Tag: October 1953
Carl Austin Hall, Inheritance Embezzlement, Kansas 1950
In a shocking tale of greed and desperation, Carl Austin Hall, the son of a prosperous Kansas attorney, squandered a $200,000 inheritance within just four years. John Hall, the patriarch, had made his fortune in Pleasanton, Kansas, and passed away in 1946. But his son’s lavish spending spree would ultimately lead him down a dark…
Dorothy McMilland, Hit-and-Run, Lillington NC, 1953
A horrific hit-and-run accident shook the small town of Lillington, North Carolina, leaving a 19-year-old girl in critical condition. On the night of Friday, September 30, 1953, Dorothy McMilland, a young Negro woman, was struck by a speeding 1953 Chevrolet let driven by Mary Lee Taylor of 1080 Nichols Drive in Raleigh. McMilland was walking…
D.C. Courts Gear Up for a Bloody Fall: 6,016 Cases Loom Large
The streets of Washington D.C. may have been quiet during the sweltering summer months, but the scales of justice are about to tip into high gear as the United States Court for the District of Columbia prepares to kick off its fall term on Tuesday. With a staggering 5,506 civil and 510 criminal cases awaiting…
Herbert Smallwood, Tavern Keeper Murder, Maryland 2023
In a gruesome crime that shocked the rural community of Rison, Maryland, a 23-year-old timber worker was sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of a local tavern keeper. Herbert Smallwood, a 23-year-old black man, was convicted in July of first-degree murder for beating Clarence Wheeler, 64, to death as he lay sleeping in…
