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About 4:00 a.m. on August 23, 1987, the crew on board a 75-car, 6,000-ton Union Pacific freight train, more than a mile long and traveling at a rate more than 50 miles per hour, en route to Little Rock, Arkansas, spotted two boys lying motionless across the tracks, about 300 feet ahead. [1]
Unidentified murder victims in Arkansas (2 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Arkansas" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
In memory of Juli Busken after her death, the University of Oklahoma created a dance scholarship in her name for the College of Fine Arts. In an 2011 interview, David Boren, the president of the University of Oklahoma, stated that he was acquainted with Busken and fondly remembered her performance in the musical Swan Lake the semester before ...
Ricky Ray Rector (January 12, 1950 – January 24, 1992) was an American convicted murderer who was executed for the 1981 murder of police officer Bob Martin in Conway, Arkansas. After killing a man in a restaurant and fleeing, Rector spent three days on the run before he agreed to turn himself in.
John Edward Swindler (May 12, 1944 – June 18, 1990) was an American murderer and suspected serial killer who was executed by the state of Arkansas for the 1976 murder of a Fort Smith police officer. He was also convicted of the murders of two teenagers in Columbia, South Carolina, and was charged but never convicted of another murder in Florida.
Willett was the 4th condemned inmate to be put to death in 1999 in Arkansas and the 21st person executed by the state of Arkansas since Furman v. Georgia , 408 U.S. 238 (1972), after new capital punishment laws were passed in Arkansas and that came into force on March 23, 1973.
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Mark Edward Gardner (May 4, 1956 – September 8, 1999) was an American murderer executed at the age of 43 by lethal injection by the state of Arkansas.He was convicted of the December 12, 1985 murders of Joe and Martha Joyce, as well as the rape and murder of their daughter, Sara Joyce McCurdy, in Sebastian County, Arkansas.