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Today in Horror History: October 11

Birthdays: Sean Patrick Flanery (October 11, 1965), who starred in Raging Angels (1995), “The Outer Limits” (episode: Stasis), Eye See You (2002), Demon Hunter (2005), “Masters of Horror” (episode: The Damned Thing), Insatiable (2006), Kaw (2007), “The Dead Zone,” Mongolian Death Worm (2010), Saw 3D: The Final Chapter (2010), InSight (2011), The Devil’s Carnival (2012),…

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Chicago gangster Hymie Weiss killed in hit

October 11, 1926 Chicago, Illinois Gangster Hymie Weiss (born Henry Earl J. Wojciechowski) is killed in a gangland hit Weiss, sometimes called “the only man Al Capone feared,” was with Sam Peller (his bodyguard), Paddy Murray (another gangster), William O’Brien (an attorney), and Benjamin Jacobs (an investigator working for O’Brien) when two men shot at…