A 23 year-old mother is found dead in her car in Valley Stream, NY. DNA linked Richard Cottingham to her murder.

A civil rights activist is shot to death by a sniper outside of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

A politican and brother of US president John F Kennedy is shot to death at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, California.

A 20 year-old was stabbed to death by two white men while doing door to door saleswork in Martinsville, Indiana. The sundown town was known for heavy racist violence. This case went cold for many decades until the daughter of one of Jenkin's killers revealed that her father committed this crime. Public tributes for Carol Jenkins were formed in Rushville, Indiana and Martinsville, Indiana.

A 65 year-old educator is beaten to death outside his house in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He was a widower who was set to remarry.

The 17 year-old daughter of actress Eloise Hardt and Hungarian-American newspaper publisher, writer is murdered. The teen was brutally stabbed to death in her mother's Los Angeles, California home while home on vacation from college.

A pregnant newly married 16 year-old was assaulted and brutally stabbed to death in her home in Washington. Her husband found her covered in blood with her hands tied behind her back. In 2002 DNA linked serial killer John Dwight Canady to her murder and he confessed to her being his first victim.