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The Bouncing Ball Killer, also known as the Bouncing Ball Slayer, the Bouncing Ball Strangler, and the Rubber Ball Strangler, was a serial killer who is believed to have raped and murdered at least six women between May 1959 and June 1960 in Los Angeles, California. A majority of the victims were elderly and all but one was strangled to death ...
The Hillside Strangler (later the Hillside Stranglers) is the media epithet for an American serial killer—later discovered to be a duo, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono—who terrorized the women of Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978, during a time when Southern California was plagued by several active serial killers.
The incident and reduced sentencing by the court exacerbated the existing tensions between African-American residents and Korean-American merchants in South Central Los Angeles. Those tensions were later interpreted by some members of the public and activists as being one of the catalysts for the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The Los Angeles mayor's ...
A woman who pleaded guilty to killing entertainment consultant and social justice advocate Michael Latt was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison on Wednesday. Jameelah Elena Michl had been ...
Los Angeles: 1996-02-25: Academy Award winning actor murdered in robbery outside his house [10] [7] [195] [196] 44: Murder of Ennis Cosby: Los Angeles: 1997-01-16: Son of Bill Cosby shot in the head in robbery attempt at the Mulholland exit to the 405 freeway [7] [197] 45: Murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Los Angeles: 1997-03-09: Murder of rapper ...
Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,612 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2 ]
Shortly after arriving in California, she went to a convenience store and heard a man preaching in the parking lot. The second time she saw him, the pair exchanged numbers and quickly started dating.
Barbara Elaine "Bonnie" Wood Graham (née Ford; June 26, 1923 – June 3, 1955) was an American criminal convicted of murder.She was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, all of whom were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an elderly widow.