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Today in True Crime History: March 22
1956 — Martin Luther King Jr. is convicted for violating anti-boycott laws in Alabama. He had organized a boycott of Montgomery city buses.
1991 — Pamela Smart is convicted in the murder of her husband, Gregory Smart. She conspired with her 16-year-old student William Flynn and his three friends. She is serving a life sentence.
1995 — Colin Ferguson is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of six people and for injuring 19 people on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993.
2017 — A series of shootings known as the Schofield/Rothschild shootings take place in Marathon County, Wisconsin. The man who committed the shootings, Nengmy Vang, had been in a dispute with his wife before shooting two of her co-workers, her lawyer, and a police officer. He died after he was shot in a police standoff. Sara’s Law in Wisonsin was passed as a result of this crime.
