March 1, 1981New Orleans, LouisianaJanie Francioni (21) is shot, sexually assaulted, and beaten, her throat cut, and her body set on fire On March 1, 1981, Sterling Rault asked Francioni for a ride to a night class he was taking. Francioni agreed. Both were employed at the same company and several other employees witnessed the…
Man executed for killing daughter, apparently to live with new wife without his children
March 1, 1886 Swansea, Wales Thomas Nash (39, pictured) is hanged for the murder of his daughter Nash was a widower when he met his second wife, though he failed to inform her of his two children. He left the girls (17-year-old Sarah and 6-year-old Martha Ann) in the care of Mrs. Goodwin whom he…
One of the last living Radium Girls dies
March 1, 2014 Middlebury, Connecticut Mae Keane, one of the last living Radium Girls, dies at the age of 107 The Radium Girls, as they were later called, were a collection of women who worked at clock and watch factories, painting radioactive radium on the watch and clock hands and numbers to allow them to…
