 2013)
113.
Luke Batty (20 June 2002
to 12 February 2014)
On this date, 12 February
2014, 11-year old Grade 6 school boy Luke Batty was bashed with a cricket bat
and was stabbed multiple times at his local cricket practice in Tyabb on the
Mornington Peninsula in Victoria was murdered by his father Greg Anderson, who
was later shot dead by Victoria Police. Anderson apparently committed the crime
as retribution against ex-wife Rosie Batty. The crime attracted both national
and world-wide attention.
114. Jack O’Brien (1 April 1989 to 17 July
2014)
The family of Jack O’Brien,
of Sydney, issued a statement describing the devastation of learning that the
25-year-old was among the MH17 victims.
“The life of our beloved
son and brother, Jack, has been ended so suddenly. We are devastated at his
loss, as are Jack’s extended family and friends. Jack, just 25 years old, was
returning from a fantastic seven week holiday in Europe. He was loved so much.”
O’Brien was a keen Western
Sydney Wanderers fan who helped found the Red and Black Bloc supporters club.
115-116.
Arjen Ryder (April
23, 1960 to July 17, 2014) & Yvonne Ryder (October 20, 1960 to July 17, 2014). Mr Arjen Ryder, 54, and his wife
Yvonne, 53, were two of the West Australians who lost their lives on flight MH17 in
the Ukraine plane disaster on July 17, 2014.
117. James Wright "Jim" Foley (October 18, 1973 – c.
August 19, 2014) was an American journalist
and video reporter. While working as a freelance war
correspondent during the Syrian
Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was
beheaded in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq,
thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (ISIL).
Before he became a journalist, Foley
was an instructor for Teach For America. In 2009, he became an embedded
journalist with USAID-funded
development projects in Iraq, and in 2011 he wrote for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes in
Afghanistan, and GlobalPost in Libya. There, he was captured by Gaddafi
loyalist forces and held for 44 days. The next year, James Foley was captured
in Syria while he was working for Agence France-Presse and GlobalPost.
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Lacie LaRose (February
2, 1996 to May 3, 2015)
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118.
Laci C. LaRose (February
2, 1996 - May 3, 2015)
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Angeline, an 8-year-old who disappeared from
her Sanur home in Jl. Tuberose, Sanur at approximately 3.00 pm on Saturday 16
May.
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119.
Angelina,
Bali’s Missing Child (May
19, 2007 to May 16, 2015)
120-121.
Mayci Breaux (September
25, 1993 to July 23, 2015) and Jillian Johnson (March 4, 1982 to July 23, 2015).
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