Births

Buck Ruxton

1899 – Buck Ruxton – born Bukhtyar Chompa Rustomji Ratanji Hakim on 21 March 1899 in Bombay, British India, was an Indian-born physician who later became infamous for his involvement in one of the United Kingdom’s most publicized murder cases of the 1930s.  Ruxton was born into a wealthy middle-class Parsi family of Indian-French origin. Despite being a sensitive youth with few friends, he was highly intelligent and received a thorough education. By his teenage years, he had resolved to seek a career in medicine. With the financial support of his parents, Ruxton studied at the University of Bombay, where he qualified as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1922. The following year, he qualified as a Bachelor of Surgery at the same institute. Shortly after completing his studies, Ruxton obtained employment at a Bombay hospital, where he specialized in medicine, midwifery, and gynecology.  On 29 October 1923, Ruxton was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service as a medical officer; he served in postings at Basra and, later, Baghdad, before relinquishing his commission in October 1926. In May 1925, Ruxton married a Parsi woman named Motibai Jehangirji Ghadiali.  Ruxton was convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1935 murders of his common-law wife, Isabella Ruxton (née Kerr), and the family housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, at his home in Lancaster, England. These murders are informally known as the Bodies Under the Bridge and the Jigsaw Murders, while Ruxton himself became known as The Savage Surgeon. The case became known as the “Bodies Under the Bridge” due to the location, near the Dumfriesshire town of Moffat in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, where the bodies were found. The case was also called the “Jigsaw Murders” because of the painstaking efforts to reassemble and identify the victims and then determine the place of their murder. Ruxton earned the title of “The Savage Surgeon” due to his occupation and the extensive mutilation he inflicted upon his victims’ bodies. The prosecution of Ruxton’s murders would prove to be one of the United Kingdom’s most publicized legal cases of the 1930s. The case itself is primarily remembered for the innovative forensic techniques employed to identify the victims and prove that their murders had been committed within the Ruxton household.

1946 – Kenneth McDuff – also known as “The Broomstick Murderer” or “The Broomstick Killer”, was an American serial killer born on March 21, 1946, in Rosebud, Texas. He was the fifth of six children born to John Allen “JA” and Addie McDuff. His father ran a successful concrete business during the Texas construction boom of the 1960s. McDuff was indulged by his family, particularly his mother Addie, who was nicknamed the “pistol-packing mama”. McDuff earned the reputation of being a bully at Rosebud High School and was known to pick on weaker individuals.  McDuff’s criminal record began two years before his first murder conviction. In 1964, at age 18, he was convicted of 12 counts of burglary and attempted burglary in three Texas counties: Bell, Milam, and Falls. He was sentenced to 12 four-year prison terms to be served concurrently. He made parole in December 1965.  He was convicted in 1966 of murdering 16-year-old Edna Sullivan, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Robert Brand, and Brand’s cousin, 15-year-old Mark Dunnam, who was visiting from California. They were all strangers whom McDuff abducted after noticing Sullivan. McDuff repeatedly raped Sullivan before breaking her neck with a broomstick. McDuff was given three death sentences that were reduced to life imprisonment consequently to the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Furman v. Georgia.  He was paroled in 1989 and went on to kill again. He was executed on November 17, 1998, and is suspected to have been responsible for many other killings. McDuff was known to shoot his .22 rifle at living creatures and was often getting into fights with boys older than he was. With these tendencies, he was well-known by the sheriff of his hometown. Before his murder convictions, he was convicted of 12 counts of burglary and an attempted burglary. He was then sentenced to 12 four-year prison terms, served concurrently; however, he was paroled in December of 1965.

1948 – Jerry Walter McFadden – was an American sex offender and serial killer, known as “The Animal.” Born in 1948, McFadden’s criminal history unfolded over a 13-year period between 1973 and 1986, during which he claimed the lives of at least four victims.  Operating in a spree of violence, McFadden targeted his victims with brutal efficiency. The details of his crimes revealed a disturbing pattern of aggression. The true extent of his actions and the reasons behind them remain hauntingly enigmatic.  During the 1970s and 1980s, McFadden’s reign of terror struck fear into the hearts of those in the communities where he operated. The lack of a discernible motive added an element of unpredictability to his actions. The victims fell prey to his violent tendencies, leaving a trail of tragedy in his wake.  The moniker “The Animal” encapsulates the ferocity and brutality that characterized McFadden’s crimes. His criminal activities not only robbed innocent lives but also instilled a sense of fear and unease in the public consciousness.  The law eventually caught up with Jerry Walter McFadden, leading to his apprehension and legal consequences. 

1950 – Lorne Joe Acquin  – An American mass murderer who in the early hours of July 22nd, 1977 went into the house of his foster brother Fred and murdered his wife, their seven children, and a niece all by beating them to death with a tire iron and after this absolute carnage he set fire to the house and escaped. No motive was ever given, however, prosecutors believed that his sister-in-law had discovered him sexually abusing one of her children, and to stop her from going to the authorities he murdered them all

1950 – Nathaniel Harvey  – was a criminal from East Windsor, New Jersey, who was implicated in several sexual assaults and murders. His crimes were typically committed by entering unlocked homes, where he would hold young women captive and rape them.  One of his most notorious cases involved the sexual assault and murder of Donna Macho in 1984. Macho, a 19-year-old legal secretary aspiring to be a model, went missing from her family home in East Windsor. Her skeletal remains were found in a wooded area in Cranbury more than a decade later, in 1995, and her identity was confirmed by dental records.  Around the time of Macho’s disappearance, Harvey was arrested for several sexual assaults as well as an unrelated murder. He was identified early on as a possible suspect in Macho’s murder, but the case went cold as investigative leads dissipated.  However, advancements in DNA technology eventually led to Harvey’s conclusive identification as the perpetrator. DNA tests on evidence from the victim’s bedroom matched it to Harvey, determining that his DNA was the only DNA evidence in the room that should not have been present.  Macho’s body was found in a wooded area by a farm where Harvey briefly worked around the time of her disappearance, and her vehicle was found abandoned by a nearby sewer plant, within walking distance of Harvey’s home.  Harvey was sentenced to death and later to life in prison in the 1985 rape and murder of a Plainsboro woman. Despite maintaining his innocence for three decades and awaiting a third trial in the case, he was incarcerated from the time of his 1985 arrest until he died in South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton in November 2020.

1951 – Winford Stokes – He was an American criminal and serial killer who murdered three people. Stokes was one of 10 children who dropped out of school in the 8th grade.  His first recorded crime occurred on April 30, 1969, when he, along with two accomplices, entered a tavern in St. Louis, posing as customers before drawing their pistols and announcing a robbery. The owner, Ignatius DiManuele, was shot during the robbery. Stokes was later arrested but managed to escape custody.  After some years, Stokes was released from prison. On December 7, 1977, he committed another crime, this time targeting 71-year-old Erssie Lucas. Stokes was apprehended for the final time on December 11, 1978.  He was sentenced to death for his crimes and was executed by lethal injection at the Potosi Correctional Center, Mineral Point, Missouri, U.S. on May 11, 1990. Stokes’ life and crimes serve as a stark reminder of the destructive path that crime can lead to.

1962 – L’ubomir Harman – is known for his involvement in the 2010 Bratislava shooting, which occurred on 30 August 2010. This event is also referred to as the Devínska Nová Ves shooting. Harman opened fire in the Devínska Nová Ves district, a suburb of the Slovak capital, Bratislava, resulting in eight deaths and 17 injuries. The shooting spree took place both inside a local panel building and later in the street outside. This was the second-deadliest attack in the modern history of Slovakia and the first time in Slovak history that a mass murderer went on a shooting spree. Harman committed suicide after the attack.  The shooting remains controversial not only because Harman’s motive remains unknown, but also because of purposefully withholding information from the public by the authorities and what is generally perceived as a failed police action. The attack started in a panel building that houses a kindergarten on the ground floor. Harman started shooting on the third floor at Pavla Horova Street No. 1 inside apartment No. 8 in Devínska Nová Ves, Bratislava, wearing a pair of blue earmuffs and equipped with a Vz. 58 semi-automatic rifle, a CZ 85 Combat pistol, and a CZ 75 Compact pistol.

1971 – Darren Deon Vann – is an American serial killer. He was arrested on October 18, 2014, for the murder of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy at a Motel 6 in Hammond, Indiana. He confessed to the murders of six other female victims in Indiana. All of these women’s bodies were found in five abandoned structures in Gary, Indiana.  Before his arrest, Vann was married for 16 years to Maria Vann, who was about 30 years older than him. He was reportedly arrested in Gary, Indiana for threatening the life of his girlfriend and was charged with a class D felony, spending 90 days in jail. Vann was previously convicted on September 28, 2009, in Travis County, Texas, of a sexual assault committed in Austin in 2007 and sentenced to five years in a state penitentiary, being released on July 5, 2013. His wife, Maria Vann, filed for divorce in August 2009 and their marriage was dissolved in 2011. He also received an “other than honorable” discharge from the United States Marine Corps in 1993 after joining in 1991.  Before the police investigated the murders for which Vann was detained, Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, together with a Gary, Indiana deputy coroner, attempted to persuade police that there were 18 similar murders pointing to a serial killer in the Gary, Indiana area. However, the local authorities denied there was any evidence showing a serial killer was at work. A Gary deputy coroner, whose suspicions were also rebuffed by the local police, agreed with Hargrove and also added 3 suspected victims to the list.  When 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy was found strangled in a Motel 6, authorities used Hardy’s phone records and located Vann. Upon apprehension, Vann was found to have possession of several key pieces of potential evidence which included Hardy’s phone. During police interrogation, he allegedly confessed to his involvement in Hardy’s killing and told police he was involved in other killings. Vann is currently incarcerated at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility.

1973 – Martin Joseph Puccio Jr – was one of the central figures in the infamous Bobby Kent murder case that unfolded on July 14th, 1993. Born in 1973, Puccio found himself entangled in a harrowing story of betrayal, violence, and the complex dynamics of teenage friendships gone awry.  The case gained widespread attention, later becoming the subject of the 2001 film “Bully.” Puccio, shockingly considering himself Bobby Kent’s best friend, played a pivotal role in the tragic events that unfolded in the suburbs of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  In the summer of 1993, a group of teenagers, including Puccio, conspired to murder Bobby Kent, who was reportedly abusive and manipulative. Puccio, along with others, took part in the brutal assault, ultimately leading to Kent’s demise.  The motive behind the murder was a complex web of personal grievances, strained relationships, and a desire for revenge. Puccio’s involvement in the crime, despite considering Kent his best friend, showcased the intensity of the conflicts within the group.  The Bobby Kent murder case exposed the darker side of teenage friendships and the consequences of unchecked emotions. Puccio, along with his accomplices, faced legal repercussions for their roles in the crime, highlighting the severity of their actions.  The tragic events surrounding Martin Joseph Puccio Jr. serve as a cautionary tale, shedding light on the complexities of relationships, peer pressure, and the devastating consequences that can arise when emotions spiral out of control.

1975 – Kenneth Jeremy Laird – is known for a crime he committed on September 4, 1992, in North Phoenix, Arizona, USA. At the age of 17, Laird was involved in a homicide and robbery. The victim was Wanda Starnes, a 37-year-old nurse. The crime involved Laird breaking into Starnes’ home, overpowering her, and eventually causing her death. He was reported to have used a screwdriver in the crime.  Laird was tried as an adult and was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, burglary, theft, four counts of forgery, and robbery. He was initially sentenced to death on April 15, 1994, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole on March 1, 2005.  Before the crime, Laird had told friends that he would be getting a Toyota 4×4 truck, even if he had to kill for it. After the crime, he was seen driving around in Starnes’ truck and forging checks drawn on her account. When picked up by the police in connection with another matter, Laird claimed that he had found Starnes’ body while bicycling through the desert took her truck, and moved into her house because she would not need them anymore.

1975 – Keli Lane – is an Australian former water polo player and teacher. She was convicted of the 1996 murder of her newborn baby, Tegan, and of three counts of making a false declaration. Lane is serving an 18-year prison sentence and will be eligible for parole on 12 May 2024, after serving 13 years and five months in custody.  Lane is the daughter of Sandra Lane, a former hospital worker at Manly Hospital, and Robert Lane, a retired police officer. Educated at Mackellar Girls High School in Manly, Lane enrolled in an arts degree at the University of Newcastle from which she dropped out and started working part-time at Ravenswood School for Girls as a water polo coach. She went on to hold a position as sports convener at Ravenswood where her credentials are listed in the school yearbook as a degree-qualified teacher with honors. Between 1994 and 1998, she was in a relationship with rugby union player Duncan Gillies.  An elite water polo player at the national and international levels, Lane was a member of the silver medal-winning Australian Junior Women’s team at the 1995 World Championships in Quebec, Canada in which she competed just months after giving birth to her first child, whom she gave up for adoption.  During her trial, the prosecution alleged that Lane became pregnant five times over seven years during the 1990s, terminating the first two pregnancies, placing the third and fifth babies up for adoption, and allegedly murdering the fourth. After four failed attempts to be induced early at Ryde Hospital, on 12 September 1996, Tegan Lee Lane was delivered at around 38 weeks at Auburn Hospital. Less than two days later, and prior to being discharged, Lane left the hospital with Tegan at around 11 am-12 pm, and by 3 pm, she arrived at her parents’ home alone. A few hours later, she attended a friend’s wedding dressed in white with her partner Duncan Gillies. There was no sign of nor mention of Tegan.

Deaths

John List

1925 – Henry Layer – born Heinrich C. Layer on November 12, 1884, in Eigenfeld, South Russia, immigrated to the United States in 1886 with his parents. They settled near Ashley, North Dakota, where he lived until 1916. He first married Mathilda Miller in 1904, and they had two children, Elizabeth Katherina and Edward. However, they divorced in March 1911, and the children stayed with their mother.  Layer married Lydia Brokofsky Hinzman in Ashley on January 30, 1912. He was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary on Thursday, May 13, 1920, for the murders of the Wolf family and their hired boy. Layer and Lydia divorced on December 21, 1922. He died in the prison hospital on March 21, 1925. His obituary in the Bismarck Tribune stated that he was buried “in a local cemetery,” but the exact location of his burial is unknown.  The Wolf family murders occurred on April 22, 1920, on the Wolf farm three miles north of Turtle Lake. The victims included Jacob Wolf, his wife Beatta, their six daughters, and a 13-year-old chore boy named Jacob Hofer. The only survivor was the baby girl, Emma, who was found in a small bedroom in a cradle, weak from hunger and cold. The murders reportedly happened after Layer had an argument with Jacob Wolf about his dog biting one of Layer’s cows. When Layer ignored Wolf’s orders to leave his property, Wolf got his double-barreled shotgun and put two shells in the chambers. This event led to one of the most horrific mass killings in North Dakota history.

1963 – Frederick C. Wood  – was an American serial killer who terrorized New York from 1926 to 1960, commencing his criminal activities at the young age of 14. Devoid of remorse, Wood met his end at Sing Sing prison, becoming the second-to-last individual executed in New York before the abolition of capital punishment.  In 1933, fueled by a loathing of women due to contracting a venereal disease, Wood began a horrifying spree. He randomly targeted 33-year-old Pearl D. Robinson, strangling her, then stabbing her 142 times and crushing her skull. Despite the brutality, Wood evaded suspicion as authorities believed Robinson knew her assailant. A 1933 arrest for harassing another woman led to a 7-year prison term at a reformatory.  Released in 1940, Wood’s violent tendencies resurfaced in 1942 when he fatally attacked John E. Lowman. Attempting to dismember the body, Wood hid it under a couch, revealing the crime to his girlfriend a day later. A disorderly conduct charge escalated to a murder conviction, resulting in a 20-year-to-life sentence.  Wood’s troubled journey continued as he struggled with mental health issues. Paroled in 1960, he violated terms, traveling to New York City. His bloodlust returned, culminating in the brutal murders of John Rescigno and Frederick Sess. Mockingly praising the Parole Board in a letter, Wood’s gruesome acts shocked the public and embarrassed the Board. His eventual confession to the police exposed the grave error in his parole, prompting outrage and condemnation from the community.

1980 – Angelo Bruno – born Angelo Annaloro on May 21, 1910, in Villalba, Sicily, was a Sicilian-American mobster. He immigrated to the United States as a child and settled in South Philadelphia with his brother, Vito. He was the son of a foundry worker who opened a small grocery store in Feltonville, Philadelphia. Bruno helped his father at the store until 1922, at the age of twelve when he first entered school but attended for only a few years before dropping out of South Philadelphia High School to open his grocery store at Eighth and Annin streets in Passyunk Square, Philadelphia.  Bruno was a close associate of New York Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino. He dropped the name Annaloro and replaced it with his paternal grandmother’s maiden name, Bruno. His sponsor in the Philadelphia mafia was Michael Maggio, a convicted murderer with a national reputation, and the founder of M. Maggio Cheese Corp.  Bruno was married to Assunta “Sue” Maranca, his childhood sweetheart, from 1931 until his death. They had two children, Michael and Jean. Bruno owned an extermination company in Trenton, New Jersey, an aluminum products company in Hialeah, Florida, and a share in the Plaza Hotel in Havana, Cuba.  In 1959, Bruno was made boss of the Philadelphia family after a period of friction between Antonio “Mr. Miggs” Pollina the family boss, and himself. Over the next twenty years, Bruno successfully avoided the intense media and law enforcement scrutiny and outbursts of violence that plagued other crime families. Bruno himself avoided lengthy prison terms despite several arrests; his longest term was two years for refusing to testify before a grand jury.  Bruno was known as “the Gentle Don” due to his preference for conciliation over violence, in stark contrast to his successors. He forbade family involvement in narcotics trafficking, preferring more traditional Cosa Nostra operations, such as bookmaking and loansharking.  Angelo Bruno died on March 21, 1980, at the age of 69, due to an assassination.

1997 – Laxma G. Reddy – On March 18, 1997, a tragic incident unfolded in Brookline, Massachusetts, when Laxma, a medical professional, committed a horrifying act. He took the lives of his wife, her 13-year-old daughter, and his father-in-law, shooting them in the head execution-style while they were in their beds.  Just three days later, law enforcement issued an All-Points-Bulletin for Laxma after identifying him as the suspect. During an unrelated traffic stop in Elko, Nevada, he confronted a sheriff’s deputy with a firearm and was fatally shot in the encounter.  Following the discovery of the familicide, investigators honed in on Reddy as a suspect when they determined that the perpetrator used a key to gain entry to the apartment. Brookline police and Massachusetts State Police promptly traveled to Cleveland, Reddy’s last known address, after the bodies were found. They uncovered that Reddy had abruptly left his second year of residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland.  Although Reddy had recently visited his family in Brookline, he had been missing for several weeks, according to friends. Originally from Andhrapradesh in southern India, the family had relocated to the United States to facilitate Reddy’s pursuit of medical education.  Reddy earned his medical degree in August 1979 from Gandhi Medical College in India and completed an internship at Cabrini Medical Center in New York City from July 1993 to June 1994.

2000 – Joseph C. Palczynski – was born on November 11, 1968, and died on March 21, 2000. He was known as a spree killer who, in March 2000, killed four people and held a family of three as hostages in nearly a four-day standoff in the suburbs of Baltimore. This standoff is one of the longest known conducted by one man.  Before his shooting rampage, Palczynski, an electrician and bodybuilder, had a lengthy record of domestic violence and related crimes. He had been in and out of prison, and mental institutions, and was on parole or probation on many occasions. Some of his earlier crimes included assault and battery. On one occasion, he caused one of his ex-girlfriends to have a miscarriage after he beat her. In 1992 he had been involved in a standoff in Idaho that lasted 16 hours. At the time of the shootings, Palczynski was unemployed and wanted for violating his parole.  On March 7, 2000, a triple homicide occurred in the quiet community of Bowley’s Quarters near Middle River, an area not accustomed to violent crime. George and Gloria Shenk, ages 49 and 50, respectively, and their neighbor, David Meyers, aged 42, were shot to death as Palczynski kidnapped his estranged girlfriend, Tracy Whitehead, then 22, and drove away with her in his mother’s car. The Shenks had sheltered Whitehead, who had accused Palczynski of abusing her. She had recently left him and planned to move into her own apartment from her parent’s house, where she had been living.  For ten days following the triple shooting, Palczynski was the subject of an intense manhunt involving every available law enforcement unit. The officers, using the latest technology and all available equipment, formed a barrier with roadblocks and other borders, surrounding the area where they believed Palczynski had been. On two occasions, Palczynski was able to penetrate the barriers and evade capture. It was believed that he was trying to contact longtime friend Kevin Massengill. The saga ended when the two adult hostages escaped the house, the third—a child—was rescued, and Baltimore County Police fatally shot Palczynski as he was reaching for a gun. A woman was convicted and sentenced for buying weapons for a convicted felon because she bought guns for him before he committed these crimes.

2005 – Jeffrey James Weise – was born on August 8, 1988, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the only child of Joanne Elizabeth Weise and Daryl “Baby Dash” Allen Lussier Jr., an unmarried Ojibwe couple from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. His parents separated before he was born, and he lived with his father and his father’s family in Red Lake for a time. When he was nearly three years old, his mother reclaimed him and took him to live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.  Weise claimed in online postings that his mother was an alcoholic and had physically and emotionally abused him. In 1992, Joanne Weise began dating a man who also allegedly abused Jeff. After having two children, the couple married in 1998. On July 21, 1997, when Jeff was eight, his father died by suicide by shooting himself. On March 5, 1999, when Jeff was ten, his mother was in a car accident, in which a tractor-trailer crashed into the car that her cousin was driving. The women had been drinking. Weise struggled in school due to frequent relocations, bullying, disruptions in his personal life, and truancy. In May and June 2004, Weise attempted suicide and was briefly hospitalized. He was under treatment for depression and had been prescribed Prozac as an anti-depressant. On March 21, 2005, Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s companion before going to the reservation high school, where he murdered seven more people and wounded five others. He died by suicide before he could be captured by the police. His case revived the public discussion about the use of Prozac for children and adolescents; the Food and Drug Administration published a warning about it in October 2004 as a factor in increased suicides and violence among youths.

2008 – John Emil List – was born on September 17, 1925, in Bay City, Michigan. Raised in a strict Lutheran family, he was the only child of his parents, John Frederick List and Alma Barbara Florence List. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the United States Army during World War II and served as a laboratory technician. Following the war, he pursued higher education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in accounting. In November 1950, as the Korean War escalated, List was recalled to active military service. During his service at Fort Eustis in Virginia, he met Helen Morris Taylor, the widow of an infantry officer killed in action in Korea. They married on December 1, 1951, and moved to northern California. Recognizing List’s accounting skills, the Army reassigned him to the Finance Corps. List later settled in New Jersey and took a job at a local bank. However, on November 9, 1971, he murdered his mother, wife, and three children due to financial distress and other family issues. He meticulously planned the murders such that nearly a month passed before anyone suspected anything was amiss. Following the murders, List disappeared and assumed a new identity. He remarried and managed to elude justice for nearly 18 years. His case was broadcast on the television program “America’s Most Wanted,” leading to his apprehension in Virginia on June 1, 1989. After extradition to New Jersey, he was convicted on five counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to five consecutive terms of life imprisonment. List justified his actions by citing critical financial problems and his perception that his family members were straying from their religious faith. He believed that killing them would assure their souls a place in Heaven, where he hoped to eventually join them. He died in prison in 2008 at the age of 82.

2009 – Lovelle Mixon  – was born on September 11, 1982, in San Francisco. He was a resident of Oakland and worked sporadically as a plumber and custodian. Mixon had an extensive criminal history and was a convicted felon on a no-bail warrant for a parole violation. On March 21, 2009, Mixon was involved in a tragic incident that resulted in the death of four police officers in Oakland, California. During a routine traffic stop, Mixon shot and killed two police officers of the Oakland Police Department. He then escaped on foot to the nearby apartment of his sister. When police SWAT team officers attempted to apprehend him, Mixon shot and killed two more officers. Mixon was killed as other officers on the team returned fire. This incident was one of the deadliest attacks on California police officers since the Newhall massacre in 1970.  Mixon wielded two different weapons during his deadly assaults on the Oakland police officers – a 9mm semiautomatic handgun and an SKS rifle. His actions on that day have left a lasting impact on the community and the law enforcement agencies involved.

Events

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary

1963 – Alcatraz Closes its doors as a Federal Penitentiary

1984 – Cindy Anne Smith is murdered by Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway

1994 – Dudley Moore is arrested for hitting his girlfriend

2002 – 13-year-old English schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted

2005 – 16-year-old Jeff Weise kills his grandfather, 3 other adults, 5 students, and then himself

2018 – Ant McPartlin is arrested for drunk driving

2018 – Austin bombing suspect Mark Conditt kills himself