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ClaimKansas City Massacreon this day Oct 23
Four law enforcement officers and prisoner Frank Nash were killed in the attack at Union Station on June 17, 1933.
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ClaimKansas City Massacreon this day Oct 23
Frank Nash had escaped from the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth approximately three years before June 1933.
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ClaimKansas City Massacreon this day Oct 23
Charles 'Pretty Boy' Floyd was identified by the FBI as one of the gunmen involved in the attack.
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ClaimKansas City Massacreon this day Oct 23
Richetti was identified as another gunman involved in the attack.
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ClaimThe Murder of Marilyn Sheppardon this day Oct 29
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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ClaimThe Murder of Marilyn Sheppardon this day Oct 29
The 1954 murder trial before Judge Edward Blythin in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court lasted nine weeks.
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ClaimMurder of Betty Goreon this day Oct 31
Candace Lynn Montgomery confessed to killing Betty Gore but claimed Gore had attacked her first with the axe, framing the killing as self-defense.
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ClaimMurder of Betty Goreon this day Oct 31
Betty Gore's two-year-old daughter Bethany was present in the home during the murder, asleep in a crib in a separate room.
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ClaimMurder of Betty Goreon this day Oct 31
Candace Lynn Montgomery and Allan Gore had conducted an extramarital affair for approximately 18 months before the murder, which Allan had decided to end in order to focus on his marriage.
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ClaimMurder of Betty Goreon this day Oct 31
Betty Gore sustained 41 blows from a woodcutter's axe during the June 13, 1980 attack at her Wylie, Texas home.
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ClaimMurder of Betty Goreon this day Oct 31
Betty Gore's body was found in the utility room of her home roughly 13 hours after her death, with Bethany awake, crying, and covered in her own feces in her crib.
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Nov 2
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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ClaimStephen Stanko Executionon this day Nov 2
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 Nov 2
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 Nov 2
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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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Nov 2
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 Nov 2
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 Nov 2
Gypsy Rose Blanchard accepted a plea deal in connection with the death of her mother, Clauddine Blanchard.
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ClaimMurder of Dee Dee Blanchardon this day Nov 2
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from a Missouri prison in December 2023.
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ClaimFreedom Riders — Jackson, Mississippi arrests (May 24, 1961)on this day Nov 2
On May 24, 1961, 27 Freedom Riders were arrested at the Jackson Greyhound bus station for 'disturbing the peace' — testing a federal ruling against segregated interstate bus travel. The mass arrests f…
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ClaimStephen Stanko Executionon this day Nov 2
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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ClaimColorado Springs five-person shooting spreeon this day Nov 20
At the time, the five-person killing was the second-worst multiple homicide in Colorado Springs history, surpassed only by a 1911 ax murder in which six people died. The case was cited in later decade…
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ClaimColorado Springs five-person shooting spreeon this day Nov 20
Investigators suggested a "recognition factor" — the possibility that Archibeque feared someone in the bar could identify him — may have driven the seemingly indiscriminate nature of his attacks. The …
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ClaimColorado Springs five-person shooting spreeon this day Nov 20
At least 15 .22-caliber casings were recovered between both crime scenes. Archibeque used a .357-caliber revolver to execute the Grand View Lounge victims, each shot a single gunshot to the head.
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ClaimColorado Springs five-person shooting spreeon this day Nov 20
Robert Kuretich, approximately 40, was the sole survivor of the Grand View Lounge attack. He told police he felt a blow to his head, heard successive gunshots, and crawled under a pool table. Grazed b…
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ClaimColorado Springs five-person shooting spreeon this day Nov 20
After the shootings, police surrounded Archibeque's apartment and ordered him to surrender. He shot himself once in the head and died in his apartment. With the perpetrator deceased, no one was availa…
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ClaimColorado Springs five-person shooting spreeon this day Nov 20
On May 17, 1986, Gilbert Eugenio Archibeque shot and killed five people — three at the Grand View Lounge bar (Debbie Green, 29, bartender; Joanne McNamara, 46; James Roepke, 52) and two at the adjacen…
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