Page 12 - Parallel Death Investigations - AFI-LLC Newsletter November 2021

Parallel Death Investigations - AFI-LLC Newsletter November 2021

Thurgood Marshall Sworn in as first Black Supreme Court Justice (10/02/1967)
Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel
for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the
architect and executor of the legal strategy that ended the era of official racial segregation.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thurgood-marshall-sworn-in

10/03 – OJ Simpson acquitted; and Amanda Knox conviction overturned

Man Who Served 25 Years For Murder Exonerated By DNA (10/04/2011)
Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison for his wife’s murder, is released after DNA evidence implicates another
man in the crime. The prosecutor in the case later was accused of withholding evidence indicating that Morton was
innocent.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/man-who-served-25-years-for-murder-exonerated-by-dna

Grand jury Dismissed in JonBenét Ramsey Murder Case (10/13/1999)
The Colorado grand jury investigating the case of child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in December
1996 is dismissed and the Boulder County district attorney announces no indictments will be made due to insufficient
evidence. On the morning of December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey discovered her 6-year-old daughter was missing after
finding a ransom note in the family’s Boulder home. To date, the murder of JonBenét Ramsey remains unsolved.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/grand-jury-dismissed-in-jonbenet-ramsey-murder-case

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" published (10/14/1892)
On October 14, 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is published. The book was the first
collection of Holmes stories, which Conan Doyle had been publishing in magazines since 1887.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-published

A Murderous Husband is Executed (10/15/1948)
Arthur Eggers, who was convicted of killing his wife, Dorothy, because of her alleged promiscuity, is executed at San
Quentin Prison. He probably would have gotten away with the crime had the investigators not received a few lucky
breaks… (see the article).
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-murderous-husband-is-executed

Clarence Thomas Confirmed to the Supreme Court (10/15/1991)
In July 1991, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court, announced his retirement after
34 years. President George Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, a 43-year-old African American judge known for his
conservative beliefs, to fill the seat. Thomas had been chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) during the Reagan administration, and in 1990 Bush had appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals. As the
confirmation hearings for Thomas’ Supreme Court nomination got underway, he evaded controversy over his
conservative views on issues such as abortion by refusing to state a clear political position. He seemed headed for an
easy confirmation until Anita Hill, a former aide, stepped forward and accused him of sexual harassment.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-confirmed-to-the-supreme-court

Susan Smith Reports False Carjacking to Cover Murders (10/25/1994)
Susan Smith reports that she was carjacked in South Carolina by a man who took her two small children in the backseat
of her car. Although authorities immediately began searching for three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alex, they
could find no trace of them or of Smith’s car. After nine days of intense national media attention, Smith finally confessed
that the carjacking tale was false and that she had driven her Mazda into the John D. Long Lake in order to drown her
children.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/susan-smith-reports-a-false-carjacking-to-cover-her-murder

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