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Pulaski County Jane Doe was a woman who was found deceased on April 20, 1985, in Wrightsville, Arkansas. She was estimated to be 30 to 40 and had blondish-red hair. Her cause of death has neither been released nor properly determined. Little has been made available about her case. [57] [58]
Catron. Samuel Wilson Catron (May 11, 1953 – April 13, 2002) was sheriff of Pulaski County, Kentucky.On the evening of April 13, 2002, Catron was assassinated by Danny Shelley after he finished a campaign speech at a fish fry and political rally being held at the Shopville-Stab, Kentucky Volunteer Fire Department in the small community of Stab, Kentucky.
Christina Marie Riggs (September 2, 1971 – May 2, 2000) was convicted of the November 1997 murders of her two children, Justin Dalton Thomas (age 5) and Shelby Alexis Riggs (age 2). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Riggs was a licensed practical nurse , and she planned to kill the children with injections of drugs she obtained from her hospital.
On January 6, 1997, Williams stood trial at the Pulaski County Circuit Court for the kidnapping, aggravated robbery, rape, and murder of Stacy Rae Errickson. Williams was subsequently found guilty on all counts, and the jury presiding his trial sentenced Williams to death for the most serious charge of murder on January 14, 1997.
Murder of Sheridan County Sheriff Thomas Courtney and a deputized citizen: Hanged from a telephone pole [333] [334] Simmons, Bennie/Dennis: African American: Anadarko: Caddo: Oklahoma: June 13, 1913: Killing a 16-year-old girl: Taken from officers; was lynched and burned [335] Richardson, Joseph: African American: Leitchfield: Grayson: Kentucky ...
Bledsoe was charged by the state of Arkansas with capital murder, attempted capital murder, and 10 counts of unlawful discharge of a weapon. [2] Prosecutors sought the death penalty. [8] He was held in the Pulaski County Detention Center, awaiting a scheduled February 2011 jury trial. [8]
Robinson's tenure was one of non-stop controversies. In early 1981, in order to relieve jail overcrowding he ordered a group of state prisoners being held at the Pulaski County Jail to be taken to the state prison at Pine Bluff. Robinson left the prisoners chained to the (front gate of the prison) when the warden refused to accept them.
Harding was in jail in Pulaski County when he and five other inmates orchestrated an escape from the county jail on September 17, 1979. [ 10 ] [ 2 ] Harding spent the rest of 1979 and part of 1980 carrying out a multi-state crime spree until his final apprehension in Arizona. [ 11 ]