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Duty was not able to attend the police academy in Houston. [4] When she joined, there had already been three black male officers, making her the fourth African American on the force. [ 5 ] She was assigned to the Juvenile Division, where there were fewer instances of prejudice than in other departments on the force.
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [1] [2] Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Early in the morning on June 17, police received a call about the discovery of Nungaray's body lying in a ditch near her home. [ 7 ] Two suspects, identified as 22-year-old Johan José Martínez-Rangel and 26-year-old Franklin José Peña Ramos , were arrested on June 20 at 13355 Northborough Drive at the Canfield Lakes Apartments. [ 3 ]
In 1939, the department proudly presented its first police academy class. The Houston Police Officers Association (HPOA) was created in 1945. This organization later became the Houston Police Officers Union. [2] The first African American woman police officer on the force, Margie Duty, joined the HPD in 1953, starting in the Juvenile Division. [3]
In 1986, 17 years after the incident, investigators reopened the case, but could not solve it. The case remained closed until July 2003, 33 years after the murder was committed. A batch of forensics they had performed in 1969 was found by Houston police, who located James Ray Davis, a lifetime criminal.
A ballistics expert was able to determine that the bullets fired at Hill had been handmade, and as a result of this Houston police were able to trace the weapon to a doctor. [43] [note 3] When questioned as to how the weapon had found its way to River Oaks, the doctor said it had been stolen by a woman whom he described as "a whore". He went on ...