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Joseph Edward Corcoran (April 18, 1975 – December 18, 2024) was an American convicted mass murderer who was executed for a quadruple murder case in Indiana. Corcoran was found guilty of the 1997 murders of his brother, his sister's fiancé, and two of their friends at his house in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and he was sentenced to death in 1999.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 21 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Indiana in the United States since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977. Before 1995, electrocution was the sole method of execution.
April Marie Tinsley (March 18, 1980 [2] – April 1, 1988) was an eight-year-old girl from Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in 1988. Her killer left several anonymous messages and notes in the Fort Wayne area between 1990 and 2004, openly boasting about April's murder and threatening to kill again.
In Summit County, 216 residents died last year from unintended drug overdose deaths, down from 230 in 2022 and a high of 298 in 2016, according to the state report.
Joseph Corcoran, who was convicted of a quadruple homicide in 1997, was executed in Indiana early Wednesday, state prison officials announced, marking Indiana’s first execution in 15 years.
Majors was born in Linton, Indiana, in 1961.He took care of his elderly grandmother as a teen, and that experience led him to go into nursing. [3] He graduated from Nashville Memorial School of Practical Nursing in 1989 and took a job at Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, north of Terre Haute.
The Vanderburgh County Coroner's Office determined Hacker's death was "natural" and the result of exertional sickling and sickle cell trait, a fact that spurred the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's ...
Dennis served as the prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Indiana from 1939 to 1943. He enlisted in the United States Army and served from 1944 to 1946. He was commissioned a first lieutenant, JAG department, and served in the Pacific Theater. He was elected state representative from Wayne County to the Indiana General Assembly and served ...