Centenaries - whole and half

[Joshua Rogan]

50 years ago - 1966 May 14 - The partially clad remains of Catherine Baker, 16, are found floating in a New Jersey waterway. She had been missing for two months and head trauma was found to be the cause of her death. It is assumed that she is another victim of the Original Jersey Shore Killer, a serial murderer who is still uncaught and unidentified.

I thought the original Jersey Shore killer was a shark...

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 May 15 - After he was convicted of the rape and murder of Lucy Fryer, Jesse Washinton, 17, is dragged from a Waco, Texas courtroom, tortured and emasculated then hung over a bonfire and burned alive. Washington was black and the murder victim was white.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 May 14 - The partially clad remains of Catherine Baker, 16, are found floating in a New Jersey waterway. She had been missing for two months and head trauma was found to be the cause of her death. It is assumed that she is another victim of the Original Jersey Shore Killer, a serial murderer who is still uncaught and unidentified.

[Mayerling]

100 years ago - 1916 May 12 - For his leadership of the Easter Rebellion, James Connolly is executed in Ireland by firing squad.

He'd been injured in his leg, and as a result he was executed while seated. Like GUT said, "A nasty piece of business."

Jeff

[GUT]

100 years ago - 1916 May 12 - For his leadership of the Easter Rebellion, James Connolly is executed in Ireland by firing squad.

A nasty piece of history.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 May 12 - For his leadership of the Easter Rebellion, James Connolly is executed in Ireland by firing squad.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 May 10 - Frederick Mors, a.k.a. Carl Menarik, escapes from the Matteawan Institution for the Insane. The serial killer had been comfined there after murdering at least eight people in a Bronx nursing home. Despite great efforts by authorties, he was never recaptured.

50 years ago - 1966 May 10 - In Virginia, sixteen-year-old Cynthia Johnson is shot twice and killed then left in a cemetery. Serial killer brothers William and Thomas Penn were eventually convicted and sent to prison for life.

[GUT]

That reminds me of a certain BlackAdder episode in the Tudor series!

That was a good one.

[Rosella]

That reminds me of a certain BlackAdder episode in the Tudor series!

[GUT]

250 years ago - 1766 May 9 - Former General Thomas Arthur de Lally is beheaded in France for treason due to his failure in securing India for his country. After twelve years, Louis VI exonerated him.

Good job he was exonerated, have the got his head back on yet

[Mayerling]

250 years ago - 1766 May 9 - Former General Thomas Arthur de Lally is beheaded in France for treason due to his failure in securing India for his country. After twelve years, Louis VI exonerated him.

I believe this was one of the judicial causes (the most famous being his stand in the Jean Calas case, and his comments on the execution in Portsmouth of Admiral John Byng) that Voltaire fought in his later years (and sometimes won, though tragically posthumously).

Jeff

[sdreid]

250 years ago - 1766 May 9 - Former General Thomas Arthur de Lally is beheaded in France for treason due to his failure in securing India for his country. After twelve years, Louis VI exonerated him.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 May 1 - In Poland, seventeen-year-old Marysia Galazka is raped and disemboweled by Lucian Staniak. She is the fourth known murder victim of the serial killer who came to be known as "The Red Spider" due to his writing style. Staniak was eventually captured and sent to an insane asylum.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 April 23 - Twenty-six-year-old Margaret Henderson dies unexpectedly after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital. Margaret was one of nine non-critical admittees to expire there mysteriously in eleven month's time. Dr. Mario Jascalevich was charged with using curare to murder some of the individuals but was acquitted, leaving the cases unsolved. The doctor returned to his native Argentina after the trial and died there in 1984.

[Rosella]

Dickman was blamed for several murders, including that of Caroline Luard, whom I'm inclined to believe was killed by an opportunistic tramp. I really can't see that one as a Dickman crime. The moneylender, well perhaps.

Why would Sutcliffe be suspected of Fred Craven's murderer, though? Did Sutcliffe owe him money? This sort of homicide speaks to me of someone with enormous gaming debts who lashes out because otherwise they're ruined.