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Cheshire murders. On July 23, 2007, two intruders invaded the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrators Linda Hayes (at the time known as Steven Hayes) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky initially planned only to rob the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year ...
Lorne J. Acquin. Lorne J. Acquin (March 21, 1950 – June 2015) [2] was an American mass murderer who killed his foster brother's wife, her seven children, and their niece in their home at Cedar Hill Drive in Prospect, Connecticut, on July 22, 1977, by beating them to death with a tire iron. He afterward set fire to the building and escaped ...
Martha Elizabeth Moxley (August 16, 1960 – October 30, 1975) was a 15-year-old American high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut, who was murdered in 1975. Moxley was last seen alive spending time at the home of the Skakel family, across the street from her home in Belle Haven. [1] Michael Skakel, also aged 15 at the time, was ...
All charges. Jennifer Dulos ( née Farber; born September 27, 1968; presumed dead May 24, 2019; ruled legally dead October 24, 2023) was an American woman who went missing on May 24, 2019. Authorities believe that she was killed in an attack at her home in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, and his ...
Michael Bruce Ross (July 26, 1959 – May 13, 2005) was an American serial killer who was executed by the state of Connecticut in 2005. He was the last person executed in Connecticut before the state ended capital punishment in 2012. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional in 2015, converting the sentences of the ...
The trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, also known as the "devil made me do it" case, is the first known court case in the United States in which the defense sought to prove innocence based upon the claim of demonic possession and denial of personal responsibility for the crime. [2] [3] On November 24, 1981, in Brookfield, Connecticut, Arne ...
William Devin Howell (born February 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven women in 2003. He is one of the most prolific serial killers in Connecticut history. In November 2017, while already serving a 15-year prison sentence for manslaughter, he was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences (a life ...
The Connecticut River Valley Killer, also known as the Valley Killer, is moniker for an unidentified American serial killer believed to be responsible for at least seven murders of young women in the Connecticut River Valley of the Northeastern United States between 1978 and 1988. In 1985 and 1986, the skeletal remains of two victims were ...