She was convicted and hanged in Johannesburg in 1932 after confessing to the murders. Age: Dec. at 46 (1886-1932) Birthplace: Eastern Cape, South Africa Cause Of Death: Hanging Dorothea Puente Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house for the elderly in Sacramento, CA, for years in th...
And Deeper 19 Infamous Celebrity Murders That Remain Unsolved To This Day And Deeper The Most Famous Unsolved Murders In The US Alice Cooper Age: 76 Alice Cooper, born Vincent Damon Furnier on February 4, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan, is an American rock singer, songw...
American serial killer and s*x offender who was sentenced to death in California for five murders committed in the state between 1977 and 1979, and received an additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading guilty to two homicides committed in New York in 1971 and 1977. While he has...
Historical knowledge about them is based largely upon “A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates,” by Captain Charles Johnson (probably a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe). It was published in 1724 after Anne and Mary were brought to trial for piracy on the ...
If you have $850,000 and aren't afraid of the dark, consider this listing in Amityville, New York, the scene of the infamous murders of six family members in 1974 that inspired the book The Amityville Horror and several movies over the following decades. I'll admit I have mixed feelings...
The hit 1980s crime showMurder, She Wrotefollows retired English teacher-turned-amateur detective Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) as she investigates a series of murders in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. But the show didn’t film in the Northeast at all — rather, it was shot ...
The hit 1980s crime showMurder, She Wrotefollows retired English teacher-turned-amateur detective Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) as she investigates a series of murders in the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine. But the show didn’t film in the Northeast at all — rather, it was shot ...
Her mother, Jodi, said her daughter passed away Monday after she had been found lifeless in the home of a friend in Liberty, South Carolina. The cause of death is currently unknown. Skilyr's mum toldTMZthat her daughter had been dealing with mental health issues, including depression and su...
Fame from the 1841 short story by Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a story about the baffling double murder on a fictional street in Paris. Also a 1932 movie, a 1971 movie, and a Canadian magazine devoted to coverage of horror fiction. Rue Sainte-Catherine –Canada (...
In 1888 in foggy dark streets of the East End of London better known as the Whitechapel District, lived a serial killer that would go down in history as Jack the Ripper. Even though the Whitechapel District was known for its violence and crime, the string of murders conducted by Jack the...