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Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
In 2002, a crime spree involving the murders of two women and one teenage girl occurred in the East End area of Houston, Texas. [1] The three perpetrators were two adult men and one teenage boy: Edgardo Rafael Cubas Matamoros [2] (born February 7, 1979), [3] a Honduran citizen; [4] Walter Alexander Sorto (born August 10, 1977), [5] a Salvadoran citizen; [4] and Eduardo Navarro, [3] a 15-year ...
From May to July 1999, four teenage girls from the Kingwood region of Houston, Texas, robbed four grocery stores and a bakery. [1] These stores were in Harris and Montgomery counties. The girls called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery", [2] and bought recreational drugs and body piercings with their money. [3]
The rapes and murders of Jennifer Lee Ertman and Elizabeth Christine Peña, two teenage girls from Houston, Texas, aged 14 and 16, respectively, occurred on June 24, 1993. The murder of the two girls made headlines in Texas newspapers due to the nature of the crime and the new law resulting from the murder that allows families of the victims to ...
Police also found two women inside the home with gunshot wounds, but they could not be revived and were pronounced dead at the scene at 7:30 p.m., the affidavit said. Police identified them as ...
A child in Houston, Texas is dead after authorities say the 19-month-old girl was placed in the oven by the baby's older siblings while being left home alone by the mother.
Ontario County woman Rose Chase, who in 2012 killed husband Adam, dismembered and destroyed his body, and lied about his whereabouts for months afterwards. 225 10
Entriken did make it out to Houston once before her grandson was tragically killed, spending some time in the area with her daughter, Caren Kohberger, Alijah and the baby’s father, Travis James ...