Tag: Russian Roulette

• On This Day in 1893 – Morphine murderer Carlyle Harris, his last mile and his last laugh.

  

  When Buchanan entered the condemned cells at Sing Sing he was probably a little embarrassed to finally meet the ‘stupid amateur’ and ‘bungling fool’ he’d so disastrously mocked. Buchanan had had the first laugh. Harris laughed last and longest, but had little time left to do it.

  CrimeScribe

  May 8, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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