Centenaries - whole and half

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150 years ago - 1866 July 12 - Dr. Alfred Warder takes his own life by drinking prussic acid. His suicide was to avoid being charged in an English court with the murders of three of his wives by poison.

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50 years ago - 1966 July 6 - In Kent, Washington, Judith Haga and her infant daughter Peri, seven months, are strangled in their home. Eric Haga, the husband and father, claimed that an intruder had committed the murders which he had slept through. He was later convicted and sent to prison for life.

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50 years ago - 1966 July 5 - Helen Hansen, a 35-year-old mother, is found dead in her Massachusetts apartment. Several years later, Edmund Lopes, a Baptist minister, admitted to killing her. Lopes eventually went to prison in Illinois for the 1970 murder of his wife. He died in 2013.

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50 years ago - 1966 July 2 - At Indiana Dunes State Park, three young women named Renee Bruhl, Ann Miller and Patty Blough vanish. Personnel noticed their blanket and belongings on the beach when the park was being closed for the evening and their car was still in the parking lot. It's assumed that the women were taken and murdered but they have not been found. Several suspects have been mentioned but the case is still unsolved today.

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250 years ago - 1766 July 1 - Twenty-year-old religious dissident Francis-Jean de la Barre is tortured and beheaded in France. The nobleman was executed after he was found guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege.

[Mayerling]

Wow what a lovely bloke.

One of those you cannot really feel tears for when they end up in the hotseat.

[GUT]

https://hatchingcatnyc.com/2013/09/2...lberry-street/ recounts Shillintoni's deeply impressive resume of villainy.

Wow what a lovely bloke.

[Ginger]

100 years ago - 1916 June 30 - Gangster Oresto Shillintoni is executed in New York for the murders of two policemen and a rival mobster.

https://hatchingcatnyc.com/2013/09/2...lberry-street/ recounts Shillintoni's deeply impressive resume of villainy.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 June 30 - Gangster Oresto Shillintoni is executed in New York for the murders of two policemen and a rival mobster.

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50 years ago - 1966 June 23 - In Seattle, Lonnie Trumbell is bludgeoned to death in her bed with a length of wood. Her roommate was attacked in the same way but recovered, although she remembered nothng about the incident. The killing is unsolved but some think it might have been an early murder by Ted Bundy.

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50 years ago - 1966 June 21 - The body of Paul Benda, 5, is found in an unimproved area near the Northern New Jersey coast. He had been sexually abused, beaten, tortured with lit cigarettes and murdered with an ice pick. The little boy was nude when found but his clothes were close to the remains. Efforts were made to tie Paul's slaying with a series of others in the same region but those victims were all at least 16-years-old. Whether his killing was related or not, Paul's murder remains unsolved today.

[GUT]

I like the song but don't necessarily agree with his view.

I'm not sure either but love the song.

[sdreid]

Probably the only good thing to com out of it as Zimmy's song about it.

I like the song but don't necessarily agree with his view.

[GUT]

50 years ago - 1966 June 17 - Two men and a woman are shot and killed in a New Jersey bar. Middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis are charged and put on trial for the murders. A first conviction was overturned and a second was as well. Prosecutors could have ordered yet another trial but declined to do so. Rubin Carter died in 2014.

Probably the only good thing to com out of it as Zimmy's song about it.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 June 17 - Two men and a woman are shot and killed in a New Jersey bar. Middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis are charged and put on trial for the murders. A first conviction was overturned and a second was as well. Prosecutors could have ordered yet another trial but declined to do so. Rubin Carter died in 2014.