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Peter J. Halat Jr. (born July 27, 1942) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the twelfth mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi, [1] and was later convicted and served time for his involvement in a criminal conspiracy which led to the 1987 murders of Halat's former law partner, Mississippi judge Vincent Sherry, and Sherry's wife Margaret, a Biloxi city councilwoman. [2]
Louisiana State Penitentiary, from where Nix perpetrated a "Lonely Hearts" scam. Kirksey McCord Nix Jr. (born 1943) is the former boss of the Dixie Mafia. [1] [2]He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford's wife on August 12, 1967.
While imprisoned, Nix ordered the 1987 murder-for-hire of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, in Biloxi, Mississippi. His conspirator, Biloxi Mayor Pete Halat, had, in his capacity as Nix's attorney, stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars that Nix had amassed in a massive lonely hearts scam, blaming it on his law partner, Judge Sherry ...
Former Biloxi, Mississippi mayor Pete Halat. Businessman Juan Bravo in a trial with Senator Héctor Martínez Maldonado from Puerto Rico in 2010. [31] Represented Reno millionaire, Darren Mack in a controversial murder trial. Darren Mack's case was the topic of an NBC special entitled "Killings in the biggest little city."
In 1919, Biloxi voters opted to have a new full-time government with a mayor and two commissioners elected to four-year terms. This system remained in place until voters again amended the city's governing structure in 1978, approving a mayor-council form of government with a city-wide elected mayor and councilmen elected from seven wards in the ...
Unusual Suspects is an American television documentary program on Investigation Discovery.The program debuted on June 21, 2010. [1] It showcases many of the most shocking and difficult cases in law enforcement history, and also sheds light on the investigations that led to the arrest of the culprits. [2]
Mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi; In office 1993 – July 1, 2015: Preceded by: Pete Halat: Succeeded by: Andrew "FoFo" Gilich: Member of the Biloxi City Council from Ward 3; In office
Between 1971 and 1978, a group of unsolved [a] murders occurred in the Pasco County and wider Tampa Bay area of Florida, United States, in which at least fourteen women and two men were killed. While the victims were grouped together differently at various points, nine were attributed, dubiously, to a " Gulf Killer ."