who killed lucy fryer of waco texas
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Lynching of Jesse Washington · May 16 ·. May 15, 1916: In what became a well-known example of racially motivated lynching, Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas. Washington was accused of raping and murdering Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but during his interrogation by the McLennan County sheriff he signed a confession and described the location of the murder weapon.
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- Henry, 63, was convicted in Pasco of stabbing his wife, Suzanne Henry, to death in Zephyrhills in 1985. This is the murder for which the governor has signed the death warrant, but it is not Henry's only crime.
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Henry Brisbon, Jr. Robbed and murdered a 29-year-old woman and an engaged couple with a shotgun after hitting their cars on Interstate 57 (June 3, 1973). Sentenced to 1,000-3,000 years in prison. Murdered a fellow inmate with a shank-a knife fashioned from a soup label (October 1978). WHY HE MIGHT BE ANNOYING.
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Surveillance video of suspect released after woman murdered at Texas church MIDLOTHIAN, Texas– A fitness instructor has been murdered at a North Texas church and investigators are seeking a person dressed as a police officer who was seen on security video. Midlothian police say the body of 45-year-old Terri “Missy” Bevers of Red Oak was found Monday by a student arriving for a class. Police say Bevers was about to teach an exercise class. Bevers, who was a married mother of three, was killed at Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, 20 miles southwest of Dallas. No cause of death was immediately released. Capt. John Spann says officers found broken glass on the floor and evidence of forced entry into the church, possibly for a burglary.
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Baby-faced Utah teen faces life in prison for driving while boyfriend shot and killed deputy, wounded another Utah County Deputy Sgt. Cory Wride was shot and killed in his patrol car while running the duo’s names through dispatch. He later died at a hospital and Grunwald was kept at a juvenile offender facility until prosecutors decided to charge her as an adult, the Deseret News reported.
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Tennessee man killed, dismembered and ate woman before burying leftover body parts: police Tennessee man killed, dismembered and ate woman before burying leftover body parts: police. Gregory Hale allegedly beheaded 36-year-old Lisa Marie Hyder, then cut off her hands and feet before placing them in buckets. Cops reportedly learned of his crime when he asked a friend for help in disposing of Hyder's body.
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- Source: Mother told police she killed her son, then her daughter, stashing their bodies in a stand-alone freezer. Buy Photo. Toni Williams, 28, left, and Natasha Bell, 30, leave balloons Wednesday morning at the town house in the Martin Luther King Apartments where two children were found dead in a freezer on Tuesday.
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- London knife attack: victim named as Darlene Horton. An American woman was killed and five other people injured when a teenager, who police believe was mentally ill, carried out a knife attack in central London on Wednesday, selecting his victims at random in a late-night assault.
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Husband who killed wife, claimed she told him to shoot her, gets 15 years in prison A Molalla man who killed his wife after shooting her in the face in January and claimed to an emergency dispatcher that she told him to do it was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison. Wayne Flues III, 54, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter on Monday.
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Louisiana cop was shot dead 'with his own weapon by his COUSIN - who had knifed his wife and her two friends in fatal stabbing spree' Officer Henry Nelson, 51, was shot dead after responding to a domestic violence call at the home of Harrison Lee Wiley Jr at 4.45pm Wednesday, according to Sunset Police Department. Wiley stabbed sisters Shameka Johnson, 40, and Surlay Johnson, 34, after they tried to protect Wiley's wife Courtney Jolivette while the pair were arguing, it is claimed.
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- Source: Mother told police she killed her son, then her daughter, stashing their bodies in a stand-alone freezer. Toni Williams, 28, left, and Natasha Bell, 30, leave balloons Wednesday morning at the town house in the Martin Luther King Apartments where two children were found dead in a freezer on Tuesday.
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Convict who beat Jeffrey Dahmer to death behind bars reveals he murdered the cannibal killer because he kept making severed limbs out of prison food to taunt other inmates Jeffrey Dahmer was sent to prison for life in 1994 after he admitted killing 17 men and boys, dismembering and eating some of his victims. Convicted killer Christopher Scarver was in same Wisconsin prison as him. Scarver beat Dahmer to death, smashing him over the head with metal bar.
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Aileen Wuornos - Totally Insane A Day Before Her Execution Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 -- October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that all of the killings were committed in self-defense.ileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 -- October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that all of the killings were committed in self-defense.
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Serial Killer Dies On Death Row Serial Killer Dies On Death Row. Alabama prison officials have announced the death of convicted serial killer Gerald Patrick Lewis who died on death row while awaiting execution. Lewis was convicted in Georgia and Alabama for killing several women, one of whom was killed in Douglas County. In 2004, a Douglas County jury sentenced Lewis to death for murder of Peggy Lynn Grimes, who was 8 months pregnant at the time of her death.
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Hijacked by grief Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy were close friends, both writers. Lucy died suddenly 18 months ago and Ann has since written an article and a book about her friend. What does such an intimate display of a loved one do to her family? Suellen Grealy, Lucy's sister, describes her sorrow and anger.
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Did Stephen Paddock follow UT Tower shooter Charles Whitmanâs playbook in Las Vegas? Charles Whitman, left, in 1966 before he killed 17 people at the University of Texas in Austin, and Stephen Paddock, right, in an undated family photo, who mimicked Whitman’s technique of shooting down into a crowd. (AP)
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'Truth and Beauty,' a Tale of Friendship In writer Lucy Grealy's 1994 memoir Autobiography of a Face, she told of the facial bone cancer that ravaged her jaw and the years of pain and treatment that followed: radiation, chemotherapy and dozens of surgeries. Lucy Grealy died in 2002 at age 39. She had spiraled into drug abuse and tried to kill herself several times. Her death was ruled an accidental overdose. Now, the novelist Ann Patchett has written her own memoir: the story of her friendship with Grealy.
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Doctor who performed abortions shot to death Doctor who performed abortions shot to death. (CNN) -- Dr. George Tiller, whose Kansas women's clinic frequently took center stage in the U.S. debate over abortion, was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita church Sunday morning, police said. Dr. George Tiller was one of the few U.S. physicians that performed late-term abortions. Wichita police said a 51-year-old man from the Kansas City, Kansas, area was in custody in connection with the slaying of Tiller, who was one of the few U.S. physicians who still performed late-term abortions.
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Izola Curry Izola Curry was an African-American woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. King survived Curry's attempt, and forgave her, but was killed less than ten years later in an unrelated incident.
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Texas Woman Lied About Home Invasion, Killed Her Husband: Police Texas Woman Lied About Home Invasion, Killed Her Husband: Police. A Texas woman found on Christmas Eve tied up inside her home along with her husband has been charged with his murder. Sandra Melgar, 52, of Houston, was charged with murdering her husband of 32 years, Jaime Melgar, in 2012. Police suspect that Melgar stabbed her husband with a knife, according to court documents.
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We Are the World Before the writing of We Are the World, American entertainer and social activist Harry Belafonte had sought for some time to have a song recorded by the most famous artists in the music industry at the time.
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- The Houston Chronicles Files. CORPUS CHRISTI -- Tejano music sensation Selena was shot to death Friday by a woman, identified as a former fan club president and ex-employee, who then threatened to kill herself and kept lawmen at bay for more than nine hours before surrendering.
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Heartbroken fiancee cradles her two-year-old son at funeral for Texas police officer who was killed in the line of duty just two days before his 31st birthday Scroll down for video. 1  A funeral was held for police officer Endy Ekpayna, who was killed in the line of duty, on Tuesday. 2  Endy Ekpayna (left) , who served on the Pearland Police Department in Texas, was killed when a driver, now charged with felony intoxication manslaughter, struck his patrol car on June 12.
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- THERE HAS TO be another way of dealing with mentally ill people other than shooting them, cried a distraught St Lucy family yesterday. Dwayne Husbands, of Trents, St Lucy, was killed by police following an altercation with police at his home.
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- Typical of Watters, his goal wasn't actually to get answers, but to morally browbeat his subjects. Dr. George Tiller, who was the victim of a concerted smear campaign by O'Reilly and others on Fox News, was assassinated by Scott Roeder in May 2009.Adam Johnson is an associate editor at AlterNet.ypical of Watters, his goal wasn't actually to get answers, but to morally browbeat his subjects. Dr. George Tiller, who was the victim of a concerted smear campaign by O'Reilly and others on Fox News, was assassinated by Scott Roeder in May 2009.
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- Christopher Scarver. Christopher J. Scarver (born July 6, 1969) is an American convicted murderer who gained notoriety for killing serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer at Columbia Correctional Institution, Portage, Wisconsin, in 1994.