Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Terre Haute, Indiana, United States

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

During the time Henry was being tried Louisiana changed its method of execution from hanging to death by electrocution. Henry was executed within the basement of the Lake Charles Prison in Louisiana's portable electric chair which had been brought by truck from Angola the previous day. Henry was the only woman executed in Louisiana's electric chair.
(28 November 1942)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

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Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.

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Sunday 27th of August 1871 (+) — Naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser is born.
Saturday 13th of June 1942 (x) — Serial killer William Heirens is arrested after committing over 50 thrill-burglaries.
Heirens was sent to the Gibault Correctional School for Catholic Boys.
Thursday 3rd of August 1978 (x) — Victim of Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer Mark Henry is stabbed in the chest by Larry Eyler aka The Leather Boy Killer.
Henry survived and never pursued charges against Eyler. In the next five years Eyler killed over 20 boys and young men.