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Murder of Leesa Gray. On the night of June 22, 2000, 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray (born July 11, 1983) was abducted by Marine Corps recruiter Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. (born August 16, 1964), after she finished her shift at a restaurant in Dorsey, Mississippi. Loden held Gray captive inside his van, where he sexually abused her several times ...
January 20, 1988. Timothy Wilson Spencer (March 17, 1962 – April 27, 1994), also known as The Southside Strangler, was an American serial killer who committed three rapes and murders in Richmond, Virginia, and one in Arlington, Virginia, in the fall of 1987. [1] In addition, he is believed to have committed at least one previous murder, in ...
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were James Chaney from Meridian ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since 1976, 23 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 23 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 19 via lethal injection. [1]
Murder of Paul Guihard. Paul Leslie Guihard (1931 – 30 September 1962) was a French-British journalist for Agence France-Presse. He was murdered in the 1962 riot at the University of Mississippi while covering the events surrounding James Meredith 's attempts to enroll at the all-white university. The only journalist known to have been killed ...
On May 31, 2009, George Tiller, an American physician from Wichita, Kansas, who was one of the few doctors in the United States to perform late terminations of pregnancy, was murdered by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist. [2][3][4] Tiller was shot to death at pointblank range during a Sunday morning service at his church, Reformation ...
H. John Hartfield. Alisha Heinrich. Murder of Alisha Heinrich. Ashley Henley. Lynching of Elwood Higginbotham.
1996 Jackson firehouse shooting. The 1996 Jackson firehouse shooting was a mass murder that took place on April 24, 1996, at a firehouse in Jackson, Mississippi in the United States. Firefighter Kenneth Tornes fatally shot four of his supervisors, after killing his wife earlier that day.