Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 18 May 1971

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Gooch was the first and only person hanged for a non-murdering kidnapping under the Lindbergh Law. Oklahoma’s executioner Richard Earnest Owen was an old hand with his state’s electric chair, but the federal execution method was hanging, which Owen had never before performed (and never would again). Gooch took 15 minutes to strangle at the end of the rope for an audience of about 300.
(19 June 1936)

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Tuesday 18th of May 1971

53 years ago

Elizabeth Anne Porteous is raped and strangled by serial killer Wayne Boden aka The Vampire Rapist at the age of 33 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Porteous' breasts were mutilated with bite marks. A local orthodontist managed to demonstrate 29 points of similarity between the bite marks in Porteous' body and Boden's teeth.