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The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. [1]: 64 The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch ...
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Sagamore Farm was a Glyndon, Maryland breeding farm with full training facilities. Hired in 1925, the operation was owned by Margaret Emerson, heiress to the Bromo-Seltzer fortune and widow of the also wealthy Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who lost his life when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.
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The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 15 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
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A Texas woman accused of murdering her grandmother said she was suffering from psychosis when she beat the victim with a hammer. Now, a San Antonio judge is deciding her fate.