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On May 23, 1958, he was sentenced to death, and Starkweather was executed in the electric chair at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska, at 12:04 a.m. on June 25, 1959. [38] Half an hour before the execution, the doctor who was supposed to pronounce Starkweather dead, B.A. Finkel, himself suffered a fatal heart attack. [ 39 ]
The first execution in Nebraska reportedly was of Cyrus Tator, a former Kansas Legislature member and judge in Lykins County, Kansas who was tried and convicted of murdering his business partner in 1863. [5] Before 1903, counties carried out executions until the state took over. Since Nebraska statehood in 1867, a total of 14 people have been ...
On November 15, 2017, Sydney Loofe left work for a Tinder date in Wilber, Nebraska. The day after, Loofe was reported missing after failing to appear for work at a local Menards store in Lincoln. Three weeks later, Loofe's dismembered remains were found along a gravel road sixty miles from her date location.
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Roland Alfred Luedtke (January 4, 1924 – July 22, 2005) was an American politician who served as the 31st lieutenant governor of Nebraska from 1979 to 1983. Luedtke was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on January 4, 1924, to Alfred C. and Carolina (Senne) Luedtke. After graduating from Lincoln High School in 1942 he served in World War II in
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2023.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
The tornado damage started Friday afternoon near Lincoln, Nebraska. An industrial building in Lancaster County was hit, causing it to collapse with 70 people inside.
At 7:30PM on August 9, 1894, Locomotive 213 departed the station in Fairbury, Nebraska, with two passenger cars, due to reach Lincoln, Nebraska two hours later. [1] At approximately 9:20PM, minutes away from its destination, the train reached a 400-foot-long trestle which was located southwest of town and carried trains forty feet above the waters of Salt Creek. [1]