November 1, 2006 Greenwich Village, New York, New York Actress/screen writer/director Adrienne Shelly is killed in her apartment and hanged to appear as a suicide after she complained to construction workers about noise Shelly (40) had been working in an apartment which she used as an office, and found noise from a construction crew in…
Man plants bomb in mother’s luggage to kill her and collect insurance money
November 1, 1955 Near Longport, Colorado A bomb on United Airlines Flight 629 explodes, planted by Jack Gilbert Graham in an effort to kill his mother for insurance money Graham had taken out a $37,000 air flight insurance policy out on his mother Daisie E. King shortly before her flight took off. Eleven minutes after…
Today in Horror History: November 1
Birthdays: Rachel Ticotin (November 1, 1958), who starred in Total Recall (1990), “Tales from the Crypt” (episode: Staired in Horror), “The Outer Limits” (episode: Mona Lisa), and The Eye (2008). Ticotin in Total Recall Natalia Tena (November 1, 1984), best known as Tonks from the Harry Potter movies, also starred in “Black Mirror” (episode: White…
