Queens, NY
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8 fatalities documented. 8 families changed forever.
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Selected causes include Homicide and Murder. Serial killer mentions include Ford, Lester, Price, Larme, and Daniels, James Edward.
On February 23, Lester Ford attacked and strangled 28-year-old former social worker Tracy Covington outside her home in southeastern Queens, NY
On February 8, 2003, Price shot and killed 42-year-old John Freddy at a convenience store in Queens, New York
On July 26, 1991, Lester Ford was arrested in southeastern Queens after being identified by a rape victim while prowling the neighborhood
On January 6, 1991, Sheilda Dixon, a 36-year-old mother of two, was strangled to death by Lester Ford in the Hollis neighborhood of eastern Queens, NY
On the early morning of March 19, 1984, in Queens, NY, Karen Jefferson, aged 21, was found shot in the head and chest inside a residence six blocks away from where the bo
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Edward Bates, a 22-year-old sailor, was bludgeoned and stabbed to death on August 22, 1953, in Queens, NY
Josephine Brown was strangled to death on a deserted street in Queens on July 26, 1952
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