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Today in True Crime History: June 17
1939 — The last person is publicly guillotined in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murder, is the prisoner guillotined.
1970 — David Harvey Crewe and Jeannette Lenore Crewe are shot and killed in their New Zealand home. This case involved a wrongful conviction of a nearby farmer. In fact, a detective had fabricated evidence in the case. The murder is still unsolved today.
1988 —Stella Nickell is sentenced to 90 years in prison for product tampering. She had posioned capsules of Excedrin with cyanide, resulting in two deaths. One of the deaths was Stella’s own husband, Bruce. This was the first product tampering murder case in America.
1994 — Instead of turning himself in on murder charges, O.J. Simpson begins a slow-speed car chase with LAPD.
