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Randall Greenawalt (February 24, 1949 – January 23, 1997) [1] was an American serial killer and mass murderer.Originally sentenced to life imprisonment for two murders committed in 1974, Greenawalt later became notorious for escaping together with fellow murderer Gary Tison and his three sons from prison, embarking on a two-week killing spree through Arizona and Colorado that left six people ...
Last Rampage is a 2017 American crime drama film directed by Dwight Little.The screenplay by Alvaro Rodriguez and Jason Rosenblatt is based on the non-fiction book Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison by University of Arizona Political Science Professor James W. Clarke, and details the true story of Tison's 1978 prison escape and subsequent murders. [2]
Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court qualified the rule it set forth in Enmund v. Florida (1982). Just as in Enmund, in Tison the Court applied the proportionality principle to conclude that the death penalty was an appropriate punishment for a felony murderer who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibited a ...
A Killer in the Family is a 1983 American made-for-television crime film directed by Richard T. Heffron.The film is based on the Tison v.Arizona case, which took place in Arizona in 1978.
Gary Tison (1935–1978), gang leader and murderer; escaped in 1975; Executed. Clarence Dixon (1955–2022), murderer; executed by lethal injection [15]
The film deals with events that happened in 1978, when convicted murderer Gary Tison, played by Robert Patrick, escaped from prison with the help of his three sons. Heather Graham stars as his wife and Bruce Davison as the lawman who heads the manhunt. Little got the book from his stepson, actor Jason James Richter.
Once inside, two of the Tison brothers pulled out a shotgun from a cardboard box they had carried inside. The next day, the escapees murdered a family of four, including two children. After 12 days on the lam, Greenawalt and two of the Tison brothers were captured; [101] Gary Tison fled the scene but was later found dead. Greenawalt would be ...
Richard Tison: Alexandra Nicholson: 4 United States West Germany France: 1976: 9: Tulsa United States: Evgeni Janes & Richard Tison: Svetlana Levina: 8 United States Soviet Union France: 1978: 10: Newcastle Australia: Evgeni Janes: Tatiana Anismova: 8 United States Soviet Union West Germany: 1980: 11: Brig Switzerland: Stewart Matthews: Ruth ...