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The William J. Fischer Housing Development, better known as the Fischer Projects, was a housing project in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It was known notoriously for a series of high-profile murders in the 1970s and 1980s. [ 1] It was the last conventional public housing development constructed in New Orleans, and one of the ...
Poor Ellen Smith is a late 19th-century murder ballad recounting the shooting death of one Ellen Smith, [1] and the trial and execution of her murderer, Peter de Graff. He apparently wrote the lyrics while awaiting execution by hanging in 1893 using a melody he purloined from the hymn " How Firm a Foundation ".
Night Watch is a 1973 mystery thriller film directed by Brian G. Hutton from a screenplay by Tony Williamson, based on the 1972 play of the same name by Lucille Fletcher. [ 1] The film reunited Elizabeth Taylor with co-star Laurence Harvey from their 1960 collaboration BUtterfield 8. [ 2] It was the last time the pair acted together on screen. [ 3]
2. Struggling actor murdered soldier to steal his combat pay and then murdered a friend of the soldier to make it appear the soldier killed her and then disappeared. [ 40][ 41] 31. 2011 Seal Beach shooting. Seal Beach. 2011-10-12. 8. Mass shooting at a hair salon, deadliest mass shooting in Orange County history.
The infamous Manhattan Well Murder became the first sensationalized US murder trial in 1800, and a new podcast finally focuses on the victim at its center: Elma Sands, a 22-year-old found dead at ...
Coral Springs, Florida, U.S. Height. 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) [ 1] Star Stowe (born Ellen Louise Price; March 19, 1956, Little Rock, Arkansas [ 2] – March 16, 1997, Coral Springs, Florida) [ 1] was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Stowe was murdered by an unknown assailant.
Sitting in the noisy dayroom of Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, Calif., as he speaks over a grainy video call, Scott Peterson looks more like a laidback surfer than a man convicted of the heinous ...
Richard Allen Davis (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of California 's "three-strikes law" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators. He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances (burglary ...