June 17th

On this day - June 17th 1994 - O.J Simpson was arrested for the murder of his wife 

O. J Simpson was a famous American football player and actor. He was arrested on this day in 1994 for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole and her friend, Ronald Goldman. He was acquitted for the murders in 1995, but a civil court awarded a 33.5 million dollar judgement against O. J. Simpson for the two peoples wrongful deaths. He was arrested in 2007 for armed robbery and is currently serving a 33 year long sentence.

February 12th

On this day - February 12th 1993 -James Bulger were abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten year old boys

James Bulger was two years old when he was abducted from a shopping centre in England. His abducters were two ten year old boys, Jon and Robert. CCTV evidence from the shopping centre show the two boys observing children and probably selecting what they saw as an "appropriate" kid. James was out with his mum shopping when he was abducted. Jon and Robert took James on a 4km walk across Liverpool. He was later dropped on his head and tortured. James body was found on Railroad tracks two days after the murder. His body was severed by both the torture and trains.
On February 20th were the two murderes charged with murdere. In november were they found guilty and they became the youngest convicted murderes in modern English history.

December 30th

On this day - 30 December 1977 - Ted Bundy escaped prison 

Theodore Robert Cowell better known as Ted Bundy was a American serial killer. The true count of his victims is not known but shortly before his execution he confessed to 30 homicides. Bundy played to his strengths and used his charm and handsome looks to win the trust of his female victims. Approaching his victims in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before leading his victims to a more secluded place and overpowering and assaulting them. Bundy was initially incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for kidnapping and assault but escaped. Facing murder charges in Colorado he engineered not one but two escapes with further murders and violence. On this day was his second escape he placed books in his bed to simulate a body. He proceeded to climb out of the crawlspace and broke trough to the ceiling into the apartment of the chief jailer who was out with his wife. He then changed to street clothes and walked out the front door. Bundy was not caught again until February 12th in Florida. When Bundy was arrested his arresting officer was unaware he had captured a FBI ten most wanted criminal and he herd him say
"I wished you had killed me"

Bundy at his trail 

December 26th

On this day - 26th December 1996 - Six year old JonBenét Ramsey found murdered

Ramsey was a six year old American child pageant who was murdered on the 25th of December 1996. She was found in her parents basement on the 26th of December, 8 hours after she was reported missing. Her mum had reported her missing after finding a ransom letter in their staircase which asked for $118.000 in exchange for her return. This was the exact amount her dad had received as a bonus earlier the same year. The murder created lots of media attention due to Ramsey's participation in child pageants. Her parents were first suspected, but due to DNA evidence were they cleared in 2008 and the murder is still unsolved.

Investigators into the case and the parents have written books about the case, the investigation and the period after the murder.

 

December 22nd

On this day - 22nd of December 1992 - The Archives of Terror were found

On this day in 1992 Dr Martín Almada and judge José Augustín Fernández found the Archives of Terror. The archives were found in a police station in Asunción, capital of Paraguay. Fernández was looking for a prisoner, but instead he discovered an archive that described the fate of thousands of Latin Americans. Their fate was sealed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, under the codename Condor. Under this codename an estimated 50,000 people were killed, 30,000 just disappeared and 400,000 were imprisoned.  General Pinochet court case was mostly based on evidence from the archive. Operation Condor was in effect from 1975 and the United States of America provided technical support and military aid until at least 1978. There were several political incidences where the goal was to change the leaders of countries. For the most part the targets were communist friendly people 

The headline reads Exterminated like mice and is about a group of leftwingers in Argentina

December 19th

On this day –19^th December 1956 – John Bodkin Adams was arrested

Irish born Adams was an accused serial killer. Between 1946 and 1956, over 160 of his patient died in suspect circumstances such as through receiving “special injections” while the nurses were asked to leave the room. Out of his patients who died this was, left at least 132 people money or other items in their will for Adams. The first inheritance he got was 7,385 pounds from a patient in 1935. The will was contested, but upheld in court. The police started investigating Adams in the summer of 1956 after receiving an anonymous phone call. The court was not able to convict Adams and he was not found guilty for the murders, although it has been suspected that higher political forces played a role in the courts decision. He was, however, found guilty in a later trial for prescription fraud, lying on cremation forms and obstructing police investigation. He was removed from the medical register in 1957, but re-instated in 1971.

When Adams was arrested on December 19^th he said “Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? [...] I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event.”

December 8th

On this day – 8^th December 1980 – John Lennon from the Beatles died

John Lennon was an English singer and songwriter who were, without doubt, best known for his co-founding of the band “the Beatles”. He continued his career after the band was dissolved as a solo artist and as an political activist. His most famous solo songs include “Imagine” and “Working Class Hero”.

John Lennon only mad it to 40 years old. On this day, in 1980, he was murdered in New York City where he lived at the time. He was shot by Mark David Chapman, a former the Beatles fan, but a Christian fanatic at the time of the shooting. He shot at Lennon five times and hit him with four of the shots. John Lennon was pronounced dead at the arrival at the hospital. Chapman, who stayed at the murder scene and was caught, plead guilty and was sentenced to prison where he still is today.

John Lennon’s death lead to a worldwide mourning unlike anything that had been experienced before. At least three the Beatles fans committed suicide after his death. Lennon left behind two children and his wife and a musical legacy that not many other musicians have managed to recreate.  

Just hours before he was murdered signed John Lennon a copy of Double fantasy for Chapman, his murderer.
Copyright wikipedia 

"You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

Ant the world will be as one"

October 27th

On this day - October 27th 1992 - was the US marine, Allen Schindler, murdered for being gay

Allen R. Schindler, who worked as a radioman in the US navy, was brutally killed in a public toilet in Japan. He had at least four fatal injuries and his penis was cut. His family was only able to identify Schindler due to a tattoo on his arm, because his body was unrecognisable. Schindler had previous to the murder complained to his commanding officer about anti-gay harassment on the assault ship he worked on. Schindler har decided to leave the navy, be his superiors had insisted he remained on the ship until his separation-process was finished. His murderer, airman apprentice Helvey, was sentenced to lifetime in prison. The murdered sparked a debate about gays in the US military culminating in the "Don't ask, don't tell" bill. This bill prohibit military personell from discriminating against or harassing against closet homosexuals and it prohibit openly gay, lesbian and bisexual persons from military service.

Allen R. Schindler died at the young age of 22 due to other peoples hatred. While his death caused a shift for the Navy LGBT rights still remains an issue until this day.

No clause for gays