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John David Smith III (born April 2, 1951) is an American murderer convicted in 2001 of killing his first wife in 1974 and also has been indicted on charges for the 1991 murder of his second wife. Skull fragments found in a locker owned by him belong to a third unidentified woman; they're the basis of an ongoing " Jane Doe " inquiry.
From 1986 to 1990, Wright appeared in the sitcom ALF as Willie Tanner, a typical father of a middle-class family, who finds an alien who has crash-landed on Earth. Despite becoming his best-known performance, the actor despised the role due to its huge technical demands and the fact that he, a human, played a supporting character for an "inanimate object".
Murder-Rape Willie Mae Benton, 14, white [423] 136 Flem Griffis White 30 August 8, 1949 Nassau: Murder John Calvin Graham, white (ex-wife's brother) [424] [ag] 137 Henry Tillman White 51 June 5, 1950 Duval: Murder Frank Wood, white [425] 138 George Wolfork Jr. Black 28 January 8, 1951 Bradford: Murder-Robbery Dave Silcox, white [426] 139 L. D ...
After Fran Smith vanished in 1991, her husband’s dark secrets began to unravel. In the three decades since, John Smith, 73, was convicted of killing his first wife in Ohio years earlier, in a ...
Thomas F. "Tanner" Smith (c. 1887 – July 26, 1919) was an American criminal and gang leader in New York City during the early 20th century. He was the founder and leader of the Marginals, or "Irish Paddy Gang", which was active in Greenwich Village and along the Hudson River waterfront from around the turn of the 20th century until his murder in 1919. [1]
The founding of Skagway, a port town on the Inside Passage in Alaska's panhandle, in December 1897, attracted western crime boss Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith and his gang of confidence men, as the town was the primary American starting point leading to the White Pass Trail and ultimately the Klondike gold fields, which had been discovered in 1896 and triggered a massive gold rush in the ...
Parole Board Chairman Mobley Howell said of Smith's case, "There can be no doubt John Eldon Smith was a willing and active participant in the crime of murder." [20] Smith's execution was scheduled to take place on December 15, 1983, at 8:00 a.m., which, according to a former prison guard who was staffed to work at Smith's execution, attracted ...
The last hanging in the state was that of Nathan Lee, a man convicted of murder and executed in Brazoria County on August 31, 1923. The law was changed in 1923 requiring executions be carried out on the electric chair and that they take place at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .