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The "Dr. X" killings were a series of suspicious deaths by curare poisoning, in 1966 at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital. [1] A newspaper investigation during the mid-1960s led to the indictment of an Argentina -born physician, Mario Enrique Jascalevich (August 27, 1927 — September 1984), in 1976.
In 2006, New Jersey lawmakers drafted a moratorium on executions while a task force studied the fairness and cost of the death sentence. New Jersey had eight people on Death Row at the time. [5] On December 10, 2007, the New Jersey Senate passed a bill to repeal the current death penalty statute and replaced it with life imprisonment without ...
Prosecutors and investigators zeroed in on Miguel Solorio after an 82-year-old woman was shot and killed in 1998, but attorneys argued detectives ignored evidence that pointed to another man.
Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death by gas chamber and the first woman in Orange County, California, to get the death penalty. Alejandro Avila: Kidnap, rape and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. 19 years, 290 days Hector Ayala: Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 35 years, 92 days Ronaldo Ayala
Giovanni Hernandez and Miguel Solorio were both convicted of murders they said they had nothing to do with as teenagers. Their efforts to be exonerated finally came to fruition on Wednesday.
Gail F. Shollar (1957–1992) was a 35-year-old Piscataway, NJ mother who was raped and murdered after being carjacked from the Middlesex Shopping Mall in South Plainfield, NJ. She was one of the first people in New Jersey to be a victim of carjacking .
In 2021, when Mr Solorio was around the age of 42 and spending over two decades in prison, his attorney, Ellen Eggers, submitted an innocence claim to the CIU and the Northern California Innocence ...
On the afternoon of February 9, 2005, the body of 43-year-old Geetha Angara (born July 15, 1961 [1]) a chemist, was found in a water tank at the Passaic Valley Water Commission treatment facility in Totowa, New Jersey, United States, after the tanks had been drained. She had not been seen since the previous morning when she had gone to the ...