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During the ceremony, around 500 prisoners would be sacrificed. As many as 4,000 were reported killed in one of these ceremonies in 1727. [5] [6] [7] Most of the victims were sacrificed through decapitation, a tradition widely used by Dahomean kings, and the literal translation for the Fon name for the ceremony Xwetanu is "yearly head business". [8]
Nine-Night, also known as Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition originating in West Africa and practiced in Caribbean countries (primarily Jamaica, Belize, Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad, and Haiti). It is an extended wake that lasts for several days, with roots in certain West African religious traditions. During ...
Billy Kipkorir Chemirmir (December 8, 1972 – September 19, 2023) was a Kenyan murderer and suspected serial killer accused of the murders of at least 18 elderly women in Dallas, Texas, United States, and its surrounding suburbs. [2]
The case was the first of only two death penalty cases tried in Dallas County in 1993. Prior to the murder of Pete Shrum, the duo were responsible for a number of armed robberies in the Dallas area, two of which happened the same week as Shrum's murder. Surviving store clerks who had been robbed by the Hamptons testified at their trials. [10]
Around 7:00 a.m. on September 10, they drove to a Fastime convenience store/gas station, near an Interstate 35 exit ramp in Lorena, Texas. The service station was a family business, run by 27-year-old Jeff Wetterman, a tall man of 6 foot 7 inches. Vest and Johnson drove into the forecourt of the service station. Wetterman came out to fill the ...
Sep. 27—LAWRENCE — Through prayer, video, remarks and proclamations, the city's murder victims were remembered Saturday during a solemn ceremony. The annual event was led again this year by ...
Jennifer Ann Crecente (September 9, 1987 – February 15, 2006) was an 18-year-old high school student who was shot and killed in southwest Austin, Texas, by Justin Crabbe, her ex-boyfriend, on February 15, 2006. Crecente's murder was the first in Austin in 2006. [1]
Thomas was born on March 17, 1983, in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, to Rochelle and Danny Thomas. [1] [2] He had five brothers, and his mother raised the children mostly by herself in Sherman, Texas, which is 60 miles (97 km) from Dallas.