Lisenba killed his wife Mary Busch by sticking her leg in a box with two rattlesnakes. Busch didn't die from the poison so Lisenba drowned her. Lisenba was the last man to be executed by hanging in San Quentin. The rope was the wrong length and it took over ten minutes for Rattlesnake James to die. (1 May 1942)
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Thursday 24th of October 2002 (x) — Serial killer John Allen Muhammad and his 17-year-old accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo are arrested. Muhammad's blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, a former police car, was spotted parked in an Interstate 70 rest stop.