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In 1982, 19-year-old Rebecca Lynn Williams, mother of three, was raped and murdered in Culpeper, Virginia.In 1983 in neighboring Fauquier County, Virginia, Earl Washington Jr., a black man with a major intellectual disability, [2] was arrested for and admitted to breaking into the home of and wounding a neighbor during a drunken dispute.
Perpetrator of the 1990 Happy Land fire in which 87 people died. The amount of years Gonzalez was sentenced to comes from the 174 counts he was found guilty of, each of which carried at least 25 years, and was denied parole in 2015. [29] He died of a heart attack the following year. [30] James Kevin Pope 2008 4,060 years United States
McCartney, Martha W. (1977) James City County: Keystone of the Commonwealth; James City County, Virginia; Donning and Company; ISBN 0-89865-999-X "Cast Down Your Buckets Where You Are" An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station 1865-1918
A Virginia prosecutor last week charged seven Henrico County sheriff’s deputies and three staff members at the hospital with second-degree murder. They were indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday.
They served their sentences but their convictions were set aside in 2002 when DNA evidence cleared them and another man confessed to the crime. [ 23 ] John Bunn was one of 15 individuals whose convictions were overturned during 2013–2019 after long prison terms, in Brooklyn homicide cases involving the retired New York City Police Department ...
Floyd Allen (July 5, 1856 – March 28, 1913) was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia.He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout the previous year that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and two others dead, although the validity of the conviction has been a source of debate within Carroll County for ...
Roger Keith Coleman (November 1, 1958 – May 20, 1992) was an American convicted murderer and rapist who was executed on May 20, 1992, for the rape and murder of his 19-year-old sister-in-law, Wanda Faye McCoy, at her home in Grundy, Virginia on the night of March 10, 1981.
Deputies and hospital employees restrained Otieno, who became unresponsive and died. Deputies and Otieno arrived just before 4 p.m., and Virginia State Police were called to investigate his death around 7:30 p.m. [5] Cabell Baskervill stated that Otieno was held on the ground in handcuffs and leg irons for twelve minutes. She also said that ...