Thurmond and Holmes had kidnapped and killed Brooke Hart on 9 November but continued to send ransom notes to his family, owners of Harts Department Store. Governor James 'Sunny Jim' Rolph praised the action, stating that California had sent a message to future kidnappers and promised to pardon anyone involved in the lynching. (26 November 1933)
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Wednesday 11th of December 1985 (-) — Victim of Theodore Kaczynski aka The Unabomber Hugh Scrutton is killed in a bomb blast by Theodore Kaczynski aka The Unabomber. Scrutton left his computer rental store for lunch when he stopped to pick up what he may have thought to be litter. It was Kaczynski's pipe bomb #11 concealed in a wooden box.