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The witch trials in Connecticut, also sometimes referred to as the Hartford witch trials, occurred from 1647 to 1663. [ 1] They were the first large-scale witch trials in the American colonies, predating the Salem Witch Trials by nearly thirty years. [ 2] John M. Taylor lists a total of 37 cases, 11 of which resulted in executions. [ 3]
Travis (October 21, 1995 – February 16, 2009) was a male chimpanzee who was raised by and lived with a human family.On February 16, 2009, he attacked and mauled his owner Sandra Herold's friend, Charla Nash, in Stamford, Connecticut, blinding her, severing several body-parts, and lacerating her face, before he was shot and killed by responding Officer Frank Chiafari.
The Connecticut River Valley Killer, also known as the Valley Killer, is moniker for an unidentified American serial killer believed to be responsible for at least seven murders of young women in the Connecticut River Valley of the Northeastern United States between 1978 and 1988. In 1985 and 1986, the skeletal remains of two victims were ...
Murder of Jennifer Dulos. / 41.1308; -73.5136. Jennifer Dulos ( née Farber; born September 27, 1968; presumed dead May 24, 2019; ruled legally dead October 24, 2023) was an American woman who went missing on May 24, 2019. Authorities believe that she was killed in an attack at her home in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States.
This sketch was used to help identify the murdered woman in 1974, a few years after skeletal remains of two victims were found in a shallow grave in Ledyard, Connecticut.
William Devin Howell (born February 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven women in 2003. He is one of the most prolific serial killers in Connecticut history. In November 2017, while already serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter, he was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences (a life ...
A suspect attempted to flee the house where a woman’s body was found in the basement.. The tragic scene unfolded in Willimantic, Connecticut, when the woman’s family contacted police at 2pm on ...
Thurman v. City of Torrington, DC, 595 F.Supp. 1521 (1985) was a court decision concerning Tracey Thurman, a Connecticut homemaker who sued the city police department in Torrington, Connecticut, and claimed a failure of equal protection under the law against her abusive husband Charles "Buck" Thurman, Sr.