Thursday, January 10, 2013

125 Years Ago the Coachford Case Came to an End

151 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 January 1862
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Firearms inventor Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

130 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 1883
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73 Die in Newall Hotel fire in Milwaukee, USA.

125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 January 1888
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Wife-murderer Dr. Philip Cross aka The Coachford Poisoner, is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in Cork Jail, Ireland.

101 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 1912
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Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is born in Münzkirchen, Austria.

96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 1917
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Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is born in Arizona, USA.

96 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 1917
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Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, dies of kidney failure at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 January 1930
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Murderer Edward Ives is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Colorado, USA.

79 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 1934
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Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Leipzig, Germany.

70 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 January 1943
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Singer-songwriter Jim James Joseph Croce is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 1945
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Musician Rod Stewart is born in London, United Kingdom.

64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 January 1949
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Heavyweight Boxing-champion George Foreman is born in Marshall, Texas, USA.

64 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 January 1949
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Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.

57 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 January 1956
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Son of Geraldine Yvonne Vinal and Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, Michael Lee is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

52 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 January 1961
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Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.

50 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 January 1963
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Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is born in Arkansas, USA.

43 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 January 1970
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Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev dies of peritonitis at the age of 44 in Moscow, USSR.

41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 January 1972
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John Szyc is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 January 1976
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Françoise Lecron is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue Faidherbe, France.
She survived.

37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 January 1976
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Blues music pioneer Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf, dies of complications of kidney disease at the age of 65 in Hines, Illinois, USA.

30 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 January 1983
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36-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is attacked with a broken coffee-jar by murderer Jimmy Costelloe in F2 Hospital wing of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

27 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 January 1986
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Murderer James Terry Roach is executed by Old Sparky in South Carolina, USA.

16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 January 1997
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Arsonist and murderer Billy W. Waldrop is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.

15 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 January 1998
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Start of the trial against Serial Killer Aida Nureddin Mohammed aka The Angel of Death, in Caïro, Egypt.

9 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 January 2004
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Actor, screenwriter and playwright Spalding Gray commits suicide by drowning at the age of 62 in East River, New York, USA.

8 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 January 2005
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46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando is charged with spousal abuse of 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Five months later they divorced.

6 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 January 2007
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Murderer Carlos Granados is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

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