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Apr 4, 2023

Brooklyn Hoods Face Wrath of Government and Underworld for Attack on FBI Man

Apr. 4, 1963 - Four Brooklyn hoodlums accused of attacking and stomping an FBI agent outside a church just before the funeral of Carmello...

Apr 3, 2023

FBI Agent Beaten by Mafia Thugs

Apr. 3, 1963 - An FBI agent was severely beaten and stripped of his pistol today while observing a funeral gathering outside a Brooklyn...

Mar 22, 2023

Missing Persons Report Filed on Johnny Mathis

Mar. 22, 1963 - A missing persons report was filed with the police today on singer Johnny Mathis, 27, who reportedly hasn’t been seen...

Mar 21, 2023

Last Prisoners Removed from Alcatraz

Mar. 21, 1963 - The Federal prison on Alcatraz Island became a hollow, echoing shell today with the removal of the last 27 prisoners...

Mar 15, 2023

American Opera Soprano Murdered in Rome

Mar. 15, 1963 - A glamorous American opera soprano clad in a scarlet nightgown was found shot dead today in her room in a fashionable...

Mar 13, 2023

Murderer Nathan Leopold Released After 33 Years in Prison

Mar. 13, 1963 - Nathan Leopold (second from left in 1924), a man who has spent his adult life atoning for a crime committed in his youth,...

Mar 11, 2023

Two Ex-Convicts Confess to Kidnapping L.A. Police Detectives

Mar. 11, 1963 - Two former convicts confessed today to kidnapping two Hollywood police detectives, but each accused each the other of...

Mar 10, 2023

Two Los Angeles Policemen Kidnapped, One Murdered

Mar. 10, 1963 - Ian James Campbell (pictured), a 31-year-old Los Angeles policeman, was kidnapped with a fellow officer, Karl Hettinger,...

Mar 1, 2023

Anthony “Tough Tony” Anastasio Dead at 57

Mar. 1, 1963 - Anthony Anastasio (pictured right in 1957), labor boss of the Brooklyn waterfront, died early today at Long Island...

Feb 25, 2023

NYC Police Commissioner Releases Murder Statistics

Feb. 25, 1963 - Murder is mainly an indoor crime in New York City. It is harder on wives than on husbands. Saturday is the deadliest day...

Feb 24, 2023

Hollywood Screenwriter Admits Stabbing Wife to Death

Feb. 24, 1963 - Funeral services were conducted today for Mrs. Dolores Heideman, 32, as police prepared to charge her husband Leonard,...

Feb 22, 2023

Prominent Hollywood Screenwriter Murders Wife

Feb. 22, 1963 - “I had a dream…I was acting out the dream.” Leonard M. Heideman (pictured), a leading television writer in Hollywood,...

Feb 20, 2023

Wisconsin Teen Admits Murdering Entire Family

Feb. 20, 1963 - Five counts of first-degree murder were leveled against 16-year-old Harry Hebard (right) in Green Bay, Wisconsin this...

Feb 18, 2023

Wisconsin Teen Charged with Mass Murder of Family

Feb. 18, 1963 - In Oconto County, Wisconsin, this morning, a 16-year-old high school student was taken into custody after the bodies of 5...

Feb 2, 2023

Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club Growing in California

Feb. 2, 1963 - They call themselves Hell’s Angels. Their symbol is the grinning Death’s Head. Perhaps you’ve seen them on the highways of...

Dec 8, 2022

14-year-old Boy Kills Sister Over Playing of Radio

Dec. 8, 1962 - Massachusetts State Police said today that 14-year-old Thomas Cadigan, brother of slain Margaret Cadigan (pictured), 17,...

Dec 5, 2022

Boston Strangler Targets Women

Dec. 5, 1962 - A 21-year-old woman was strangled with a pillowcase today in the Boston area’s seventh strangling of a woman since...

Oct 25, 2022

Chess Master Brutally Murdered in New York City

Oct. 25, 1962 - Abe Turner (pictured left with Bobby Fischer in 1958), a chess master who was one of the top players in the country, was...

Oct 9, 2022

“Trunk Murderer” Winnie Judd Escapes Mental Hospital

Oct. 9, 1962 - Winnie Ruth Judd (pictured in 1932), the “trunk murderer” of the early 1930s, escaped last night from the Arizona State...

Aug 30, 2022

Queens Teen Rapes and Kills 14-Year-Old, “Wanted to See What It Felt Like to Kill Somebody”

Aug. 30, 1962 - A 17-year-old Queens boy was accused today of slaying a 14-year-old girl because he “wanted to see what it felt like to...