Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 August 1973

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Cuevas and two other inmates of Huntsville's Walls Unit sparked the nation's longest prison siege by taking 16 hostages on 24 July 24 1974. Accomplices Fred Gomez Carrasco and Rudolfo Dominguez along with hostages Julia Standley and Elizabeth Beseda were killed during a shootout 10 days later.
(23 May 1991)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

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Wednesday 8th of August 1973

52 years ago

Serial killer Dean Arnold Corll aka The Candyman is shot dead by serial killer Elmer Wayne Henley at the age of 34 in 2020 Lamar Drive, Pasadena, Texas, United States.

Henley would later lead the police to 27 bodies of boys he delivered to Corll, who tortured and killed them.