29th year - N° 98 Tuesday, 8 April 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 98 Tuesday, 8 April 2014

8 April / Today's 6 Events:

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(+) 116 years ago Friday 8th of April 1898 Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is born in Black Boy House, Turner Lane, Claremount, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 103 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1911 128 die in Banner Mine of Pratt Consolidated Coal Company explosion in Littleton, Alabama, United States.

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(x) 53 years ago Saturday 8th of April 1961 238 die in MV Dara passenger liner explosion in the Persian Gulf. The explosion was probably caused by a deliberately placed explosive device planted by an Omani rebel group or individual insurgents.

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(x) 32 years ago Thursday 8th of April 1982 49-year-old Serial killer Joachim Georg Kroll aka Jockel aka Der Ruhrkannibale is sentenced to life imprisonment in Landgericht Saal 201, König-Heinrich-Platz 1, Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Kroll's trial lasted 151 days.

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(-) 31 years ago Friday 8th of April 1983 Gustavo Herrera is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States.

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7 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 8th of April 2007 Solitary situation in Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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