Giffard had beaten his 53-year-old father Charles and mother Elizabeth to death with a lead pipe on 7 November 1952. Giffard took the bodies and tipped them over the cliff at the end of the garden and then got in the car and drove to see his girlfriend in London. (24 February 1953)
There are 3393 births, 3959 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6460 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
Saturday 7th of April 1973 (x) — Serial killer Gerard Schaefer is arrested. In Schaefer's bedroom police found lurid stories he had written that were full of descriptions of the torture, rape and murder of women.
Saturday 21st of July 1973 (-) — Murderer Albert Brust commits suicide by cyanide poisoning. In Brust's house the police found a wide variety of pornography and torture-devices as well as the walled-in body of 16-year-old Mark Matson.