New Jersey Factory Worker Goes Berserk
July 5, 1963 - A 36-year-old factory worker shot and killed his wife and sister-in-law today in Linden, N.J., and after wounding 3 other...
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Jun 19, 2023
Condemned Murderers Latham and York Granted Stay of Execution
June 19, 1963 - Two condemned killers, James Douglas Latham and George Ronald York (pictured in 1961), were granted a last-minute stay of...
Jun 11, 2023
Tony Pro Convicted of Extortion in Newark
June 11, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 46, hulking president of Teamsters Union Local 560 and friend of Teamsters czar...
May 29, 2023
Tony Pro on Murdered Shop Steward: “He Was Accident-Prone”
May 29, 1963 - Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano (pictured), 45, president of the Teamsters Union’s 13,000-member Local 560, expressed grief...
May 28, 2023
French Nightclub Owner Guilty in NYC Heroin Case
May 28, 1963 - Francois Paul Scaglia (pictured right with an NYC police detective after his 1962 arrest), a 35-year-old French nightclub...
May 27, 2023
Gov. Hughes Orders All-Out Probe of Union Murder
May 27, 1963 - An all-out investigation by the New Jersey state police into the cold-blooded Hoboken murder of maverick Teamsters shop...
May 26, 2023
Nazi-Minded Tough Guy Has Day in Court
May 26, 1963 - An arrogant, Nazi-minded tough guy, arrested for roughing up a detective during a melee at a Yorkville hate rally...
May 25, 2023
Tony Pro Kin Held in Hoboken Murder
May 25, 1963 - A relative by marriage to the Provenzano clan was held today as a material witness in the slaying of Walter Glockner, 27,...
May 24, 2023
Tony Pro Foe Murdered in N.J.
May 24, 1963 - A young Teamsters’ Union shop steward who opposed the president of his local, Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano, was fatally...
May 22, 2023
French TV Star Admits Heroin Conspiracy
May 22, 1963 - Jacques D. Angelvin (right), a Parisian television performer, admitted in New York State Supreme Court today that he had...
May 20, 2023
Mob Roundup in Brooklyn
May 20, 1963 - In the wake of an early morning shooting attack on two Profaci mobsters, Brooklyn detectives last night rounded up the...
May 16, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce Convicted of Heroin Possession
May 16, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured left with John Marshall, his attorney) was convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury...
May 13, 2023
Dr. Sheppard Faces Legal Setback
May 13, 1963 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected today a plea from Dr. Sam Sheppard (pictured right in 1954) that he be allowed to take a...
May 8, 2023
New Strangling Victim in Boston
May 8, 1963 - A young music teacher was found strangled tonight in her apartment just off Harvard Square, confronting the police of the...
Apr 24, 2023
Search Is On for Slayer of Baltimore Mailman
Apr. 24, 1963 - In Attalla, Alabama today, state and county authorities began a massive search for the slayer of a white Baltimore...
Apr 23, 2023
Prison Break in Michigan, Four Hardened Convicts At Large
Apr. 23, 1963 - Four hardened criminals, two of them convicted murderers, escaped today from the maximum-security section of the nation’s...
Apr 14, 2023
Mentally Disturbed High Schooler Charged Admits Murdering Olympic Skier
Apr. 14, 1963 - A mentally disturbed high school boy who Utah authorities said tried to strangle a 15-year-old Salt Lake City girl less...
Apr 13, 2023
Arrest Made in Murder of Olympic Skier
Apr. 13, 1963 - A lanky, 18-year-old high school youth was booked tonight for the dismemberment slaying of skier Sonja McCaskie in Reno,...
Apr 6, 2023
Nashville Millionaire Killed with Samurai Sword, Wife Held for Questioning
Apr. 6, 1963 - Financier John B. Wilson died with a Japanese samurai sword through his heart in his Nashville mansion today, and police...
Apr 6, 2023
Olympic Skier Brutally Murdered in Reno
Apr. 6, 1963 - The dismembered body of a young British Olympic skier was found last night in her Reno, Nev., apartment, police announced...
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