(-) Kaspar Casparus Hauser aka The Wild Child, dies at the age of 21 in Augsburg, Germany.
He was stabbed in the chest in the Hofgarten by an unidentified man three days earlier.
136 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 December 1877
(+) Chief executioner Jules-Henri Desfourneaux aka Monsieur de Paris, is born in Bar-le-Duc, France.
110 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 December 1903
(+) Writer Erskine Preston Caldwell is born in Moreland, Georgia, United States.
104 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 December 1909
(-) King of Belgium Louis Philippe Marie Victor Leopold II Von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha dies of heart failure at the age of 74 in Brussels, Laeken, Brussels, Belgium.
99 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 December 1914
(+) Serial Killer Raymond Fernandez aka The Lonely Hearts Killers (with his wife Martha Beck), is born in Hawaï, United States.
98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 December 1915
(-) Black Cordella Stevenson is abducted, raped and hung from a telephone-pole in Columbus, outside the Mobile & Ohio Railway Station, Missouri, United States.
Her body was left hanging for two days before someone took care of taking it down.
90 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 December 1923
(+) Director of the Dresdner bank, Jürgen Ponto is born in Hessen, Germany.
71 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 December 1942
(+) Musician and founder of ‘The Paul Butterfield Blues Band’ Paul Butterfield is born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
70 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 December 1943
(+) Manson Family member Mary Therese Brunner aka Marioche aka Mother Mary, is born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States.
66 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 December 1947
(-) Criminologist Bernard Henry Spilsbury commits suicide by gas poisoning at the age of 70 in London, Bloomsbury, University College, London City of, United Kingdom.
60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 December 1953
(-) Kidnapper and Murderer Carl Austin Hall is executed by the Gas Chamber in State Penitentiary, Missouri, United States.
60 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 17 December 1953
(-) Kidnapper and Murderess Bonnie Brown Heady is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 41 in State Penitentiary, Missouri, United States.
55 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 17 December 1958
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Murray Glatman aka The Pin-Up Killer, is sentenced to death in San Diego, California, United States.
52 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 December 1961
(x) 320 Die in circus fire in Niteroi, Brazil.
The fire was started by former employee Adilson Marcelino.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 December 1963
(-) Murderer John Whitty is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Winchester Prison, United Kingdom.
50 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 17 December 1963
(-) Murderer Russel Pascoe is executed by hanging at the age of 23 in Bristol Prison, United Kingdom.
(x) 11-year-old Child Killer Mary Flora Bell aka Child of Hell, is sentenced to detention for life for the murder of two children in Newcastle, Moot Hall, United Kingdom.
Her accomplice Norma Bell is acquitted.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 December 1978
(-) Jazz composer Don Ellis dies at the age of 44 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
He composed the soundtrack for the movie "The Deadly Tower", about Charles Whitman.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 17 December 1979
(x) 23-year-old Necrophile Karen Greenlee steals a mortuary hearse and drives off with the body of 31-year-old John Mercure in Sacramento Memorial Lawn Mortuary, California, United States.
She wanted to have sex with the body.
24 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 17 December 1989
(-) June Cicero is strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 34 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, United States.
9 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 December 2004
(-) Pop artist Tom Wesselmann dies of heart failure at the age of 73 in New York, New York, United States.
3 YEARS AGO - on Friday 17 December 2010
(-) Musician and artist Don Donald Glen Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, dies of complications from multiple sclerosis at the age of 69 in Trinidad, California, United States.
2 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 17 December 2011
(-) Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Jong-il Kim originally Yuri Irsenovich Kim, dies of a heart attack at the age of 69 in Pyongyang, North Korea.
His death was announced on 19 December 2011.
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