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The Donna Lee Bakery murders occurred on the night of Saturday, October 19, 1974, in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Six people were found murdered inside the bakery. At the time, it was the worst mass murder in Connecticut history. [1] Two local men were convicted of the murders: Ronald F. "Tiny" Piskorski, a 25‐year‐old former ...
Cheshire murders. On July 23, 2007, two intruders invaded the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrators Linda Hayes (at the time known as Steven Hayes) [ b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky initially planned only to rob the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year ...
Michael Bruce Ross. Michael Bruce Ross (July 26, 1959 – May 13, 2005) was an American serial killer who was executed by the state of Connecticut in 2005. He was the last person executed in Connecticut before the state ended capital punishment in 2012. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional in 2015, converting ...
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 ...
Lorne J. Acquin (March 21, 1950 – June 2015) [ 2] was an American mass murderer who killed his foster brother's wife, her seven children, and their niece in their home at Cedar Hill Drive in Prospect, Connecticut, on July 22, 1977, by beating them to death with a tire iron. He afterward set fire to the building and escaped, but was arrested ...
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. 20 of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school ...
The "Memorial For Connecticut's Witch Trial Victims" marked the 370th anniversary of Alse Young's execution. [ 27 ] On May 10, 2023, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 121 in favor and 30 against, in order to exonerate 12 people who were convicted of witchcraft in the colonial era.
Sandy Hook Memorial. / 41.4232; -73.2758. The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial is a memorial in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, that honors the twenty children and six educators who were victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on the morning of December 14, 2012. The memorial is located at 28 Riverside Road in the woods adjacent to the new ...