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Killed his wife, 3 members of her family and 2 household servants [71] 2: George Hassell: Whittier: 1917, 1926: 13: Spree killer, killed his wife and three children in Whittier, then killed his second family in Texas in 1926 [72] [73] 3: Ralph Works: Pasadena: 1941-08-08: 2: Murder-suicide in which former professional baseball pitcher shot ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of California since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia , the following 13 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of California. [ 1 ]
On July 22, 2018, three sisters, Nia, Letifah and Tashiya Wilson, [2] were attacked by a man wielding a knife, later identified as John Cowell, after exiting a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train at MacArthur station in Oakland, California. 18-year-old Nia Wilson died after her throat was slashed. Her older sister, Letifah, was stabbed in the ...
At least two of the people killed in the Southern California wildfires tried to protect the homes where they raised families and lived for decades, while another stayed behind with his son who had ...
Michael Spengler killed one man in Pomona and another in Altadena in 2013, in what a judge called 'surprise ambushes' of Spengler's own friends. He murdered two people. Then he was killed in a ...
Miller was shot and killed at age 31 in a Hollywood nightclub in February 2004. [20] Gary Anthony Williams was a 33-year-old man described as a "drifter" and a "hustler" who begged at a local gas station. Although he claimed to work there, his arrest record listed him as unemployed. [19]
The bodies of a California mother of three and her 19-year-old son were found dead by her daughter days before the family was set to celebrate Christmas.
California: 14 years (served 8) Florida : Death Lawrence Bernard " Larry " Singleton (July 28, 1927 – December 28, 2001) was an American criminal known for perpetrating an infamous rape and mutilation of adolescent hitchhiker Mary Vincent in California in 1978, and then perpetrating a second attack on a woman after being released from prison ...