The 2018 USA International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Memorial List

 

1)   Amia Tayrae, a 27-year-old,  black transgender woman, was shot and murdered on March 26th, 2018 in Baton Rouge, LA

2)   Angela Nielson, a 29-year-old, cis white female, was found dead in the trunk of a burned car, on February 8th, 2018 in Detroit MI.

3)  Angie Romero,  43-year-old, white female, went missing in Albuquerque, NM  in mid-October 2018 and is presumed dead. (an unidentified serial killer)

4)  Ann Farrin, a 41-year-old woman, was murdered by strangulation by a serial killer, on June 13th, 2018, in Miami, FL.

5)  Antash’a English, a 38-year-old black transgender woman, was murdered by shooting, by a serial killer on June 1st, 2018 in Jacksonville, FL

6)  August Aimes a 25-year-old cis white female, was lost due to suicide, on December 5th, 2017, in Ventura County, CA.

7)  Bobbie Simpson, a 23-year-old, cis white female,  was dumped in a park and set it on fire, on October 14th, 2018 in Columbus, OH

8)  Brandy Odom, a 26-year-old black female, was murdered & dismembered on April 1st, 2018 in New York, NY.

9)  Cami Shepherd, a 43-year-old, Thai woman’s, body was found in drain 3 months after she went missing, on April 11th, 2018 in Salt Lake City, UT.

10)  Carla Patrica Flores Pavon, a 26-year-old Latina transgender woman, was robbed, strangled, and murdered on May 9th, 2018 in Dallas TX

11)  Carmen Moore, a 32-year-old, Native American transgender woman, was found dead, with no cause of death, on August 29th, 2018 in Las Vegas, NV.

12)  Cathalina Christina James, a 24-year-old black transgender woman,  was shot and murdered by a serial killer on June 24th, 2018 in Jacksonville, FL

13)  Celine Walker, a 34-year-old black transgender woman, was shot and murdered by a serial killer on February 4th, 2018 in Jacksonville, FL

14)  Cheri Ingram, a 42-year-old, cis white female, was murdered by stabbing on February 28th, 2018 in Anchorage, AK

15)  Cheryl Murray, a 52-year-old black woman, was murdered by stabbing on September 1st, 2018 in Austin TX

16)  Christa Leigh Steel Knudslien, a 42-year-old white transgender woman, was beaten with a hammer and stabbed in the back by her husband, on January 5th, 2018 in Pittsfield, MA

17)  Christina Carlin Kraft, a 36-year-old, cis white female, was found dead from ligature strangulation, on August 22nd, 2018 in Ardmore, PA

18)  Chrystel Yager, a 38-year-old Latina woman, was found dead in a hotel, suspicious death on July 9th, 2018 in Poughkeepsie, NY

19)  Ciara Minaj Carter, a 30-year-old, black transgender woman,  was murdered by stabbing on October 3rd, 2018 in Chicago, IL

20)  Claudine Anne Luera, a 42-year-old, cis white female,  was shot & murdered by a border patrol officer who was a serial killer on September 13th, 2018 in Laredo, TX

21)  Corinna Slusser, a 20-year-old, cis white female, from PA went missing from the Bronx NY on September. 20, 2017 and is presumed dead.

22) Danielle, a 38-year-old, cis white female, died by suicide after being gang-raped on December 25th, 2012 in Boyertown PA

23)  Daphne Bailey, a 40-year-old woman,  was Kidnapped & died in a car crash, on June 10th, 2018 in San Francisco, CA

24)  Dave Slick, a 26-year-old, cis white male,  died of an overdose on June 8th, 2018, in Chicago, IL

25)  Donna G Castleberry Dalton, 23-year-old, cis white female and a mother of two was shot & murdered by a police officer on August 23rd, 2018 in Columbus, OH

 26)  Guiselda Alicia Cantu, a 35-year-old, cis Latina female,  shot and murder by a Border Patrol officer who was a serial killer on Sept 15th, 2018 in Laredo TX

27)  Jane Doe 1,  her body was found in Cleveland, OH, on September 26th, 2018, after a man admitted to murdering her 20 years ago.

28)  January Seraph, 31-year-old, Female, White, died by suicide on July 22nd, 2018 in San Francisco, CA

29) Nikki Janelle Enriquez,  a 28-year-old, black transgender woman, was shot murdered by a border patrol officer who was a serial killer on September 15th, 2018 in Laredo, TX

30)  Junying Lu, a 51-year-old Asian woman, was murdered in a massage parlor on August 22st, 2018 in Woodland, CA

31)  Karla Franz, a 27-year-old, cis Latina female died on March 16th, 2018 in Santa Rosa, CA

32)  Kathleen Driscoll, a 31-year-old, cis white female, was died of an overdose on January 8th, 2018 in Dayton, OH

33)  Kathleen West, a 42-year-old, cis white female was murdered by husband on February 22th, 2018 in Calera, AL

34)  Kelly O’May, 31-year-old, white female was  stabbed to death in her apartment, on June 15th, 2018,  in Rochester, NY

35)  Kristen Marti, a 26-year-old, cis white female, was murdered by having her throat slashed on January 9th, 2018 in San Luis Obispo, CA

36)  Kristen Stone, a 19-year-old, cis white female, was murdered with undetermined violence on August 10, 2017, in Fayetteville, NC

37)  Leah Holly, a 23-year-old, cis white female, was lost to suicide on January 13th, 2018 in Baltimore, MD

38) Leila Rivera, 51-year-old, cis Latina woman, died to overdose and exposure on January 30th, 2018 in New Haven CT

39) Lydia Elizabeth Tirillo, a 44-year-old, cis white female, was shot & murdered on May 23rd, 2018 in Hartford, CT

40)  Ines Carmen Perez, a 48-year-old, Latina woman, was murdered by strangulation on January 28th, 2018 in New Haven, CT

41)  Marissa L Koziel, a 21-year-old, cis white female, was shot and murdered by a serial killer on September 21st, 2018 in Tampa, FL

42)  Melissa Ramirez, a 29-year-old, Latina woman, was shot & murdered by a border patrol officer who was a serial killer on September 3rd, 2018, in Laredo, TX

43)  A man, Michael Angelo Diaz, was murdered by stabbing on January, 24th, 2018 in York, PA

44)  Morgan Huennekens, a 19-year-old, Latina woman, was beaten with a metal pipe and murdered on March 4th, 2018 in Milwaukee, WI

45)  Neidy Roche, a 39-year-old, cis white female, was murdered by head trauma on March 2st 2018 in Miami, FL

46)  Olivia Lua aka Olivia Voltaire, a 23-year-old, cis white female, died due to sepsis, on January 19th, 2018 in Los Angelos, CA

47)  Olivia Nova, a 26-year-old, cis white female, died due to sepsis on January 7th, 2018 in Las Vegas, NV

48)  Phylicia Mitchell, a 45-year-old, black transgender woman, was shot and murdered on February 23rd, 2018 in Cleveland, OH

49)  Sasha Garden, a 27-year-old, black transgender woman, was murdered with signs of trauma on July 19th, 2018 in Orlando, FL

50)  Sasha Wall, a 29-year-old, black transgender woman, was shot and murdered on April 1st, 2018 in Chesterfield, SC

51) Shniquia Simington, 27-year-old, black, female, was shot by a security officer outside of a strip club, on March 11, 2018, in Dallas TX

52) Shyla Stylez, a 35-year-old, a US Adult Film Star,  Hall of Famer, died suddenly in her sleep at her mother’s Armstrong, B.C., home on November 9th, 2017

53)  Stephanie Adams, a 47-year-old, black woman,  fell to her death with her 7-year-old son, on May 25th, 2018 in New York, NY

54)  Sydney Eastman, a 28-year-old, cis white female, was lost to a fentanyl overdose on Septemeber 22st, 2018 in Tampa, FL

55)  Tonya Harvey, a 35-year-old, black transgender woman, was shot and murdered on February 6th, 2018 in Buffalo, NY

56)  Tyler White, a 25-year-old, cis white male, was lost to an overdose on June 11th, 2018, in Providence RI

57)  Viccky Gutierrez, a Latina transgender woman in her twenties, was murdered and her apartment was set on fire on January 10th, 2018 in Los Angelos, CA

58)  Yuri Luv aka Yurizan Beltran,  a 31-year-old, cis white female, died by an overdose on December 13th, 2017 in Los Angelos, CA

59)  Zakaria Fry, a 28-year-old, white transgender woman, was murdered by blunt force trauma to the head & face on February 19th, 2018 in Santa FE, NM

 

Unnamed victims of serial killer Samuel Little, murdered between 1970 – 2005

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Poster graphics created by Cris McDonough