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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.
On July 26, 2006, a Texas jury in her retrial found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanity. She was consequently committed by the court to the high-security North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, [5] where she received medical treatment and was a roommate of Dena Schlosser, another woman who committed infanticide by killing her infant ...
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]
On November 9, 1994, 33-year-old Farah Fratta (August 5, 1961 – November 9, 1994) was gunned down at her home in Atascocita, Texas.Investigations revealed that Robert Alan Fratta (February 22, 1957 – January 10, 2023), a police officer and the estranged husband of Farah, had masterminded her murder by hiring two men to kill her, for which the motive was related to the unresolved divorce ...
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.
A week later the Houston City Council approved $1.7 million to defend itself and former Police Chief Art Acevedo against the lawsuit. This was in addition to $1.25 million paid to law firm Beck Redden, to file a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the lawsuit.
Edward George McGregor (born March 29, 1973) is an American serial killer who raped and murdered four women in the Greater Houston area between 1990 and 2006. With the use of DNA evidence, McGregor was convicted for one of the murders in 2010 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.