SinisterCrimes

On this day

6 June

  1. 1881

    Virgil Earp is appointed Tombstone's town marshal.

    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Acquitted

    About thirty shots in thirty seconds on Fremont Street, Tombstone, in 1881: three Cowboys dead, the Earps charged with murder, and a month-long hearing.

  2. 1939

    Crater is declared legally dead.

    Judge Crater Unsolved

    On 6 August 1930 a New York judge left a Midtown chophouse and was never seen again. The 'missingest man in America' and the Tammany scandal around him.