March 6, 1998 Newington, Connecticut Matthew Beck kills four of his bosses and himself following months of complaints that the state lottery system was unfair to its players as well as an unresolved work dispute Beck had worked at the lottery for more than eight years before the murders and had approached newspapers for months,…
One of the last living Radium Girls dies
March 1, 2014 Middlebury, Connecticut Mae Keane, one of the last living Radium Girls, dies at the age of 107 The Radium Girls, as they were later called, were a collection of women who worked at clock and watch factories, painting radioactive radium on the watch and clock hands and numbers to allow them to…
Man kills family of five with a club and fire
February 3, 1780 Litchfield County, Connecticut Barnett Davenport (19) kills his employer Caleb Mallory, his wife Jane Mallory, and three of their grandchildren Davenport had been in trouble with the law since childhood; during his confession of the Mallory murders he admitted to committing several crimes as well as frequently battling the urge to kill.…
Hannah Ocuish, the youngest person to be executed in the US
December 20, 1786 New London, Connecticut 12-year-old Hannah Ocuish is hanged for the murder of a 6-year-old following an argument over strawberries Ocuish was a biracial orphan (her father was black and her mother belonged to the Pequot tribe) and possibly had a mental disability. In June 1786, 6-year-old Eunice Bolles accused Ocuish of stealing…
Man kills another man, cannibalizes eye and part of victim’s brain
December 15, 2011 Bridgeport, Connecticut Tyree Smith bludgeons Angel “Tun Tun” Gonzalez with an axe, then eats Gonzalez’s eye and part of his brain Gonzalez was homeless at the time of his murder, but had been staying in an abandoned, boarded up house for shelter. On December 15, Smith curled up outside the house, choosing…
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