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Shedd Aquarium. Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago. Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium. [2]
Mary Winkler. Mary Carol Winkler (born December 10, 1973) is an American woman who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the city of Selmer, Tennessee. Winkler gained national attention because of public speculation regarding her ...
Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 3, 1964) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [2] The case of Yates—who had exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia leading up to the murders—placed the M'Naghten rules, along ...
John G. Shedd, Chairman of Marshall Field & Company, philanthropist, founder of the Shedd Aquarium; Milton Sills, actor "The Heart Bandit", "The Hawk's Nest", "The Sea Wolf" Edwin Silverman, co-founder of Essaness Theatres [11] Roslyn Simon, Wife of Justice Seymour Simon, Chicago Philanthropist and Miss Philadelphia (1932)
The ex-husband of Susan Smith, who drowned their two sons in 1994 and is currently serving a life sentence, is speaking out about what he would say to the convicted killer if they came face to face.
In 2002, The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, a community-based performing arts center and music school in Eugene, Oregon, was co-founded by one of his great-grandchildren. With his wife, Mary Roanna (née Porter), [1] they had daughters Helen Shedd Reed Keith and Laura Abbie Shedd Schweppe (? – 1937). Laura married Charles Hodgdon ...
August 14, 2024 at 6:17 PM. Actor Gena Rowlands, known for films "A Woman Under the Influence," "Gloria" and "The Notebook," has died. She was 94. (Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press ...
Stella Maudine Nickell (née Stephenson; born August 7, 1943) is an American woman who was sentenced to ninety years in prison for product tampering after she poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide, resulting in the deaths of her husband Bruce Nickell and Sue Snow, a stranger. Her May 1988 conviction and prison sentence were the first ...