Next Tuesday, April 3, will be 130th anniversary of the attack on Emma Smith in a London street. She died the next day, claiming that she was assaulted by a small gang of males. Some inconsistencies in her story have led some to question her account. Her murder is where many Ripper books begin...
150 years ago - 1868 March 30 - In a Columbus, Georgia house, George Ashburn is gunned down by the KKK. Many arrests were made but no one was ever prosecuted for the assassination.
An AR-15 is just a medium power gun, that's why they are primarily only used to hunt vermin like foxes and racoons. A higher power gun like a 30-06 hunting rifle would be much better for larger game. The "assault rifle" hyperbole is pure propaganda. If you don't believe me, look up the...
I don't see the 1988 reality TV presentation MANHUNT: LIVE! about the Green River Killer, hosted by Patrick Duffy, mentioned in the Wiki article. Very creepy-did anyone else here see it?
50 years ago - 1968 March 15 - Thomas DeSimone, a budding gangster, guns down a random stranger, Howard Goldstein, on a New York street. In 1979, after committing several more murders, DeSimone disappeared and was reportedly killed in a mob associated rubout.
In the Wiki article, it states that an official revealed that there was milk found in Barbara's stomach and that it was not believed that she drank it at home and it probably wasn't even sold at the theater. There are many things in this case that don't make much sense.
100 years ago - 1918 March 2 - In England, Louis Voisin is executed for the murder of his mistress Emilliene Gerard, 32. The victim had been slain by him and, his other "love", Berthe Roche. Ms. Roche was sent to prison but quickly went insane and died in 1919.
50 years ago - 1968 February 28 - Twenty-five-year-old Anneliese Herschel is raped and strangled in (what was then West) Germany. She will be the third and last murder victim of Ernst-Dieter Beck who began killing in 1961. He will soon be captured and sent to prison for life.
they kind of won out in the end.
I haven't been there but I remember when it opened and there were protesters claiming they were glorifying violence against women. Many in the Ripperology world actually feel close to these women in a loving way so the protesters were wrong. The victims are...
Sunday the 25th is the 130th anniversary of the attack on Annie Millwood by a man who could have been Jack the Ripper. She was stabbed several times in the legs and lower torso. At the end of March, Annie died of an ulcerated pulmonary artery. In a possibly dubious conclusion, a doctor found...
50 years ago - 1968 February 22 - In Glasgow, 25-year-old Patricia Docker vanishes while attending a dance club. The following morning, her nude body will be found along a lane near her residence. Patricia had been raped and strangled. She will be the first victim of a nascent serial killer who...
North Western Indiana was quite the resort area in the 1960s with the Dunes plus Indiana Beach as well as at least one nudist camp owned by the Drost Family.
Hi Robb-Do you know Ann's birth month? I was born in 1946 and rememeber hearing in the 1960s that many bars in the Dunes area were known for serving underage drinkers so fake IDs might not have always been needed.
I was wondering if she was actually 21 yet or if they just subtracted 1945 from 1966. The other girls were born in 1947 and said to be 19. Although certainly possible, it would go against the odds that all were born in the first half of the year. The reason I wonder is it would make a...
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