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The suspect who set the victim on fire, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala identified as Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, [4] [5] was arrested in connection to the killing. The immolation was determined to have been a random attack. The incident has led to heightened concerns relating to safety while using transportation in New York City.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
In Houston, Texas, Karla Faye Tucker used a pickaxe to murder her friend Shawn's abusive boyfriend, Jerry Dean, and a woman with whom he was having a one-night stand, Deborah Thornton, with help from her boyfriend, Danny Garrett. Upon being sentenced to death, she experienced a spiritual change.
In 2016, prosecutors in Wyoming charged Alcala with another murder, that of Christine Ruth Thornton. Thornton was 28 years old and six months pregnant when she disappeared in 1978. Her body wasn ...
Family members and friends of Debra Perrine described Tuesday a volatile relationship between the Newark woman and her son, on trial for her murder. Victim's family, friends testify she lived in ...
A decades-old cold case murder has been solved after the killer was fatally shot by police in a shootout at an Ohio motel last month. For 43 years, the murder of Debra Miller haunted the town of ...
Thornton, Colorado Solved Perpetrator sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 40 years. [114] Bella Watts: August 13, 2018 4 Frederick, Colorado Solved The girls' father Christopher Watts admitted to the murder and was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole. [115] Celeste Watts: 3 Bianca ...
Investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying the victim, who was found along the same strip near two other Gilgo Beach victims. Officials release new details, renderings of victim ...