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1903. Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski (14 December 1865 – 7 April 1903), better known under his pseudonym George Chapman, was a Victorian era Polish serial killer known as the Borough Poisoner. Born in Congress Poland, Chapman moved to England as an adult, where he committed his crimes. He was convicted and executed after poisoning three women ...
Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) [4] and the US edition at $2.00. [3]
Richard Turpin (bapt. 21 September 1705 – 7 April 1739) was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft.Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer.
Born. (1951-02-28) February 28, 1951 (age 73) Washington, D.C. U.S. Alma mater. George Washington University. Occupation. Author. Mark Olshaker (born February 28, 1951) is an American author from Washington, D.C. who frequently collaborates with FBI agent John E. Douglas in writing books about criminal and investigative psychology.
Rumex obtusifolius is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant that grows to a height of 40 to 150 cm (16 to 59 in). [2] It is easily recognizable by its very large oval leaves with cordate bases and rounded tips, some of the lower leaves having red stems. [2] The edges of the leaves are slightly "crisped" or wavy, the upper surface is hairless ...
Date apprehended. July 30, 1982. Charles Ray Hatcher (July 16, 1929 – December 7, 1984) was an American serial killer. He was convicted in Missouri of one murder, has been linked to four others in Illinois and California, and confessed to having murdered a total of 16 people between 1969 and 1982.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 September 2024. American serial killer (born 1945) Dennis Rader Mugshot of Rader by the Kansas Department of Corrections. Born Dennis Lynn Rader (1945-03-09) March 9, 1945 (age 79) Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S. Other names BTK BTK Killer BTK Strangler Education Butler County Community College (AE) Wichita ...
David Anthony McGreavy (born 1951), also known as The Monster of Worcester or The Real Friday the 13th Killer, is an English convicted triple murderer who killed and dismembered his friend's three children in 1973. He was in the news in 2013 when an anonymity order imposed in 2009 was lifted based on findings that there was a public interest in ...