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On January 5, 1990, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, 19-year-old Leann Marion Whitlock (November 30, 1970 – January 5, 1990), an African-American sophomore at James Madison University, was kidnapped by two White men outside a shopping mall and later murdered by her abductors, Ronald Lee Henderson and Thomas "Tommy" David Strickler (August 5, 1965 – July 21, 1999), the latter of whom was the ...
The Virginia Department of Corrections, under scrutiny over the death of an inmate that raised broader questions about conditions at a southwest Virginia prison, is refusing to release public ...
The facility, which received its first prisoners in 1800 and was completed (with using prison labor) in 1804, (earlier than the current oldest state prison in America, the still standing Eastern State Penitentiary (1829-1971) in Philadelphia and seven years before the neighboring Maryland Penitentiary (now Metropolitan Transitional Center and ...
James Terry Roach (February 18, 1960 – January 10, 1986) was the second person to be executed by the state of South Carolina following the 1976 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorizing the use of capital punishment by the states.
The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as “a possible victim of a crime,” the agency said in a document reviewed ...
Angela Patton has devoted her career to listening to the needs of young girls. Over a decade ago, the CEO of the nonprofit Girls For a Change and founder of Camp Diva Leadership Academy helped ...
Roache has appeared on popular television shows such as Cold Blood and Four Seasons before going on to join the cast of Coronation Street alongside his father and older brother as part of a storyline surrounding Ken Barlow and his long-lost son, played by his real-life son Linus. The characters were introduced as part of the soap's fiftieth ...
Hamilton man Dennis Bowman, recently convicted of the murders of his 14-year-old daughter and a Virginia woman, has been returned to Virginia to serve his prison sentences there.