In 1980 a 21-year-old South Carolina man, Michael Anderson Sloan, was charged with the murder of Mary Elizabeth Royem, 24. Miss Royem’s body was found in her West Columbia apartment. She had been...
On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a poet apparently offended by Victoria’s refusal
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the 20 month old son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his family home
The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates as part of a conflict between two criminal gangs in Chicago. They were the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish...
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American who gained notoriety for demanding that his death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah, be carried out. He became the first person executed...
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American who gained notoriety for demanding that his death
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States In 1933–34, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals...
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States In 1933–34, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals...
Rajiv Gandhi, the 46-year-old former Indian prime minister, was campaigning for the Congress Party on the second day of voting in the world’s largest democratic election when a powerful bomb, hidden in a basket...
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM that evening. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary,...
While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. Reagan suffered a punctured lung and heavy internal bleeding, but prompt...
