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Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974 during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
In August 1985, a 33-year-old man named Alex Courvier informed a Pennsylvania police force he had recently seen a missing persons flyer depicting Amy Billig and recognized her as a young woman named Terri Ann Warner, who had died of natural causes in Texas in the summer of 1974 and whose body had never been claimed by loved ones.
Warhol superstar Candy Darling is synonymous with doomed glamour — a gorgeous woman playing a dying gorgeous woman. The image of her laid up in the hospital, looking ready for her close-up in ...
Around 11:30 p.m. the night of October 12, 1974, the Perrys had an argument about their car's tire pressure. Perry told her husband that she wanted to pray alone inside the Stanford Memorial Church, and they parted. [3] Bruce became concerned when his wife had not returned home by 3:00 a.m. and called the Stanford police to report her missing.
Visitors from all over the world come to see the Stanford Memorial Church without a clue of what happened here in 1974. Even people who graduated in the 70s have never heard of the murder.
January 6 – Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898) January 10 – Charles G. Bond, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1877) January 12 – Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919) January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (b ...
Athalia Ponsell Lindsley (July 25, 1917 – January 23, 1974) was an American model, [1] Broadway dancer, political activist and television personality on the show Winner Take All. Lindsley was murdered on the front steps of her home in St. Augustine, Florida. Neighbor Alan Griffin Stanford Jr., with whom she had ongoing feud at the time, was ...
The strangled body of a young woman was found on May 28, 1974, on the jetty of Alamitos Beach in Long Beach, California. [3] She was estimated to be between 18 and 28 years old and had been raped. [4] Basic physical examination showed she was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 118 pounds.