On this day: July 22

  1. 1936
    Victim Unidentified man (found July 1936) · Cleveland Torso Murders

    Estimated to be about 40. The only victim found on the city's west side.

  2. 1991
    Arrest Arrest at the Oxford Apartments · Jeffrey Dahmer

    Tracy Edwards escaped from Dahmer's apartment and flagged down two Milwaukee police officers at about 11:30 p.m. The officers went to the apartment, found evidence of the killings, and arrested Dahmer.

  3. 1994
    Victim Roger Allen Goodlet · Herb Baumeister
  4. 1995
    Court / trial Union County courthouse, Union · Susan Smith

    The trial ran from July 18 to 28, 1995. A jury of Union County residents convicted Smith of two counts of murder and then chose life in prison over the death penalty.