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# Record Name Category Subcategory 1971 - 55 years ago 1 April 19, 1971 20th Century: 70s Events April 19, 1971 Vampire suspect arrived in Vegas: Further checking made his presence known in almost every place along the US-Canadian border where rioting and violence and a number of dead bodies were found, We believe he left Canada for Vegas April 19th under the name of Detective Constable Alan Hensley. Now, because of his British citizenship, he is an international fugitive, so my people are very interested in him. This is no longer just a local matter. 1972 - 54 years ago 2 May 16, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 16, 1972 Cheryl Hughes killed. Kolchak: Sunday, May 16th. At approximately 2:30 A.M., Cheryl Hughes was standing at the intersection of Casino Center and Fremont Street waiting for a girlfriend to give her a lift home. Cheryl Hughes was 23, blonde hair, light brown eyes, swing shift change girl at the Gold Dust Saloon. Cheryl Hughes, tired and hungry, but just mad enough to walk the eight blocks to her small frame house off the corner of 9th and Bridger. Cheryl Hughes. En route to her doom. 3 May 18, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 18, 1972 Kolchak called back to cover a story: I came into it two days later, called back 97 miles from the first vacation I had had in 2 1/2 years because the story is so big no one else can handle it, according to our lovable managing editor. 4 May 20, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 20, 1972 Kolchak visits the latest crime scene where Bonnie Reynolds, 27, divorced, cocktail waitress at the Harem Room Casino, is found dead. 5 May 21, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 21, 1972 The vampire kills Carol Hanocheck. Kolchak: Friday, May 21st, 8:06 A.M. Apartment of Carol Hanocheck, swing shift cocktail waitress in the Bird of Paradise Show Lounge. She'd gotten home around 2:15 A.M., poured herself a glass of milk, opened the back door of the kitchen for reasons unknown, and died like the others... suddenly, quietly, without disturbing her sleeping roommate only a few feet away. 6 May 25, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 25, 1972 Kolchak tracks down a lead on the suspect's car: Helen O'Brien had told me that the DMV had come up with 16 possibles. All but one had been eliminated. The car owner's name, Martin Lubin, address on Spring Mountain Road, name and address both phony. Name of salesman who sold car, Fred Hurley. 7 May 26, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 26, 1972 Kolchak's girlfrienf Gail gets a book for him - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Vampires, But Were Afraid to Ask. 8 May 27, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 27, 1972 When discovered while raiding the Old Town Hospital blood bank, the vampire tosses an orderly out the window while escaping. 9 May 28, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 28, 1972 A vampire terrorizes the city of Las Vegas. Kolchak: This is the story behind one of the greatest manhunts in history. Maybe you read about it, or what they let you read about it, probably as some minor item buried on the back page. However, what happened in that city between May 16th and May 28th of this year was so incredible that to this day the facts have been suppressed in a massive effort to save certain political careers from disaster and law enforcement officials from embarrassment. 10 May 29, 1972 20th Century: 70s Events May 29, 1972 After Kolchak defeats the vampire by driving a stake through his heart in front of the police, Sheriff Butcher threatens him with arrest for murder unless he changes his story to say that the police killed him in a "pitched gun battle."

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