Tag: March 1954
Midair Inferno: 18 Servicemen Die in Fiery Crash Near Shadyside
Washington D.C. – In a terrifying display of aerial chaos, a U.S. Air Force cargo plane, a C119 Flying Boxcar, plummeted to earth in a blaze of flames, killing 18 servicemen near Shadyside, Maryland, just 10 miles south of Annapolis on Friday night, March 19, 1954. The eyewitness accounts were as harrowing as the scene…
Columbus Street Creeper Caged for 52 Years
On a chilly March morning in 1954, justice was served in Alexandria, Virginia, as Norman Edward Turner, a 23-year-old man with a penchant for preying on vulnerable women, was handed a 52-year prison sentence. Turner, a resident of the 500 block of South Columbus Street, had been terrorizing the city’s apartment dwellers, targeting women who…
