Location |
Defendant(s) |
Date of Alleged Crime |
Pinellas
County, FL |
George Lewis |
May 23, 1984 (Gulfport) |
George Allen Lewis was convicted
of the rape and murder of a 36-year-old neighbor, Karen Gregory. Gregory
lived at the corner of 27 Ave. and Upton St. in Gulfport, FL. Around 1 a.m.
on May 23, 1984, more than a dozen of Gregory's neighbors heard a loud
piercing scream. Most paid little attention, but on the morning of the 24th,
Gregory was found raped and brutally murdered. When interviewed later,
Lewis said that upon hearing the scream he walked towards Gregory's house to
investigate, but turned around after he failed to see anything suspicious.
Lewis was a firefighter and a neighborhood crime watch volunteer. He had a
crime watch sign in his yard. Lewis had a sterling reputation and was
friends with the case investigator, Detective Larry Tosi.
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Genesee
County, MI |
Sharee Miller |
Nov 9, 1999 (Flint) |
While married to a different man,
Sharee Miller had an online romance with an ex-police detective, Jerry
Cassaday, from Reno, Nevada, whom she met on the Internet. Sharee had told
him numerous lies such as being wealthy. She had also traveled to Reno five
times and had a physical affair. In her emails, she said she was married to
a terminally ill husband, Jeff, who would die soon and that they could be
together soon. Then she told him her husband died, but she had to marry his
brother, Bruce, because of family pressure. She twice told Jerry she was
pregnant with his child.
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Essex County,
NJ |
Bill MacFarland |
Oct 17, 1911 (Newark) |
William Allison MacFarland, also
known as “Bill,” took cyanide home from the plant where he worked. He used
it to make a solution of the poison for his wife, who had used it to clean
her jewelry and silverware. Bill explained he had taken an almost empty
bromide bottle and poured the contents into another bromide bottle, which
was almost full. He then funneled the poison solution into the now empty
bromide bottle. To avoid any possible confusion, he affixed a poison label
on the bromide bottle containing the cyanide. Bill then placed both bottles
on a bathroom shelf.
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York County, PA |
Kevin Brian Dowling |
Oct 20, 1997 |
Kevin Brian Dowling was sentenced to death for the murder of 44-year-old Jennifer Lynn
Myers. Myers had been robbed at her frame shop and art gallery 14
months prior to her murder. At the time of the robbery, Dowling was
a General Manager for a restaurant company. To attend training he
had driven past the scene of the robbery 45 minutes before it occurred, and
again 15 minutes after it occurred. Myers said the assailant wore a
dark cap and aviator style sunglasses. Myers also said the assailant
was left-handed and had a military or police demeanor. The assailant
told her that he had just gotten out of prison and did not want to go back.
Dowling is right-handed, had no military or police training, had no prior
convictions, had never been imprisoned, and did not own any clothing that
matched the assailant's. He was also 10 years younger, 5 inches
taller, and 20 pounds heavier than Myers' description of her assailant.
However, he did have a pair of aviator style sunglasses at his home.
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Salt Lake County, UT |
Joe Hill |
Jan 10, 1914 |
“Just before 10 pm on the night of
10 January, 1914, John Morrison, a Salt Lake City, Utah, grocer and a former
policeman, was closing his store with his two sons, Arling and Merlin.
Two men wearing red bandannas forced their way into the store. One of
the intruders shouted 'we've got you now', levelled a handgun and shot
Morrison. Arling Morrison grabbed his father's old service revolver
and fired two shots at the masked men, who returned fire and fled the scene.
Merlin, the younger child, stayed hidden in the back of the store.”
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Snohomish
County, WA |
Indle King |
Sept 22, 2000 (Mountlake Terrace) |
Indle Gifford King, Jr. was
convicted of murdering his 20-year-old mail order bride, Anastasia
Solovieva, who was from Krygyzstan in the former Soviet Union. King had met
Anastasia through a magazine that advertised foreign women to prospective
American men. A boarder, Daniel Larson, who rented a room in King's house,
led police to her shallow grave. At the time Larson had been arrested for
sexually assaulting a Ukrainian immigrant teenager. Larson said King had
told him he murdered Anastasia and showed him where he buried her body.
Larson later claimed he murdered King's wife under orders from King. King
had no criminal record while Larson had a history of violence, sexual
assault, and mental illness. In addition, Larson wrote a letter to a cult
leader, Christopher Turgeon, in which he stated that he killed Anastasia
alone.
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