Obsessed with the movie Taxi Driver and infatuated with star Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, in an attempt to impress her.Bettmann/Getty ImagesJohn Hinckley Jr. in front of the White House in an undated photo, c. 1981.
To most who knew him, John Hinckley Jr. was a nobody. He failed to make an impression at high school or college, and a friend of his father later admitted that he didn’t know that Hinckley existed — until 1981 when Hinckley became determined to leave his mark on the world by assassinating the president of the United States. Read More...
John Proctor was the first man to be accused of witchcraft at Salem. He was soon executed, but his property can now be yours.Joseph Cipoletta/J Barrett & CompanyThe exterior of the home on the property once owned by John Proctor.
Are you an American history buff with a few hundred thousand dollars to spare? If yes, you’re in luck because a piece of land once owned by an important player in the Salem witch trials has just hit the market. Read More...
Kelly Cochran is now behind bars for killing and dismembering both her lover and her husband — but friends say she’s a serial killer who's left even more bodies in her wake.When Kelly Cochran’s husband found out about her affair, he asked her a simple question that had unimaginably gruesome consequences: How would she make up for it?
Jason Cochran was satisfied with the answer. He would forgive his wife of 13 years if she lured her lover to their house with the promise of sex — and then allowed her jealous husband to blow the lover’s brains out. Read More...
