Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 10 August 2018

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Starkweather later accused his girlfriend Caril Fugate of performing a coup-de-grace after his shotgun jammed. They were arrested when their stolen car stalled and Starkweather got hit by shattered glass from the windshield as pursuing officers chased him. Converse County Sheriff Earl Heflin said "He thought he was bleeding to death. That's why he stopped. That's the kind of yellow son of a bitch he is."
(29 January 1958)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 10th of August 2018 8 years, 5 months and 19 days ago
Suicide pilot Richard Rick Russell aka Beeboo commits suicide by an airplane crash at the age of 29 in Ketron Island, Washington, United States. Russell stole a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and made a barrel roll over Puget Sound amongst other maneuvers before fatally crashing. In a recorded conversation with Air Control Russel talked about himself as "Just a broken guy, got a few screws loose, I guess."