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The fashion craze, which began in the 1870s, became so prominent that by 1886 birds were being killed for the millinery trade at a rate of five million a year; many species faced extinction as a result. [8] In Florida, plume birds were first driven away from the most populated areas in the northern part of the state, and forced to nest further ...
John Eleuthère du Pont (November 22, 1938 – December 9, 2010) was an American multimillionaire philanthropist and convicted murderer. Heir to the du Pont family fortune, [1] he was a published ornithologist, philatelist, conchologist, and sports enthusiast.
An ongoing vigil was set up at a tree near the site of the attack, dubbed "Cassius' tree". [3] A GoFundMe fundraising drive was created for Mechelle, whose husband (and Cassius' father) had died one month before Cassius, due to cancer. By 18 November, over A$700,000 had been raised. Mechelle said that the funds would be used to set up a ...
The murder of Mosley, 28, changed the lives of her four children, who struggled with addictions and other demons. Fifty years after Mosley's slaying, her children hope her death won't be forgotten ...
An exonerated Nevada woman who spent nearly 16 years in prison was awarded $34 million last week after a federal jury found local police intentionally caused her emotional distress while ...
Feb. 15—Investigators believe they have solved the Great Depression-era cold case of an Idaho game warden who vanished in the mountains south of Mullan. Though the body of Ellsworth Arthur Teed ...
The hostages killed were store employees Kris Edward Sohne and John Lee Fritz and customer Fernando Gutierrez. [6] Gutierrez's two nieces were also hostages. [9] [16] One of the nieces, Lisa Joseph, later wrote the book Heads or Tails: A True Hostage Story of Terror, Torture and Ultimate Survival about her ordeal. [17]
Biye', charged with the murder, served several years in prison, but was released in 1914 due to poor health. [16] Often described as a wealthy or prosperous man, Wetherill's only asset at the time of his death was ranch property worth five thousand dollars. He was owed more than eleven thousand dollars by Navajos, Hispanics, and Anglos.