On this date in 1976, American killer Michiah Shobek was hanged in the Bahamas.
Born James Michael Shoffner, Shobek was a Milwaukee handyman who murdered* three other Americans abroad in Nassau during a two-month period — people Shobek called “angels of Lucifer.”
* Two by stabbing, one by strangulation.
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