Apr 22, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 22, 1934, George "Baby Face" Nelson kills Special Agent W. Carter Baum during an FBI raid in northern Wisconsin. Nelson was holed up with notorious bank robber John Dillinger's gang at the...
Apr 21, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 21, 1992, Robert Alton Harris was executed in California’s gas chamber. This was California's first execution since former Chief Justice Rose Bird and two other state Supreme Court justices, Joseph...
Apr 18, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 17, 1983, the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is almost completely destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that kills 63 people, including the suicide bomber and 17 Americans. The terrorist attack was...
Apr 17, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 17, 1936, after a week of tracking down every conceivable lead, police finally find the evidence they need in order to break the case of Nancy Titterton's murder in New York City. Titterton, a...
Apr 16, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 16, 1881, western lawman Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle in the streets of Dodge City, Kansas. William Barclay "Bat" Masterson had made a living with his gun from a young age. In his early...
Apr 15, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 15, 1920 a paymaster and a security guard are killed during a mid-afternoon armed robbery of a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Out of this crime grew one of the most famous...
Apr 14, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater. After shooting the president Booth shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis! (Ever thus to tyrants!) The South is...
Apr 11, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 11, 1947, Louise Peete, the infamous Black Widow was executed at San Quentin Prison. She was born in 1883 in Bienville, Louisiana. Her family was relatively wealthy, and she received an expensive education, but...
Apr 10, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 10, 1919, Emiliano Zapata, a leader of the Mexican Revolution, is ambushed and shot to death in Morelos by government forces. Born a peasant in 1879, Zapata was forced into the Mexican army in 1908 following...
Apr 9, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – April 9, 1881, outlaw Billy the Kid was found guilty of murdering the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico and sentenced to death. There is no doubt that Billy the Kid did indeed shoot the sheriff, though he had...
