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On the night of September 24, 1982, Banks drank a large quantity of gin and took prescription drugs at his home on Schoolhouse Lane in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. [5] The next morning on September 25, 1982, he used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to kill eight people in his house, including three women in their 20s (all girlfriends and mothers of his children) and five children, four of them his.
Four perpetrators were charged with several counts of child abuse, and two of the perpetrators were charged with first degree murder. [99] Scott Dieter: August 7, 2011 11 [100] Copley Township, Ohio Solved Perpetrator killed onsite by police. [101] Amelia Shambaugh: 16 [100] Autumn Johnson: 16 [100] Erica Parsons: December 17, 2011 13 Salisbury ...
At 12:31 a.m. on July 3, 1986, police and firefighters responded to the report of a brush fire; the Fairless Hills Fire Co. found two burning bodies instead. Through meticulous fingerprint analysis, hands cut off of the charred victims were matched with prison records by the FBI, both being identified as Jonathan Streater and Faustino Arroyo. [5]
At about 5 a.m. on October 9, 2004, the rowhouse was firebombed. The fire originated in a living room on the first floor, traveled quickly, and was extinguished after about 20 minutes. [13] There were no survivors; [18] it was the deadliest mass murder in Philadelphia since the Lex Street murders in 2000. [13]
A Pennsylvania mother and her three young children have been identified following a farmhouse fire over the weekend. Elizabeth Seltzer, 33, and her 1-year-old son Jordan were killed in the blaze ...
Holmesburg Prison seen from the air. Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. It was decommissioned in ...
A 40-year-old Bucks County mother will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering her two sons in May 2022.
Rivas was killed by National Guard troops after he allegedly tried to drive through a barricade. [205] 1992-05-01: Martin, Howard Eugene (22) California (Pasadena) Police attempted to disperse party-goers when gunshots were fired. Police returned fire, striking Martin, an uninvolved bystander watching from his friend's apartment balcony. [205 ...