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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]
Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 2, 1964 [2]) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [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.
Brenda Andrew and her lover James Pavatt were convicted of the murder of Brenda's husband, Robert Andrew, who was shot twice with a 16 gauge shotgun, Pavatt firing the first shot and Brenda the second shot. 20 years, 4 months and 4 days Shortly before the murder, Robert was nearly killed when the brake lines on his car were cut.
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
He fought with officers during the initial dispute, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Daniel complained of chest pains twice, and he was on dialysis prior to his arrest. Jail or Agency: Summit County Jail; State: Ohio; Date arrested or booked: 4/11/2016; Date of death: 4/12/2016; Age at death: 39; Sources: www.cleveland.com
Known as "The Ice Pick Killer"; sexually abused and raped adult women and young girls across Montana, Texas and Louisiana, most of whom were his relatives; additionally responsible for a 1979 rape-murder in Houston and a 1983 triple murder in Weatherford, Texas. Convicted for the 1979 murder and executed in 2018.
An inmate who became pregnant while in a Florida county jail is scheduled to have a hearing on Jan. 24 in which she will request a transfer to house arrest, her attorney said Thursday.. Daisy Link ...