March 21, 1644Boston, Massachusetts Bay ColonyMary Latham and John Britton are executed for adultery As the executions and the events which led to them happened nearly 400 years ago, very little historical evidence remains. The entirety of what is known today is held within the diaries of John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay…
4-year-old falls 48 flights to death
March 20, 1991New York, New YorkConor Clapton (4) falls to his death The apartment Conor and his mother Lory Del Santo shared featured cantilevered windows. On March 20, a janitor was cleaning the windows as Conor was playing hide-and-seek with his nanny. The janitor cautioned the nanny about the open window, but “before she could…
Three students go missing, are ostensibly murdered and dissolved in acid by drug cartel
March 19, 2018Tonala, Jalisco, MexicoThree cinematography students — Javier Salomón Aceves Gastélum (25), Marco García Francisco Ávalos (20), and Jesús Daniel Díaz (20) — go missing The students attended the Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales in Guadalajara, and traveled to Tonala about 17 km (10.5 miles) away to film a college project. Unbeknownst to the men,…
Man executed for the murder of a woman committed ostensibly during a blackout
March 18, 1947London, EnglandHarold Hagger, alias Sidney Sinclair, is executed for the murder of Dagmar Petrzywalski (48) On October 31, 1946, a lorry driver spotted a blue shoe about 12 feet (3.6 meters) from a rural Kent roadside. He hoped to find the shoe’s mate to present the matching set to his wife as new…
Woman kills former lover when he refuses to leave his current partner for her
March 17, 1951Paris, FrancePauline Dubuisson (24) kills her former lover Félix Bailey (27) and attempts to kill herself Dubuisson and Bailey met at the University of Lille’s Faculty of Medicine and began a relationship soon after. They held a reportedly unstable relationship for three years until Bailey asked Dubuisson to marry him. She refused. After…
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