1865: He Meant No Harm, Said the Man He Stabbed: Thomas Bushell Hanged at Fremantle
Thomas Bushell, an Imperial convict working in the bake-house at the Convict Establishment in Fremantle, took a 12-inch dough-knife from the bake-house on Sunday 9 July 1865. Read more →
1940: Screaming in Terror: Murder Inc. Gunman Arrested Hiding in a Manhattan Church
Vito ‘Socko’ Gurino, a trigger man for the Brooklyn-based crime syndicate Murder Inc., was finally cornered on September 12, 1940, not in some underworld hideout but inside the Church of the Guardian Angel in Manhattan, where he had been hiding out from New Jersey. Read more →
1982: A Death Row Killer for Hire: Bomb in the Radio Speaker
Serial killer Donald Gaskins, already condemned to die at Central Correctional Institution, murdered fellow death row inmate Rudolph Tyner using a homemade bomb built from C4 plastic explosive concealed inside a device disguised as a portable radio speaker. Read more →
1990: Her Fifth Victim Found
Aileen Wuornos had already established a deadly pattern along Florida’s highways, targeting men she encountered while working as a sex worker and hitchhiking around the state. Read more →
