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James Morelli (March 18, 1927 – November 26, 1949) was a gangster based in Chicago, Illinois, who was executed for participating alongside gangsters Thomas Daley and Lowell Fentress in the mass murder of three people. Several newspapers called the killings the "Mad Dog" murders.
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
Beulah May Annan (née Sheriff; November 18, 1899 – March 10, 1928) was an American suspected murderer.Her story inspired Maurine Dallas Watkins's play Chicago in 1926. . The play was adapted into a 1927 silent film, a 1975 stage musical, and a 2002 movie musical (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), all with that title, and a 1942 romantic comedy film, Roxie Hart, named for the ...
Murder of Derrion Albert: Chicago: 2009-09-24: Murder at Christian Fenger Academy High School: Murder of Hadiya Pendleton: Chicago: 2013-01-29: 15-year-old girl shot while standing with friends in a park; Barack Obama mentioned in State of Union: Murder of Laquan McDonald: Chicago: 2014-10-20: 17-year-old African-American youth fatally shot by ...
Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last person executed by this method was the public execution of Charles Birger the same year. After being struck down by Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois on July 1, 1974, but voided by the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1975. Illinois ...
A 30-year-old man has been charged with murder after four people were killed “execution-style” in a mass shooting on a train in Chicago on Labor Day.. Rhanni Davis, 30, from Chicago, was ...
Each murder suspect is identified with a particular word that punctuates the song: "Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz!" "Pop": The first woman, Liz, states that she was driven to kill her husband Bernie when his bubble gum–popping habit triggered her misophonia: "I took a shotgun from the wall and fired two warning shots—into his ...
Given the image of the homicide captured on surveillance video – a dark-hooded figure with a gray backpack fatally shooting the executive in the back from several feet away – the case may seem ...