On 5 August 1949 Morris abducted and killed 15-year-old Thelma Taylor in Portland. The site of the murder under St. John's Bridge is supposedly haunted by Taylor. (9 January 1953)
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Thursday 16th of May 1957 (-) — American Prohibition agent Eliot Ness dies of a heart attack. In one popular yet false anecdote Ness died just as he was about to have the first alcoholic drink of his life.
Monday 5th of December 1966 (-) — Physician John Bentley dies of Spontaneous Human Combustion. All that was left of the aged Dr. Bentley was the lower half of his right leg with the slipper still on it. The rest of his body had been reduced to a pile of ashes in the basement below.