December 20, 1984Greeley, Colorado12-year-old Jonelle Matthews is taken from her home; her body will remain undiscovered for nearly 35 years Matthews was last seen on the night of December 20 after she sang Christmas carols with her school choir. She was taken home by a friend and the friend’s mother who watched Matthews walk into…
The dismembered body of a female and her full-term fetus are found in three suitcases
December 20, 1976 Carbon/Luzerne County Line, Pennsylvania The dismembered bodies of an unidentified female and her fetus are found in three suitcases The victim, later given the name Beth Doe, was found by a 14-year-old approximately 7 to 24 hours after Beth’s murder. She had been strangled and shot in the throat before she was…
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…
