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Starkweather was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the fourth of seven children of Guy and Helen Arnold Starkweather. [12] The Starkweathers were a working-class family; Starkweather's father was a carpenter who was often unemployed due to rheumatoid arthritis in his hands; Helen worked as a waitress to supplement the family's income. [13]
Robert E. Williams (October 14, 1936 – December 2, 1997) was an American spree killer who, in August 1977, killed three women: one in Iowa and two in Nebraska. [1] He also nearly killed a fourth woman in Minnesota after raping her. Williams was sentenced to death in Nebraska and was executed in 1997 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary by ...
The Massacre Canyon battle took place in Nebraska on August 5, 1873, near the Republican River.It was one of the last hostilities between the Pawnee (Chaticks si Chaticks) and the Sioux (or Lakota) and the last battle/massacre between Great Plains Indians in North America. [2]
Cowan was born December 5, 1922, in Lincoln, Nebraska but grew up in Wichita, Kansas. ... He was killed by enemy fire the next day on December 17, 1944.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two off-duty police officers in Nebraska's largest city shot and killed two men in an SUV, though authorities have provided few details about the confrontation.
The district court agreed, but the state of Nebraska appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The appeals court overturned the district court decision, saying that he had clearly shown sadistic behavior by torturing Eberle and Walden. Joubert was executed on July 17, 1996, by the state of Nebraska in the electric ...
Two people have been arrested after Nebraska police say a man walked into a bowling alley with a shotgun and killed two men. Alias Reed, 25, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder ...
The first execution in Nebraska reportedly was of Cyrus Tator, a former Kansas Legislature member and judge in Lykins County, Kansas who was tried and convicted of murdering his business partner in 1863. [5] Before 1903, counties carried out executions until the state took over. Since Nebraska statehood in 1867, a total of 14 people have been ...