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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]
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.
In 1976, McGown met William Beck, a representative for an office products company. They married and moved to Clear Lake City, a suburb of Houston. She met Robert Angleton, a successful bookmaker, at a bar on Houston's West Loop when she was 28 years old. According to Robert, he and Doris met because Beck, her husband, was a client of his ...
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.
HOUSTON (AP) — Family members of a murdered 16-year-old girl tried to attack her ex-boyfriend during a court hearing Tuesday after he had pleaded guilty to shooting her nearly two dozen times ...
Prior to illegally entering the U.S., he allegedly murdered a young woman in El Salvador, The Center Square reported. The trial is scheduled for April 1, 2025, where the prosecution is seeking ...
In 2002, a crime spree involving the murders of two women and one teenage girl occurred in the East End area of Houston, Texas. [1] The three perpetrators were two adult men and one teenage boy: Edgardo Rafael Cubas Matamoros [2] (born February 7, 1979), [3] a Honduran citizen; [4] Walter Alexander Sorto (born August 10, 1977), [5] a Salvadoran citizen; [4] and Eduardo Navarro, [3] a 15-year ...
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