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The train is stopped when a landslide blocks the line on the second night out from Istanbul, and American millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found stabbed to death the next morning. Since no footprints are visible around the train and the doors to the other cars were locked, it seems that the murderer must still be among the passengers in ...
Conductor Pierre Michel is told through the door that it was just a nightmare. Ratchett is dead the next morning; drugged and stabbed twelve times. Poirot finds a charred letter fragment revealing Ratchett's true identity: American gangster Lanfranco Cassetti who, with an accomplice, had carried out Daisy's kidnapping and murder.
Samuel Ratchett/Cassetti: An American gangster who kidnapped and murdered three-year-old Daisy Armstrong. Dr. Stavros Constantine: a Greek physician, who, after the murder, determines Ratchett's time of death. Mrs. Caroline Hubbard: the American actress Linda Arden, who is also revealed to be Daisy Armstrong's maternal grandmother.
Mary Surratt, [165] Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt were hanged in the Old Arsenal Penitentiary on July 7, 1865. [166] Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen were sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson in Florida's isolated Dry Tortugas. Edmund Spangler was given a six-year term in prison. [78]
Aug. 14—100 Years Ago Aug. 14, 1922 Apparently without the slightest motive, Andrew Fritz, about 25 years old, Saturday night shot and instantly killed Samuel Bradford, about 30 years old, all ...
Police rushed to the scene. Campus police received a call just before 6 a.m. Friday about shots fired in a dormitory. University police reached the dorm at 6:05 a.m., where they found two people ...
It’s been over 70 years since Hollywood’s most infamous unsolved murder took place.. In the early hours of Jan. 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered and then left on the ...
Samuel Wardwell (May 16, 1643 – September 22, 1692) was a man accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692. He was executed by hanging on September 22, 1692, along with Alice Parker , Martha Corey , Mary Eastey , Ann Pudeator , Mary Parker , Wilmot Redd , and Margaret Scott .