Centenaries - whole and half

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 October 24 - Suzanne Reynolds, 25, is found in a vacant New York flat near the apartment of her piano teacher Charles Yukl. He was charged with the stangulation but was only convicted of manslaughter due to some prosecutorial missteps and was back out on parole in five years. A year later he killed another woman and was sent back to prison for 15 years to life. Since he hanged himself in his cell in 1982, the life sentence was brief.

50 years ago - 1966 October 24 - The body of school teacher Robert Pugh is pulled from an Ohio river. Ralph Nuss had murdered him then had sex with the corpse. Three men had been killed in about a two week period so Nuss could perform acts of necrophilia. He was eventually caught and sent to prison for life.

[sdreid]

Thanks, Stan.

Here is more information about this intriguing case --

http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/N/NEW_JERSEY_HOSPITAL_murders.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._X_killings

It is rather bizarre - Thanks Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

50 years ago - 1966 October 23 - Five days after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital for a routine c-section, Eileen Shaw, 36, dies mysteriously. She is the ninth and last noncritical admittee to suffer an unexplained death there in an eleven month period. Dr. Mario Jascalevich was charged with murderering some of the patients with curare but was aquitted at the conclusion of his trial, leaving the case unsolved. He then moved back to his native country of Argentina and died there in 1984.

Thanks, Stan.

Here is more information about this intriguing case --

http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/N/NEW_JERSEY_HOSPITAL_murders.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._X_killings

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 October 23 - Five days after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital for a routine c-section, Eileen Shaw, 36, dies mysteriously. She is the ninth and last noncritical admittee to suffer an unexplained death there in an eleven month period. Dr. Mario Jascalevich was charged with murderering some of the patients with curare but was aquitted at the conclusion of his trial, leaving the case unsolved. He then moved back to his native country of Argentina and died there in 1984.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 October 22 - The bodies of Robert and Helen Sims are found in their Tallahassee, Florida home. Both had been first bound then shot in the head. Their daughter Joy, 12, was also bound but had been stabbed six times before being shot in the head and molested. She was still just alive and remained in coma for nine days before passing away. The triple murder case is still unsolved.

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Wow a big day.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 October 21 - In Vienna, politician Karl von Sturgkh is gunned down by Friedrich Abler, the son of a political opponent. The assassin was first sentenced to death but was later pardoned.

100 years ago - 1916 October 21 - John Rogers is shot and killed in front of a Manhattan building. The case is a mystery.

100 years ago - 1916 October 21 - In South Carolina, a mob lynches Anthony Crawford, an African American who'd had altercations with some whites. No one was ever charged even though a local lawyer bragged about putting the rope around Crawford's neck.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 October 20 - Rose Winstsel, 81, is beaten and strangled. She is thought to be a victim of Posteal Laskey, aka the Cincinnati Strangler. The serial killer was convicted of murder and sent to prison where he died in 2007.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 October 16 - Seventeen-year-old Arland Withrow is strangled to death by Ralph Nuss who then had sex with the corpse and threw the body in a Michigan river. Nuss, who was believed to have murdered at least two other men, was eventually caught and sent to prison for life.

50 years ago - 1966 October 16 - In Milwaukee, Sherryl Thompson, 18, is stabbed 22 times by Micheal Lee Herrington. Sherryl is believed to be one of at least three murders of young females perpetrated by this serial killer who wound up sentenced to life in prison.

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50 years ago - 1966 October 11 - Alice Hochhausler, 51, is beaten, raped and strangled in her residence. She is thought to be a victim of Posteal Laskey, aka the Cincinnati Strangler. The serial killer was convicted of a similar murder and sent to prison where he died in 2007.

[sdreid]

150 years ago - 1866 October 5 - After being convicted of four murders, Richard Burgess is hanged in New Zealand. He actually boasted of committing nine murders.

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100 years ago - 1916 October 4 - Soldier Bela Kiss flees a WWI combat hospital in Serbia after he finds out that police are closing in. He exchanged papers with another soldier who was dying in an attempt to fake his own death but it didn't work. Authorities had recently discovered seven women pickled in oil drums while searching his house in Czinkota, (Austria-) Hungary. They also found sixteen more women and a man buried on the property. One of the women was his wife and the sole man was believed to be her lover. Although Kiss was reportedly sighted on three continents over the next two decades, the serial killer was never captured.

Oil drums seem to have been a popular choice for hiding bodies, I guess it's about the size.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 October 4 - Soldier Bela Kiss flees a WWI combat hospital in Serbia after he finds out that police are closing in. He exchanged papers with another soldier who was dying in an attempt to fake his own death but it didn't work. Authorities had recently discovered seven women pickled in oil drums while searching his house in Czinkota, (Austria-) Hungary. They also found sixteen more women and a man buried on the property. One of the women was his wife and the sole man was believed to be her lover. Although Kiss was reportedly sighted on three continents over the next two decades, the serial killer was never captured.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 September 27 - Husband and wife, Jerry and Linda Bricca along with their daughter Debbie, 4, are found stabbed to death in their suburban Cincinnati home. No one survived and the murders are still unsolved.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 September 23 - After checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital with gallbladder issues, Emma Arzt, 70, dies mysteriously. She is the eighth of nine noncritical admittees to suffer an unexplained death there in an eleven month period. Dr. Mario Jascalevich was charged with murderering some of the patients with curare but was aquitted at the conclusion of his trial, leaving the case unsolved. He then moved back to his native country of Argentina and died there in 1984.