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28, 1905
Ohio
The Birthday of Sada Abe
28, 1905
The Birthday of Sada Abe

Sada Abe was born on May 28, 1905. She was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizo Ishida, via erotic asphyxiation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her kimono. She was convicted in 1936 and released exactly 5 years later in 1941.

21, 1921
Ohio
The Birthday of Howard Unruh
21, 1921
The Birthday of Howard Unruh

Howard Barton Unruh was born on January 21, 1921 and is regarded as one of the first lone gunmen to go on an indiscriminate shooting spree. On September 6, 1949, twenty-eight year old Howard Unruh left his house for a twelve minute trip around his Camden, New Jersey neighborhood, shooting people at random and killing 13. He died in prison at the age of 88 in 2009.

26, 1942
Ohio
The Birthday of Carol Mary Bundy
26, 1942
The Birthday of Carol Mary Bundy

Carol Mary Bundy was born on August 26, 1942. She was an American female serial killer who, along with a man named Doug Clark, became known as the Sunset Strip Killers.

1, 1974
Ohio
The Birthday of Melanie Alix
1, 1974
The Birthday of Melanie Alix

Melanie Alix was born on January 1, 1974. On May 16, 2003, she was arrested for the arson murders of both her mother (in 2001) and her own one year old son (in 2003). She was convicted of both murders and sentenced to life with possibility of parole only after serving 25 years.

16, 1931
Ohio
The Trunk Murders
16, 1931
The Trunk Murders

Winnie Ruth Judd was an Arizona medical secretary found guilty of murdering and dismembering two of her best friends and stuffing their body parts into travel trunks. Two days after the murders, 26 year old Winnie Judd boarded the Golden State Limited passenger train from the Phoenix Union Station with the trunks containing the bodies in tow. Soon after she was infamous as the The Trunk Murderess.

29, 1905
Ohio
The Birthday of Winnie Ruth Judd
29, 1905
The Birthday of Winnie Ruth Judd

Winnie Ruth Judd was born on January 29, 1905. She was an Arizona medical secretary found guilty of murdering and dismembering two of her best friends and stuffing their body parts into travel trunks. Two days after the murders, Winnie Judd boarded the Golden State Limited passenger train from the Phoenix Union Station with the trunks containing the bodies in tow. She became known as the The Trunk Murderess.

22, 1957
Ohio
Birthday of Steven Pennell
22, 1957
Birthday of Steven Pennell

Steven Brian Pennell, aka The Route 40 Killer, was born on November 22, 1957 and was Delawares only known serial killer at the time. He was convicted of the murders of two New Castle County, Delaware women and suspected of killing three others. Most of his victims were abducted from U.S. Route 40. On Halloween of 1991, Steven Brian Pennell was sentenced to die by lethal injection. On March 14, 1992, the sentence was carried out. He was the first man in more than 45 years to be executed in the state of Delaware.

1, 1940
Ohio
Birthday of Arthur Gatter
1, 1940
Birthday of Arthur Gatter

Arthur Gatter, The Hammer-Killer of Frankfurt, was born on January 1, 1940. He was a German serial killer who murdered six homeless people and two homosexuals by wielding a hammer. The murders occurred, in the city parks in the outskirts of Frankfurt, from February to May in 1990. Before he could be taken to court, on December 12, 1990, the Hammer-Killer, Arthur Gatter, hanged himself with a gauze bandage and died by suicide.

1, 1978
Ohio
Birthday of Michele Anderson
1, 1978
Birthday of Michele Anderson

Michele Anderson was born on January 1,1978. On March 4, 2016, Michele Anderson was found guilty of six counts of aggravated first-degree murder of six family members including two children under the age of 5. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 2016 and is currently imprisoned in the Washington Corrections Center for Women.

7, 2017
Ohio
The Weis Markets Massacre
7, 2017
The Weis Markets Massacre

Randy Stair was a mentally ill, 24 year old who lived in Dallas, Pennsylvania. He believed himself a girl trapped in a mans body and he couldn\'t live with that. So he decided to commit suicide, but did not intend to go out alone. He planned to take a few of his co-workers with him. And that\'s exactly what he did.