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Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Peña, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to ...
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution.Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States).
In 2002, a crime spree involving the murders of two women and one teenage girl occurred in the East End area of Houston, Texas. [1] The three perpetrators were two adult men and one teenage boy: Edgardo Rafael Cubas Matamoros [2] (born February 7, 1979), [3] a Honduran citizen; [4] Walter Alexander Sorto (born August 10, 1977), [5] a Salvadoran citizen; [4] and Eduardo Navarro, [3] a 15-year ...
A ‘good ‘ol American boy’ and a woman everyone loved. Days after the murder, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune interviewed Greg’s co-workers at the South Florida Sod Farm.
Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body was found in a Houston creek earlier this week were arrested Thursday in her death, police said. Johan Jose ...
Ontario County woman Rose Chase, who in 2012 killed husband Adam, dismembered and destroyed his body, and lied about his whereabouts for months afterwards. 225 10
A Texas restaurant owned by NBA player James Harden is being sued in the Houston car accident that killed seven people last year, including NFL cornerback Derek Hayden.. The wrongful death lawsuit ...