Posted on by Sarah Michael

Today in Horror History: August 25

Birthdays:Sean Connery (August 25, 1930), best known as one incarnation of James Bond, also starred in Hell Drivers (1957), Woman of Straw (1964), Marnie (1964), Thunderball (1965), The Molly Maguires (1970), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Meteor (1979), Outland (1981), Highlander (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Highlander II:…

Posted on by Sarah Michael · 1 Comment

Convicted murderer of five, including two children, is executed

August 25, 1993 Starke, Florida Michael Alan Durocher is executed for murdering his girlfriend, their 6-month-old son, her 5-year-old daughter, and an interior decorating store employee Durocher was already on death row for the 1986 armed robbery and murder of store employee Thomas Underwood and was awaiting sentencing for beating his roommate, Eddie Dwayne Childers,…