Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 February 1930

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

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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Sunday 23rd of February 1930

95 years ago

Hildegard Eid is attacked and raped by serial killer Peter Kürten aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf at the age of 34 in Grafenberger Wald, Grafenberg, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

She survived and met Kürten again on 3 March 1930.