Infamous Murders: Murder for Hire
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On 18th November 1958, Olga Duncan didn't make it to work at St Francis Hospital, California, where she worked as a nurse. When Frank Duncan heard about his wife's disappearance he immediately called the police.
Olga's doctor reported that she had been depressed; the cause of the tension was Olga's mother in law, Elizabeth Duncan (pictured). Elizabeth was a strange character and had an unusually close relationship with her son.
She was insanely jealous of any other woman in Frank's life. It was soon discovered that a few months earlier she had arranged an annulment of her son's marriage to Olga, without either of them being present. Investigations revealed that 'Mother Duncan' had paid two young Mexican men to kill Olga. She was hit on the head with a pistol and taken to the nearby Ojai Mountains to be buried. On 18th August 1962, Elizabeth Duncan and bungling contact killers Luis Moya and Gus Baldonado went to the gas chamber.
On 14th June 1955 Judge Eugene Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie left town for their beach cottage on the Florida coastline. They had arranged for two carpenters to replace a broken window frame early the next morning. When the carpenters arrived they found the house empty and what appeared to be blood on the back steps to the beach. There was no trace of the Chillingworths.
Judge Chillingworth was a man of honour and integrity but one of his colleagues was not. Judge Peel knew that Chillingworth was about to have him disbarred from the law for his dubious business practices, so he hired two men to kill Chillingworth. In a trial that began on 7th March 1961 at the Saint Lucie County Courthouse, Florida, Judge Peel was sentenced to life imprisonment and his hired assassin, Holzapfel, was sentenced to death. The Chillingworths' bodies were never recovered from the sea.
On 23rd December 1997, Carlos the Jackal was sentenced to life imprisonment. A warrant had been served for his arrest in France for the murder of two policemen at Rue Toullier, almost twenty years earlier.
After early training with the Palestine Liberation Front camp his reputation as a ruthless assassin quickly grew and he found work unofficially representing a number of unscrupulous governments. Soon Carlos' motivation seemed to come more from money than revolutionary zeal. When he went against orders to kill two delegates at an OPEC conference, in exchange for millions of dollars, Carlos was dismissed from the PLO.
His appeal was running out and with the end of the Cold War his services were no longer in high demand, he struggled to find a country to harbour him. He settled in Sudan but his appetite for drinking upset the austere Muslim government and gave them a reason to deport him back to France, to face justice for his past crimes.
Olga's doctor reported that she had been depressed; the cause of the tension was Olga's mother in law, Elizabeth Duncan (pictured). Elizabeth was a strange character and had an unusually close relationship with her son.
She was insanely jealous of any other woman in Frank's life. It was soon discovered that a few months earlier she had arranged an annulment of her son's marriage to Olga, without either of them being present. Investigations revealed that 'Mother Duncan' had paid two young Mexican men to kill Olga. She was hit on the head with a pistol and taken to the nearby Ojai Mountains to be buried. On 18th August 1962, Elizabeth Duncan and bungling contact killers Luis Moya and Gus Baldonado went to the gas chamber.
On 14th June 1955 Judge Eugene Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie left town for their beach cottage on the Florida coastline. They had arranged for two carpenters to replace a broken window frame early the next morning. When the carpenters arrived they found the house empty and what appeared to be blood on the back steps to the beach. There was no trace of the Chillingworths.
Judge Chillingworth was a man of honour and integrity but one of his colleagues was not. Judge Peel knew that Chillingworth was about to have him disbarred from the law for his dubious business practices, so he hired two men to kill Chillingworth. In a trial that began on 7th March 1961 at the Saint Lucie County Courthouse, Florida, Judge Peel was sentenced to life imprisonment and his hired assassin, Holzapfel, was sentenced to death. The Chillingworths' bodies were never recovered from the sea.
On 23rd December 1997, Carlos the Jackal was sentenced to life imprisonment. A warrant had been served for his arrest in France for the murder of two policemen at Rue Toullier, almost twenty years earlier.
After early training with the Palestine Liberation Front camp his reputation as a ruthless assassin quickly grew and he found work unofficially representing a number of unscrupulous governments. Soon Carlos' motivation seemed to come more from money than revolutionary zeal. When he went against orders to kill two delegates at an OPEC conference, in exchange for millions of dollars, Carlos was dismissed from the PLO.
His appeal was running out and with the end of the Cold War his services were no longer in high demand, he struggled to find a country to harbour him. He settled in Sudan but his appetite for drinking upset the austere Muslim government and gave them a reason to deport him back to France, to face justice for his past crimes.
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