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Incidents of violence against girls in the United States
- Lawrence Bittaker and Roy NorrisLawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, two men later known as the Tool Box Killers, kidnapped five teenage girls in Southern California during 1979. None of the five survived. Everything happened within a span of just five months. The nickname…
- Kidnapping of Jayme ClossThe kidnapping of Jayme Closs began at 12:53 a.m. on the 15th of October 2018, at a home just outside Barron, Wisconsin. Within minutes, a 21-year-old named Jake Thomas Patterson had killed her parents, James and Denise Closs. He left with…
- Larry NassarLarry Nassar, whose full name is Lawrence Gerard Nassar, was born on the 16th of August 1963 and trained as an osteopathic physician. For decades, parents and athletes trusted him with the care of young bodies. In 2016, after an…
- Atlanta murders of 1979–1981The Atlanta murders of 1979 to 1981, often called the Atlanta child murders, took at least 28 lives between July 1979 and May 1981. The victims were African-American children, adolescents and adults, and the killings unfolded across a…
- West Nickel Mines School shootingThe West Nickel Mines School shooting began with a question about a missing part called a clevis pin. On the 2nd of October 2006, a man backed a pickup truck up to an Amish one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township,…
- 1991 Austin yogurt shop murdersThe 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders began with a fire. Shortly before midnight on Friday, the 6th of December 1991, a patrolman with the Austin Police Department radioed his dispatcher. Flames were coming from an I Can't Believe It's…
- Murder of Shanda SharerThe body of Shanda Sharer was found beside a country road in Indiana on the morning of the 11th of January 1992. Two brothers from Canaan, Donn and Ralph Foley, were driving toward Jefferson Proving Ground to go hunting. They noticed…
- Murder of Sylvia LikensSylvia Likens was 16 years old when she died in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 26th of October 1965. Days before, she had confided in her younger sister, Jenny: "Jenny, I know you don't want me to die, but I'm going to die. I can tell it."…
- Albert FishAlbert Fish was caught because of a letter he mailed in November 1934 to the mother of a girl he had killed six years earlier. Mrs. Budd could not read, so her son read the pages aloud to her. The letter carried no signature. Police traced…
- Jeffrey R. MacDonaldAt 3:42 in the morning on the 17th of February 1970, a dispatcher at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, picked up a call from Jeffrey R. MacDonald, an Army physician with the Special Forces. His voice was faint. "Help! Five forty-four Castle…