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This Day in History: On top of being Halloween, many bad things have happened on October 31. In the town of Frederica, Delaware, on October 31, 2005, a 42-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree near a busy road. People drove by for hours thinking it was a Halloween decoration.
In 2012 a 9-year-old girl in a black and white costume was shot outside a western Pennsylvania home during a Halloween party by a relative who thought she was a skunk.
On Long Island in 2014 neighbors saw a man drag a headless body out on his apartment front lawn. The man kicked the head across the street in what people saw as a Halloween prank. Derek Ward, 35, had beheaded his mom with a knife, and later threw himself in front of a Rail Road train.
On October 31, 1990, teenager William Anthony Odem from Charlotte accidentally hung himself when staging a gallows scene in the basement of his "haunted house."
On, October 31, 1977 one-year-old Nima Louise Carter went missing from her cradle. Since all the windows and doors in her room were locked shut, it is believed her abductor was hiding out in the closet in her Lawton OK home. Her body was found a month later in an old refrigerator in an abandoned house.
In the morning of October 31, "a Manhattan couple named Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman were murdered in their apartment, which was located near Greenwich Village. The couple was severely beaten before being shot in the head, execution-style, and the apartment was completely ransacked. Sisman was rumored to be involved in drugs, so authorities initially believed that to be the motive for the killings. However, the case took a bizarre turn when a prison informant claimed that one of his fellow inmates had somehow predicted the crime weeks before it actually happened. That inmate turned out to be none other than the notorious 'Son of Sam' killer, David Berkowitz."~Robin Warder
On Halloween in 1979, Debra Jackson was found in a concrete culvert near Interstate 35, just outside of Georgetown, Texas. She had been sexually assaulted before she was strangled to death. She was informally known as "Orange Socks" as she went unidentified for nearly 40 years before being identified via a DNA match with her surviving sister in 2019. Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to killing her.
In 1982, Marvin Brandland and his wife, Ethel, a Fort Dodge couple were handing out candy when they were confronted with a man wearing a pillow case with holes cut out for eyes. The hooded man pulled out a gun and said, “Trick-or-treat. Give me your money or I’ll shoot.” Marvin was shot and died later in the hospital.
On the morning of October 31, 2004, a housekeeper at the Hilton Resort and Marina in Key West, Florida found a dead baby in the garbage bin of the ladies’ room in the lobby. The infant girl still had the umbilical cord and placenta attached to her body.
21-year-old University of Minnesota student vanished after visiting a downtown Minneapolis bar on Halloween night in 2002. His body was discovered four months later in the Mississippi River still wearing his Halloween costume. This was initially declared a suicide, but it was later reclassified as a homicide linked to the Smiley Face Killers.
In 1957 Peter Fabiano was shot while answering the door to his Los Angeles home on Halloween night. Read more here
The Liske Family in Ohio was found murdered in their home on October 31 2010. Read more here
"On October 31, 2011, a pretty young zombie left her house in Armstrong, British Columbia, looking forward to a night of fun. The zombie was Taylor Van Diest, an 18-year-old student, and she was planning to meet up with her friend to go trick-or-treating. She never made the rendezvous, but before she went missing, she sent her friend a chilling text message saying that she thought someone was following her. It was the last anybody heard from her." Source
Preacher John White killed his fiancee's daughter on Halloween night 2012 so that he can have sex with her corpse. Read more here
Los Angeles teen Shirley Ledford got into a stranger's van on October 21 1979. Her body was discovered the next morning on a front lawn by a jogger. Read more here
9-year-old Lisa Ann French from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was brutally murdered and sexually assaulted by her neighbor, Gerald Miles Turner Jr. (later nicknamed "The Halloween Killer"), on Halloween night 1973, while she was Trick-or-Treating alone. Read more here
Also, Fascism started on October 31. On October 31, 1922, the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini was elected to power.
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