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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 an autopsy carried out on the victim, a medical examiner determined that the victim's cause of death was heat-related burns as well as smoke inhalation. [19] Within a day of the attack, false stories circulated on social media using an invented name and AI-generated images. [20] [21] These posts were debunked immediately. [20]
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 ...
70-Year-Old Sisters Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide Police are investigating the deaths of two elderly sisters in Georgia on Sunday, Sept. 19, with evidence currently leading authorities to ...
Kiaya Mae Campbell (August 22, 2006 – June 8, 2017) was an American 10-year-old girl living in Thornton, Colorado.She was reported missing on June 7, 2017 and on June 8, 2017, her naked body was found by a local in a drainage ditch near 128th Avenue between Jasmine Street and Jasmine Court.
Debbie Lynn Randall vanished in mid-January of 1972. Her body, which had been raped and strangled, was found 16 days later after thousands of people banded together to search for the missing girl.
A 17-year-old who was abducted from the driveway of her home. Her killer called her family repeatedly to taunt them; even after the victim's death. Larry Gene Bell was later convicted of her murder and executed. [51] Debra Helmick: June 15, 1985 9 Richland County, South Carolina Solved