Centenaries - whole and half

[Mayerling]

50 years ago - 1966 April 22 - In his Bingley, England office, bookmaker Fred Craven is beaten to death and robbed. The murder is still unsolved although some have suggested Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, as the possible culprit.

It is odd. It sounds like the murder of a Jewish money lender (I believe in Newcastle) that was never solved - in an apparent robbery - in 1908, that has sometimes been seen as a murder that John Alexander Dickman may have committed (like he may be the killer of Mrs. Luard that same year).

Jeff

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 April 22 - In his Bingley, England office, bookmaker Fred Craven is beaten to death and robbed. The murder is still unsolved although some have suggested Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, as the possible culprit.

[Rosella]

None of it sounds very Christian-like, and isn't Oddo a rather strange name for a female. Shouldn't it be Odda?

[GUT]

Could it be possible that his last words were "Et tu Oddo?"

Jeff

Not unless it was in March

[Ginger]

800 years ago - 1216 April 17 - While passing an Easter church gathering in Florence, Italy, Buondelmonte de Buondelmonti is cut to pieces. The final death blow was dealt by Oddo Arrighi, a woman he'd jilted at the alter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amidei

[Mayerling]

800 years ago - 1216 April 17 - While passing an Easter church gathering in Florence, Italy, Buondelmonte de Buondelmonti is cut to pieces. The final death blow was dealt by Oddo Arrighi, a woman he'd jilted at the alter.

Could it be possible that his last words were "Et tu Oddo?"

Jeff

[GUT]

800 years ago - 1216 April 17 - While passing an Easter church gathering in Florence, Italy, Buondelmonte de Buondelmonti is cut to pieces. The final death blow was dealt by Oddo Arrighi, a woman he'd jilted at the alter.

Hell hath no fury.

[sdreid]

800 years ago - 1216 April 17 - While passing an Easter church gathering in Florence, Italy, Buondelmonte de Buondelmonti is cut to pieces. The final death blow was dealt by Oddo Arrighi, a woman he'd jilted at the alter.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 April 13 - The battered remains of Mary Pierce are found in a Monmouth, IL hog shed behind Frank's Place, a tavern where she worked. Richard Speck had been a recent customer of the establishment and it's suspected that this was his first murder.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 April 12 - In France, Andree-Anne Babelay disappears after going to meet Henri Landru. She is believed to be the seventh of his, at least, 11 vicims. His scheme was to seduce lonely older women then murder them after gaining access to their insurance and funds. Landru went to the guillotine in 1922.

[sdreid]

150 years ago - 1866 April 11 - Sarah Millson is relaxing with a fellow servant in the home of her London employer when she hears a knock at the door. She immediately jumps to her feet and exclaims, "That's for me!" and leaves. After a long absence, the fellow employee decides to check on the maid and finds her beaten to death in the entryway. Several suspects had solid alibis and the murder was never solved.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 April 10 - Hotel night clerk, Mozelle Spencer, 78, is shot and killed. The victim was one of several Virginia murders perpetrated by brothers William and Thomas Penn over a six week period. Both men eventually got long prison terms. The victims were robbed but the haul seemed too minor to be much of a motive.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 April 9 - At 12:45 AM, Mary Pierce is last seen leaving her job at Frank's Place in Monmouth, IL. A few days later, her beaten body was found in a hog shed behind the tavern. Pierce is believed to probably be the first murder victim of Richard Speck.

[sdreid]

150 years ago - 1866 April 7 - James Stack is hanged in New Zealand for the hammer murders of Mary Finnegan and three of her sons. Her forth son was away in the military and escaped the carnage. Mrs. Finnegan was the mother of Stack's deceased wife but no motive was ever determined.

150 years ago - 1866 April 7 - On a farm just outside of Philadelphia, Anton Probst lures 8 people, one by one, into the barn then axes and slashes them to death. The killer was hired help there and the victims were Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Dearing, four of their children and a relative of the Dearings who was visiting at time as well as a young fellow farmhand. One son of the couple was away with his grandparents and escaped the massacre. Probst's motive was robbery and he will be hanged in early June.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 April 4 - In her Cincinnati apartment, Lois Dant is raped and strangled to death. A man named Posteal Laskey was later convicted of another one of seven other similar attacks and given a life sentence. The murders ceased with his removal.