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The fire started at 10:00 PM, when the perpetrator put a mattress against a door, and then set it up in flames. [1] The death toll rose to nine by November 3. [2] Two more bodies were located by November 6, bringing the death toll to eleven.
Reno: 2006-07-11: Member of Nevada Assembly killed with drugs by her fourth husband [33] Murder of Brianna Denison: Reno: 2008-01-20: 19-year-old college student visiting Reno from Santa Barbara, California, raped and strangled by James Biela [19] Rhoshii Wells: Las Vegas: 2008-08-11: Boxer and Olympic medalist shot and killed [34] Jeff German ...
Dean died July 17, 1974, at age 64 in Reno, Nevada, of a heart attack, and was buried in the Bond Cemetery. [33] Dean's home in Bond was named Deanash, a combination of his name and his wife's maiden name (Nash); it was willed by Dean's wife to the Mississippi Baptist Convention, which operates foster homes for children in a rural setting. [34]
A cloud of mystery hangs over the deaths of a Nevada couple who were found dead in their hotel room in the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas.. Nick and Lindsay Jordan, from the Reno suburb of ...
Daryl Linnie Mack (August 28, 1958 – April 26, 2006) [1] was an American man who was executed in Nevada for murder. Mack was sentenced to death for the October 1988 rape and murder of Betty Jane May in Reno. [2] The murder went unsolved for twelve years until DNA evidence linked him to the crime.
Mary Edith Silvani (September 29, 1948 – July 17, 1982), known as "Sheep's Flat Jane Doe" and "Washoe County Jane Doe" while unidentified, was an American woman found shot to death near Lake Tahoe in Washoe County, Nevada in July 1982. She was unidentified for 37 years, the investigation becoming a cold case. The Washoe County Sheriff's ...
Born as Mary Daisy Allen at the St. Clair Station in Churchill County, Nevada on March 31, 1873, Mary Daisy White was a daughter of American pioneer settlers Lemuel S. Allen (1839-1918) and Sarah Ann (Peugh) Allen (1839-1926) and a sibling of Lemuel L. Allen (1875-1962) and Sarah Elizabeth (Allen) Coniff (1877-1961), who was known to family and friends as "Bess."
Carrie Dann (1932 – January 1, 2021) was a Western Shoshone spiritual elder and activist for land and tribal rights. [8]On April 1, 2007, Carrie Dann was arrested with 38 other activists for trespassing at the Nevada Test Site at a Nevada Desert Experience event protesting governmental programs at the site.