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National Day of Remembrance for
Murder Victims
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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 2001 to 2005:
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Shannon McNamara |
1029. Shannon McNamara (June 21, 1979 to June 12, 2001)
1030. Daniel Pearl
(October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist with American and
Israeli citizenship. He was kidnapped while working as the South Asia Bureau
Chief of The Wall Street Journal, based in Mumbai, India. He had gone to
Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard
Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently beheaded
by his captors.
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Charlotte Murray Pace |
1033. 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.
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The last picture: This photograph of Holly with Jessica - posing in their Manchester United football shirts - was taken shortly before they went missing |
1034-1035. 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.
1036.
Evonne Tuttle (March 22, 1965 to September 26, 2002)
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The Bali bombing memorial at the site of the original Paddy's Pub across the road from the site of the now demolished Sari club (to the left of this picture) |
1037-1238. 202 Victims
of the 2002 Bali Bombings on October 12, 2002.
1038. Laci Denise Peterson (May
4, 1975 to December 24, 2002)
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A photograph of Heather Guerrero, is seen in a case filled with mementos at the Guerrero family home in Gering, Neb. |
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Canny Ong |
1041. 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.
1042. 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.
1043. 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.
1044.
6-month-old Elias Ocean Johnson (August 22, 2004 to February
18, 2005)
1045.
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.
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Larry Elwood Lasater, Jr. |
1046. Police
Officer Larry Elwood Lasater Jr. (End of Watch: Sunday, April
24, 2005)
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Taylor Don Heintzelman |
1049-1050. 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 (11
September 1987 – 25 September 2005)
1052.
Miana Stewart
(November 28, 1990 to October 13, 2005)
1053.
PC Sharon Beshenivsky (14
January 1967–18 November 2005) was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot dead
by a criminal gang during a robbery in Bradford on 18 November 2005, becoming
the seventh female police officer in Great Britain to be killed on duty.
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