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Honken grew up in Britt, Iowa. [3] His father, Jim Honken, was an alcoholic schemer who was allegedly neglectful. Honken reported in his pre-sentence investigation that his father struck him numerous times during his childhood, although he denied that his father was physically abusive and maintained that the emotional turmoil in his early life mostly stemmed from his father's alcoholism.
Jorge Avila-Torrez. Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia. 10 years, 114 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963. Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965. [1] 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging. [2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection. [3]
Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 in the death of Felicia Gayle, a one-time newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home in 1998. His execution is set ...
The day they dug up Lee Harvey Oswald in Fort Worth: 1981 photos seen for first time. Matt Leclercq. September 13, 2024 at 5:20 PM. It was 5 a.m. when the phone rang at the home of a Fort Worth ...
That makes it hard for Graber, who knew the Adelsons for 40 years, to fathom how a family he considered pillars of the community would be at the center of the most notorious murder-for-hire plot ...
1973 Gitchie Manitou murders. The 1973 Gitchie Manitou murders involved an attack on a group of five teenagers at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Lyon County, Iowa. Four of the teenagers were killed and a fifth was kidnapped and raped. Brothers Allen, James, and David Fryer were later convicted of the crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
A subsequent jury also chose the death penalty for Davis, and he was formally sentenced to death again on October 27, 2005. [16] [17] [18] Davis is currently on federal death row and is imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. [19] Hardy was convicted of conspiracy to violate Groves' civil rights and of witness ...