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Vaughn Greenwood
1944–2020
United States
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Biography
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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