January 19, 1944 - Vaughn Greenwood
Greenwood operated across more than a decade in Southern California, targeting a population whose deaths were unlikely to draw sustained public attention — a pattern that allowed him to continue long after his first killings. His victims were unhoused men on the margins of Los Angeles, and the ritualistic elements found at crime scenes complicated an already difficult investigation. When he was finally identified, it was through a surviving victim rather than forensic breakthrough.
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Vaughn Orrin Greenwood (January 19, 1944 – December 18, 2020) was an American serial killer who gained the nickname the Skid Row Slasher. He murdered eleven vagrants in Southern California between November 1964 and January 1975, in addition to a failed twelfth murder that ultimately led to his capture.
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