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Julia Bulette (c. 1832 – January 19/20, 1867) was an English-born American prostitute in Virginia City, Nevada, a boomtown serving the Comstock Lode silver mine. She was murdered in 1867, and a French drifter named John Millain was quickly convicted and hanged for the crime.
The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial National Historical Park and connects Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown.
The owner, Lam Van Son (Vietnamese: Sơn Lâm Vân; 1952 – June 30, 1994), was a Vietnamese immigrant who fought for the special forces of the South Vietnamese military during the Vietnam War, but after the fall of Saigon in 1975, Son was detained at a re-education camp at the end of the war, before he fled to Thailand by boat and immigrated to the U.S. Son first met his wife Lanna Le Son in ...
Susan Cummings (born July 21, 1962, in Monte Carlo, Monaco) is an American heiress, best known for killing her boyfriend in 1997. She had been charged with homicide, but subsequently convicted of voluntary manslaughter only. She was released after serving 57 days. Biography Cummings and her fraternal twin sister, Diana, are the only children of billionaire arms dealer Samuel Cummings. After ...
The cold-case murders of two women, who were killed in a national park three decades ago, have finally been solved. Julie Williams, 24, and Lollie Winans, 26, who were in a romantic relationship ...
Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer," murdered 10 people, including his mother and six young women, in the early 1970s. However, "The Zodiac Killer" remains one of America's most infamous and elusive ...
After a train wrecking that killed 3 people, the Americans began to hang or shoot Mexicans who they thought were involved in the wreck [353] Stevenson, Cordella: African American: Columbus: Lowndes: Mississippi: December 15, 1915: Her son was accused of burning a white man's barn, he was unavailable, so they raped and murdered her
While initially thought to have been in hiding after his family was murdered by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918, her remains were finally discovered in 2007, scientifically disproving her survival ...