April 26, 2022 - John Wilkes Booth This Day in Crime

A killer on the loose in Wisconsin, a kidnapping in broad daylight, a retired cop pleads guilty, an unexpected murder confession, and an actor who killed a president…all coming up on This Day in Crime.

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Sources:
Evening Star – April 15, 1865
Assassination of the president

The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer – April 18, 1865
The last moments of our murdered president, April 16, 1865
Sketch of John Wilkes Booth, the murder of our president, April 16, 1865

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle – April 27, 1865
John Wilkes Booth shot
Booth shot in the head and survives three hours

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d – By Walt Whitman, 1865
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45480/when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloomd

The Guardian – April 6, 2015
Our American Cousin: Lincoln’s fateful night at the theatre
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/apr/06/our-american-cousin-lincoln-theatre-john-wilkes-booth

Ford’s Theatre
https://www.fords.org

History
John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-wilkes-booth-shoots-abraham-lincoln

ABC News
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/hunt-for-killer-underway-after-10-year-old-girl-found-dead-near-walking-trail/ar-AAWA2Q2?ocid=EMMX&cvid=189da67bd09c4f28a9095e2d9be61ee1

CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-kidnapping-from-apartmrent-grandmother-groceries-car-outside/

CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/janet-luxford-2001-cold-case-brian-jones-confesses-murder-leads-police-to-body/

AP News
https://apnews.com/article/crime-police-boston-child-abuse-sexual-ae0fc330234083e412aa93608fd0c69c