(-) Hermit and cannibalistic murderer Gilles Garnier aka The Werewolf of Dole, is executed by burning at the stake in Dole, France.
He stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12.
210 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 January 1803
(-) Wife- and child-murderer George Forster is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.
Shortly after the execution his body was taken to a nearby house where it was used in an experiment by Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini. "On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion."
135 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 January 1878
(x) 32-year-old Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, marries 31-year-old Louisa Bicknese in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
123 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 January 1890
(-) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I dies at the age of 44 in Aosta, Italy.
121 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 1892
(+) Actor Oliver Norvell Hardy is born in Harlem, Georgia, USA.
109 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 1904
(+) Actor Cary Grant is born in Bristol, Horfield, 15 Hughenden Road, United Kingdom.
104 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 1909
(-) Charlie Von Dahmer is shot dead by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Juneau, Alaska, USA.
(+) Actor and comedian Danny Kaye originally David Daniel Kaminsky is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 January 1925
(+) Philosopher Gilles Deleuze is born in Paris, France.
84 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 January 1929
(x) 4 policemen are killed by 33-year-old Anarchist and Mass Cop Killer IJe Wijkstra in Groningen, Doezum, the Netherlands.
81 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 1932
(+) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Edward Wilson is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 18 January 1936
(-) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at the age of 70 in London, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 January 1946
(-) Murderer Joseph Wessel is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.
61 YEARS AGO - on Friday 18 January 1952
(+) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is born in Gopinatham, Karnataka, India.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 January 1955
(+) Actor Kevin Costner is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
40 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 January 1973
(x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment for 25 counts of first degree murder in Fairfield, California, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 January 1977
(x) 90 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Sydney, Australia.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 January 1981
(-) Shari Hull is shot dead after being sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 20 in Salem, TransAmerica Title Building, Oregon, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 1982
(x) 4 US stunt-pilots crash with their Thunderbird Jets in the Nevada Desert, USA.
29 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 18 January 1984
(+) Mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, is born in Seoul, South Korea.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 18 January 1987
(-) Jacquelin Askins is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, at the age of 18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
She survived.
13 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 18 January 2000
(-) Murderer Spencer Cory Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
He kidnapped and brutally killed Cecile Ham, wife of Bill Ham, manager and image-maker of ZZ Top in 1991.
12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 18 January 2001
(-) Murderer Alvin Uriah III Goodwin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 2010
(x) 92 Die in TAME Flight 120 Boeing 727-100 crash in the Andes, Colombia.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 2010
(x) 52-year-old Attacker of Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca is released from prison for the murder of journalist Abdi Ipecki in 1979 in Turkey.
He spent 29 years behind bars, 19 in Italy and 10 in Turkey.
3 YEARS AGO - on Monday 18 January 2010
(-) Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle known for “Complainte pour Ste Catherine”, dies of clear cell sarcoma at the age of 63 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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