Lefley had been convicted of murdering her 59-year-old husband William by putting arsenic in his rice pudding at their home in Wrangle. She had to be dragged to the gallows screaming "murder, murder!" and struggling with the warders. (26 May 1884)
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Thursday 5th of August 1999 (x) — Spree killer Alan Eugene Miller shoots and kills two of his co-workers, 32-year-old Lee Holdbrooks and 28-year-old Christopher Yancy, then drives five miles to a business where he had previously worked to shoot and kill his former supervisor, 39-year-old Terry Jarvis. Miller's supposed motive behind the murders was that he believed the men were spreading rumors about him being gay.