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Dead bodies of the Ruggles brothers discovered by Redding residents, 1892. John Ruggles on the left, Charles Ruggles on the right. A trial was set for July 28, 1892. [5] On July 24, an armed mob of masked men (approximately 40-75 men) stormed the jail, blew open the safe that held the jail keys, dragged the brothers out of their cell, John Ruggles offered to reveal the stolen loot’s location ...
Gary Matson (April 6, 1949 — July 1, 1999) and Winfield Mowder (May 30, 1959 — July 1, 1999) were a gay couple from Redding, California, who were murdered by white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams. The Williams brothers confessed to killing the couple because they were gay.
In August 2020, she stood by her story when a federal agent and a detective from the Shasta County Sheriff's Office questioned her. She received over $30,000 from the California Victim Compensation Board between 2017 and 2021. On March 3, 2022, Papini was arrested on federal charges arising from her fabrication of the abduction; she had ...
Herbert Johnson "went to the chair quietly" on July 23, 1931, according to this entry in the personal diary of executioner Robert G. Elliott, who recorded notes on the 387 people he put to death ...
Tera Smith disappeared during the early evening hours on Aug. 22, 1998, after leaving her rural Tarcy Way home just north of Redding dressed to go jogging.
Robert Edward Maury (born February 24, 1958) is an American serial killer who strangled three women to death in Shasta County, California, from 1985 to 1987. After each murder, Maury anonymously called into a tip line to tell detectives where the bodies were located, leading to him being dubbed The Tipster Killer .
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California is one of four federal judicial districts in California. [2] Court for the District is held at the Robert E. Coyle U.S. Courthouse in Fresno and Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse in Sacramento.
Jean E. Simpson (née Morris) (1950): [296] First female lawyer (who was a lieutenant) to be assigned to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California (1951) [Solano County, California] Rosalie M. Woods: [ 297 ] First female prosecutor in Solano County (upon becoming a Deputy District Attorney at the District Attorney's Office)