December 10, 2003Sugar Land, TexasThree members of the Whitaker family are shot as they return home from dinner The Whitakers’ elder son, Thomas Bartlett “Bart” Whitaker (23), announced to his family he had completed his studies at Sam Houston State University and would soon be graduating. (It was later revealed there were no records from…
Woman killed, sewn into sack, tossed in canal by employee who had been reprimanded for being late
December 10, 1913 Liverpool, England George Ball (alias Sumner) bludgeons his employer, sews her body into a sack, and throws the corpse into the canal After being berated for arriving to work late, Ball (22) struck his employer, 40-year-old Christina Bradfield with a blunt instrument, killing her. He then sewed her body in a bag…
Woman killed by son in apparent self-defense

December 10, 1986 Encino, California Actress Susan Cabot is killed by her 22-year-old son Timothy Roman, apparently after Cabot failed to recognize her son and attacked him Cabot had been a film and television actress, predominantly during the 1950s, appearing in Westerns and B-movies such as The Wasp Woman (pictured) and The Saga of the…