Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 13 February 1964

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

Belknap and his 20-year-old friend James Vance engaged in a suicide pact after listening intensively to the Judas Priest song "Better by You, Better than Me" that supposedly contained a subliminal message "do it". Vance followed but survived the self-inflicted gunshot wound with a severely disfigured face. He died three years later after a suicidal overdose of painkillers.
(23 December 1985)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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BirthFactDeath (-) Thursday 13th of February 1964 60 years ago
Nazi psychiatrist Werner Heyde aka Fritz Sawade commits suicide by hanging in his cell at the age of 62 in Butzbach, Hessen, Germany. After World War II Heyde was interned and imprisoned but escaped in 1947. He went underground using the alias Fritz Sawade and continued practicing as a sports physician and psychiatrist in Flensburg. Many friends and associates knew about his real identity, but remained silent even as he was an expert witness in court cases. His true identity was revealed in the course of a private quarrel, and on 11 November 1959 Heyde surrendered to police in Frankfurt after 13 years as a fugitive. Five days before his trial was to start Heyde hanged himself in prison.