Centenaries - whole and half

[GUT]

100 years ago - 1916 April 1 - A German firing squad in Brussels executes Gabrielle Petit. She had been convicted of aiding British Intelligence.

Not as well known outside of Belgium as Edith Cavell.

Jeff

I must say I hadn't heard of her, however Mrs Gut knew a bit and filled me in.

[Mayerling]

100 years ago - 1916 April 1 - A German firing squad in Brussels executes Gabrielle Petit. She had been convicted of aiding British Intelligence.

Not as well known outside of Belgium as Edith Cavell.

Jeff

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 April 1 - A German firing squad in Brussels executes Gabrielle Petit. She had been convicted of aiding British Intelligence.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 March 26 - In Leavenworth Penitentiary, Robert Stroud stabs guard Andrew Turner to death. Stroud was incarcerated because he'd killed a man in Alaska he claimed had attacked and refused to pay one of his prostitutes. The prisoner was sentenced to death for the murder of the guard but this was eventually reduced to life in prison. Stroud later gained a measure of fame as "The Birdman of Alcatraz". He spent the last 54 years of his life in prison and died in 1963.

[sdreid]

100 years ago - 1916 March 24 - While traveling by train through Oklahoma with a prisoner, Sheriff Jacob Giles is shot in the head and killed by Ida Hadley, the wife of the man in custody. Paul Hadley had previously killed a woman named Anna Johnson. Mrs. Hadley was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.

[sdreid]

I think that was an issue Jeff.

So did it take 10 years to nab him, or where there murders in between and he was charged relatively soon after the last one.

GUT-The last murder he was charged with occurred in late 1966 so I guess it took them nearly 10 years to put two and two together.

[GUT]

50 years ago - 1966 March 21 - Nancy Savino, 4, dies mysteriously after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital for a routine appendectomy. In 1976, an Argentine doctor named Mario Jascalevich was charged with killing Nancy and several other patients by injecting them with curare. The doctor, however, was acquitted at trial and returned to his native country where he died in 1984. Today, the cases remain officially unsolved.

So did it take 10 years to nab him, or where there murders in between and he was charged relatively soon after the last one.

[Mayerling]

50 years ago - 1966 March 21 - Nancy Savino, 4, dies mysteriously after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital for a routine appendectomy. In 1976, an Argentine doctor named Mario Jascalevich was charged with killing Nancy and several other patients by injecting them with curare. The doctor, however, was acquitted at trial and returned to his native country where he died in 1984. Today, the cases remain officially unsolved.

If I'm not mistaken the doctor was believed to have used some very obscure poison on the victims, and this was why he was acquitted - the jury just could not grasp the nature of the poison nor accept the difficulties of acquiring it.

Jeff

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 March 21 - Nancy Savino, 4, dies mysteriously after checking into New Jersey's Riverdell Hospital for a routine appendectomy. In 1976, an Argentine doctor named Mario Jascalevich was charged with killing Nancy and several other patients by injecting them with curare. The doctor, however, was acquitted at trial and returned to his native country where he died in 1984. Today, the cases remain officially unsolved.

[sdreid]

50 years ago - 1966 March 20 - In Iowa, Effie Bell, 46, is reported missing from her residence. At the end of May, her skeletal remains were discovered in a local dump. Her husband, Frank, was questioned in relation to the probable murder but he was never charged and the case remains unsolved.

[curious4]

"Little more," not "little mare," sorry!

C4v

[curious4]

A trifle over-sensitive of Ronnie wasn't it? It was Ron who was homosexual and supposedly having an affair with Lord Boothby, wasn't it? I always get confused between the twins.

Gut, I just do not believe that Mrs Gut insults you as much as you say!

Reggie was supposed to have been gay as well, although perhaps a little mare discreetly than Ronnie.

The massive cover-up over Boothby makes me even more sure that there could have been something similar in Jack's case. And that the body pulled out of the Thames wasn't Druitt's.

Best wishes
C4

[curious4]

I think that's possible Jeff.

According to one book I've read, Cliff Richard visited him in prison.

Cheers
C4

[sdreid]

Hi GUT-There are several accounts if you Google Catherine Baker Murder 1966

Two of the murders look pretty similar but I'm not too convinced that all were the work of one killer.

[GUT]

50 years ago - 1966 March 17 - Catherine Baker, 16, vanishes on a short walk to a local New Jersey food store. Her partially clad body was found in a river about 60 miles to the South in the middle of May. The cause of her death was blows to the head. An unkown serial killer is thought to possibly be responsible for the unsolved murder.

G'day Stan,

Do You know anything about the other possible victims of this unknown selial killer?