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According to investigators, Lucas committed his first murders on May 4, 1979, with his victims being 31-year-old Suzanne Camille Jacobs and her 3-year-old son, Colin, who resided in Normal Heights. [3] On the day of the murder, Suzanne's husband Michael woke up in the morning and went to work, leaving the house at 6:00 AM.
After his arrest, Harry Mitts Jr. was charged with two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of attempted murder. For the most serious charge of aggravated murder, Mitts potentially faced the death penalty under Ohio state law. [10] [11] A Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Mitts for all the four charges on August 25, 1994. A pre-trial ...
Lucas went to trial in September 1999 and was convicted. During the penalty phase of the trial, prosecutor Fred Bright exchanged with a defense witness that prisoners frequently escape state prisons. After Lucas was sentenced to death, his attorneys appealed in July 2001 claiming the exchange Bright had with the witness was "like dropping ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding ...
In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes. Jail or Agency: Rolling Plains Detention Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 4/26/2016 ...
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Khristine Smith disappeared from her home on September 28, 1994. Four years later, her husband Russell Smith was charged with her murder and arrested. Russell subsequently plead guilty to second-degree murder, admitting to shooting and killing Khristine on September 28 during an argument about custody of their daughter.
Feazell notes on his website that he is "now a vocal advocate against the death penalty." [3] In 1984, after Henry Lee Lucas claimed to have killed over 300 people across the country, the Texas Rangers announced numerous murders to have been solved. Three of these announced murders were in McLennan County.