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A mob broke into his jail cell with sledge hammers, dragged him from the jail with a noose around his neck, beat and shot him to death, then hanged his corpse from a bridge. [33] [143] Watson, Ellen: 28: White: Natrona: Wyoming Territory: July 20, 1889: Stealing cattle: Abducted and hanged Averell, James: 38 Bowen, Keith: African American ...
Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the "Black Dahlia," is one of the most famous victims of an unsolved murder in American history. Elizabeth Short (22), most commonly known as Black Dahlia , was a woman who was found severely mutilated and her body cut in half in Leimert Park , Los Angeles, California on 15 January 1947.
John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [1] and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned the murders so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone suspected that ...
Father slit throats of his three daughters (ages 5, 8, and 11) the year after divorce from their mother [11] Steven Zelich: West Allis: 2012–2013: 2: Former police officer known as the "Wisconsin Suitcase Murderer" [12] Ashlee Martinson: Piehl: March 7, 2015: 2: Convicted of murdering her mother and stepfather on the day after her 17th birthday
Whitis was a family friend who had come to his New Albany home to console Gibson after his mother's death. [41] Gibson has pleaded guilty to three murders. After he was arrested for Whitis' murder, police excavated Gibson's yard to recover the body of Stephanie Kirk, a 35-year-old Charlestown woman who disappeared in 2012.
Mass shooting against African-American shoppers at a Tops Friendly Markets. Suspect said motive was to prevent others from 'eliminating the white race' Robb Elementary School shooting: 2022 May 24 Uvalde: Texas: 22 One of the deadliest school shootings in American history, [48] leaving 19 children and 2 adults dead. The perpetrator was killed ...
These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously). A list of people who were decapitated accidentally, including animal-related deaths, can be found at List of people who were decapitated. Salome and the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, by Titian The Beheading of Saint Paul. Painting by Enrique Simonet ...
The following are lists of notable deaths: Lists of deaths by year; Lists of deaths by day; List of assassinations; List of unsolved deaths; List of murdered hip hop musicians; List of deaths in rock and roll; List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication; Lists of people by cause of death; List of unusual deaths; Lists of poisonings