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Four people convicted of murder have been executed by Nebraska since 1976. [1] Three were executed by electrocution. On April 21, 2011, the Nebraska Supreme Court set the first execution date via lethal injection for June 14, 2011.
Frank Carter (1881 – June 24, 1927) was a notorious murderer and self-confessed serial killer in Omaha, Nebraska. Confirmed to have committed two murders, Carter claimed to have murdered 43 people. [1] However, reporters doubted most of his claims. The Lexington Herald-Leader called most of the alleged murders "obviously fictitious". [2]
Omaha Steaks International, Inc., known as Omaha Steaks, is an American food company that manufactures, markets, and distributes steaks, meat, seafood, and some prepared foods. The company is named after Omaha, Nebraska , the city in which was founded and still headquartered.
1883 Omaha connected by telephone with Lincoln and Plattsmouth. 1883 The Omaha Union Stock Yards Company was organized. 1885 Gilbert Hitchcock founded the Omaha World-Herald. 1891 African American George Smith lynched in Omaha for "leering at a white woman." 1891 500 workers attack the ASARCO plant in downtown.
Mister C's was a renowned steakhouse in North Omaha founded by one of the Caniglia brothers. After operating for more than 55 years, the restaurant closed in 2007. [1] Gorat's was founded in 1944, and still operates from its original location where Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett regularly dines. [2]
No longer functioning in Omaha. [7] New York Life Insurance Company: 1845 Omaha Country Club: 1899 Omaha Public Power District: 1946 Omaha World-Herald: 1885 Founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It was absorbed by George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. Peter Kiewit Sons: 1884 Packaging Corporation of America: 1959
On December 5, 2007, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins shot and killed eight people and wounded five others in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before committing suicide by fatally shooting himself. [4] It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958. [5]
William Leslie Arnold, alias John Vincent Damon (August 28, 1942 – August 6, 2010) was an American murderer. In 1958, at the age of 16, he murdered his parents and buried them in the backyard of the family home in Omaha, Nebraska.