Month: December 2024

• The Murder of Elfrieda Knaak

  

  Image: Police Officer Eugene Spaid examines shoes and a purse belonging to Elfrieda Knaak in the furnace room of the Lake Bluff police station, where she was found naked and burned on October 30, 1928. There were also signs of electrocution and head trauma.

  December 16, 2024

  1920s, American History, Charles Hitchcock, Chicago Tribune, Chris Louis, crime & punishment, Death, Elfrieda Knakk, event & history, History Daily, Inquest, Knakk Brothers, Lake Bluff, Illinois, Love Triangle, Marie Mueller, murder, Murder & Mayhem, Murder in a frurnace, people, photographs, Police Chief Barney Rosenhagen, Private Investigator, Sgt. Eugene Spaid, The Chicago Herald & Examiner, Unknown Assailants, Unsolved Murder, Village Hall

  1920s, American History, Charles Hitchcock, Chicago Tribune, Chief of Police Barney Rosenhagen, Chris Louis, crime & punishment, Death, Deerfield, Elfrieda Knakk, event & history, History Daily, Illinois, Inquest, Knakk Brothers, Lake Bluff, Love Triangle, Marie Mueller, murder, Murder & Mayhem, Murder in a furnace, people, Private Investigator, Sgt. Eugene Spaid, Spiritualism, The Chicago Herald & Examiner, Unknown Assailants, Unsolved Murder, Village Hall

• “The Forgotten Holocaust”: Horrific Photos From The Rape Of Nanking, 1937-1938.

  

  Left: A Chinese woman is tied to a pole and forcibly kissed by a Japanese soldier. Right: Elsewhere, a man is left blindfolded and tied up. Both images were taken during the Rape of Nanking. “The Forgotten Holocaust”: Horrific Photos From The Rape Of Nanking, 1937-1938. These tragic photos and stories capture the horrors of…

  December 14, 2024

  1930s, Atrocities, Children & Youth, Death, event and History, Genocide, History Daily, Japanese Army, Japanese Soldiers, murder, Rape & Murder, The Rape of Nanking

  1930s, Atrocities, Children & Youth, Death, event & history, Genocide, History Daily, Japanese Army, Japanese Soldiers, murder, Rape & Murder, The Rape of Nanking

• On December 5, 1717, Notorious Pirate Blackbeard Ransacks the “Margaret.”

  Image: Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, originally from an engraving by Benjamin Cole in A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (1724). On December 5, 1717, Notorious Pirate Blackbeard Ransacks the “Margaret.”

  December 5, 2024

  1700s, Blackbeard, Captain Charles Johnson, Captain Henry Bostock, Caribbean Sea, Daniel Defoe, Edward Teach, event & history, Golden Age of Piracy, History Daily, Pirates, The “Margaret”

  1700s, Blackbeard, Captain Charles Johnson, Captain Henry Bostock, Caribbean Sea, Daniel Defoe, Edward Teach, event & history, Golden Age of Piracy, History Daily, Pirates, The “Margaret”