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Bessie Heckman 1888 - 1978

Bessie Heckman of Fayetteville, Franklin County, PA was born on May 9, 1888, and died at age 89 years old in March 1978.
Bessie Heckman
Fayetteville, Franklin County, PA 17222
May 9, 1888
March 1978
Female
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    1888

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    May 9, 1888
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    1978

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    March 1978
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    Bessie Heckman lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1888, in the year that Bessie Heckman was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.
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In 1895, at the age of only 7 years old, Bessie was alive when on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.
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