On this day in 1969, George Fitzsimmons (31) killed his parents when they tried to make him go to church against his will. After beating his parents to death, Fitzsimmons drove from his home in Amherst, NY, to Rhode Island, but Fitzsimmon was captured soon after the killings. He was dubbed the "Karate Chop Killer" because he told the police that he murdered his parents using his martial arts skills.
George Fitzsimmons was eventually acquitted of the killings and sent to a psychiatric facility. He was released from the Buffalo State Hospital in 1973 after less than three years there. Amazingly, Fitzsimmons was allowed to inherit more than $100,000 from his dead parents' estate, and he used the money to move to Pennsylvania with his new wife, someone he met while in the mental hospital.
However, soon after, Fitzsimmons stabbed his aunt and uncle to death on November 13, 1973, causing the press to call him the "Buffalo Ripper." While he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murders, Fitzsimmons was convicted of the killings and given two concurrent life sentences.
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