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Dorothea Helen Puente ( née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. [ 1] Puente's total count reached nine murders; she was ...
January 27, 1978. Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American spree killer, cannibal, and necrophile who killed six people in Sacramento, California, from December 1977 to January 1978. He was nicknamed The Vampire of Sacramento because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains.
Partner. Gary Matson. Gary Matson (April 6, 1949 — July 1, 1999) and Winfield Mowder (May 30, 1959 — July 1, 1999) were a gay couple from Redding, California, who were murdered by white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams. The Williams brothers confessed to killing the couple because they were gay.
Because I believed that teachers and other adults on my campus understood the laws of free press and student press, I was just as shocked as my students by the vitriol from individuals twice their ...
Gerald Armond Gallego [1] was born on July 17, 1946, in Sacramento, California.His mother was a sex worker, while his estranged father was a criminal who in 1955 became the first man executed in the Mississippi gas chamber, for the killing of a police officer during a prison escape. [2]
U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Horwath in a Sacramento courtroom to the prison term and to another 10 years of supervised release, rejecting a plea from his lawyer for a five-year ...
In the U.S. state of California, capital punishment is not allowed to be carried out as of March 2019, because executions were halted by an official moratorium ordered by Governor Gavin Newsom. [ 1] Before the moratorium, executions had been frozen by a federal court order since 2006, and the litigation resulting in the court order has been on ...
Ishani Desai. January 3, 2024 at 7:41 PM. A Sacramento mother, already heartbroken over her 10-year-old son’s shooting death in Foothill Farms over the weekend, said Wednesday her remaining ...