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ClaimRichard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murderson this day Jul 13
By age 25, Richard Speck had accumulated over 20 prior arrests, establishing a documented pattern of criminal behavior well before the 1966 murders.
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ClaimRichard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murderson this day Jul 13
Fingerprints recovered at the South Deering dormitory crime scene provided forensic evidence linking Richard Speck to the murders.
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ClaimRichard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murderson this day Jul 13
Corazon Amurao survived the attack by hiding under a bed throughout the night of July 13–14, 1966, remaining undetected by Speck because he lost count of his victims.
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ClaimRichard Speck: The Chicago Nurses Murderson this day Jul 13
Richard Speck was identified at a hospital when an emergency room physician noticed a tattoo on his arm reading 'Born to Raise Hell,' which matched the description provided by surviving witness Corazo…
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ClaimCharles Cullenon this day Jul 15
Charles Cullen was arrested on April 18, 2002, in connection with the murders of patients at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, New Jersey.
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ClaimCharles Cullenon this day Jul 15
Cullen used lethal injection to kill patients, administering lethal doses of medication (primarily insulin and succinylcholine) to patients in his care.
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ClaimCharles Cullenon this day Jul 15
Cullen was hired by Somerset Medical Center in 2001 despite prior suspicious activity at other facilities.
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ClaimCharles Cullenon this day Jul 15
Despite multiple hospitals being alerted to suspicious activity by Cullen over his career, no hospital prevented him from being hired by another facility until his 2002 arrest.
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ClaimThe Murder of James Byrd Jr.on this day Jul 17
Before the dragging, the attackers beat Byrd severely with a wooden bat, fracturing his eye sockets and ribs.
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ClaimThe Murder of James Byrd Jr.on this day Jul 17
The attackers chained James Byrd Jr.'s ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him for nearly three miles along a remote rural road outside Jasper, Texas.
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ClaimThe Murder of James Byrd Jr.on this day Jul 17
Shawn Allen Berry cooperated with investigators and led them to the crime scene, aiding the rapid identification of all three perpetrators.
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ClaimExecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenbergon this day Jul 17
Klaus Fuchs's 1950 confession to British authorities about passing atomic secrets to the Soviets led investigators to David Greenglass, whose testimony in turn implicated Julius Rosenberg.
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ClaimExecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenbergon this day Jul 17
David Greenglass, a U.S. Army sergeant and Ethel Rosenberg's brother, confessed to passing atomic research from Los Alamos to Soviet intelligence through Julius Rosenberg and provided testimony agains…
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ClaimThe Murder of James Byrd Jr.on this day Jul 17
John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer were avowed white supremacists with affiliations to white power organizations at the time of the crime.
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ClaimThe Murder of James Byrd Jr.on this day Jul 17
Byrd's head and right arm became separated from his torso during the dragging; his remains were so badly damaged that identification required forensic analysis.
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ClaimExecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenbergon this day Jul 17
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during and after World War II and were sentenced to death.
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ClaimExecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenbergon this day Jul 17
Julius Rosenberg had worked as an engineer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, a position that became central to the espionage charges against him.
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ClaimJames Earl Ray: The Heathrow Captureon this day Jul 19
Near the Memphis rooming house from which King was shot, investigators recovered a bundle containing a Remington rifle, binoculars, and a transistor radio; the FBI matched fingerprints on those items …
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ClaimJames Earl Ray: The Heathrow Captureon this day Jul 19
The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that King had likely been the victim of a conspiracy, while still identifying Ray as the man who fired the shot.
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ClaimJames Earl Ray: The Heathrow Captureon this day Jul 19
The RCMP placed the alias 'Ramon George Sneyd' on a watchlist; it was this flag triggering at Heathrow check-in — not physical surveillance — that led to Ray's arrest.
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ClaimJames Earl Ray: The Heathrow Captureon this day Jul 19
When arrested at Heathrow on June 8, 1968, Ray was carrying a loaded .38-caliber revolver and a second Canadian passport in a different alias.
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ClaimThe Murder of Marilyn Sheppardon this day Jul 20
The 1954 murder trial before Judge Edward Blythin in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court lasted nine weeks.
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ClaimThe Murder of Marilyn Sheppardon this day Jul 20
On December 21, 1954, the Cuyahoga County jury convicted Samuel Sheppard of second-degree murder rather than the originally charged first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Jul 27
Nicholas Godejohn stabbed Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard to death on June 14, 2015, in her Springfield, Missouri home, acting in conspiracy with Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Jul 27
Dee Dee Blanchard began fabricating illness for Gypsy Rose in infancy — the first false claim was sleep apnea — and subsequently subjected her to unnecessary surgeries, a feeding tube, and wheelchair …
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Jul 27
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from a Missouri prison in December 2023.
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Jul 27
When family members questioned whether Gypsy Rose actually needed her wheelchair, Dee Dee relocated with her daughter to cut off contact with skeptical relatives and preserve the false medical narrati…
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Jul 27
Gypsy Rose Blanchard accepted a plea deal in connection with the death of her mother, Clauddine Blanchard.
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ClaimGeorge Wallace assassination attempton this day Aug 4
Arthur Bremer was convicted for the shooting of Wallace and three bystanders and imprisoned for decades before his later release. Because the main biographical source has maintenance warnings, public …
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ClaimGeorge Wallace assassination attempton this day Aug 4
Wallace survived but was permanently paralyzed from the waist down, and three other people were wounded. The shooting effectively ended his 1972 presidential campaign as a serious active effort, even …
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ClaimGeorge Wallace assassination attempton this day Aug 4
On May 15, 1972, Alabama governor and Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace was shot during an outdoor campaign rally at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland. Sources identify the…
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ClaimGeorge Wallace assassination attempton this day Aug 4
The attack is historically inseparable from Wallace's civil-rights record: he had built national power through segregationist politics, later renounced segregation and sought forgiveness, and remains …
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Claim2021 San Jose VTA Rail Yard Shooting — Samuel James Cassidyon this day Aug 8
On May 26, 2021, Samuel James Cassidy, a 57-year-old VTA substation maintainer with approximately 20 years at the agency, opened fire at the Guadalupe Division light rail yard in San Jose during a mor…
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ClaimStephen Stanko Executionon this day Aug 18
Stanko shot and killed Henry Lee Turner, a 74-year-old retired Air Force master sergeant, and subsequently cleaned out Turner's bank account.
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ClaimStephen Stanko Executionon this day Aug 18
After killing Laura Ling in Murrells Inlet, Stanko raped and attempted to murder her 15-year-old daughter Christina Ling, who survived and became a key witness for the prosecution.
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ClaimStephen Stanko Executionon this day Aug 18
Stanko received two separate death sentences in South Carolina — one for each murder — making him one of the few death row inmates in the state to carry dual capital sentences.
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ClaimStephen Stanko Executionon this day Aug 18
Defense experts diagnosed Stanko with brain damage attributed to multiple head injuries across his life, including birth trauma, a teenage head blow sustained while shielding a classmate, and repeated…
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ClaimMary Turner Lynching (May 19, 1918)on this day Sep 1
No one was ever convicted for the murders of Mary Turner, Hayes Turner, or the other victims of the May 1918 lynchings
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ClaimMary Turner Lynching (May 19, 1918)on this day Sep 1
At least 13 Black residents were killed by white mobs in Brooks and Lowndes counties in the two weeks following Hampton Smith's killing
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ClaimMary Turner Lynching (May 19, 1918)on this day Sep 1
Mary Turner was killed at Folsom Bridge over the Little River, approximately 16 miles north of Valdosta, Georgia
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ClaimMary Turner Lynching (May 19, 1918)on this day Sep 1
Mary Turner's refusal to stay silent about her husband's killing — vowing to seek warrants and court accountability — was the stated reason for her targeting by the mob
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ClaimMary Turner Lynching (May 19, 1918)on this day Sep 1
A Georgia Historical Society marker was placed near the Folsom Bridge site in 2010 and rededicated in 2021 as part of the Georgia Civil Rights Trail
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