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"Tom Dooley" is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous murder ballads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the ...
The oldest of the girls, Mary Rachel Trlica (née Arnold), was aged 17 at the time of her disappearance.She is known to go by her middle name of Rachel. She was a white female who, at the time, was 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) in height, 108 pounds (49 kg), with long brown hair, green eyes, a chipped upper front tooth, and a small scar on her chin.
The time was approaching 3 p.m., and they were to be in Meridian by 4 p.m. The CORE station wagon had barely passed the Philadelphia city limits when one of its tires went flat, and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Ray Price turned on his dashboard-mounted red light and followed them. [9] The trio stopped near the Beacon and Main Street fork.
Murder of Shakira Spencer. Shakira Spencer (13 June 1987 – September 2022) was a 35-year-old mother-of-two from Ealing, west London, who was tortured and murdered by three people she considered to be her friends. Spencer, who was considered to be a vulnerable adult, was befriended, then abused by Ashana Studholme, Lisa Richardson and Shaun ...
The West Memphis Three photographed after their arrest in June 1993. The West Memphis Three are three men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to ...
For the first time in more than 20 years, ... During his five-month-long murder trial that ended in November 2004, prosecutors described Scott as a man who regretted that he was soon to become a ...
Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony. [ 1] In 2017, Peterson submitted an Alford plea ...
Three men charged with the murder of a 68-year-old New Zealand woman dragged to her death during an attempted robbery at Newport Beach’s Fashion Island mall appeared in a Santa Ana courtroom ...