At approximately nine a.m. on Sunday, March 9th, 2008, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District personnel responded to a structure fire in the 7900 block of Archer Avenue in Fair Oaks, an unincorporated community northeast of Sacramento, California. When firefighters arrived, they encountered an elderly man outside the residence. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the … More Eleanor Nichols
In the early morning hours of September 3rd, 2007, a fight broke out among a group of young people in the parking lot of a convenience store on Farrow Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Within moments, the confrontation escalated into gunfire. Several shots rang out, people scattered, and when it was over, a thirteen-year-old boy … More LaKavis Henicks
By February 2007, sixty-year-old Ken Gorman had spent more than a decade making himself impossible to ignore. He had smoked marijuana openly on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol, organized rallies before 4/20 celebrations became mainstream commercial events, run for governor under the irreverent nickname “Governor Pothead,” gone to prison on a marijuana conviction, … More Ken Gorman
Robert “Bob” Hatcher was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on March 21st, 1968, the son of William “Bill” C. Hatcher and Marjorie Ann Brockman Hatcher. He grew up in the area and graduated from Treynor High School in 1987 before attending Iowa Western Community College for a year. Bob spent much of his working life … More Robert “Bob” Hatcher
On the afternoon of March 23rd, 2007, fifty-two-year-old Randi Gorenberg went shopping at the Town Center at Boca Raton, an upscale mall in Palm Beach County, Florida. She bought a CD and a piece of clothing, then walked out carrying her purchases and headed toward her black Mercedes-Benz SUV. Less than an hour later, Gorenberg … More Randi Gorenberg
On December 12th, 2007, forty-seven-year-old Nancy Bochicchio and her seven-year-old daughter, Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, spent part of an ordinary Wednesday afternoon at the Town Center at Boca Raton in Florida. Christmas was less than two weeks away. Joey was only days from her eighth birthday. Mother and daughter entered the busy South Florida mall shortly after … More Nancy Bochicchio and Joey Bochicchio-Hauser
Shortly after eleven p.m. on June 8th, 2007, twenty-five-year-old Tyvon Nicole Whitford was inside her home in rural Putnam County, Florida, with her five-year-old son, eating pizza and watching a movie. She was six months pregnant with a daughter she had already named Ke’mora. Within minutes, CoCo (as virtually everyone in her life called her) … More Tyvon “CoCo” Whitford
Anita Knutson was born on September 22nd, 1988, in Orange County, California. Gordon and Sharon Knutson adopted her when she was five months old, and she spent much of her childhood in Anaheim. Even at a young age, she showed a strong creative streak. While attending Bernardo Yorba Middle School, she wrote and published a … More Anita Knutson
Nineteen-year-old Brittany McGlone grew up in the Winnsboro area of Texas and had graduated from Winnsboro High School in 2006. At the time of her death, she was working at both the Lowe’s distribution center in nearby Mount Vernon and the ALCO store in Winnsboro. Family accounts describe Brittany as a hardworking young woman who … More Brittany McGlone
On the morning of March 6th, 2007, employees arriving at a business on North 71st Street in Tampa, Florida noticed signs that something was wrong behind the building. A strong odor hung around the rear parking area, and buzzards had gathered nearby. The workers initially believed that an animal had died or been dumped on … More Tracy McClelland
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