Mansfield, her 40-year-old lover Sam Brody, their 20-year-old driver Ronnie Harrison, and three of her children - 8-year-old Miklós Jeffrey Palmer Hargitay, 6-year-old Zoltán Anthony Hargitay and 3-year-old Mariska Magdalena Hargitay were heading for New Orleans where she was scheduled to appear for an early-morning television interview. The 1966 Buick Electra 225, which was reportedly going 80 miles per hour, crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had slowed down because of a truck spraying mosquito fogger. The three adults in the front seat were killed instantly; the children in the rear survived with minor injuries. (29 June 1967)
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Wednesday 29th of June 1994 (-) — Serial killer Jack Unterweger commits suicide by hanging in his cell. Unterweger was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for the murders of 9 prostitutes earlier that day.
Saturday 26th of February 2000 (-) — Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs commits suicide by hanging in his cell. Fuchs was found hanged with the cable of his electric razor. How exactly a man without hands and under almost constant video surveillance could accomplish the manipulations required to convert an electric cable into a noose sufficiently robust for successful self-hanging was never properly explained.