On this day: November 16

  1. 1957
    Victim Bernice Worden · Ed Gein

    She owned the hardware store in Plainfield; her son was a sheriff's deputy.

  2. 1957
    Arrest West Plainfield · Ed Gein

    Gein was arrested on November 16, 1957, in West Plainfield, a since-vanished crossroads about three miles west of Plainfield.

  3. 1984
    Arrest Arrest outside a movie theater, Tampa · Bobby Joe Long

    Long was arrested outside a movie theater on November 16, 1984, for the kidnapping and sexual battery of the 17-year-old, and then confessed to the murders.