Scott McCabe

Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

Janeth Ann Rowe disappeared on a cold, rainy day. The 50-year-old widow had been laid off from her job at Mobil eight months earlier and had taken a job at a Washington consulting company. She had was living with her daughter, Lisa Rowe, and her daughter's boyfriend on the 12000 block of Alton...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

On this day, May 1, in 1961, a passenger committed the first airline hijacking inside the United States. Antulio Ramirez Ortiz, 34, bought his ticket under the name Elpirata Cofrisi, a reference to a notorious pirate Roberto Cofresi. He used a steak knife and gun to force the Miami-to-Key West...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

On this day, April 29, in 1992, Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his New Jersey home by a former company security consultant. Arthur Seale, an ex-cop who was laid off by Exxon, and his wife snatched 57-year-old Reso from his driveway and shot him in the arm. They stuffed...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

On this day, April 28, in 1977, Christopher Boyce was convicted for selling secrets to the Russians in a case made into the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman," starring Timothy Hudson and Sean Pean. Boyce's father, a ex-FBI agent, got him a job at a California company that operated America's...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

On this day, April 26, in 1982, a gunman robbed rock star Rod Stewart on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and stole his $50,000 Porsche. The British singer and his 3-year-old daughter were standing next to his black 1977 Turbo Carrera when a gunman demanded the keys. Stewart complied, but the...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

On this day, April 25, in 1965, a 16-year-old California boy fired a high-powered rifle down on passing cars, killing three people - including a 5-year-old boy. Michael Andrew Clark, an "A" student from an exclusive Long Beach neighborhood, ran away with his parents' car and the Swedish Mauser...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

On this day, April 24, in 1953, robbers were gunned down in what became known as the Great St. Louis Bank Robbery. The crime was adapted into a movie by the same name starring then-unknown Steve McQueen. The actual bank heist went awry, and police officers and thousands of onlookers were...

Scott McCabe

Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

On this day, April 23, in 1963, a postal worker from Baltimore and former U.S. Marine was shot and killed in Alabama during a one-man march to deliver a letter to the Mississippi governor urging the end of racial segregation. William Lewis Moore, who was white, wore a sandwich board saying...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

On this day, April 22, in 1934, notorious outlaw George "Baby Face" Nelson killed Special Agent W. Carter Baum during an FBI raid in Wisconsin. Nelson wanted to be known as Big George Nelson, but because of his youthful appearance, everyone called him "Baby Face." But rarely to his face....

Scott McCabe

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

On this day, April 21, in 1990, Major League Baseball umpire Bob Engel was arrested on charges of stealing 4,180 baseball cards from a Target retail store in BakersÞeld, Calif. A security officer said he saw Engel, 56, pull a paper bag from the waistband of his pants and fill it with seven...