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On April 12, 1978, Betty Gardner, a 33-year-old black woman, was sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered by four white people during a racially motivated hate crime in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. [1] Gardner had been hitchhiking when she was picked up by John Arnold, John Plath, Cindy Sheets, and Carol Ullman.
A Georgia mom and her twin babies were among at least 26 killed in Hurricane Helene's devastating wake as the storm pounded the Deep South with floods, harsh winds and falling trees Friday.
Officials speculated that the latter caused her to fall from the porch and that the injuries were just a result of the 14 foot fall. Horsford's family and friends, however, were not convinced and called for a second independent autopsy; this was then carried out by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). [5]
Helena was a city in Telfair and Wheeler counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 2,883 at the 2010 census, up from 2,307 in 2000 and 1,256 in 1990. The population increase accompanied establishment of the McRae Correctional Institution, which provided new jobs. The prison population is counted as well.
Wanda Jean Allen (August 17, 1959 – January 11, 2001) was a murderer who was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Gloria Jean Leathers, 29, her longtime girlfriend. Allen was the first black woman to be executed in the United States since 1954. [ 1 ]
McRae–Helena is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, formed on January 1, 2015, by the merger of the two cities of McRae and Helena. McRae–Helena is the county seat of Telfair County. It is the largest city in Telfair County, with a population of 6,253 in 2020. [2] This includes the population held as inmates at McRae Correctional Institution.
Telfair County was established by European Americans on December 10, 1807, as part of Georgia. Development of the county largely took place after Indian Removal in the 1830s of the Creek Confederacy , who had occupied a large territory, including the southern two thirds of present-day Georgia, for thousands of years.
Telfair State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located on 210 Long Bridge Road, McRae–Helena, Telfair County, Georgia, United States. [2] The facility opened in 1992 and currently has a capacity of 1420 prisoners.