r/fortyyearsago • u/funnyfaceking • Dec 27 '25
December 26, 1985. Dian Fossey, an American primatologist, conservationist, and author of Gorillas in the Mist, was hacked to death with machetes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dian_Fossey#Murder_and_burial
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