How the 1978 Lufthansa Heist Led to a Trail of Dead Bodies
A crew of mafia-affiliated hijackers, killers, loan sharks and thieves made off with $5.8 million in cash and jewels. Most involved got 'whacked.'
On December 11, 1978, six masked, armed men burst into the Lufthansa Airlines cargo terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport during a graveyard...
1951, The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed.
The Lonely Hearts Killers, aka Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers. Beck and Fernandez boasted to killing as many as 17 women in this manner, but evidence suggests...