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1998 Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer, dies at 73

1998 Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38

1997 Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana

1997 Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45

1997 Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42

1997 Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35

1995 Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer, dies at 39

1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies

1994 John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52

1994 Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York

1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime

1993 Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80

1993 Westley A Dodd, U.S. murderer, 1st hanging in U.S. since 1965

1992 Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34

1992 Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39

1991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday

1988 Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested

1984 Margie V Barfield, U.S. murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years

1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78

1982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas

1981 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years

1981 U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer

1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured

1979 Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber

1978 Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer of Trotsky, dies at 64

1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida

1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer last to, die by guillotine

1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore

1971 Nathan Leopold, U.S. kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies

1969 Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza, born in Mexico, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1969 Thang Thanh Nguyen, born in Soc Trang, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair

1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam

1965 Brian Wilson, New York City, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1965 Perry E Smith, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged

1965 Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged

1964 Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1964 Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1963 Pedro Luis Estrada, born in Brooklyn, New York, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs

1963 Phung Vuong, born in Saigon, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1960 Scott Anthony Haneline, Indianapolis, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader), freed in Mexico

1960 Marvin Clyde Goodwin, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1959 Charles Starkwether, murderer, executed

1958 Glen Stewart Godwin, born in Miami, Florida, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming

1958 Colin Ferguson, murderer, 6 people on the LIRR on Dec 7, 1993

1955 Sylvester Louis Adams, murderer

1952 Paul David Crews, South Carolina, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1952 Howard Donald Saunders, born in Danbury, Connecticut, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1952 David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death

1951 Roosevel Ferguson, born in Arkansas, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1949 Arthur Lee Washington, Jr., Neptune, New Jersey, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1949 Mickey Lee Davis, Jr., Tennessee, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1949 Terry Lee Johnson, Alabama, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1949 A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth

1946 Ted Bundy, Burlington, Vermont, serial murderer

1946 Jessi B. Wilson, Mississippi, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1945 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes

1942 Bosinier de la Chapelle, Fren murderer of adm Darlan, executed at 24

1942 Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death

1941 Richard Speck, mass murderer, killed 8 student nurses in 1966

1939 Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed

1938 Charles Starkwether, murderer, Texas Tower

1935 Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down

1932 Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French President Doumer, beheaded

1931 Donald Eugene Webb, Oklahoma City, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1928 Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer

1927 Horace Alderman, U.S., murderer, hanged

1927 Lizzie Borden, accused murderer, dies at 68

1922 Henri-Desire Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52

1918 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22

1915 Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer

1914 Jacques Mornard, [Ramon Mercader], murderer, Trotsky

1912 Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher, Johnson murderer!

1911 Jan Lode Cantens, Flemish dramatist, God's Murderer

1910 Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed

1906 Johann Hoch, U.S. murderer, executed

1898 Paul Voulet, French captain/mass murderer in Senegal, dies

1898 Charles Chanoine, French lt/mass murderer in Senegal, dies

1880 Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army

1879 Friedrich Adler, Austria social-democrat/murderer of premier Sturgkh

1878 Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26

1864 Franz Miller, becomes first Train Murderer

1860 Johan Nathan, murderer, hanged

1851 Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer, head of Jut

1829 William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh

1793 Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined

1675 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies

1630 John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged

1076 Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies



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