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- Mark Essex: The New Orleans Sniper
The First Sniping Incident: New Year’s Eve 1972 On New Year's Eve 1972, around 10:55 p.m., Essex parked He positioned himself behind parked cars in a dimly lit parking lot across from the bustling central Weatherford swiftly sought refuge behind a parked car, while his fellow cadet Alfred Harrell ran across located at 330 Loyola Avenue in New Orleans' Central Business District, opposite City Hall and Orleans Parish There, he fired at and missed two police officers guarding the hotel's parking lot.
- Charles Osborne: The Man Who Hiccuped for 68 Years and Set a Guinness World Record
Greene-Chandos has noted, prolonged hiccups that come on suddenly can be a sign of stroke, particularly when paired That Osborne remained so consistently good-humoured is, in some ways, the most remarkable part of the
- Zorita: The Snake-Charming Star of American Burlesque
Zorita’s confidence and ease with attention, suggested she might earn more dancing at private stag parties She was part of the same wartime pin-up culture that made a household name of Bettie Page a decade later Public fascination came paired with police scrutiny. Tawny Petillo later recalled that her mother "wanted to be a big fish in a smaller pond," which is part notoriety, particularly in Miami, where city ordinances explicitly banned gender impersonation on stage as part
- The Death of Nancy Spungen And The Final Hours Of Sid Vicious
Vicious’s fatal relapse at his release party meant he would never be convicted of her killing, although A few even believed she killed herself, part of a suicide pact that Sid had been too stoned to complete death as Cathy and Heathcliff – not least as a result of Alex Cox’s 1986 biopic Sid & Nancy , starring Gary Accounts of what Vicious was really like vary depending on who you ask. note and pact) https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4562747 “Inside Sid Vicious’s drug-fuelled last party
- Kurt Cobain’s Final Days: What Happened Between Rome, Rehab and His Death in Seattle
Cobain was often described as uncomfortable with this contradiction, wary of what fame demanded and uncertain Financial records later showed attempts to access money, and there were occasional sightings in different parts Kurt Cobain's suicide note The Discovery on 8 April 1994 On the morning of April the 8th electrician Gary These photographs were taken by the Seattle Police Department as part of their standard documentation
- The Still Unsolved Disappearance Of New York Socialite Dorothy Arnold
Her mother, Mary Parks Arnold, moved comfortably within the rituals and expectations of high society. She purchased chocolates at Park and Tilford on 59th Street, a well known confectioner frequented by The two exchanged greetings and spoke briefly before parting ways. The deception came to light when her parents discovered she had pawned jewellery to pay for the trip. and her body thrown into the Central Park Reservoir.
- The Band Behind The Blues Brothers
Back in 1976 on Saturday Night Live, the pair appeared in full bee costumes to perform Slim Harpo’s “ bandmates Malone and Alan Rubin and future Blues Brothers players Steve Cropper and “Duck” Dunn) was part Fabulous might claim the most varied resume in the Blues Brothers band, but none of the members is more But Paul Shaffer knew that a big part of Aykroyd and Belushi’s act was tied not just to the blues, but He died in 2012 after a show in Tokyo, part of a tour with his old buddy Cropper.
- The Rajah from Tipperary (the tale of how an Irish farmer ended up ruling his own kingdom in India)
And NOW he was part of the Royal Navy. She rewarded him by arranging the marriage of George to an Indian-French girl later called Marie, and
- The Tragic Death Of Virginia Rappe And The Trials Of Fatty Arbuckle
Room twelve twenty reserved as the party room. Prohibition did not slow anyone down. The party ebbed and surged. Music drifted out of open doors. Then the mood shifted. One of the rooms occupied by Arbuckle and his guests in the days after the infamous party. A Prohibition era party sounded sinful enough to sell. A suggestion became a headline. He sold his house and his cars to pay debts.
- The Real Story Behind The Exorcist: The Strange Case of Ronald Hunkeler
Real cases feeding into horror classics is a recurring pattern; Gary Heidnik's Philadelphia basement
- Nick Drake: The Quiet King of British Folk
press was dominated by the news of Brian Jones' death on 3 July and the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park Part of what had made Nick’s earlier music so appealing was a balance between dark and light. Mary Magdalene Church in Tanworth-in-Arden, where he was buried in a simple grave.
- The Cop Who Robbed His Own Crime Scenes: The Extraordinary Double Life of André Stander
was committing armed bank robberies during his lunch break, then returning to his desk at the Kempton Park By the mid-1970s, Stander was a Captain in the Kempton Park CID in Johannesburg, a city whose social At a party in late 1979, Stander told Van Deventer about the robberies and asked him to get involved. For two months, the pair hid in Johannesburg, venturing out once to rob the United Building Society for Tomasello, who had a family, sought police protection while waiting for the South African government to pay













