Today’s Not Right Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
For a long period of time, something had been troubling William Beadle of Weathersfield, Connecticut. He seldom spoke to his wife Lydia or his four children in the last year of his life, and developed the habit of taking an axe and a carving knife to bed with him each night. (Ominous as this sign might be, Mrs. Beadle failed to realize that all was not right with Mr. Beadle.) On the morning of December 11, 1783, Beadle slaughtered his entire family and then slit his own throat.
Culled from: Bloodletters and Badmen
First of all, I’m pretty sure there’s a Nick Cave song based on this story and secondly, I’m pretty sure there’s a British Invasion rock band named after this guy. Am I right?