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  • Crime History: Scott Peterson arrested in death of pregnant wife

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    On this day, April 18, in 2003, Scott Peterson was arrested in the disappearance of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, in one of the most talked-about crimes in America. Peterson was reported missing on Christmas Eve 2002. Her body, and that of her fetus, were found April 14 in the San...

  • Crime History: Mary Surratt arrested in Lincoln assassination

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    On this day, April 17, in 1865, Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln's assassination. Surratt operated a safehouse for Confederate spies in Prince George's County and a boarding house in the District, where John Wilkes Booth conspired against Lincoln. Three days...

  • Crime History: Houston bookie's wife found shot to death

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

    On this day, April 16, in 1997, Houston's top bookie, Robert Angleton, found his socialite wife shot to death at the couple's upscale home. It appeared to friends that Doris Angleton might have been killed by her husband's underworld rivals, but then Robert's brother Roger was found in Las...

  • Crime History: Death catches up to gray-haired 'Black Widow'

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    On this day, April 11, in 1947, matronly Southern belle Louise Peete was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin for her second murder conviction. She was 66. Peete came from a wealthy Louisiana family, but everywhere she went friends ended up dead. In Texas, Peete was acquitted of murder...

  • Crime History: Novelist found strangled in New York home

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

    On this day, April 10, in 1936, Nancy Titterton, a novelist and wife of an NBC executive, was found raped and strangled in her home in New York City. A single horsehair helped reveal the killer. Titterton, 33, was discovered lying face down in her bathtub with her pink pajamas tied around her...

  • Crime History: Billy the Kid convicted of sheriff's murder

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    On this day, April 9, in 1881, Billy the Kid was convicted of murdering the Lincoln County, N.M., sheriff and was sentenced to hang. Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid earned the nickname after he shot and killed Sheriff William Brady, the man supposedly responsible for killing McCarty's boss,...

  • Crime History: Alabama mine explosion kills 122 convicts

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, Apr 7, 2013

    On this day, April 8, in 1911, a coal mine explosion in Littleton, Ala., claimed the lives of 128 men -- 122 of whom were convicts loaned from prisons. Of the prisoners killed at the Banner Coal Mine that day, all but five were black. Alabama's controversial convict-lease program was a...

  • Crime History: Teapot Dome: The original K Street scandal

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    On this day, April 7, in 1922, the U.S. secretary of the interior secretly sold the rights to public oil reserves in what became known as the Teapot Dome bribery scandal. Teapot Dome, an oil field on public land in Wyoming, entered the lexicon as a synonym for government cronyism. President...

  • Crime History: Rosenbergs sentenced to death for passing A-bomb secrets

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Thu, Apr 4, 2013

    On this day April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for providing government secrets, including details of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs helped recruit a network of spies that passed on secrets that helped the Soviet Union to produce its own...

  • Crime History: LA bad boy killed in fight with Lana Turner

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Wed, Apr 3, 2013

    On this day, April 4, in 1958, Hollywood star Lana Turner and her boyfriend engaged in a struggle that ended in his death. Turner had a thing for bad boys, and Los Angeles hoodlum Johnny Stompanato -- the body guard for gangster Mickey Cohen -- fit the bill. But when Turner tried to break...