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After committing a series of burglaries in March 1984, [3] Fairley carried out the first sex-related crime for which he would become notorious as The Fox on 11 April, [5] when he broke into the home of a 74-year-old woman in Leighton Buzzard. She resisted his attempts to sexually assault her and he ran off.
March 22 – United Kingdom – A London, Midland and Scottish Railway Royal Scot express passenger train derails at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire when a crossover is taken at excessive speed. [4] April 7 – Japan – Ōita: Perhaps due to a blasting accident at the colliery, some dynamite ends up in a train's coal supply. When it explodes ...
(At the time of Porter's death, he was married to a woman who was both a friend of hers and the sister of her fiancé.) It was contended during the 1999 trial that a man lied at the 1988 one by falsely claiming to have witnessed an incident in the garden of the accused the day before Porter was found dead. [131] [132] September 1984 Mark Yendell
Smith, 53, became internationally infamous in 1994 when she drove her car into a South Carolina lake with her two sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander, strapped inside.
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire Farr, 77, was found dead at her home, Vine Cottage, on Brook Street, on 12 April 1974, and the cause of her death was asphyxiation. There have not been any arrests over the widow's murder. [77] May 1974 Barbara Forrest Birmingham
NXIVM sex cult founder Keith Raniere, 64, is serving a 120-year sentence at a federal prison in Tuscon, Arizona. Prosecutors said he recruited women and girls into a sex cult disguised as a self ...
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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (worth £69 million today) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.