Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 November 1965

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

One of his eyeballs had been split cleanly in two, suggesting he had been asleep when attacked. His wife Abby was also killed. "Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one."
(4 August 1892)

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Monday 1st of November 1965

59 years ago

Janina Popielska is stabbed to death, raped and mutilated by serial killer Łucjan Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice at the age of 18 in Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland.

On 2 November the Poznan newspaper Courier Zachodni received a red-ink letter quoting Stefan Zeromsky's 1928 novel 'Popioli': "Only tears of sorrow can wash out the stain of shame, only pangs of suffering can blot out the fires of lust."