On this day: April 3
- 1936Prison New Jersey State Prison, Trenton · Bruno Richard Hauptmann
After his appeals failed and clemency was denied, Hauptmann was executed in the electric chair here.
- 1967Court / trial Peoria County Courthouse · Richard Speck
The trial was moved to Peoria. On April 15, 1967, the jury convicted Speck of all eight murders after 49 minutes, and on June 5 he was sentenced to death.
- 1996Arrest Cabin near Lincoln, Montana · Ted Kaczynski
Kaczynski lived without electricity or running water in a small cabin near Stemple Pass, about five miles outside Lincoln, from the early 1970s. FBI agents arrested him there on April 3, 1996, and found bomb components and his journals inside.