Births
Amy Lee Black
1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti – He was the son of a poor peasant farmer. Vanzetti had little formal education, but he was a bright and self-educated man. He became interested in anarchism at a young age, and he was involved in several anarchist demonstrations in Italy. In 1908, Vanzetti immigrated to the United States. He settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he worked as a fish peddler. Vanzetti continued to be active in anarchist circles, and he was a member of the Galleani Group, an anarchist organization that advocated for violent revolution. In 1920, Vanzetti and his friend Nicola Sacco were arrested for the murder of a paymaster and a guard during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The trial was highly publicized, and many people believed that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent victims of anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist prejudice. Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. They spent seven years in prison, during which time they became international symbols of the fight for justice. They were executed in the electric chair on August 23, 1927. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in American history. The case has been the subject of numerous books, articles, and films. In 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis granted Sacco and Vanzetti a posthumous pardon. Bartolomeo Vanzetti was a complex and controversial figure. He was a passionate advocate for social justice, but he was also a violent revolutionary. His legacy continues to be debated today.
1905 – Richard Loeb – He was a wealthy student at the University of Chicago, known for his involvement in the infamous “Leopold and Loeb” case. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Loeb and his accomplice, Nathan Leopold, kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks, a relative of Loeb, on May 21, 1924. This crime, characterized at the time as “the crime of the century”, was committed with the hope of demonstrating their superior intellect, which they believed entitled them to carry out a “perfect crime” without consequences. After their arrest, Loeb’s family retained Clarence Darrow as lead counsel for their defense. Darrow’s twelve-hour summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive rather than transformative justice. Both young men were sentenced to life imprisonment plus 99 years. Loeb was murdered by a fellow prisoner in 1936. The case of Leopold and Loeb has since served as the inspiration for several dramatic works.
1912 – James C. Lucas – was an American criminal who served a life sentence in Alcatraz. He was born on June 11, 1912, in Midland County, Texas. Lucas is best known for being part of an attempted escape from Alcatraz Penitentiary in 1938, and for attacking Al Capone in the prison’s laundry room on June 23, 1936. He was originally sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment for robbing First National Bank in Albany, Texas, and violation of the Dyer Act (interstate trafficking of stolen vehicles). In the spring of 1938, Lucas, along with Thomas R. Limerick and Rufus Franklin, planned an escape from Alcatraz. They assaulted Custodial Officer Royal Cline with hammer blows to his head and proceeded to the roof. However, their escape plan was thwarted, and Lucas, along with the other surviving convict, Rufus Franklin, were tried for murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Lucas spent six years in isolation for the incident. He was transferred a few years later, and paroled in 1958. After having a brief stay in prison at McNeil Island for parole violation, he was given a presidential commutation of sentence by Richard Nixon in 1970 and released. He later worked in the oil business and died on November 28, 1998.
1922 – Walter Seifert – was born in Bickendorf, a district of Cologne, in what was then Weimar Germany. He was the son of a glass grinder and had one brother. From 1927 to 1935, Seifert attended the Volksschule in Ehrenfeld and afterward started an apprenticeship as a metal worker at a machine factory, which he successfully finished in 1939. During the Second World War, he was drafted into the Luftwaffe and attended the Waffentechnische Schule der Luftwaffe (Weaponry Technology School of the Airforce) for a year. By the end of the war, Seifert was a sergeant in an anti-aircraft battery and afterward was a prisoner of war for several months. At war’s end, Seifert worked for a Cologne car factory, before joining the Schutzpolizei on 14 November 1945. However, he was dismissed from the police on 30 September 1946 due to tuberculosis in the right lung. From then on, Seifert attempted to enforce his claims for subsistence, feeling he was being treated unfairly and cheated of his war pension by the government. In 1953, Seifert’s tuberculosis was found to be inactive and he was declared to have a reduced earning capacity of 30%, though any causality between his illness and his imprisonment during the war was denied. Seifert contested this, accused the doctors of creating false medical reports, and complained in long letters to various authorities about his problems. Seifert is infamously known for the Cologne school massacre that occurred on 11 June 1964. Known as “Der Feuerteufel von Volkhoven” (“Firedevil of Volkhoven”), he attacked the people at a Catholic elementary school with a home-made flamethrower and a spear, killing eight pupils and two teachers, and wounding twenty-two others. When police arrived at the scene, Seifert fled from the school compound and poisoned himself. He was taken to a hospital, where he died the same evening.
1940 – Michael Kent Poland – He is infamously known for his involvement in the 1977 Arizona armored car robbery. On May 24, 1977, Michael and his brother Patrick Gene Poland committed an armed robbery of an armored car along Interstate 17. The two guards of the car, Russell Dempsey and Cecil Newkirk, were murdered during this incident. The Poland brothers, disguised as Arizona Highway Patrol Officers, stopped the armored van, took the men captive, and removed nearly $300,000 in cash. The guards were put into large canvas bags and thrown into Lake Mead. The investigation led to the arrest of the Poland brothers nearly a year after the crime. In 1979, they were sentenced to 100 years in prison on federal kidnapping and robbery charges. Michael Kent Poland was executed on June 16, 1999, in Florence, Pinal County, Arizona, USA.
1943 – Henry Hill – wasn’t your typical gangster. Though not born into the Mafia, he gravitated towards its allure from a young age, drawn to the glamour and power it projected. This fascination led him to a life chronicled in the iconic film “Goodfellas” and forever intertwined with the Lucchese crime family. Born in Brooklyn, Hill was captivated by the Mafia figures in his neighborhood. He started with small errands for capo Paul Vario, gradually gaining trust and rising through the ranks. Befriending fellow gangsters like Jimmy “The Gent” Burke and Tommy DeSimone, he participated in robberies, drug deals, and other criminal activities. He reveled in the fast life, the money, and the sense of belonging. Hill’s life of crime spiraled downward after a botched heist and escalating drug use. Facing arrest on drug charges in 1980, he made a life-altering decision: become an FBI informant. His testimony exposed the inner workings of the Lucchese family, leading to the conviction of over 50 mobsters, including Vario and Burke. Entering the Witness Protection Program, Hill lived under assumed identities, constantly looking over his shoulder. However, his past haunted him. He struggled with addiction, anonymity, and the constant threat of retaliation. Eventually, he was removed from the program due to program violations and continued criminal activity. Hill later emerged from the shadows, writing books and appearing in documentaries about his life. He became a cautionary tale, offering a firsthand glimpse into the dark side of the Mafia. Though controversial, his life story captured the public imagination and cemented his place in pop culture history. Henry Hill’s life was a paradox: a gangster who betrayed his own, a reformed informant haunted by his past. His story serves as a reminder of the allure and dangers of organized crime, forever etched in the gangster movie hall of fame through “Goodfellas.”
1943 – Jill Coit – is an American convicted murderer. She was born in Lafitte, Louisiana, and grew up in New Orleans. Coit is of Native American descent. Coit has a notorious history as a con artist and serial bigamist. She has been married 11 times to nine different men since 1961. Her first marriage was in 1961, and she dropped out of high school to marry her first husband. Less than a year later, she filed for divorce and liquidated their shared bank accounts. Coit was convicted of killing her eighth husband in 1993 and is also suspected of killing her third husband in 1972. Her third husband, William Coit Jr., was killed shortly after he filed for divorce from Jill. Although she was suspected of the murder, the police could never find sufficient evidence to charge her. Her eighth husband, Gerald Boggs, was found dead in his kitchen in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He had been shot three times with a .22 caliber gun and beaten with a shovel. Coit was convicted of this murder and is currently serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility.
1945 – Trevor Hardy – also known as the Beast of Manchester, was a notorious English serial killer. He was born on June 11, 1945, in Newton Heath, Manchester, England. Hardy’s criminal activities escalated to murder, and he was responsible for the deaths of three teenage girls in the Manchester area between December 1974 and March 1976. His first victim was Janet Lesley Stewart, a 15-year-old girl who was brutally stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve 1974. Her body was later discovered buried in a shallow grave in Newton Heath, North Manchester. The second victim was Wanda Skala, a 17-year-old barmaid. On July 19, 1975, while walking home from the hotel where she worked, she was attacked on Lightbowne Road, Moston. Hardy hit her over the head with a brick, robbed her, and sexually assaulted her. The third and final victim was Sharon Mosoph, a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed and strangled with a pair of tights in March 1976 after walking home from a staff party. Hardy was arrested for the murders of Skala and Mosoph in August 1976. During his interrogation, he confessed to these murders and also to the murder of Stewart, who until then had been listed as a missing person. In 1977, Hardy was found guilty on all three charges of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He remained incarcerated until his death on September 25, 2012.
1948 – Byron David Smith – is a retired security engineering officer from the U.S. State Department. He lived a quiet life in Little Falls, Minnesota. Described as a well-behaved neighbor who mostly kept to himself, Smith was known to participate in community events and help people in need. However, Smith’s life took a dark turn on Thanksgiving Day of 2012. After his house had been burglarized several times, Smith shot and killed two teenagers, Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady, who broke into his home. Smith had prepared for the intrusion by removing all lightbulbs, setting up an audio recording device, and arming himself with a .22 caliber revolver. He shot the teenagers multiple times, taunted them while they were injured, and finally shot them execution-style. The case sparked debate over the “castle doctrine”, which allows homeowners to defend their homes with lethal force. The prosecution argued that Smith used excessive force after having neutralized the threat. On April 29, 2014, Smith was found guilty of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
1962 – J.B. Parker – also known as “Pig” or “Pig Parker”, was born on June 11, 1962. He is known for his involvement in a notorious crime that took place on April 27, 1982. On that day, Parker, along with John Bush, Alphonso Cave, and Terry Wayne Johnson, set out from Fort Pierce to West Palm Beach. During the trip, they decided to commit a robbery. They entered a convenience store in Stuart, where 18-year-old Frances Slater was working. After robbing the store, they kidnapped Slater and drove her to an isolated area. During the 20-minute trip, Slater pleaded for her life. Once they reached the isolated area, she was dragged out of the car by her hair. Bush stabbed Slater, which caused her to sink to her knees. Parker then shot her in the back of the head execution-style. Medical testimony established that the gunshot, not the stabbing, was the cause of death. After the crime, the four drove back to Fort Pierce and divided the money four ways. Parker’s split was twenty to thirty dollars. Parker was sentenced to death on January 11, 1983. His accomplices also faced severe penalties. John Bush was executed in 1996, and Alphonso Cave was sentenced to death in 1982, and resentenced to death in 1993 and 1997.
1963 – Brian Lee Cherrix – was a convicted criminal from Accomack County, Virginia. He became known for the murder of Tessa Van Hart, a 23-year-old mother of two who worked as a pizza delivery woman on Chincoteague Island. The crime took place on January 27, 1994, when Van Hart was lured to a remote, unoccupied summer home by a man who ordered a pizza. She was sexually assaulted and shot twice in the head. Cherrix’s case remained unsolved for over two years until he, facing a sentencing hearing on an unrelated charge, offered to provide details about the Van Hart case in exchange for leniency. Initially, Cherrix claimed his cousin, who had died in a car crash in 1995, was responsible for Van Hart’s murder. However, he later confessed to sexually assaulting Van Hart and shooting her as she begged for her life. Despite claiming innocence and seeking DNA tests in 2001, the results were inconclusive, and authorities maintained their confidence in Cherrix’s guilt. His conviction was upheld by the Virginia Supreme Court and the federal court. On March 19, 2004, a decade after the crime, Brian Lee Cherrix was executed by injection in Virginia’s death chamber at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. He was 30 years old at the time of his execution.
1965 – Clifford H. Boggess – He was involved in two murders in 1986. The first victim was Moses Frank Collier, an 86-year-old grocery store owner in Saint Jo, Texas. Boggess beat and stabbed Collier to death during a robbery that netted him $700. The second victim was Ray Vance Hazelwood of Whitesboro, Texas. Boggess was sentenced to death in 1987. During his time on death row, he became a born-again Christian and a self-taught artist. His artwork was created during his 10-year sentence on Texas Death Row. On June 11, 1998, his 33rd birthday, Boggess was executed. His last words were an apology to the families of his victims and a prayer for the conversion of sinners on death row. Despite his transformation and apology, the pain he caused his victims’ families remained.
1971 – Raymont Hopewell – admitted guilt for a series of heinous crimes dating back to 1999, involving the murder and rape of five predominantly elderly individuals. In a strategic move to avoid the death penalty, Hopewell pleaded guilty to five counts of murder, four counts of rape, and additional offenses related to the crimes. The plea agreement stipulates that Judge John M. Glynn will hand down a sentence of four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole during the sentencing hearing scheduled for September 14. The accused also faces multiple concurrent sentences, including life imprisonment and various terms of 25 and 20 years. Hopewell, with a criminal history encompassing burglary, theft, drug possession, and a prior conviction for drug dealing in 2004 resulting in an 18-month sentence, had previously walked away from a halfway house in Southwest Baltimore. His most recent arrest in September was connected to the August 21, 2005, death of Carlton Crawford, 82, who was brutally beaten and strangled. The charges against Hopewell included first-degree murder and assault in connection with the murders, with victims ranging in age from 60 to 88. DNA evidence played a crucial role in linking him to all five killings, three of which involved rape. Additionally, DNA was recovered at the scenes of the other two murders, as well as in the rape of a woman who lived. Hopewell specifically targeted older individuals, many of whom had some connection to him or his family. Police reports revealed that victims willingly allowed him entry, only to face threats with a knife once inside their residences.
1974 – Amy Lee Black – is a notable figure with a complex history. Born on June 11, 1974, she was involved in a tragic event at a young age. At 16, she was implicated in the murder of David VanBogelen, 34, on December 7, 1990. The crime took place in Muskegon County, Michigan, USA. Amy was not the one who stabbed VanBogelen to death, but she did play a role in the events of that night. Amy Lee Black and her then 19-year-old boyfriend, Jeff Abrahamson, met VanBogelen, who was visibly drunk, in a Muskegon Heights restaurant. Later that night, VanBogelen was found dead in a remote rural area, his body pierced by multiple stab wounds. Amy admitted to striking the victim’s head with a heavy whiskey bottle in the couple’s apartment, a blow that could have also led to his death. She accompanied Abrahamson as he helped the disoriented, bleeding victim into VanBogelen’s pickup truck and drove to the secluded spot where he was stabbed. After the crime, Amy helped clean up the couple’s blood-spattered apartment and fled with Abrahamson in the victim’s truck to her uncle’s home in Barry County. They were arrested there three days later. Amy was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on July 3, 1991. However, her sentence was reduced after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that life sentences for juveniles were cruel and unusual punishment. She received a sentence of 35 to 60 years in August 2021, and was granted parole.
1974 – Kevin Taylor – On August 20, 2001, Chicago’s South Side police apprehended 27-year-old Kevin Taylor, charging him with the rape and strangulation of four drug-addicted prostitutes within a two-month span. Detectives revealed that Taylor engaged in arrangements for acts of prostitution with the victims, taking them to secluded areas where arguments escalated, leading to their tragic deaths. Chief Detective Philip Cline disclosed that Taylor, employed as a cook at The Cheesecake Factory restaurant, was identified through a time card discovered beneath the body of one victim, 39-year-old Bernadine Blunt, found on August 18 in an abandoned South Side building. The similarities between Blunt’s case and three other slayings prompted further investigation into Taylor’s involvement. Cline explained that Taylor confessed to the four murders and an attempted murder on a 38-year-old woman who survived an attack on July 27. The survivor positively identified Taylor in a lineup after his arrest. The additional victims include Ola Mae Wallace, 39, discovered in an alley on June 25; Diane Jordan, 42, found in an alley on July 10; and Cynthia Halk, 38, found in a city garbage can in an alley. In early August, police issued a warning to Chicago’s street women regarding the recent murders of suspected prostitutes, emphasizing the urgency of the situation. Over the preceding two years, the city has witnessed the tragic deaths of 18 prostitutes.
Deaths
Betty Butler
1942 – Marie Alexandrine Becker – was a Belgian serial killer who was convicted of murdering 11 people and attempting to murder five others between 1933 and 1936. She was known as “The Black Widow” because of her habit of marrying her victims before poisoning them. Becker was born in 1879 in Landen, Belgium. She married her first husband, Charles Becker, in 1910. The couple had one son, but Charles died in 1933. After his death, Becker began to work as a nurse. In 1934, Becker married her second husband, Guillaume Spreuwers. She poisoned him a few weeks later. She then went on to marry and poison three more husbands, as well as several other people, including friends and relatives. Becker was arrested in 1936 after she tried to poison a woman named Jeanne Tassin. Tassin survived and reported Becker to the police. Becker was tried and convicted of 11 murders and five attempted murders. She was sentenced to death, but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. She died in prison in 1942. Becker’s case is one of the most notorious in Belgian history. She was the first woman to be convicted of multiple murders in Belgium, and she remains the country’s deadliest female serial killer.
1954 – Betty Butler – born in 1928, was a woman whose life took a tragic turn due to a series of events that led her to become a significant figure in the mid-20th-century criminal history of the United States. Known by the moniker “The Sphynx”, her story is a complex tapestry of gender, sexuality, and the justice system. In the early 1950s, Butler was involved in a romantic relationship with a woman named Evelyn Clark. On September 6, 1952, Clark was found dead, and Butler was subsequently charged with her murder. The case drew significant attention, as it involved themes of same-sex relationships and violence, topics that were largely taboo and misunderstood at the time. During the trial, Butler claimed that she had killed Clark in response to unwanted sexual advances. This defense, while not successful in court, sparked discussions about consent and power dynamics within relationships. Despite her defense, the jury found Butler guilty of murder. She was sentenced to death, a decision that was carried out on June 11, 1954, when she was executed by electrocution. Betty Butler’s story serves as a stark reminder of the societal attitudes and legal challenges faced by individuals involved in same-sex relationships in the mid-20th century. Her case continues to be a point of discussion in the ongoing discourse about gender, sexuality, and the justice system.
1970 – William “Billy Batts” Bentvena – was born on January 19, 1921, in New York City. He was an Italian-American mobster associated with the Gambino crime family and was a longtime friend of John Gotti in the 1960s. Bentvena’s early life is largely unknown, but he grew up in the same area as DeSimone and Hill. In 1959, he became an associate with the Gambino crime family and became a full member in 1961. He was a protégé street soldier for Carmine Fatico. In May 1958, Bentvena became a member of what would become known as the Ormento Group, a heroin smuggling ring. He was later convicted of heroin smuggling in June 1962 and sentenced to 15 years in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. After his release in 1970, a “welcome home” party was thrown for him at Robert’s Lounge. During this party, Bentvena jokingly asked Tommy DeSimone “if he still shined shoes”, which DeSimone perceived as an insult. This led to Bentvena’s brutal murder on June 11, 1970, by Lucchese crime family associate Tommy DeSimone, with the help of fellow Lucchese associates James Burke and Henry Hill. At the time of his murder, Bentvena was 49 years old and was a respected and feared soldier in the Gambino crime family. His death was one of the main plot points in Martin Scorsese’s iconic film about the New York City mafia.
1970 – Kau Kobayashi – was a Japanese serial killer. Kobayashi was born on October 20, 1908, in Tamagoi, Saitama Prefecture (present-day Kumagaya), the second daughter of seven children born into an impoverished farmer couple’s home. After finishing elementary school, she helped with housework until the age of 16, when she went to work as a housekeeper in Hongō, Tokyo. In 1930, she married 27-year-old Hidenosuke Hayashi, a sickly man suffering from gastroenteritis and gonorrhea who ran a store in Kumagaya. The couple had two children: a baby boy who died in infancy, and later a girl. Kobayashi, together with accomplice Mitsuyoshi Onuki, was responsible for the murders of hotel owners Kamasuke and Ume Ikukata, an incident known as the Hotel Nihonkaku Incident. After her arrest, she confessed to fatally poisoning her husband in 1952. She was later sentenced to death and executed for her crimes.
1998 – John Jairo Moreno Torres – also known as “Johnny the Leper”, was a notorious Colombian serial killer. Born in 1979 in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up in a dysfunctional family facing economic problems. He suffered a burn on his leg at an early age, which eventually earned him the nickname “Johnny the Leper”. At the age of 13, he left school and became the leader of a gang that operated in the localities of Fontibón and Kennedy during the 1990s. His gang was one of the most feared in Bogotá at the time. Moreno Torres was linked to several murders and rapes that occurred in various neighborhoods. As the gang’s leader, he murdered several people using firearms, knives, and machetes. The group then expanded and settled in several of the city’s territories, displacing other criminal organizations and monopolizing the micro-trafficking of drugs. He was apprehended on February 27, 1998, and was imprisoned in La Modelo prison in Bogotá, where he was later murdered. It is believed that several inmates killed him using a firearm, shooting him 12 times. Other versions suggest that in addition to being shot, he was also beaten and stabbed by sharp objects. Moreno Torres was officially linked to the deaths of 4 people, although it is believed that he committed between 10 and 20 murders. All of the murders were violent and executed with vehemence. One of the victims, Omar Cepeda Rendón, was executed with a firearm, later dismembered and incinerated, and his remains were finally scattered on a street in Kennedy.
2001 – Timothy McVeigh – was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. This act remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. The bombing resulted in the death of 168 people, 19 of whom were children, and injured over 680. It also destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. McVeigh was born in Lockport, New York, and was raised by his father in Pendleton, New York after his parents divorced when he was ten years old. He was a U.S. Army veteran and had served in the Persian Gulf War, earning a Bronze Star for bravery. After leaving the army in late 1991, he expressed anti-government sentiments and sought revenge against the federal government for the 1993 Waco siege, the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident, and American foreign policy. He was arrested shortly after the bombing and was found guilty on all counts in 1997, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction. He was sentenced to death and was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
2003 – Kia Levoy Johnson – was born on December 23, 1964. He had a lengthy criminal history, with seven arrests as a juvenile. In 1986, he was convicted of burglary and received a sentence of 10 years’ probation. While on probation, he committed another burglary and received a 10-year prison sentence. He served 6 months in prison in 1990 before being paroled. In the early morning hours of October 29, 1993, Johnson, then 28, entered a San Antonio convenience store. He shot the clerk, William Rains, 32, in the abdomen during a robbery that netted Johnson $23.00 from the store cash register. The robbery and shooting were captured on video. When the video was shown on local TV, several people called police to identify Johnson as the gunman. Johnson was arrested that night. Johnson was sentenced to death in February 1995 for the murder of William Rains. He was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2003, in Huntsville, Texas.
2009 – Jack Harrison Trawick – born around 1947, was a convicted murderer from Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. His life was marked by a series of heinous crimes, including the 1992 murder of Stephanie Gach and the murder of Aileen Pruitt four months earlier. He confessed to as many as twelve other homicides in his statements and writings. Before these crimes, Trawick had served prison sentences for a variety of offenses, including burglary, impersonating a police officer, kidnapping, making threatening calls, breaking and entering, and property destruction. In 1970, he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic with homicidal impulses. His life ended on the evening of June 11, 2009, when he was executed by lethal injection.
Events
The 3 men who took part in the Alcatraz escape
1962 – Frank Morris, John & Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz
1964 – World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany killing at least 8 children and 2 teachers & seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance
1974 – Bundy victim Georgeann Hawkins disappears from the University of Washington in Seattle
1979 – Chuck Berry pleads guilty to tax evasion and is sentenced to 4 months in prison
1980 – Serial killer William Bonin was captured
1981 – Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills a Dutch student
1994 – A drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden
2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations concerning abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school
