March 22, 1881 Cheyenne, Wyoming George Parrott, alias Big Nose George, is lynched following a failed jailbreak Parrott and a group of other bandits had robbed people of thousands of dollars over several months, culminating with an attempt to derail a train carrying payroll. The group had loosened a railroad spike which they tied a…
Body of dismembered, burned infant, supposedly the victim of a ritual, found
November 17, 1989Rupert, IdahoThe burned body of an infant girl is found near a landfill WARNING: some of the details of this article are graphic. A stranded motorist and his young son found a discarded metal drum near the Minidoka County landfill. Within the drum was the charred remains of an infant. The son did…
The Skinned Saint
August 24 (approximately), 1st Century AD Albanopolis, Kingdom of Armenia (present day day Turkey or Armenia) Saint Bartholomew is martyred, possibly being flayed alive before beheaded As the accounts of Saint Bartholomew are 2000 years old, some discrepancies are bound to be found. In Western Catholicism, August 24 is St. Bartholomew's feast day, thought to…
