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When he confessed to the murder, he told police he had done it for financial gain. [10] [34] During his confession, Vandiver implicated McKittrick and Lilla Paulus, a former sex worker from Houston, as having been accessories to Hill's murder. He claimed that the shooting was a contract killing that he had been asked to carry out for $5,000.
Joan Olive Robinson Hill (February 6, 1931 – March 19, 1969) was a socialite and equestrian from Houston, Texas.Her unexplained death at age 38 led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the state of Texas on the charge of murder by omission.
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.
Date: July 13, 2015 (): Time: c. 9:00 a.m. Location: Waller County Jail, Hempstead, Texas Coordinates (traffic stop) (Waller County Jail): Type: Death in custody: Cause: Ruled a suicide by asphyxiation: Outcome: Charge dropped against Brian Encinia as part of a plea agreement: Deaths: Sandra Annette Bland: Burial: Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens West Willow Springs, Illinois, U.S.: Inquiries ...
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]
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]
Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 2, 1964 [2]) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [3]
Sharkey's nude body was discovered around 8 a.m. on November 28, in bushes on the 1000 block of Red Haw Lane in the Houston Energy Corridor in Harris County. [10] [2] [13] [14] Her body was believed to have been left overnight [2] and police saw no evidence that she walked down the road, nor that there had been any attempt to conceal her body. [10]