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Along with her husband Ivan, Gonzales was convicted of the 1995 scalding death of her 4-year-old niece, Genevieve Rojas. She was convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture and mayhem. They are the first married couple in California on death row for the same crime. 26 years, 5 months and 25 days
George Washington Vanderbilt, John Singer Sargent, 1890 George W. Vanderbilt II was the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam. Though there is no evidence to suggest that he referred to himself using a numerical suffix, various sources have called him both George Washington Vanderbilt II and III.
Carpenter is known as the Trailside Killer. He is suspected in the murders of at least three other women and he was found guilty of two additional murders. He is the oldest death row inmate in California. Dean Carter: Raped and strangled four women in April 1984. 34 years, 315 days Steven David Catlin: Poisoned two of his wives and his adoptive ...
The trial judge upheld the jury's verdict and sentenced Alfaro to death. [5] Alfaro was the first woman sentenced to death in the gas chamber, and at the time of sentencing was the third woman on death row in California. [6] In August 2007, the California Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold Alfaro's death sentence. [7]
Because nearly all of California inmates with capital sentences have been moved off of Death Row and placed in regular high-security prisons — such as California State Prison, Sacramento, near ...
After Governor Pete Wilson decreed in December 1991 that CCWF shall hold all female death row inmates in California, Maureen McDermott became the first death row inmate at CCWF. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] She was the first woman sentenced to death in a period of several decades, and at one period, she was the only person in the unit. [ 25 ]
George Vanderbilt was married four times throughout his life. His first marriage was in 1935, [ 5 ] when he married Lucille "Lulu" Miriam Parsons (1912–2013). [ 6 ] Lulu was born in Montclair, New Jersey and her father, J. Lester Parsons, founded the international re-insurance firm of Crum & Forster in 1896. [ 7 ]
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