The body of George Burrington, former Governor of North Carolina, was retrieved from the canal in St. It inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. Known as the Appin Murder, the murder of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure took place at Appin, in the west of Scotland, in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Both killer(s) and motive(s) are unknown. Godfrey was strangled, and then posthumously impaled on his own sword. He was murdered under unclear circumstances, and there are several theories attempting to explain his killing. Īn Elizabethan English playwright, poet, and translator whose works influenced the life of William Shakespeare. This was considered the first instance of murder committed using a handgun in London.
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