January 2, 1956Great Falls, MontanaPatricia Kalitzke (16) and Lloyd Bogle (18) are killed; their murders remain unsolved Kalitzke and Bogle were last seen leaving a drive-in around 9 p.m. on January 2. When they failed to return home that evening, Kalitzke’s parents assumed the pair had eloped. The next day, however, three young boys found…
Man who avoided execution once is hanged for murder
January 2, 1953 London, England John James Alcott (22) is hanged for murder Alcott had nearly been executed a few years before his hanging. In 1949, at the age of 17, Alcott was in the Army and stationed in Germany. He claimed he was traveling with another man when the pair came across a lodging…
Man kills his family, after supposedly losing money given to him by the Devil
January 2, 1621 Quedlinburg, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (current day Germany) Heinrich Rosenzweig kills his wife and six children with a sword and axe Rosenzweig was a Jew in a time and place that saw much antisemitism, so the validity of the account is debatable. The woodcut-illustrated account of the murder reports Rosenzweig, a wealthy…
