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The data is updated daily. Metadata is included in the ZIP file. As fate would have it, Ira Einhorn killed his longtime girlfriend and stored her body in a trunk. Helen "Holly" Maddux, a Bryn Mawr College graduate, was found dead in Einhorn's apartment 18 months after disappearing in , and several years after Einhorn hosted the first Earth Day rally in Fairmount Park.
He was finally extradited to the United States from France in and was found guilty of Maddux's killing. He is serving a life sentence. Einhorn found his way into the media limelight again last year when he was transferred to a minimum-security prison in Somerset County. At the time, state officials declined to say why they transferred Einhorn.
Although officials told Philly. There have been a number of tags associated with Gary Heidnik, an Ohio transplant who ran a church out of his North Philly home that mostly drew the mentally disabled. Army veteran with a ridiculously high IQ who struck gold in the stock market and reportedly created the "United Church of the Ministers of God" to dodge taxes. Neighbors on his Marshall Street block in Tioga told reporters at the time that Heidnik was a bit eccentric.
After all, he was a self-ordained bishop who regularly blasted heavy metal music and made loud banging noises at odd hours inside his home. Neighbors also complained of a strong odor coming from his house.
But what Philadelphia police found in Gary Heidnik's home in — body parts in the kitchen and a basement-turned-torture chamber where three half-naked women were found imprisoned — shocked the city.
Heidnik had abducted six women beginning in November and held them in his basement. Two died. Survivors said they were kept half-naked in Heidnik's basement and fed dog food mixed with human remains. One of the captives, Josefina Rivera , would ultimately escape and alert police. She later wrote a book based on the experience, "Cellar Girl. Heidnik was found guilty and convicted of murder in He was executed by lethal injection on July 6, , and is still the last inmate to be legally executed in Pennsylvania.
Gary Heidnik was still awaiting trial on murder, kidnapping and torture charges when city police officers made another grisly discovery in the summer of He strangled the women after luring them to his apartment on North 19th Street, near Temple University, with drugs.
Graham initially fled once authorities began to close in, but he turned himself in a week later. He was found guilty and sent to death row in on seven counts of first-degree murder and a host of manslaughter and abuse of corpse charges. Supreme Court forbade executing the mentally disabled in His death sentence was thrown out in Pennsylvania court in , and he continues to serve a life sentence at SCI Coal Township in Northeast Pennsylvania.
From to , the killer is suspected of brutally cutting down as many as nine women who frequented bars along Frankford Avenue. In each case, authorities found a woman who had died from numerous stab and slash wounds, along with evidence of sexual assault.
But the final victim believed to be linked to the killings was murdered while Christopher was awaiting trial behind bars. Christopher, who is African-American, also did not match witness descriptions of a white man seen with a few "Frankford Slasher" victims shortly before their deaths, according to reports.
It's been 17 years since four gunmen rushed a known crack house on the block of Lex Street in Philadelphia and sprayed 10 people with bullets, killing seven. A new public housing development now stands on the once-dilapidated and drug-ridden block, but it remains notorious for the "Lex Street massacre," which remains the city's worst mass shooting on record.
Three people, including brothers Khalid and Dawud Fariqui , pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received seven consecutive life terms without parole in One other man pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and received 15 to 30 years behind bars. Authorities initially believed the killings were meant to wipe out rival drug dealers, but it was later determined that they actually stemmed from a car deal gone bad.
Four other men were initially charged in the slayings, but the case fell apart and they were let go after being jailed for 18 months. Two men, one age 35 and the other about 28, were shot multiple times in the block of Jackson Street in South Philadelphia about p.
Both were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where the younger man died of his wounds and the older man is in critical condition, police said. At p. Police have not yet issued a report. If both fatal and nonfatal shootings are included, 1, people had been shot through Wednesday, according to police statistics.
Experts and officials point to many reasons for the surge in violence , which has been concentrated in neighborhoods with intractable disadvantages, including higher poverty levels, higher blight levels, and lower life expectancies.
The reasons include stressors made worse by the pandemic; closures of schools, workplaces, courts, and other institutions that kept people away from feuds; increasing gun sales; and impaired trust in law enforcement after the George Floyd killing and protests.
Krasner also said the criminal justice system must change. It must take advantage of forensic technologies to solve shootings that are not captured on camera or witnessed by bystanders; and shore up training and staffing for homicide and shooting investigations to increase arrests.
That suffering continued unabated into the early hours of Sunday morning.
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