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The Donna Lee Bakery murders occurred on the night of October 19, 1974, in New Britain, Connecticut, United States.Six people were found murdered inside the bakery. At the time, it was the worst mass murder in Connecticut history. [1]
On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States.The perpetrators, Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky, initially planned only to burgle the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.
On October 19, 1997, 13-year-old Maryann Jeanine Measles [2] was abducted from the parking lot of a New Milford, Connecticut shopping center, while waiting for her mother. A group of eight former friends took part in planning and carrying out her murder. About nine months later, her body was discovered in nearby Lake Lillinonah. [3]
In 1957, Connecticut package store hours were modified to close from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. in part as a response to the crimes of Taborsky and his partner Arthur "Meatball" Culombe. [1] He was executed by electric chair at the age of 36. His execution in 1960 was the last in Connecticut (and in New England) until that of Michael Bruce Ross in
Dorthy Moxley, the mother who fought for decades to bring her teenage daughter’s killer to justice in a roller-coaster Connecticut murder case that captured the nation’s attention for years ...
Richard Crafts' murder trial began in May 1988 in New London, where it was moved due to extensive local publicity. The case went to the jury after 54 days. The case went to the jury after 54 days. On July 15, 1988, the 17th day of jury deliberations, a single juror—the only juror in favor of acquittal—refused to continue, and the judge ...
Investigators ruled the death a homicide. The victim was described as white, average height, with an athletic type body. In May 2024, the woman was identified as 65-year-old Constance Bassignani, who had been last seen on Memorial Day Weekend in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Her husband is considered a person of interest in her murder. [22] [23 ...
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