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Lorenzo Jerome Gilyard Jr. (born May 24, 1950), known as The Kansas City Strangler, is an American serial killer.A former trash-company supervisor, Gilyard is believed to have raped and murdered at least 13 women and girls from 1977 to 1993.
Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in Martinsville, Indiana, a sundown town. Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
This is a list of people executed in Missouri after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia , issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States.
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Bertha Alice Williams Graham Gifford (October 30, 1871 – August 20, 1951) [1] was a farmwife in rural Catawissa, Missouri during the early 1900s who was accused of murdering three members of the local community and suspected in 15 additional deaths. [2]
Patricia Jeschke was an American woman murdered in St. Joseph, Missouri, on November 12, 1980. An investigation led by Lloyd Pasley arrested Joseph Wabski and Sandra Hemme for the murder and Hemme was convicted for Jeschke's murder in 1981.
Charles Binaggio (1909–1950), killed along with Charles Gargotta at the First Ward Democratic Club in downtown Kansas City; Anthony Brancato (1913–1951) William "Willie Rat" Cammisano (1914–1995), enforcer for the K.C. mob; Charles Carrollo (1902–1979), led the Kansas City mob after Johnny Lazia's assassination
Cynthia Elizabeth James (née Hack; June 12, 1944 – c. June 2—June 8, 1989) [a] was a Canadian nurse who disappeared from Richmond, British Columbia, on May 25, 1989.She was found deceased approximately two weeks later in the yard of an abandoned house, hogtied and with a nylon stocking wrapped around her throat.