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Victims. 1–4. Lowell Edwin Amos (January 4, 1943 – January 5, 2022) was an American convicted murderer whose mother and three wives all died under suspicious circumstances. [1] He was convicted in 1996 of murdering his third wife, Roberta Mowery Amos, and was the subject of a 2006 Lifetime Network made-for-TV movie called Black Widower.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Indiana since its statehood. A total of 20 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.
The Black Axe member enter the student's residence killing and injuring sixteen people. In 2016, almost two dozen Black Axe members were arrested in Italy for "mafia conspiracy, drug trafficking, exploitation of prostitution and violent crimes." A year later, more Black Axe members were suspected in other sex trafficking activities in Italy.
Richard Alexander is an Indiana man who was wrongfully convicted of rape and later exonerated by DNA evidence. Years later, on September 17, 2020, Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. [1] Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander for domestic violence.
Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb said the state will resume executions for the first time in over a decade after acquiring a drug used for lethal injections. Holcomb said Wednesday that the ...
Billy the Axeman [4] (also referred to as the Ax-Man, [5] the Midwest Axeman, [6] and the Man from the Train [3]) was the name of a suspected serial killer thought to be responsible for a series of family murders that occurred mainly in the U.S. Midwest between September 1911 and June 1912. Attacks attributed to this killer are characterized by ...
J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American boys who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square. They had been arrested that night as suspects in a robbery, murder and rape case.
A white officer refused to arrest the murderer, and instead arrested a black man who complained about it. Robinson, Robert: African-American: Chicago: Cook: Illinois: 1919: He was black, and they wanted to kill a black: Robinson was an Army Reserve veteran. Ashley, Bob: African-American: Dublin: Laurens: Georgia: 1919: Hoped to shoot someone else