• eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?

Facts on topics related to Daniel Conahan

North Carolina

• "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
• North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color?
• North Carolina-based author Perry Deane Young's first Vietnam War article for UPI was about the Tet Offensive, which began the night he arrived in Saigon?
• Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina?
• Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
• Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
• Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina?
• James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?

Illinois

• bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
• Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park (pictured), which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
• Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Augustus Louis Chetlain was said to have been the first man in Illinois to volunteer for the American Civil War?
• Benjamin Ferguson bequeathed a fund to Chicago, Illinois that provided for seventeen of the city's most prominent sculptures?
• David Moosman led his high school to the Illinois state championship in football and qualified for the state championships three times in wrestling?
• Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
• Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?

Ohio

• actor and broadcaster Dean Miller, who played the son-in-law on CBS's December Bride, later bought what became WMVR-FM radio in his native Ohio?
• Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad?
• Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
• microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?
• Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
• Ohio's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University?
• Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County, Ohio, to have ever received the Medal of Honor?
• Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio, USA, is home to both Little Beaver Creek, a National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill?
• Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie?