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A native of the Texas Panhandle, David Glenn Lewis was born on December 11, 1953, in Borger, near Amarillo. After graduating from Phillips High School, he attended Texas Tech, graduating in 1975 with a degree in political science, following that with a law degree from Tech in 1979. Lewis married his wife, Karen, in 1982; the couple had their ...
Denton was charged with first-degree burglary, second-degree assault and third-degree malicious mischief in connection with domestic violence, according to the Yakima Herald. Denton was stabbed to death by two inmates, according to the Seattle Times. Jail or Agency: Yakima County Jail; State: Washington; Date arrested or booked: 5/10/2016
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 25 January 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
Houston's murder rate in 2005 ranked 46th of U.S. cities with a population over 250,000 in 2005 (per capita rate of 16.3 murders per 100,000 population). [1] In 2010, the city's murder rate (per capita rate of 11.8 murders per 100,000 population) was ranked sixth among U.S. cities with a population of over 750,000 (behind New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia) [2 ...
The National Museum of Funeral History is a museum in Houston, Texas, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics that aim to "educate the public and preserve the heritage of death care." The 35,000-square-foot museum opened in 1992.
The Woodlawn Garden of Memories is a cemetery in Houston, Texas which is included in the National Register of Historic Places. NRHP lists Dionicio Rodriguez as the cemetery's architect. NRHP lists Dionicio Rodriguez as the cemetery's architect.
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.