On this day, June 26, in 1957, serial killer and D.C.-area jazz musician Melvin Rees shot and killed a woman on a remote road near Annapolis, leading to a case known as the Sex Beast killings. Near the slaying of Margaret Harold, police found a building full of violent pornography and autopsy photos of murdered women.
Two years later the decomposing bodies of Carroll Jackson and his wife, Mildred, and their two infant children were found in Apple Grove, Va.
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