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On the morning of April 12, 2011, the date of his 63rd birthday, corrections officer Ronald Johnson, who had been on the job for 23 years and was close to retiring, was working in the Pheasantland Industries, a print shop building located within the prison compound of South Dakota State Penitentiary, where inmates work on upholstery, signs, furniture, and other projects.
Vernon C. "Verne" Miller (August 25, 1896 – November 29, 1933) [1] was a freelance Prohibition hitman, bootlegger, bank robber and the disgraced former sheriff of Beadle County, South Dakota. Most infamously, Miller, as the only identified gunman in the Kansas City massacre , was found beaten and strangled to death shortly after the incident.
Wright was charged with aggravated kidnapping, first-degree murder, and second-degree murder. [15] At her arraignment on February 14, Wright pleaded not guilty. [1] The state sought the death penalty, making Wright the first woman in South Dakota history to face capital punishment. [5]
The Deadly Tower (also known as Sniper) is a 1975 American made-for-television action drama thriller film directed by Jerry Jameson. It stars Kurt Russell and Richard Yniguez [ 1 ] and is based on the University of Texas tower shooting .
Skins is a 2002 American feature film by Chris Eyre and based upon the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis.It was filmed on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (renamed the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation in the film), which served as the setting in the novel.
Dakota is a 1945 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane, and starring John Wayne. [1] The supporting cast features Walter Brennan , Ward Bond , and Mike Mazurki . Plot
A former mayor of a South Dakota town has been charged with murder after a triple-slaying Monday night in the community he once oversaw, according to the state’s attorney general.
On November 17, 1987, while attempting a burglary in Minot, North Dakota, McNair was surprised by two men and murdered one of them. [2] McNair's murder of Jerry Thies occurred at a grain elevator operated by the Farmers Union Elevator Co. while McNair was a sergeant posted at the nearby Minot Air Force Base. A second man was shot four times ...