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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] |
For this year’s 2017 National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims,
Unit 1012 will remember more than 1500 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
For this observance, we will present murdered victims
from 1981 to 1990:
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| Seventeen-year-old Terri Lynn Winchell |
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| Photo of Adam John Walsh, late son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh. |
936. Adam John Walsh (November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981) was
an American boy who was abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood
Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981, and later found murdered and
decapitated. Walsh's death earned national publicity. His story was made into
the 1983 television film Adam, seen by 38 million people in its original
airing. Walsh's father, John Walsh, became an advocate for victims of violent
crimes and the host of the television program America's Most Wanted.
Convicted serial killer Ottis Toole
confessed to the boy's murder but was never convicted for this specific crime
due to loss of evidence and a recanted confession. Toole died of liver failure
on September 15, 1996. Although no new evidence has come forth, on December 16,
2008, police announced that the Walsh case was now closed as they were
satisfied that Toole was the murderer.
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| Officer Daniel Faulkner |
937. 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 |
938. 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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| Marsalee Ann Nicholas |
939. Marsalee Ann Nicholas
(March 6, 1962 to November 30, 1983)
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| Leslie Shelley |
940. Leslie Shelley (May 1969 to April 22, 1984)
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| Donna Schnorr, a 27-year-old nurse from Geneva. |
943-946. 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 had joined a Green Beret unit. (Otterstrom family photo) |
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| Anita Cobby |
948. 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.
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| 16-year-old Kevin Swaney |
949. 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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Sian Kingi
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951. Sian Kingi (16
December 1974 – 27 November 1987) was a 12-year-old New Zealand girl of Māori
descent who was abducted, raped and killed in Noosa, Queensland, in 1987.
Barrie Watts and Valmae Beck, a married couple, were convicted in 1988 of the
much-publicised crime and were each sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Janine Balding
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952. 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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| Ann Marie Harrison |
954. 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.
955. Officer Mark MacPhail (END OF WATCH: August 19, 1989)
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| Jill Frey |
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