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Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [1] [2] Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...
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]
Mayra Lizbeth Rosales (November 6, 1980 – February 16, 2024) was an American woman known for being, at one point, the heaviest living woman. At her heaviest, she weighed 470 kg (1,036 lb). [ 1 ] She came to prominence in March 2008 when her sister was jailed for murdering her two-year-old nephew, a murder to which Rosales had originally ...
Lori Erica Kennedy Ruff (born Kimberly Maria McLean, October 16, 1968 – December 24, 2010) was an American identity thief who committed suicide in the driveway of her former in-laws' home in Longview, Texas on December 24, 2010.
Saldívar was hit with a life sentence on charges of first-degree murder in October 1995 for fatally shooting Selena Quintanilla-Pérez with a revolver in a Corpus Christi, Texas, motel earlier ...
Nesset’s partially naked body was later found in a drainage culvert, authorities said, adding that she had been sexually assaulted and killed. dps.texas.gov Billy Wayne Ludwigson in a 1982 ...
Megan Wiggins holds one of her dogs, Dozer, at her home. The sister of Thomas Coutee Jr., Wiggins mourns her brother while also dealing with the theft of her identity by the woman who killed him.
On March 31, 2012, an Angelina County jury convicted Saenz of murdering five patients and injuring five others. [11] [12] Prosecutors sought the death penalty, but on April 2, 2012, Saenz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the five murders, plus three consecutive 20-year sentences for aggravated assault. [4]