Since 1946 79 Bodies have been found in Leakin Park. Below is a map of where the 68 of those bodies were found.
I want to make one additional comment. Anyone that knows me is aware of my attention to detail when it comes to map symbol placement. Due to the large numbers of symbols and making the map clear, and also the pathetic way the Baltimore City Police Department annotates crime scene locations, I want to admit the body placement is approximate and not exact. If you have any questions, email me. You can find the address in my profile. This list was most recently updated on 06/18/2017.
| Name | Address body was found | Date Found | Age | Murdered By: | |
| Richard Wayne Truman (with introduction) | Mt. Holly Road area | November 18, 1946 | 13 | Robert Clayton Wright | |
| Larry Jefferson | 3800 Stokes Drive | April 19, 1968 | 9 | Reginald Vernon Oates | |
| Matt Jefferson | 3800 Stokes Drive | April 19, 1968 | 5 | https://sites.google.com/view/larry-jefferson-matt-jefferson/homeReginald Vernon Oates | |
| Louis Robert Hill | 3800 Stokes Drive | April 19, 1968 | 10 | Reginald Vernon Oates | |
| Lester Watson | 3800 Stokes Drive | April 19, 1968 | 10 | Reginald Vernon Oates | |
| Elsie Josephine Johnson | 3900 Chesholm Road | May 28, 1969 | 16 | Andre Van Lear Foster | |
| Eugene Leroy Anderson | r4100 Stokes Drive | killed July 11, 1969 found October 27, 1969 | 20 | Either the Black Panthers or the FBI depending on your POV | |
| George Douglas Newton | 3700 Winterbourne Road | June 6, 1971 | 23 | ||
| Milton Beatty | 4500 Hutton Ave | March 8, 1972 | 24 | ||
| Sherman Mack Butler | Hutton Ave and Wetheredsville Road | January 6, 1973 | 20 | ||
| Thelma Nash | 4800 Franklintown Road | January 28, 1973 | 19 | David L. Morris | |
| Wanda M. Lewis | 1400 Franklintown Road | May 18, 1974 | 15 | ||
| Alfred Washington | 1400 Franklintown Road | May 18, 1974 | 17 | ||
| William Braxton | Leakin Park | July 30, 1974 | 26 | ||
| William Emerson Dorsey | 3800 Chesholm Road | August 6, 1974 | 17 | ||
| Luther Wagner | 4800 Franklintown Road | December 2, 1974 | 21 | Fred T. Sampson | |
| Wanda Carter | Windsor Mill Road | December 7, 1976 | 22 | Olivia L Tatum | |
| Gwendolyn Moore | 3500 Gelston Drive | March 29, 1979 | 23 | ||
| Lester Williams | 1400 Franklintown Road | October 9, 1979 | 25 | ||
| Margaret L Robinson | 4700 Franklintown Road | June 26, 1981 | 19 | Killed by husband | |
| Joyce Ann DeShields | 4300 Seminole Avenue | May 9, 1982 | 26 | killed by serial killer who remains on the loose | |
| Paul John Casper | 4800 Clifton Ave | January 5, 1984 | 36 | ||
| Oliver Wendell Munson | Potentially Leakin Park | February 13, 1984 | 39 | Dennis Watson is a person of interest | |
| Unidentified Man | Wetheredsville Road | March 19, 1986 | |||
| Jason Ely | 4500 Wetheredsville Road | January 1, 1988 | 21 | Willy Petty Jr, Jimmie McKoy, JoAnn Petty | |
| Hope Sarah Patterson | 1900 Wetheredsville Road | September 13, 1990 | 35 | Ronald Ludd and Richard Tirrell Cook charged | |
| Troy Leroy Bennett | 4600 Wetheredsville Road | May 16, 1991 | 20 | ||
| Infant | Franklintown Road and Chesholme Road | November 13, 1991 | less than 1 | ||
| Timothy Washington | Most likely Leakin Park | September 11, 1992 | 8 | Keith M. Garrett | |
| Linda Pearson | 4700 Wetheredsville Road | March 28, 1993 | 31 | Don Anthony Pearson | |
| Unidentified Man - Suicide | 4900 Windsor Mill Road | April 17, 1994 | |||
| Patrick Maxwell | 4700 Franklintown Road | May 2, 1994 | 27 | ||
| Bernadette Tyndale | 2000 Ridgetop Road | June 15, 1994 | 30 | Ernest Tyndale | |
| Shante Harris | Franklintown Road | July 29, 1994 | 3 | Darntrell Griffin, Eric Duane Dorsey | |
| Gregory Melvin Smith | 4700 Franklintown Road | May 4, 1995 | 25 | Robert Malcolm McLain Jr. aka Darryl Anthony Harris McLain or Darryl McLain DOB 05091968 No longer incarcerated | |
| Russell Fletcher | 3700 Franklintown Road | February 1, 1996 | 37 | ||
| Renita Wallace | 1900 Ridgetop road | April 3, 1996 | 33 | Walter Percy Holmes Jr. | |
| Courtney Williams | 4500 Wetheredsville Road | April 7, 1996 | 27 | The Dirty Cop accused Chris Black | |
| Unidentified Man | 4500 Wetheredsville Road | April 8, 1996 | No obvious signs of foul play | ||
| Aaron Glenn | 5000 Franklintown Road | April 20, 1996 | 20s | ||
| Charles Augustus Robinson | 3500 Winterbourne Road | April 24, 1996 | 61 | ||
| Charles Hayden(found with D. Coleman) | 4800 Franklintown Road | July 18, 1996 | 22 | ||
| Deron Coleman | 4800 Franklintown Road | July 18, 1996 | 24 | ||
| Alphonso Spencer | 4500 Franklintown Road | April 27, 1996 | 37 | Allegedly Arnold Braxton Jr. and Nathaniel Powell | |
| Rodney Alonzo Banks | 5100 Franklintown Road | May 19, 1997 | 31 | ||
| Devon Dexter Denton | 3600 Winterbourne Road | May 25, 1997 | 18 | ||
| Victonio Guy Spencer | 1900 Eagle Drive | June 1, 1997 | 26 | All charges dropped against Keith D. McCallum | |
| Leonard Williams | 2000 Franklintown Road | July 2, 1997 | 25 | ||
| Unidentified Man | 4800 Franklintown Road | September 08, 1997 | |||
| Wanda Turner | 3100 Wetheredsville Road | January 23, 1998 | 26 | ||
| Todd Roney | Hutton Ave and Wetheredsville Road | September 7, 1998 | 33 | ||
| Rasheed Alea Harris | Leakin Park Ravine | February 22, 1998 | 19 | ||
| Kendall Hawks | 4700 Windsor Mill Road | October 4, 1998 | 18 | ||
| Rufus Washington | 4000 Clifton Avenue | November 13, 1998 | 41 | Michael J Stewart and Antonio A Warrington | |
| Vincent Blatch | 3500 Winterbourne Road | November 24, 1998 | 35 | ||
| Novella Peaches Brown | 4500 Hutton Ave | December 28, 1998 | 41 | ||
| Hae Min Lee | 4400 Franklintown Road | February 9, 1999 | 17 | Adnan Musud Syed | |
| Terrance Granger | 3700 Franklintown Road | October 8, 1999 | 22 | ||
| Unidentified Man | Franklintown and Wetherdsville Roads | August 09, 2000 | |||
| Brian Anthony Johnson | 3400 Winterbourne Road | June 10, 2001 | 18 | Eric Von Poole (although there are some questions regarding his conviction), Charles Antonio Ham, Carl Douglass Harrison | |
| Christopher Hudson | 4500 Windsor Mill Road | June 29, 2001 | 20 | ||
| Adrian Anthony Jenkins | Franklintown and Wetheredsville Roads | December 9, 2001 | 21 | ||
| Broderick Richardson | Franklintown Road | January 24, 2003 | 38 | ||
| Carlos Herrea | Leakin Park | January 31, 2004 | 63 | ||
| Margo Baker | 4000 Clifton Ave | May 6, 2005 | 52 | Ross Telp (her son) | |
| Stephen Robinson | 3200 Franklintown Road | October 9, 2005 | 55 | ||
| Christian Nunez | 4800 Franklintown Road | July 18, 2006 | 38 | ||
| Leonard Nathaniel Garrett | 800 Winans Way | October 7, 2006 | 24 | ||
| Freddie Thornton | 4300 Franklintown Road | December 23, 2006 | 69 | Timothy Izzard | |
| Riley Pettus | 1300 North Woodington Road | June 7, 2007 | 43 | ||
| Kwame Saka Osafo | 3900 Winterbourne Road | October 10, 2007 | 21 | Andre Cox, Gregory Lee charged then nolle prosequied | |
| Yolanda Brown | 3600 Winterbourne Road | March 20, 2008 | 36 | William Vincent Brown is a suspect, he was found guilty of attempted murder of another woman in Leakin Park,and pleaded guilty to the murder of 2 women in other locations | |
| Petro Taylor | 3000 Franklintown Road | December 30, 2008 | 20 | Grechauna Rogers, Sierra Pyles, Tenisha Lawson, Anthony O. Williams, Devin Melton, Lawrence Walker, Dominique Boone | |
| Lemuel Wallace | 3200 Franklintown Road | February 4, 2009 | 37 | Kevin Pushia pleaded guilty, James Omar Clea and Kareem Jamal Clea were found "Not Guilty" | |
| Michael Thomas | 1900 Eagle Drive | March 29, 2010 | 29 | ||
| Lois Jean Smyth aka Lois Vance | 4400 Windsor Mill Road | May 29, 2011 | 40 | Kenneth Brunetti | |
| Oswaldo Santana | 4700 Windsor Mill Road | February 29, 2012 | 21 | ||
| Mary Tisdale | 4900 Franklintown Road | September 29, 2012 | 62 | ||
| Antoine Ellis | 2000 North Forest Park Avenue | November 22, 2012 | 23 | ||
| Vashon Conyers | 3600 North Franklintown Road | January 30, 2018 | 30 | Victim died in well due to trauma to the body | |
| Ricky Tyrone Williams | 4300 North Franklintown Road | July 15, 2018 | 36 | Shooting victim | |
| Albertus Nelson | 4700 Franklintown Road | December 07, 2018 | 58 | Shooting victim | |
| Quante Thompson | 4900 North Franklintown Road | June 08, 2021 | 23 | Victim found with trauma to the body | |
| Leandrea Sampson | Franklintown Road and Wynans Way | October 24, 2021 | 39 | Female shooting victim found in burning car. Victim lived in Randallstown. Jermaine Jeter(boyfriend) charged but later found not guilty. | |
| Darron McCoy Jr. | Winans Way and Franklintown Road | January 17, 2022 | 23 | Shooting victim. 17 year old boy charged 02/01/22 | |
| James Moore | 1 Morris Road | January 31, 2022 | 31 | Shooting victim, Ronnie Harris Jr , 33-year-old Janay Barksdale , and 40-year-old Morgan Reed all charged 03/11/22 | |
| Steven Gillus | 4300 Windsor Mill Drive | September 21, 2022 | 39 | Victim found in burning vehicle in the trailhead parking lot. | |
If you enjoy Leakin Park or enjoy finding abandoned artifacts in the woods, you may wish to visit my Ghosts of Leakin Park site. If you want to look at a handy trail map for the park you can visit my Leakin Park Trail Map site. General information about 2013 Baltimore City Homicides can be found here.
Update January 6, 2011 I'm getting inquiries from people about murders for years gone by. I have created a helpful tutorial on how the search the Baltimore Sun archives yourself. If you can't find what you are looking for through the Sun Archives you can email me with the approximate date of the murder, the name of the person murdered, the location of the murder and the home address of the murdered person or as much information as you know, and I will see what I can dig up. I am a busy person so you will have to wait patiently for the results.
Special thanks to the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Charm City Circulator, without their assistance this site wouldn't have been possible. Also I would like to thank Thea Pederson for her attention to detail and good eye.
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29 comments:
Nice work. I noticed right away Reginald Vernon Oates, he was an interesting case.
I have all the information about that Reginald Vernon Oates case, but some of them are so heartbreaking to write. That guy was a sicko.
This map is extremely interesting. We often walk our dogs in this park. BTW, I too was struck by the death of the 4 young boys in 1968. I saw an article in Jet on this, and it named the 5-year-old as "Mack Jefferson". Wanted to make sure it was Matt, not Mack. Thank you for this, and I look forward to seeing your updated links, etc.
I don't have my notes in front of me, however, I believe the article in the April 20, 1968 edition has it listed as Mack, and the April 22 edition where they had confirmed the names of the boys listed it as Matt. I went with the second edition as the name. If I have recovered from Thanksgiving I'll try to tackle the 4 boys on Friday or Saturday.
Yes he was very sick I am the cousin of the 4 boys that was killed and my heart dropped as me n the sisters of the jefferson boys sister listened to the story from our parents. We are now trying to keep up dates on this so anyone have infomation please email me at katiboo38@gmail.com by the way there parents are still living and we otfen talk about it my brothers remeber it all so well he was there but ran when it happened.
C Watson: The email address you provided didn't work. I took a guess as to the correct address and sent the information your requested to it. If you still didn't get my response the provide me your information again.
Cham
C. Watson: I emailed them yesterday to that second email address you gave me. I just emailed them again so you should have 2 sets. Should be from Chamgreen102
Creepy, but strangely intriguing.
It really would be interesting to see read more info on the Oates case, I lived off of Windsor Mill Rd. during that time period. I was only about 9 or 10 but I remember the case and Leakin park vividly.
Fortunately, for you, Marcos, I'm in the RVO information business. If you would like your own personal copies of the 6 RVO Sun articles in pdf format I have them. Simply send me a very polite appreciative email to chamgreen102 at gmail and you too can be a proud owner of those very same articles.
I was reading the last case listed, about Lois Smyth, and now I'm wondering what the "Unauthorized Use of Livestock" charges are about. Does it mean Brunetti stole horses or something?
I was wondering about the unauthorized use of livestock charge myself. I'm not 100% sure about it, but I would suspect it has something to do with dogs. Next time I see a cop I'll ask and report back here. I see that charge often on the case search.
I think I might have solved the mystery of the "unauthorized use of livestock" charge in the case search. This might have more to do with truncation and abbreviations. The full name of the charge may be "Unauthorized use of livestock, boat or motor vehicle, Article 27 ss348a" in the Maryland Code. This means one took some livestock, boat or vehicle without the owner's permission. It's not quite car theft or car jacking, but nobody gave the perpetrator permission to use their car either. In the case of Mr. Brunetti, considering that he allegedly killed Lois Smyth I doubt she was willing to let the man use her car, hence he had allegedly committed an unauthorized use of her car by taking her keys after he allegedly murdered her.
I guess you've heard that the Clea brothers were found not guilty of all the charges in the Lemuel Wallace case. What an unbelievable injustice.
I am commenting on the case of Linda G Pearson whom was killed by her husband Donn Pearson... whom now walks the street everyday and is able to breathe although he snuff the life out of his wife which seem premeditated. I feel that the Court system in Baltimore does not care about black on black crime ...no justice.
I remember Coutney Williams and Tomika Jefferson 1996. My friend Tomika was never found. Her dissapearence broke her family's hearts. Tomika was very sweet person. I knew Courtney too as well. We called him Drew. I appreciate the legal aspects given about this case. I still miss Tomika.
BTW you did a great job on this website.
This is heartbreaking. I went to high school with Jason Ely and I heard this story kinda vaguely. But this sheds a lot of light as to what happened. Unbelievable. Rest easy Ely!!!!✋'
I worked with tomika, TJ, as I lovingly referred to her...I stopped hanging out with her after some shady characters were at her place one night in Essex..Sadly I learned of her disappearance via the news one nite...I still think of her often and wish it had been just a bad dream
Mr Munson was my shop teacher during a summer school session. He was always patient and kind. I hope his family has been able to find some peace.
Awesome. Good job
Sierra Pyles is now a teacher for the Baltimore school system. She has a FB page. Creepy to think she teaches children or is anywhere near kids!!!
Found this on ancestry:
Name Andre Vanlear Foster
Birth 20 Jul 1946 Baltimore, Maryland
Death 6 Jan 2004
I'm doing research on an individual who I think was a very prolific killer and part of what I see as one of his stunts (aside from his own signatures) was to 'jump into and add' to the bodycount of other killers. (He is banged up for several murders -my research is exploring his other possible crimes.)
This means I'm exploring the taboo and scummy nature that we humans are capable of, but it also means I see a lot of how the tense subject of murder is discussed and approached on the relevant sites I explore.
Some sites seem to trivialise it which I find horrible.
I feel it important, therefore, to commend you in how you keep the awareness and memories of the victims, as well as their stories, alive in the manner you have.
Alas, it also saddens me that such work has to be done and that in many cases justice seems to be elusive. If we didn't have any f!@#ing murderers then none of this would ever be necessary, for example.
From these contexts, I can only recognize that without the work of good people like yourself, then there would be no chance of getting done what I'm trying to do.
This English cousin from over the pond thanks you, as there are possible links to some of the cases you mention that requires further exploring concerning my endeavours. Even if they turn out to be white-rabbits, I thank you for raising awareness of the cases you mention as it means they are all part of my memories and stories to be remembered that I shall carry with me.
Sorry
For
Your loss that man doesn’t need to get out ever.
Is there anyway you can fix the website the links aren’t working anymore!
Without informing me, Google deleted all my Google Sites. I don't have a copy of it and there is no way Google can fix this. I've tried.
I was just getting ready to ask about the links too.. What a bummer Google would go in & remove or delete ALL your hard work! WHY would they do that? I think that's a real shame....Now no one can research anything on all these cases and find out any info on the victims. I am sure you were furious after researching and entering all that info, just for them to go in & remove it! Shame on Google. That's bullsh*t! I hope, but I doubt, but imho, they owe you a HUGE apology. I suppose there's no other way to look up the victims? Again, seems cruel & heartless to the victims & their family... Google owes these families an apology too...Their families should have access to research as well. They just ruined that for them, without giving them another option. Extremely frustrating! Thank you for all you tried. And May ALL THESE Victims Rest In Heaven, and God Bless Their Families. I pray they have found peace & healing.
A very kind soul was able to find a cached site of my Bodies of Leakin Park information. I spent yesterday creating a new site for the information and hopefully most of the links are working properly. City Paper archives have been removed but I have left the links in hoping the archives will be replaced. Baltimore Sun archives still exist but in some areas they are behind a paywall. The Baltimore Sun is deteriorating as a media site due to some horrible management so I don't have much faith it will be around much longer.
Happy reading to all.
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