This Day In Fractured Fairfax:August 27
- August 27, 1961 – After borrowing a 20-gauge double-barreled shotgun from a relative, 42-year-old Edward L. Skinner shoots his 31-year-old wife Shirley to death, then commits suicide in the couple's home at 413 Egan Drive in Fairfax.
- August 27, 1971 – 23-year-old off-duty Fairfax County Police officer Garfield Bailey mortally wounds himself when he shoots himself in the head with his service revolver at his home at 4828 S. 29th Street in Arlington. Bailey, who had been sworn in as a FCPD officer on August 7, had apparently been drinking when he pulled the trigger of his revolver with a single bullet in the chamber. Bailey is taken to Arlington Hospital, where he dies two hours later. The shooting is reported as accidental, although the circumstances strongly imply that Officer Bailey was playing Russian roulette with his pistol when he shot himself.
- August 27, 1976 – 62-year-old Frank S. Goodner is beaten to death with a fireplace poker in his house at 6238 Cheryl Drive in the Ravenwood Park neighborhood of Falls Church.
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