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Shortly before 5:00 p.m. on the evening of July 16, 2011, Tyler took three pills of ecstasy and then stood behind his mother, Mary-Jo, as she worked on her computer in the family room. He attacked his mother with the back-end of a claw hammer first. Hearing the screams, his father rushed out of the bedroom to see what was happening.
Brian Mark Blackwell (born 1986) is a British man who, aged 18 years old, killed his parents by stabbing and beating them with a carving knife and claw hammer in their home near Liverpool, England on 25 July 2004. [3] Although his trial judge said that it would "unlikely ever" be safe enough to free him, Blackwell was granted release on parole ...
The Farmville murders occurred in Farmville, Virginia, in September 2009 – the quadruple bludgeoning homicide of Mark Niederbrock, Debra S. Kelley, their daughter Emma Niederbrock and friend Melanie Wells. Emma Niederbrock shared an online friendship with Richard Samuel McCroskey, a troubled aspiring rapper who travelled from California.
On August 10, 2006, 23-year-old Christopher Porco (b. July 9, 1983) was convicted of second-degree murder for the axe murder of his father (Peter Porco), and second-degree attempted murder after a similarly brutal attack on his mother (Joan Porco) left her severely wounded and permanently disfigured. The attacks were committed on November 15 ...
Charles Martel ( c. 688 – 22 October 741), [ 3] Martel being a sobriquet in Old French for "The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of the Franks from 718 until his death. [ 4][ 5][ 6] He was a son of the Frankish statesman Pepin of Herstal ...
Heather Mack. Lois Heather Mack (born October 1995) is an American heiress convicted of murdering her mother, Sheila von Wiese, while on vacation in Bali, Indonesia, in August 2014. [ 1] The murder was widely publicized internationally because Mack and her boyfriend stuffed von Wiese-Mack's body in a suitcase.
Judah Maccabee (or Judas Maccabaeus / mækəˈbiːəs /, also spelled Maccabeus; Hebrew: יהודה המכבי, romanized : Yehudah HaMakabi[ 1]) was a Jewish priest ( kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–160 BCE). The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah ("Dedication") commemorates the ...
— Fannie Lou Hamer Hamer and her husband wanted very much to start a family but in 1961, a white doctor subjected Hamer to a hysterectomy without her consent while she was undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor. Forced sterilization was a common method of population control in Mississippi that targeted poor, African-American women. Members of the Black community called the procedure a ...