Today in True Crime History: July 2

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1778 — Bathsheba Spooner is executed. She is the first woman executed in the United States after the Declaration of Independence is signed.

1964 — Byron De La Beckwith is indicted by a grand jury for the murder of Medger Evers, a civil rights leader. During trial, he faced hung juries twice. In 1994, he was tried with new evidence and was sentenced to life in prison.

1973 — Angela Thomas, 16, is found dead at Benjamin Franklin Junior High School in Daly City, California.

2001 — Barry George is sentence to life in prison for the murder of Jill Dando. Dando was a British journalist killed in April of 1999. George was acquitted after appealing his sentence, so Dando’s murder is officially unsolved.