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At least one videotape showing Travis murdering and/or torturing some of his victims was found in the search of his home in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.He is believed to have killed two women: Alysia Greenwade, whose body was discovered April 1, 2001, in Illinois (after having been last seen in Missouri), and Betty James, whose body was discovered about two months later in ...
In the 1960s, for a second decade, the United States FBI continued to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.Following is a brief review of FBI people and events that place the 1960s decade in context, and then an historical list of individual suspects whose names first appeared on the 10 Most Wanted list during the decade of the 1960s, under FBI ...
Glennon Edward Engleman (February 6, 1927 – March 3, 1999) was an American dentist, contract killer, and serial killer.Engleman, a United States Army veteran and a St. Louis dentist, planned and carried out at least five murders for monetary gain over the course of 30 years.
In 1953, the United States FBI, under Director J. Edgar Hoover, continued for a fourth year to maintain a public list of the people it regarded as the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. 1953 was a very productive year for the FBI, as the Bureau listed and then also soon caught many fugitives.
A veteran holdup man whose criminal career lasted more than 30 years, Bowerman was placed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list in 1953. Later that year, he led the disastrous Southwest Bank holdup in St. Louis, Missouri, in which he and his three partners wound up in a standoff with more than 100 officers of the St. Louis Police Department ...
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
By 1922, Burke had re-joined Egan's Rats and was working with three other war veterans in various robberies around St. Louis, including a robbery of $80,000 from a St. Louis distillery. In 1924, the leaders of the Egan gang were jailed, after which Burke returned to Michigan with other Egan's Rats members where they became associates of The ...
The Filipina civic leader, social worker, suffragette, and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines was arrested on 27 August 1944, tortured, and last seen on 6 January 1945, presumably being executed by the occupying Japanese forces and buried in an unmarked grave after that.