August 5, 2017 Cumberland, Maryland Suspected serial killer Joseph Roy Metheny dies in prison During an alleged and unconfirmed jailhouse confession, Metheny claimed to have killed 10 people and cooked parts of their bodies to serve to customers at his barbecue stand. (The “confession” has been reported by several news outlets, most of whom reference…
The first victim of the so-called “Sex Beast” serial killer is murdered
June 26, 1957 Near Annapolis, Maryland Melvin Rees (pictured) kills his first known victim Rees found Margaret Harold and her boyfriend, an unnamed soldier, parked at a lover’s lane. Rees showed them he had a gun, entered the backstreet of the car, and demanded money and cigarettes. When Harold told her boyfriend not to give…
Man is killed in shootout with law enforcement after killing a DC police officer and FBI agent
May 29, 1995 Greenbelt, Maryland Ralph McLean shoots an FBI agent to death before dying in a shootout with other agents and local police McLean had been wanted on suspicion of unprovoked attacks on police officers in Washington D.C., including the death of Prince George's County Police Corporal John Novabilski who was moonlighting as a…
Eighth grader shoots teachers after being reprimanded (1956)
May 4, 1956 Seat Pleasant, Maryland 14-year-old Billy Ray Prevatte shoots three teachers, killing one Prevatte had a history of violence in school, including previously being expelled for threatening a teacher with a knife. His gym teacher had instructed Prevatte to write “I will keep quiet in gym class” 100 times after causing a distraction…
Group holds drunken hex party to curse Hitler
January 22, 1941 Maryland A group of people gather cabin in the woods, drink heavily, and engage in a "hex party" to "kill Adolf Hitler by voodoo incantation" The gathering was recorded by LIFE magazine and published in their February 10, 1941 issue, and describe the alcohol-fueled ritual involving a dressmaker's dummy that had nails…
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