Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 25 October 1929

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

Ives was escorted to the gallows with the noose tightened around his neck. A guard pulled a lever that sent a weight hurtling down a chute. The weight was supposed to pull the rope taut and the prisoner would break his neck as he fell through the trap. But Ives was too light. As the weight fell he went hurtling toward the ceiling. The rope jumped off the pulley and Ives fell to the floor gasping for breath. "You can't hang a man twice," he said. But they did. According to one witness it took three attempts. Ives was strangled for 23 minutes before he was pronounced dead.
(10 January 1930)

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Friday 25th of October 1929

96 years ago

Klara Wanders is attacked by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf at the age of 26 in Ananasberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Wanders was raped and hit with a hammer several times. The hammer broke and flew into the bush where Kürten couldn't find it anymore.