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Christa Thompson lost her husband, Olin W. Thompson III, to the cruel disease in 2022. Her husband died of ALS. Now, her story is featured in an Amazon Prime documentary.
In 2009, Mary Lauterbach filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Laurean and his wife Christina, accusing them of conspiring to conceal the murder. [24] On August 24, 2010, Laurean was convicted of murder, as well as theft and fraud charges relating to using Lauterbach's ATM card after the murder, and sentenced to life in prison. [25]
Former Post reporter Susan Spencer-Wendel died months before the ice bucket challenge went viral. Her husband recounts the journey. ALS walk on Sept. 28 honors her memory.
On August 5, 1976, James Haakenson was last heard phoning his family, possibly from John Wayne Gacy's home shortly before his murder. Haakenson died of suffocation. He remained unidentified for four whole decades, before his identification on July 19, 2017. [205] Murdered 40 years 1976 Rick Johnston: 17 United States of America
– Fire captain James Schwalm, from Collingwood, Ontario, has admitted to the second-degree murder of his wife, Ashley Schwalm, after initially staging her death as a car crash. In a court ...
Joanna Simpson (1964 – 31 October 2010) was a 46-year-old woman who was killed by her ex-husband, Robert Brown, on 31 October 2010. Brown argued with Simpson and bludgeoned her to death before burying her body in a pre-dug grave in Windsor Great Park. Brown was arrested and charged with murder.
On July 14, 2006, her husband, nurse Chaz Higgs, attempted suicide by slitting his wrists in the couple's Las Vegas home. [14] Higgs was arrested in Hampton, Virginia on September 29, 2006, and charged with first degree murder in Augustine's death after an FBI toxicology test found traces of the paralyzing drug succinylcholine in her system. [13]
During her murder trial, former ballerina Ashley Benefield testified about what happened in the moments before she fatally shot estranged husband Doug Benefield in an act she described as self ...