What age was the American social entrepeneur who was one of eight who got killed in 2015 when an Amtrak train travelling from Washington, D.C. to New York City derailed?
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Rachel Jacobs Rachel Jacobs (October 3, 1975 – May 12, 2015) was an American social entrepreneur and CEO of a tech company. She was killed at age 39 in the 2015 Philadelphia train derailment while commuting between her home in New York and the Philadelphia offices of ApprenNet, the educational technology company she had recently joined as CEO.
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2015 Philadelphia train derailment On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak "Northeast Regional" train from Washington, D.C. bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of 238 passengers and 5 crew on board, 8 were killed and over 200 injured, 11 critically. The train was traveling at 102 mph in a 50 mph zone of curved tracks when it derailed.
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Shannon Richardson Shannon Guess Richardson (née Rogers; born August 31, 1977) is a former American actress and convicted felon. She worked in television and film roles, most notably "The Walking Dead", but is best known for sending ricin-laced letters to U.S. President Barack Obama and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, for which she was convicted and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in July 2014.
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Murder of Shanda Sharer Shanda Renee Sharer (June 6, 1979 – January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana, by four teenage girls. She was 12 years old at the time of her death. The incident attracted international attention due to both the brutality of the murder and the young age of the perpetrators, who were aged between 15 and 17 years old. The case was covered on national programs such as "Dr. Phil" and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows.
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2013 Mexico train accident The 2013 Mexico train accident occurred on August 25, 2013 after the freight train "La Bestia", with 300 passengers on board, most of them illegal immigrants, was derailed in Huimanguillo, Tabasco. The accident killed 6 people and another 22 were injured, 16 of them were in grave condition.
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Caroline Berryman Spencer Caroline Suydam Berryman Spencer (December 28, 1861 – April 6, 1948) was a New York City and Newport, Rhode Island socialite and the editor of "Illustrated American".
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Andrea James Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967) is an American transgender rights activist, film producer, director, and blogger.
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Death of Samantha Reid Samantha Reid (January 4, 1984 – January 17, 1999) was an American manslaughter victim. She grew up in the Detroit, Michigan Metropolitan Area and came to national attention due to her death, at the age of 15, after being drugged.
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Valentina Maureira Valentina Maureira Riquelme (2000/01 – May 14, 2015) was a Chilean teenager who gained international attention after using social media to ask Chilean President Michele Bachelet to allow her to die by euthanasia. Bachelet denied her request.
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Thomas J. Stanley Thomas J. Stanley (1943/1944 – February 28, 2015) was an American writer and business theorist. He was the author and co-author of several award-winning books on America's wealthy, including the "New York Times"’ best sellers "The Millionaire Next Door" and "The Millionaire Mind". He served as chief advisor to Data Points, a company founded based on his research and data. He received a doctorate in business administration from the University of Georgia. He was on the faculty of the University at Albany, State University of New York. He taught marketing at the University of Tennessee, University of Georgia and Georgia State University (where he was named Omicron Delta Kappa's Outstanding Professor). He was killed by a drunk driver in 2015 at the age of 71.
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Death of Brandon McClelland Brandon "Big Boy" McClelland (ca. 1984/1985 – September 16, 2008) was a black man whose death sparked racial controversy in the city of Paris, Texas. On September 16, 2008, McClelland was killed when he was first hit and run over by a vehicle, then dragged beneath it. At first, police assumed he was the victim of an anonymous hit-and-run accident in which his large frame was dragged under the vehicle, perhaps as far as 70 feet.
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Death of Melinda Duckett Melinda Duckett (née Eubank; August 14, 1985 – September 8, 2006) was the mother of Trenton John Duckett, a 2-year-old boy who disappeared from his Leesburg, Florida home on August 27, 2006. She attracted media attention when she committed suicide following an appearance on "Nancy Grace". Duckett's family filed a wrongful death claim against Nancy Grace and CNN, alleging that the aggressive questioning traumatized Duckett and led to her suicide.
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Sandy Hill (mountaineer) Sandra Hill (born April 12, 1955, formerly Sandra Hill Pittman) is a socialite, mountaineer, author, and former fashion editor. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shortly after becoming the 34th woman to reach the Mt. Everest summit and the second American woman to ascend all of the Seven Summits.
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1939 City of San Francisco derailment On August 12, 1939, the "City of San Francisco" train derailed outside of Harney, Nevada, killing 24 and injuring 121 passengers and crew. The derailment was caused by sabotage of the tracks. Despite a manhunt, reward offers, and years of investigation by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP), the case remains unsolved.
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Terry Robbins Terry Robbins (October 4, 1947 – March 6, 1970) was an American far left activist, a key member of the Ohio Students for a Democratic Society (The S.D.S.), and one of the three Weathermen who died in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion.
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Nery Soto Nery Francisco Soto Torres was a Honduran journalist who was murdered on August 14, 2014, at the age of 32. He was the seventh Honduran journalist to die violently in 2014.
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Garrison train crash The Garrison train crash occurred on October 24, 1897, in Garrison, New York, on a Sunday morning, at approximately 5:47 am, when train No. 46 of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad derailed near King's Dock of the Hudson River division, about one and three-quarters miles south of Garrison. 19 people were killed, all but one of whom drowned when the embankment gave way plunging the train into the Hudson River. Witnesses described feeling between one and three "thuds" before three of the five sleeper cars fell into the river. Several witnesses described seeing a "hole" in the trackbed after the accident, however, the cause of this was not determined. Early speculation blamed a large explosion of dynamite as the cause of the train's derailment. Two weeks previously, the same train had almost derailed near the same spot when a two-ton boulder was found on the tracks, with some believing it had been deliberately placed.
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Tom Rogan Tom Rogan (born 8 February 1986) is a political journalist based in Washington, D.C.
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Justin Rockefeller Justin Aldrich Rockefeller (born July 12, 1979) is an American venture capitalist and political activist and a sixth-generation member of the prominent Rockefeller family.
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Eric Lipton Eric S. Lipton (born August 13, 1965) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at "The New York Times" based in the Washington Bureau, where he writes about the Trump administration, focusing on issues related to ethics, lobbying, and the Trump family business operations. He has been a working journalist for three decades, with stints at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant, and he is also the co-author of a history of the World Trade Center.
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Marianne Dickerson Marianne Dickerson (November 14, 1960 – October 14, 2015) was a female long-distance runner from the United States.
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Leonard Roy Frank Leonard Roy Frank (July 15, 1932 – January 15, 2015,) was an American human rights activist, psychiatric survivor, editor, writer, aphorist, and lecturer.