7 house(s) found from 1950. Showing page 1 of 1.
1121 W. Stewart Rd trending_up
Columbia, MO, US
Baby-Sitter Raped, Slain In Columbia Columbia, Mo. (AP) — Officers studied footprints and fingerprints Monday in an effort to trace the assailant who raped and strangled a 13-year-old baby-sitter. The body of brown-haired Janett Christman, a high school student, was found early Sunday in a Columbia home where she was babysitting. During the last six months, another baby-sitter was raped and a college student was the victim of an attempted rape in the same neighborhood. On the night of March 1…
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5691 2nd Ave trending_up
Plainfield, WI, US
On the morning of November 16, 1957, Plainfield hardware store owner Bernice Worden disappeared. A Plainfield resident reported that the hardware store's truck had been driven out from the rear of the building at around 9:30 a.m. The hardware store saw few customers the entire day; some area residents believed this was because of deer hunting season.[3] Bernice Worden's son, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden, entered the store around 5:00 p.m. to find the store's cash register open and blood stains o…
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235 Wisner St
Park Ridge, IL, US
The childhood home of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hugh Rodham purchased his family's brown-brick mock Georgian in 1950 for $35,000 in cash, the carefully saved profit from his drapery business. The house was built in 1925, according to the Cook County Assessor's Office, though Barclay said additions have been added.
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7900 Columbus Rd N.E.
Louisville, OH, US
"It is an abandoned asylum in Louisville Ohio. It was used to institutionalize many individuals with many issues mentally and physically, but is known for not just that but for the Tuberculosis treatments it specialized in. Molly Stark was built in 1930’s but then was closed down in 1950. The hospital was sold for 5 dollars to the state, because of all of the repairs needed. I have heard that often times the nurses would take the children who were infected with TB and wrap them up in blankets …
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1610 Cuyahoga St
Akron, OH, US
The Farley family had a garden in the front yard. One afternoon, as 14 yr old Zelma got off the school bus, her father Henry shot her mother Mable to death with a rifle as she picked tomatoes. Zelma grabbed at her father but he then shot himself to death. Online sources say the current house was built (or rebuilt?) in 1958 but the crime happened in the front yard, no matter what house was in the footprint in 1950.
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2531 Broad Blvd
Cuyahoga Falls, OH, US
Laverne Foote, age 48, committed suicide by hanging herself in a closet with an electrical cord.
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13870 Clifton Blvd
Lakewood, OH, US
Story told in the stories of Cleveland book “They Died Crawling” by John Stark Bellamy II. Together Hazel and Joe Gogan built a hugely successful business, but when Hazel learned he was cheating on her they planned a divorce. It was mostly amicable but they were fighting over mutually loved belongings. On this day, Joe broke into Hazel’s home to take back 3 paintings. In his truck bed was a blanket for wrapping them and a bag of cyanide based rat poison for his rural estate. They grappled on th…
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