Jun 30, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
What happened on this week June 30-July 6 in crime history: NBA star Kobe Bryant was accused of sexual assault (July 1, 2003); old west gunslinger Clay Allison died in freak wagon accident (July 1, 1887); President James A. Garfield was shot (...
Jun 23, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
This week in crime history – June 23-29: Klaus Fuchs, Soviet spy was released from a British prison (June 23, 1959); Yale professor David Gelernter was injured by a bomb sent by the Unabomber (June 24, 1993); Congress passes the Mann...
Jun 18, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
How many more tragedies must we endure before stricter gun control laws are enacted? Since the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting on December 14, 2013 which took the lives of 20 children and 6 adult school workers there have been 74 school...
Jun 16, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
What happened on this week in crime history, June 16 – June 22; SLA member Kathleen Ann Soliah was arrested after 20 years on the run (June 16, 1999); Watergate burglars were arrested (June 17, 1972); O.J. Simpson was arrested after his infamous...
Jun 9, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
This week in crime history- Heidi Fleiss, the “Hollywood Madam” was arrested (June 9, 1993); first Salem witch trial hangings (June 10, 1692); mobster Henry Hill was born (June 11, 1943); Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were...
Jun 2, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
What happened on this week in crime history June 2-8; Serial Killer Leonard Lake was arrested (June 2, 1985); Joran van der Sloot was arrested for murder in Chile (June 3, 2010); Jonathan Pollard admits to selling military secrets to...
May 27, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
This week in crime history - May 27-June 1; Explorer Jedediah Smith was murdered by Comanche’s on the Santa Fe Trail (May 27, 1831); Writer R. Foster Winans’ conviction for securities fraud was upheld on appeal (May 28, 1986);...
May 19, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
What happened during this week in crime history, May 19-25. On May 19, 1897 – Oscar Wilde was released from prison; May 20, 2005 – Mary Kay Letourneau married her former victim; May 21, 1992 – Amy Fisher, the so-called “Long Island...
May 12, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
What happened during this week in crime history: May 12 – Body of Lindbergh baby was found (1932); May 13 – Pope John Paul II was shot (1981); May 15 – Second Vigilante Committee was formed in San Francisco (1856); May 16 – Voltaire was...
May 8, 2014
by Michael Thomas Barry
On this date in crime history – May 8, 1988, Stella Nickell is convicted on two counts of murder by a Seattle, Washington, jury. She was the first person to be found guilty of violating the Federal Anti-Tampering Act after putting cyanide in...
