Birthdays: Jacques Tourneur, Grace Kelly, Radha Mitchell, Ryan Gosling Movie releases: The Mad Ghoul, Alone in the Dark, The Slumber Party Massacre, Seed of Chucky
Murdered for fame
November 12, 1966 Mesa, Arizona Robert Benjamin Smith (18), wanting the fame accompanying murder, shoots 5 women and 2 children, killing 4 of the women and one child Smith spent months devising a plan to achieve fame, deciding on Rose-Mar College of Beauty, believing it to hold a good number of potential victims, with both…
Birth of Charlie Manson
November 12, 1934 Cincinnati, Ohio Charles Milles Maddox, better known as Charles Manson, is born Manson was the ringleader of a love and murder cult The Manson Family, responsible for several brutal deaths, mostly infamously the murders of Sharon Tate and her house guests. Originally sentenced to death for murder and conspiracy, the penalty was…
Clippings: husband beats wife to death with ax; 500 women lynch a man for murder of young woman
From the Chicago Daily Tribune Published November 12, 1909 Several people met violent ends, three of whom had their destinies intertwined. The first article reports of a woman viciously attacked by her ax-wielding husband. Her battered body was found with her two young children crying over her, and she was able to implicate her husband…
FLW: lock and load
Famous Last Words G. W. Green Texas November 12, 1991 "Let's do it, man. Lock and load. Ain't life a (expletive)." *Green's Last Words were redacted by the State of Texas. Those which offer an uncensored version alternatively use either "bitch" or "mother fucker." Green and 2 accomplices broke into the home of a juvenile…
