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The name originates from "Peckerwood", an insult towards poor white people, [1] because many of those buried at the cemetery were poor. [2] It is the place where prisoners not claimed by their families are buried. It is the largest prison cemetery in the State of Texas.
A prison cemetery is a graveyard reserved for the dead bodies of prisoners. Generally, the remains of inmates who are not claimed by family or friends are interred in prison cemeteries [ 1 ] and include convicts executed for capital crimes.
The victims include a girl aged between four and six-years-old who was found dead in 1962, an infant boy found in 1983 and three men and three women found between 1972 and 1984.
Was the sole inmate in Spandau Prison from 1966 until his death. The prison was demolished afterwards. Roberto Succo: 1988-05-23 Italy: Suicide by suffocating Serial killer Roy Buchanan: 1988-08-01 United States: Suicide by hanging American guitarist His death is still the subject of fierce debate. Abdulwahid AlAbduljabbar: 1989 Saudi Arabia
The unclaimed dead of Hinds County, Mississippi, are buried along a dirt road on the grounds of a jail work farm, their graves marked with just a metal rod and a number.
The Buried Bodies Case, also known as the Lake Pleasant Bodies Case, is a mid-1970s upstate New York court case where defense attorneys Frank H. Armani and Francis Belge kept secret the location of the bodies of two women murdered by their client, Robert Garrow, Sr. [1]
According to the Memorial society, the total number of people buried in the Kolpashevsky Yar is about 4000 people. The burials were accidentally opened in late April - early May 1979, when the spring flood of the Ob River washed the banks and exposed one of them, but soon the remains and signs of the burials were eliminated.
10-year-old Louise Bell was abducted from her home in Hackham West in January 1983. Raymond Geesing, a man serving time in prison for an unrelated crime, was convicted of her murder after supposedly confessing to jailhouse informers, but his conviction was quashed 17 months later after the witnesses were deemed to be unreliable. [2]