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Victim of torture murder. Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her ...
Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[ note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [ 2][ 3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry .
2. Relatives. Cary Stayner (brother) Steven Gregory Stayner (April 18, 1965 – September 16, 1989) was an American kidnapping victim and the younger brother of serial killer Cary Stayner. On December 4, 1972, seven-year-old Stayner was abducted in Merced, California, by child molester Kenneth Parnell. He was held by his abductor 38 miles (61 ...
Original release. Network. NBC. Release. October 24, 1988. ( 1988-10-24) A Stoning in Fulham County is a 1988 television film directed by Larry Elikann. It takes place in fictional Fulham County, North Carolina. [ 1] It is based on the true story of the murder of an Amish baby by a group of reckless teens in Indiana in 1979.
James, Jr. (paternal) Criminal charge. Murder of five, attempted murder and theft. Penalty. 6 consecutive life sentences. Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (March 27, 1939 – August 8, 2002) was the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of Pennsylvania, U.S. The gang started in the 1960s and was rounded up in 1978 after his son ...
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York JFK to Miami. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972, the Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar crashed into the Florida Everglades, [ 1][ 2][ 3] causing 101 total fatalities. All three cockpit crew members, two of the 10 flight attendants, and 96 of the 163 passengers were killed; 75 ...
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25- acre patch of land in League City, Texas [ 1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Criminal penalty. 20 years imprisonment, served five years. John Stanley Joseph Wojtowicz ( / vɔɪˈtoʊvɪtʃ /, voy-TOE-vitch; [ 1] March 9, 1945 – January 2, 2006) was an American bank robber whose story inspired the film Dog Day Afternoon. [ 2][ 3][ 4]