Lancaster poisoned his wife, her father, her three sisters, her former fiancé, her aunt and a servant and to make it look like a local epidemic, went on to poison some of his neighbours. Lancaster was hung from his own front door at High Wray Farm and then taken by horse and cart to Poole Stang where his body was placed on a gibbet to rot away. (8 April 1672)
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Sunday 16th of August 1998 (-) — Serial killer Abdallah al-Hubal is shot dead in a police shootout. al-Hubal engaged in a firefight with the police killing one policeman and injuring several others before being shot himself.