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- In 2021: 22.5 years for the murder of George Floyd
2026-06-25
On June 25, 2021, Judge Peter Cahill sentenced former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years for the murder of George Floyd.
Read issue → - In 1993: The night Lorena Bobbitt acted — and what the jury decided
2026-06-23
On June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt severed her sleeping husband's penis with a kitchen knife in their Manassas, Virginia apartment; she was acquitted of malicious wounding in January 1994 after arguing years of domestic abuse had overwhelmed her capacity for rational decision-making.
Read issue → - In 1964: three civil rights workers vanish in Mississippi
2026-06-21
On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were abducted and murdered by Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi; one organizer was finally convicted 41 years later.
Read issue → - In 1987: A Double Murder in Dallas Built on Junk Science
2026-06-20
Steven Mark Chaney spent more than twenty-five years wrongfully imprisoned for the 1987 Dallas murders of John and Sally Sweek, convicted on bite mark evidence later discredited as junk science; the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared him innocent in December 2018.
Read issue → - In 1953: The execution the government knew was wrong
2026-06-19
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison on June 19, 1953 — the first U.S. civilians put to death for espionage during peacetime — after a deeply controversial conviction for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Read issue → - In 2024: 45 years lost to a coerced confession
2026-06-18
In 2024, the Virginia Court of Appeals exonerated Marvin Grimm Jr. after he spent 45 years in prison for a 1975 child murder conviction based on a coerced confession and hair analysis testimony that DNA evidence later refuted.
Read issue → - In 1933: The Ambush That Changed the FBI Forever
2026-06-17
On June 17, 1933, gunmen including Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd ambushed law enforcement officers at Kansas City Union Station, killing four officers and their prisoner Frank Nash in an attack that transformed American federal law enforcement.
Read issue → - In 1944, South Carolina executed a 14-year-old. He was innocent.
2026-06-16
George Junius Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old Black boy in Alcolu, South Carolina, was executed on June 16, 1944 — the youngest person put to death in the United States in the twentieth century — after a three-hour trial, a ten-minute jury deliberation, and a coerced confession with no physical evidence; he was exonerated in December 2014.
Read issue → - In 2015: The mother who made her daughter sick — and the daughter who fought back
2026-06-14
On June 14, 2015, Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard was stabbed to death in her Springfield, Missouri home by Nicholas Godejohn, acting in conspiracy with her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard, after years of alleged medical child abuse through Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Read issue → - 41 blows and an acquittal: The 1980 axe killing that shocked Texas
2026-06-13
On June 13, 1980, Candace Montgomery killed her neighbor Betty Gore with 41 axe blows in Wylie, Texas, then claimed self-defense — and was acquitted by a Texas jury after a nationally watched trial.
Read issue → - In 1994: The night that launched the trial of the century
2026-06-12
On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death outside her Brentwood condominium; her ex-husband O.J. Simpson was charged, acquitted in a racially charged 1995 criminal trial, and later found civilly liable for $33.5 million.
Read issue → - In 1962: Three inmates broke out of America's most feared prison — and disappeared
2026-06-11
On the night of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary using improvised tools, a raft made from raincoat linings, and papier-mâché dummy heads — vanishing into San Francisco Bay and never being definitively found.
Read issue → - June 10, 1692: The first hanging at Salem
2026-06-10
On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop became the first person executed in the Salem witch trials — hanged on the strength of 'spectral evidence' after a one-day trial, insisting to the end that she was innocent.
Read issue → - In 1912: Eight people murdered in their beds, killer never found
2026-06-09
On the night of June 9, 1912, eight people — the six-member Moore family and two visiting girls — were bludgeoned to death with an axe in their home in Villisca, Iowa; the crime remains officially unsolved more than 110 years later.
Read issue → - June 8, 1968: The morning they caught King's killer
2026-06-08
Two months after assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, James Earl Ray was run to ground on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport — the end of the largest manhunt the FBI had ever mounted.
Read issue → - The 1998 dragging death that changed Texas hate crime law
2026-06-07
Three white supremacists chained James Byrd Jr. to a pickup truck and dragged him for nearly three miles in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998, in one of the most notorious hate crime murders in modern American history.
Read issue → - The Morning They Pronounced RFK Dead
2026-06-06
On June 6, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 8:44 a.m., hours after Sirhan Sirhan shot him in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his California primary victory; Sirhan was convicted in 1969 and sentenced to death, later commuted to life, and has been denied parole fifteen times over 57 years of incarceration.
Read issue → - June 5, 1968: RFK shot in a hotel kitchen after winning California
2026-06-05
On June 6, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 8:44 a.m., hours after Sirhan Sirhan shot him in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his California primary victory; Sirhan was convicted in 1969 and sentenced to death, later commuted to life, and has been denied parole fifteen times over 57 years of incarceration.
Read issue → - 2026-06-04: Terry Nichols sentenced to life in prison — three years after the Oklahoma City bombing
2026-06-04
Terry Nichols was sentenced on June 4, 1998, to life in prison without parole for his role as conspirator in the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — which killed 168 people.
Read issue → - June 3, 1955: The execution of Barbara Graham, third woman executed in California
2026-06-03
Barbara Graham, 31, was executed by gas at San Quentin State Prison on June 3, 1955 — the third woman executed in California. Convicted of first-degree murder and perjury in the beating death of Mabel Monohan during a 1953 robbery, she maintained her innocence and became the subject of the Oscar-nominated 1958 film 'I Want to Live!'
Read issue → - 2026-06-01: Lizzie Borden died June 1, 1927 — nearly 34 years after her acquittal in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother
2026-06-01
Lizzie Borden died of pneumonia at age 66 in Fall River, Massachusetts on June 1, 1927 — nearly 34 years after her acquittal in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother. She died nine days before her older sister Emma.
Read issue → - 2026-05-30: Chicago police killed ten steelworkers at Republic Steel on Memorial Day 1937 — a turning point in American labor history
2026-05-30
Chicago Police shot and killed ten steelworkers on May 30, 1937 during a labor demonstration at Republic Steel in South Chicago — an event that became known as the Memorial Day Massacre.
Read issue → - May 29, 2020: The officer who killed George Floyd was arrested
2026-05-29
Four days after George Floyd was killed during a police arrest, former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter — the first major accountability action in a case that would end in a historic conviction.
Read issue → - 2026-05-28: How a glamorous Cincinnati-area nightclub became a mass fatality fire on Memorial Day weekend — 164 dead, overcapacity Cabaret Room, and a legacy of ignored safety warnings
2026-05-28
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Read issue → - May 27, 1991: Police Returned Konerak Sinthasomphone to Jeffrey Dahmer
2026-05-27
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Read issue → - May 26, 2021: Nine coworkers murdered at the VTA rail yard
2026-05-26
On May 26, 2021, Samuel James Cassidy, a 57-year-old VTA substation maintainer with approximately 20 years at the agency, opened fire at the Guadalupe Division light rail yard in San Jose during a morning shift change. Nine VTA employees were killed before Cassidy died by suicide as law enforcement arrived. It was the deadliest mass shooting in San Jose's history.
Read issue → - May 25, 1979: The execution that reset America's death penalty
2026-05-25
Florida death row prisoner executed in 1979 for the murder of Joseph Szymankiewicz. The execution was the first involuntary execution in the United States after the 1976 reinstatement of capital punishment.
Read issue → - May 24, 1961: When Freedom Rode Into Mississippi
2026-05-24
On May 24, 1961, 27 Freedom Riders were arrested at the Jackson Greyhound bus station for 'disturbing the peace' — testing a federal ruling against segregated interstate bus travel. The mass arrests forced national attention on the gap between federal law and Southern enforcement, and became a turning point in the civil rights movement.
Read issue → - May 23, 1934: The ambush that ended Bonnie and Clyde
2026-05-23
On May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow — the Depression-era outlaws whose crime spree left thirteen people dead — were ambushed and killed by a law enforcement posse in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. The ambush, orchestrated by former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, ended one of the most notorious criminal careers of the 1930s.
Read issue → - May 22, 1962: The flight that changed aviation security forever
2026-05-22
On May 22, 1962, Continental Airlines Flight 11 was destroyed mid-flight by a passenger-detonated bomb — the first confirmed U.S. commercial airliner suicide bombing — an insurance fraud scheme that killed all 45 people on board.
Read issue → - May 21, 1924: The 'perfect crime' that wasn't — Leopold and Loeb
2026-05-21
On May 21, 1924, two wealthy University of Chicago students murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for thrill — a case that became a landmark of American criminal law.
Read issue → - May 20, 2012: The murder that became a 13-year journey to execution
2026-05-20
Matthew Lee Johnson murdered 76-year-old convenience store clerk Nancy Harris by setting her on fire during a robbery in Garland, Texas on May 20, 2012. He was executed for the crime exactly 13 years later, on May 20, 2025.
Read issue → - May 19, 1918: Mary Turner refused to stay silent
2026-05-19
On May 19, 1918, Mary Turner, a 19-year-old Black woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched in Lowndes County, Georgia, after publicly speaking out against the extrajudicial killing of her husband. She and her unborn child were killed at Folsom Bridge, 16 miles north of Valdosta. No one was ever convicted for the murders.
Read issue → - May 18, 1948: The day Caryl Chessman was sentenced to die — and the 12-year fight that followed
2026-05-18
California death row prisoner executed in 1960 whose twelve-year fight against execution made him a national symbol of death penalty controversy.
Read issue → - May 17, 1986: The Colorado Springs five-person spree killing that became a historic mass murder case
2026-05-17
On May 17, 1986, Gilbert Eugenio Archibeque shot and killed five people during robberies at a bar and convenience store in Colorado Springs, Colorado, then set the bar on fire. He committed suicide the following day when police surrounded his apartment.
Read issue → - May 16, 1986: How 154 hostages survived the Cokeville school bombing
2026-05-16
On May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young held 154 hostages at Cokeville Elementary School in Wyoming, detonating a bomb in a classroom. Thanks to the heroic actions of a teacher who evacuated students before the blast, only the perpetrators died. All 152 surviving hostages were rescued.
Read issue → - May 15, 1972: The shooting that ended George Wallace’s campaign ascent
2026-05-15
On May 15, 1972, Alabama governor and Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace was shot during a campaign stop in Laurel, Maryland, by Arthur Bremer. Wallace survived but was permanently paralyzed, and Bremer was convicted and imprisoned.
Read issue → - May 14, 1988: The Carrollton bus crash and a drunk-driving reckoning
2026-05-14
On May 14, 1988, a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, struck a church bus head-on, killing 27 people — 24 of them children — and injuring 34 more. The crash became a turning point in U.S. drunk-driving enforcement and bus safety regulation.
Read issue → - May 13, 2005: Connecticut carries out its first execution in 45 years
2026-05-13
On May 13, 2005, Connecticut executed Michael Bruce Ross by lethal injection after convictions in the murders of four women; contemporaneous reports described it as Connecticut's first execution in 45 years.
Read issue → - May 1, 2002: Jayson Williams is indicted in a fatal shooting case
2026-05-01
On May 1, 2002, former NBA player Jayson Williams was indicted on charges including aggravated manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of limousine driver Costas Christofi at Williams's New Jersey estate; later proceedings ended with cover-up convictions and a guilty plea to aggravated assault.
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