January 13, 1987ConnecticutRichard Crafts (49) is arrested for the murder of his wife Helle Crafts (39) was last seen on November 18, 1986. The following morning, Helle’s husband Richard Crafts woke their live-in nanny to inform her the power was out, and he was taking her and his three children to his sister’s house to…
Serial killer Harold Shipman hangs self in prison
January 13, 2004Wakefield, West Yorkshire, EnglandHarold Shipman hangs himself in prison Shipman graduated medical school in 1970. In 1975, Shipman was fired from his practice after he forged pain medication prescriptions for his patients. Though he was fired, Shipman did not lose his license and was instead given a fine. By the late 1990s undertakers…
Canadian serial killer executed
January 13, 1928Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaSerial killer Earle Leonard Nelson, alias Virgil Wilson, is executed Nelson primarily targeted landladies, posing as a prospective tenant to lure the victims to empty buildings. The women were strangled, and many raped after death. (One victim, 14-year-old Lola Cowen, was also seriously mutilated.) Nelson’s success largely depended on his constant…
