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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 ]
Crossed Over is a 2002 Canadian television film directed by Bobby Roth, and starring Diane Keaton as Beverly Lowry and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Karla Faye Tucker. It is based on Lowry's memoir Crossed Over: A Murder, A Memoir. [1]
Karla Faye Tucker: 38 23 Texas [4] 3 March 30, 1998 Judias "Judy" V. Buenoano: 54 28 Florida: Electrocution [5] 4 February 24, 2000 Betty Lou Beets: 62 46 Texas Lethal injection [6] 5 May 2, 2000 Christina Marie Riggs: 28 26 Arkansas [7] 6 January 11, 2001 Wanda Jean Allen: Black 41 29 Oklahoma [8] 7 May 1, 2001 Marilyn Kay Plantz: White 40 27 ...
In Houston, Texas, Karla Faye Tucker used a pickaxe to murder her friend Shawn's abusive boyfriend, Jerry Dean, and a woman with whom he was having a one-night stand, Deborah Thornton, with help from her boyfriend, Danny Garrett. Upon being sentenced to death, she experienced a spiritual change.
On October 24, 2001, 50-year-old nurse Sandra Stotler was murdered in her house in a gated community outside of Conroe, Texas, and her body was dumped in a nearby lake.A few days later, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, both 19 years old, were arrested for Sandra's murder, and details in Michael's confession led law enforcement to the bodies of Sandra's grandson Adam (who Sandra was raising ...
DNA found in a piece of discarded chewing gum led to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in a 1980 cold case murder in Oregon, prosecutors say. ... Tucker’s body was discovered the following ...
Crossed Over : A Murder, A Memoir (1992), based in part on the story of Karla Faye Tucker The Track of Real Desires (1994) - novel Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam CJ Walker (2002) - nonfiction
Finney was charged with armed robbery and murder after her accomplice was shot and killed by deputies, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Finney was found in a shower stall with a plastic garbage bag over her head, and died ten days later. Jail or Agency: Volusia County Branch Jail; State: Florida; Date arrested or booked: 5/29/2016; Date of ...