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Following the Civil War, the percentage of black inmates in the state of Tennessee increased dramatically, from roughly 5% of the prison's population prior to the Civil War to about 62% in 1869. The proportion of black women in prison was significantly higher to black men in relation to whites, with all female prisoners in Tennessee in 1868 ...
Her remains were found in Mississippi on November 15, 1977, by two squirrel hunters. [12] [13] [14] On October 16, 1974, 35-year-old Karen Wine and her 16-year-old daughter Dawn Marie Wine were both bound, raped and strangled after their Marlborough, Connecticut, home was broken into. The only thing found missing from their home was a tape ...
James Earl Ray made his second appearance on the list (previously #277, in 1968, for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.) after a June 10 escape with 6 other convicts from state prison. He was apprehended not far from the prison in Brushy Mountain, Tennessee, on June 13, 1977. Using bloodhounds, the prison authorities found Ray hiding ...
Edward Surratt came under police suspicion in April 1978. At the time, he was working as a truck driver for a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and during his professional career, from 1977 to 1978, he visited cities in both Ohio and Pennsylvania, where a series of at least 27 unsolved murders stirred a moral panic among the population.
Sources: Virginia Department of Corrections, Virginia's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, www.legacy.com Daniel Martin Telles Suicide / Apparent Suicide Died within 61 days of arrest or booking Telles was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and felony brandishing of a firearm in the presence of a police officer.
A body found in the search for Newkirk turned out to be another woman killed by Bradley. [223] [224] Julie Ann Gonzalez George De La Cruz Austin, Texas: March 26, 2010 April 22, 2015 Victim was the convict's estranged wife. [219] The state rejected offers for a lenient sentence in exchange for information about victim's fate. [225] Bethany Decker
In 1989, shortly before his execution, Ted Bundy confessed to a slew of killings in the 1970s, many which have since been confirmed. But the identity of his alleged victims, a girl he said he ...
An 84-year-old man confessed to his involvement in a 50-year-old cold case after authorities tracked him down using genetic genealogy. Jon K. Miller, 84, was arrested last week in the homicide of ...