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James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church.
Following the second divorce, Corll's mother married a traveling clock salesman named Jake West. The family moved to the small town of Vidor, Texas, where Corll's half-sister, Joyce Jeanine (1955–2016), was born. [9] [10] Corll's mother and stepfather started a small family candy company, initially operating from the garage of their home.
Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010 [1]) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. [2] [3] His conviction was overturned in 1989.
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Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born May 9, 1956) is an American serial killer incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) system. Henley was convicted in 1974 [1]: 219 for his role as a participant in a series of murders known as the Houston Mass Murders in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973.
While traveling through the Southern United States c. 1998, Martin McDonagh came across a couple of accusatory billboards that alleged a woman named Kathy Page had been murdered by her husband Steve Page in Vidor, Texas, and highlighted the incompetence of the police in solving the case. McDonagh described the billboards, which he presumed had ...
A new episode of Dateline will premiere Friday at 8 p.m. CST on NBC, highlighting the 1996 Arlington, Texas murders tied to Dale Devon Scheanette, also known as the “Bathtub Killer ...
Candace Fails poses for a portrait holding a picture of her late daughter, Nevaeh Crain, at her home in Vidor, Texas on October 24, 2024. Crain passed away on October 29, 2023 at 25 weeks of ...