The Mattoon Gasser: Victims and Locations

Date of attack

Victim(s)

Location

“A few months ago”

Olive Brown

Miss Crissie

208 N. 22^nd St.

Thursday, August 31

Mr. Urban Reef

Mrs. Urban Reef

1817 Grant Ave. (location estimated on map)

Friday, September 1

Mrs. Bert Kearney

Dorothy Ellen Kearney

1408 Marshall Ave. Prowler seen: dark clothing, tight fitting cap

Friday, September 1

Mrs. Charles Rider

Ann Marie Rider

Joe Rider

2508 Prairie Ave.

Friday, September 1

Unnamed woman and her children

unreported location

Tuesday, September 5

Mrs. Carl Cordes

921 N. 21^st St. (location estimated on map)

Cloth, skeleton key, lipstick found

Tuesday, September 5

Mrs. Leonard Burrell

809 N. 13^th St.

Wednesday, September 6

Mrs. Laura Junken

821 Richmond Ave.

Wednesday, September 6

Mrs. Ardell Spangle

821 N. 15^th St. (location estimated on map)

Wednesday, September 6

Fred Goble

witness saw tall thin man running from yard

Wednesday, September 6

Glenda Hendershott

612 S. 14^th St.

Wednesday, September 6

Daniel Spohn

801 N. 19^th St. (location estimated on map)

Wednesday, September 6

Mrs. Cordie Taylor

617 Charleston Ave.

Wednesday, September 6

Miss Frances Smith

Miss Maxine Smith

2100 Moultrie Ave.

Thursday, September 7

Miss Frances Smith

Miss Maxine Smith

2100 Moultrie Ave. (3 attacks)

saw thin blue smoke-like vapor; heard buzzing sound

Friday September 8 / Saturday, September 9

C.W. Driskell residence

2320 DeWitt Ave.

Saturday, September 9

Mrs. Genevieve Haskell

Grayson Wayne Haskell

Mrs. Russell Bailey

Miss Katherine Tuzzo

17 Westwood (not located on map – NW edge of city)

Saturday, September 9

Mrs. Lucy Stephens

Jimmy Hardin

521 N. 32^nd St.

Sunday, September 10

unnamed woman

2300 Champaign Ave.

Sunday, September 10

unnamed woman

600 block of Moultrie Ave.

Sunday, September 10

Miss Frances Smith

Miss Maxine Smith

2100 Moultrie Ave.