Jun 8, 2013
James Earl Rayby Michael Thomas BarryOn June 8, 1968, James Earl Ray is arrested in London, England, and charged with the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, King was fatally wounded by a sniper's bullet while standing on the...
Jun 7, 2013
Michael Skakelby Michael Thomas BarryOn June 7, 2002, Michael Skakel is convicted in the 1975 murder of his former Greenwich, Connecticut, neighbor, 15-year-old neighbor Martha Moxley. Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy, was later...
Apr 24, 2013
Colin Rossby Michael Thomas BarryOn April 24, 1922, Colin Ross was executed in Australia for the murder of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke. Ross was one of the first criminals in Australia to be convicted based on forensic evidence. On December 30, 1921, she had been reported missing...
Feb 5, 2013
Byron Beckwithby Michael Thomas BarryOn February 5, 1994, Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Medger Evers. The assassination had taken place 31 years earlier, ending the lengthiest murder case in American history. Evers was gunned down...
Feb 4, 2013
Janie Shepherd newspaper clippingby Michael Thomas BarryAustralian heiress Janie Shepherd, the stepdaughter of the former chairman of BP Australia, John Darling was abducted and murdered by David Lashley on the night of February 4, 1977 in West London. Lashley, a 50-year-...
Feb 3, 2013
Portrait of Barnett Davenportby Michael Thomas BarryOn February 3, 1780, Barnett Davenport murders Caleb Mallory, his wife, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren in rural Connecticut. Davenport was born in 1760; he enlisted in the American army as a teenager and had served at...
Feb 2, 2013
Hannah Tailford is the first known victim of Jack the Stripperby Michael Thomas BarryJack the stripper was the nickname given to an unknown British serial killer responsible for what came to be known as the London "nude murders" between 1964 and 1965 (also known as the "...
Feb 1, 2013
William Desmond Taylorby Michael Thomas BarryOn February 1, 1922, Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor is murdered. His body is found the next morning inside his bungalow at the Alvarado Court Apartments, in the West Lake Park area of downtown Los Angeles. Taylor was an...
Jan 31, 2013
Ted Bundyby Michael Thomas BarryOn January 31, 1974, the second known victim of serial killer Ted Bundy, Lynda Ann Healey disappears but there is no real consensus to when he actually began his murder spree. She had been bludgeoned while asleep and abducted; her skull and...
Jan 30, 2013
Mohandas Gandhiby Michael Thomas BarryOn January 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India is assassinated in New Delhi by a terrorist sponsored right-wing Hindu militia group. The murder came only 10...
