YEARLY MURDERS PEORIA

                       YEARLY   MURDERS   PEORIA

                                 Norman  V  Kelly

 

1940      4                     Knife fight over a woman…one killed

 

                                      Ed Canady killed his wife and then shot himself

 

                                      Jim Comien shot and killed his mother

 

                                      Walter Barewalt   Killed   in a fight over a half dozen eggs.

 

1941        5                     Doyle Ping shot and killed:   Police say he insulted a man’s wife

 

                                       Marsh was knifed to death by a “draft dodger.”

 

                                       Marie Stampley was killed by her husband

 

                                       Wagner killed his wife…Blanch

 

                               ***   Glen Fahstock shot and killed  Martin Srica

                                         “I don’t care what other people say….That Martin

                                           Was hard to get along with.”

 

1942        8                        Miller shot Caldwell with a shot gun…Miller was

                                          Protecting Caldwell’s sister from attack.

 

                                          Mille Allen found dead in her Bathtub…Police arrest her

                                          Boy friend…Jim Stother.

 

                                          Walter Donley Lawyer….Never came back from lunch…

                                           Apparently kidnapped off Fulton Street in Peoria

                            

                                           Alcarez stabbed his girlfriend to death

 

                                           Mildred Corneleius  shot her husband  With  his shotgun

 

                                           Art Williams stabbed Bernie Harris   A  Dispute  over a small rug

 

                                           Carl Shellton killed  9 year old girl  it was a traffic case…. Exonerated

 

1943                               FILL IN                                            never got around to doing that.

 

 

 

1944     8                            Dalyrimple is murdered by  Joe Nyberg ( Nyberg later murdered)

 

                                           Sgt. Peddigrew Killed his wife with a knife and  hurt 3 others

                                                                               El Vista

 

                                           Juantinta West Killed her sister

 

                                            Tom Cagle Killed  BY  John Dries  insulted his wife.

 

                                            Dixon killed his girlfriend  Agatha Smith  BY  Knife

 

                                            Proctor Day Killed his lifelong friend  John Taylor

                                    

                                             Peplow killed Andy Richard   “Stop dating my niece”

 

 

 

 1945      12                         Ray Hudson killed his young sons  then  Himself

 

                                             Ed Hamm Killed his wife  Elizabeth

 

                                             Eddie Andrews   fell down steps dead.  Police arrest his son in law

 

                                             Ray Hedden killed Leslie Klaus    saw him talking to

                                              Ray’s wife    so he shot him.

 

                                              Louis Gulick  Murdered by his wife.

 

 

1946    15 murders.                                This year Changed Peoria’s Reputation from a wide-open bawdy town to a “gangster” dominated  city…101 years we were just this wild fun River city…In 1946  3 gangland style murders   changed our reputation    1947  McNear and Flavel Feger   Murdered then in 1948 Bernie Shelton was murdered.     Most of what people talk about that made up Peoria’s Gangster history was just Plain Myth…..Believe me the ‘guy or woman next door was more dangerous.”

 

                                           

 

 

 

                                                    arris to death  over a small rug their wives wantH