Over 20 Years on IMDB, Gavin6942 is now on Letterboxd I’ve been using IMDB since June 2001, and have rated 8,565 films with 6,335 of those ratings including written reviews. That’s a lot of ratings, and even though many of my movie nerd friends were moving over to Letterboxd, I chose not to as I […]
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Martin Jansen Martin Jansen was born March 19, 1933 in Kimberly, Wisconsin. He was a veteran of the Air Force, having served in Korea. After the war, he went to work for Kimberly-Clark as an apprentice. Jansen was shot in the back of the head with a shotgun on January 20, 1968, when he interrupted
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Archibald Caldwell As the tribesmen were gathered about the mission in 1835 an epidemic of smallpox broke out among them which swept over about one-third of the tribe. Col. George Boyd, then Indian agent at Green Bay, sent to their relief a surgeon of the regular army, stationed at Fort Howard, to give them the
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Gavin & Eric were Interviewed by Andy McNamara WCZR, Code Zero Radio Interviews 1/15/2022: Gavin and Eric were interviewed by Andy McNamara on the show Fox Cities Core about their podcasts, Fox Cities Murder & Mayhem and Milwaukee Mafia. Check out the interview below. Fox Cities Core Interview: Gavin and Eric
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Frank Frye Frank Jerald Frye was born February 8, 1906 in Pembine, Wisconsin (near Marinette), the son of Jerome Frye (1868-1948) and Emma Alice “Otie” Kuykendal (1876-1948). From 1912-1920 the family lived in Flint Rock, South Dakota and by 1922 they resided at 527 South Douglas Street in Appleton. In 1928, Frank worked as a
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Top Movies: Rated 10/10 by Gavin As of this post, I have rated well over 7,000 movies. Out of those ratings, 37 have been given a perfect score: Movie(link to Letterboxd) Year Genre(s) Director 1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Crime, Sci-Fi Stanley Kubrick 2 Adaptation. 2002 Comedy, Drama Spike Jonze 3 Amélie 2001 Comedy, Romance
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John and Hilda Lingle The story of John and Hilda Lingle is not all that different from thousands, perhaps millions, of small town crimes. A few salacious details and unexpected twists allow it to stand out, however, and the story is presented here for those with prurient and morbid fascinations. Hilda Lingle, 27, was shot
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Charlotte Blob Charlotte E Blob (1936-2009), nee Modersohn, sometimes written Blobe (the way it is pronounced), was born February 16, 1936. She became interested in UFOs when allegedly employed as a ground observer for the U.S. Air Force in 1952, during which time she claimed she observed UFOs several times. As near as I can
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Charles McCarty Murder Overview On the morning of January 30, 1907, William Charles Rawlinson fired at Attorney Charles McCarty from 5 feet away. The first bullet struck the victim’s back, knocking him to the ground. The metal lodged in flesh under his right shoulder blade. McCarty took a second bullet in the back of the
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Michael McCarty Murder Overview On the early evening of September 13, 1905, Michael McCarty, 41, told teenage farmhand Julius Heimke, that he was going to Wrightstown, and he may not return the next day. Heimke arrived at the farm the next morning, and only Wenzel Kabat was there. Kabat allegedly said that he (Kabat) was
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