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18-year old Darryl Beamish provided four confessions, two through a sign language interpreter, one a written statement and another in notes scrawled on the exercise yard at the Perth lock-up. Beamish said the confessions were obtained through intimidation and threats, and were untrue. Nevertheless Beamish was convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he served 15 years. After six appeals his conviction was finally overturned in 2005.
(19 December 1959)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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5250 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

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Wednesday 23rd of July 1997 (-) — Serial killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide by a shot in the head
Cunanan shot himself in the head with a .40-caliber Taurus PT92 semiautomatic pistol he had stolen from Jeffrey Trail — the same weapon he used to kill David Madson, Lee Miglin, and Gianni Versace.