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Edward Wayne Edwards (June 14, 1933 – April 7, 2011) was a convicted American serial killer. Edwards escaped from jail in Akron, Ohio in 1955 by pushing past a guard and fled across the country, holding up gas stations for money. In 1961, he landed
Lewis Thornton Powell (April 22, 1844 – July 7, 1865), also known as Lewis Payne and Lewis Paine, was an American citizen who attempted to assassinate United States Secretary of State William H. Seward on April 14, 1865. He was a conspirator with J
Joshua Earl Patrick “Josh” Phillips (born March 17, 1984) from Jacksonville, Florida, was convicted (in July 1999) of murdering an 8-year-old neighbor, Maddie Clifton, in November 1998, when he was 14 years old. He is currently serving a sentence of
Jake Bird (December 14, 1901 – July 15, 1949) was a convicted murderer and self-confessed serial killer who was tried and executed for the axe murders of Bertha Kludt (age 53) and her daughter Beverly June Kludt (17) in Tacoma, Washington on Octobe
David G. Meirhofer (June 8, 1949 – September 29, 1974) was an American serial killer who committed four murders in rural Montana between 1967 and 1974 — three of them children. At the time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was developing a new
Aafia Siddiqui (i/ˈɑːfiə siːˈdiːkiː/; Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani who studied neuroscience in the United States. She immigrated to the US in 1990 and obtained a Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2001.
Emil Maurice (19 January 1897, Westermoor – 6 February 1972, Munich) was an early member of the Nazi Party and one of the founders of the SS. A watchmaker by trade, Maurice was a close associate of Adolf Hitler with a personal friendship dating ba
Kenneth Wakefield update: Phoenix man accused of decapitating wife emits howl in courtPHOENIX – A Phoenix man who authorities say decapitated his wife and two dogs and gouged his own eye out let out a moaning howl in court after a prosecutor told a j