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The Black Widow Murders were a colloquial name for a pair of murders committed by two pensioners in California, United States: on April 18, 2008, Helen Golay, 78, formerly of Santa Monica, California, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, formerly of Hollywood, California, were convicted of the murders of two vagrants—Paul Vados in 1999 and Kenneth McDavid in 2005.
A homeless woman in New York, 2015. Out of 10,000 female individuals 13 are homeless in the United States. Although studies reflect that circumstances vary depending on each individual, the average homeless woman is 35 years old, has children, is a member of a minority community, and has experienced homelessness more than once in their lifetime.
Banko Brown was a 24-year-old transgender Black man, living in San Francisco. Brown was a volunteer organizer at the Young Women's Freedom Center, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for transgender youth and young women. Brown had been homeless since he was 12 years old. Brown was 5–foot–four and 155 lbs.
Liz Murray. Elizabeth Murray (born September 23, 1980) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. [1] [2] Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime 's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). [3]
On October 26, 2001, twenty-five-year-old nursing assistant Chante Jawan Mallard murdered 37-year-old Gregory Glenn Biggs, a homeless man, with her automobile, in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The force of the crash lodged Biggs into the windshield. Mallard then drove home and left the man lodged in the windshield of her car, parked in her ...
Homeless activist Herman Barahona has been emailing city and county leaders since the summer, when Stonebraker was in a tent in 110-degree temperatures, begging them to find a way to get her indoors.
Florence Owens Thompson was born Florence Leona Christie on September 1, 1903, in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.Both of her parents claimed Cherokee descent. Her father, Jackson Christie, allegedly abandoned her mother, Mary Jane Cobb, before she was born, and her mother married Charles Akman (of Choctaw descent) in the spring of 1905.
Albert Leslie Cochran (June 24, 1951 – March 8, 2012) was an American homeless man, peace activist, cross-dresser, urban outdoorsman, and outspoken critic of police treatment of the homeless. Cochran was known in Austin as Leslie. [1] Cochran was considered the man who personified "Keep Austin Weird". [2] [3] [4]