On This Day in Weird, January 28...
1754: Horace Walpole coins the word "serendipity"
in a letter to Horace Mann.
1829: William Burke, serial murderer and body snatcher,
hangs in Edinburgh.
1978: Rocker and future Tea Party lunatic Ted Nugent
autographs a fan's arm with his knife.
2011: Twin sisters Alessia and Livia Schepp leave their
mother's home in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a scheduled weekend visit with
their father. Police find Mathias Kaspar Schepp dead, apparently from suicide,
on January 30. The girls remain missing, their fate unknown.
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