Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Murders. On July 14, 1982, two fishermen discovered the bodies of Jill Montgomery, 17, Raylene Rice, 17, and Kenneth Franks, 18, in Speegleville Park, near Lake Waco. The police officer, patrol seargent Truman Simons found Franks' body under a large tree propped up against the stump, with sunglasses over his eyes, he had been stabbed multiple ...
A chronicle of the Lake Waco Murders can be found in the Edgar Award-winning book Careless Whispers by Carlton Stowers. [4] Feazell notes on his website that he is "now a vocal advocate against the death penalty." [3] In 1984, after Henry Lee Lucas claimed to have killed over 300 people across the country, the Texas Rangers announced numerous ...
Cowden family murders. Richard Cowden (born October 9, 1946), his wife Belinda June Cowden (born May 24, 1952), and their children, David James Phillips (born June 30, 1969) and Melissa Dawn Cowden (born March 19, 1974), disappeared from their campground in the Siskiyou Mountains near Copper, Oregon, United States, on September 1, 1974. [1][2 ...
The group purchased a nearly 200-acre property near Lake Waco, a few miles northwest of Waco city limits, for roughly $10,000. They named it Mount Carmel Center, after the mountain range ...
An Outsider Turned 'Miss Irresistible' Paolilla seemed to struggle in her first few years of high school, according to ABC News.The outlet reported that the teenager was a reserved outsider whose ...
The Freeway Phantom. From 1971 to 1972, a serial killer murdered six young Black women in Washington, D.C., and Prince George’s County. The killer dumped the bodies roadside and was dubbed the ...
The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, [7][8][9][10] was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. [11] The Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh, were headquartered at Mount Carmel ...
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.