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  • Joe Arridy: The Mentally Disabled Man Executed For A Grisly Murder He Didn’t Commit

    After he attended one year at elementary school, his principal told his parents to keep him at home, Arridy was admitted at the age of ten to the State Home and Training School for Mental Defectives in Examiners at the home also had Arridy's family undergo several psychological tests and concluded that News accounts described how Arridy, an escapee from a home for the feeble-minded, had confessed to the

  • Dorothea Puente: The Landlady Of Death

    She spent her teen years bouncing between foster homes and orphanages, and was allegedly sexually abused creating a more matronly image with her clothes and makeup, added years to her age, and became an in-home Prosecutors would later allege she pulled in over $87,000 from her scam and spent some of the cash on An officer visited the home and spoke with Puente as well as a tenant while in Puente's presence. Police returned to search the home and check out the backyard on Nov. 11, 1988.

  • Karen Greenlee: The Sacramento Embalmer Who Stole a Hearse and a Body

    She wasn't supposed to go anywhere near a funeral home. She was supposed to deliver John L. order by accident, reading case files during one of her after hours break ins at a different funeral home Where She Went Next At some point after the wave of publicity from the Apocalypse Culture chapter, Greenlee Writers who've since tried to track her down come up empty.

  • The Agatha Christie Disappearance: What Really Happened in 1926

    Their home in Sunningdale, Berkshire, was called Styles, a name Christie had chosen herself after her Whatever state of mind Christie was in that night, some part of her was thinking ahead. The Home Secretary himself pressured the police to act. Some biographers think it was calculated, a way of publicly embarrassing Archie by making the police, straightforward publicity stunt to boost sales of her latest book, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which had come

  • How Dolly Parton Said No to Elvis Presley

    five year commitment, and she wanted things Wagoner's show couldn't offer: her own management, movie roles Elvis wanted to record it, which for most songwriters of the era would have been a dream come true and Rather than quietly banking it, she put some of that money into a very specific place: an office and She wanted her own management, movie roles and a wider audience than his syndicated show could offer, She invested some of the money into an office and retail complex in a predominantly Black Nashville neighborhood

  • The Bradens and the Wade House Bombing: Defying Segregation in 1950s Kentucky

    Jim Crow in Housing In 1954, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, an African-American couple, longed to buy a home Shots were fired into the home. By sheer luck, the family survived, but the home was destroyed and they were driven out. Members of the Coutny Attorney's office and jurors in the Carl Braden trial look over the dynamited home Braden was charged with sedition for selling the home to Wade, a black man.

  • Lavrentiy Beria: Stalin's 'Right Hand Man', Serial Murderer, Prolific Rapist, Absolute Monster.

    In 1938, Beria's trajectory propelled him to Moscow, where he assumed the role of deputy to Nikolai Yezhov As one of Stalin's chief enforcers, he played a pivotal role in orchestrating some of the most heinous Evidence suggests that Beria also murdered some of these women. Those who resisted were strangled and buried in his wife's rose garden." The Tunisian Embassy and the former home of Beria.

  • The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon's Final Defeat and the Leg That Became a Tourist Attraction

    At around 1:30pm, Napoleon unleashed his main effort: the massed infantry of D'Erlon's I Corps, some last French cannon shots of the day, fired in the general collapse, hit Paget in the right knee as he rode Afterwards, when told that his leg had needed to come off, he reportedly said, 'Who would not lose a He'd heard from some of those present that the leg might not have needed to be amputated after all, and They were kept hidden in the Paris family home.

  • Richard Francis Burton: The Victorian Adventurer And Spy Who Brought The Kama Sutra To The West

    It's said that during his youth, Burton engaged in a romance with a Roma girl, from whom he gleaned the failure incurred harsh scrutiny from authorities, prompting a two-year investigation into Burton's role Their pack animals perished, and some of the natives deserted, taking essential supplies with them. While there's no concrete evidence of Burton's involvement or that he submitted a report, some suggest A persistent story surrounding Burton, mentioned in some obituaries, alleges that during his disguised

  • The Night James Brown Led Police on a Two-State High-Speed Chase and Claimed They Tried to Kill Him

    turned up at his office in Augusta, Georgia, noticed his bathroom door was open and decided somebody had some The Godfather in Freefall By 1988 James Brown was 55 and his life was coming apart. Augusta is better known to most of the world as the home of the Masters than for high-speed pursuits, When Brown pulled into a parking lot, officers shot out his front tyres (some reports say three tyres On 15 December 1988 he started a six-year sentence (some reports say six and a half), as TIME noted.

  • Frank Sheeran: Did The Irishman Really Kill Jimmy Hoffa?

    Those claims come from Sheeran himself and they've never been independently checked, but they became Frank Sheeran died of cancer in a Philadelphia-area nursing home on 14 December 2003, aged 83. Some of the files are already public in heavily redacted form on the FBI's records vault. If those files ever come out in full, they might finally settle who killed Jimmy Hoffa. NBC News, "Police: Blood in Detroit Home Isn't From Hoffa" 7.

  • The Beast of Jersey: Edward Paisnel and the Masked Terror Who Haunted an Island

    Some described his voice as calm, even conversational. He seemed to enjoy talking. He was taken to a nearby field, assaulted, and returned home before dawn. The Beast was now entering homes. Police searched his home. Some emigrated. Others stayed but couldn’t sleep through a windy night.

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