Sign up to the MEN email newsletters to get the latest on sport, news, what's on and more by following this link. J- The Massachusetts man wanted for the murders of his two young children, wife and mother-in-law was captured today after a brief manhunt. Once he got out, he became a drifter in the southern states of the U.S., making friends with Ottis Toole, a man who would become his accomplice in over 108. After murdering his own mother, Lucas spent 10 years in jail but was eventually released due to overcrowding. Just three years later, further along Back Piccadilly, a devastating fire would take hold of the former Woolworths building claiming the lives of 10 people on May 10th, 1979 in one of Britain's worst ever fires. Lucas was the inspiration for the movie Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer. Sadly the events of 1976 would not be the last fire tragedy to befall this part of Manchester. Hours later fire crews would be called to a blazing inferno at the pub - and breaking in to the locked building would discover on the first floor the macabre horror of five bodies bound, gagged and strangled by Bradbury, piled high in a bedroom on the first floor.ĭetectives would later find a suitcase in the basement suggesting that Bradbury had perhaps intended to flee the scene.īut instead he was the last to die in the carnage, as the flames engulfed the pub, his body was found with the horrifying funeral pyre inside. Minutes after Mrs Hennegan was last seen alive, a brewery drayman had called at the pub with no response. She was last seen alive at around 9am sweeping the street outside Mother Mac’s, but perhaps having seen something she shouldn’t inside, she was to become Bradbury’s final victim. By the time Whitman was finished, according to the Texas State Historical Association, hed killed 17 people and wounded 31 others. The murder of 52-year-old Ann Hennegan was to be a further tragedy, when she had turned up to help out with cleaning at the pub as a favour on the morning of June 18. The mass murderers first shot was through the belly of a pregnant student.

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