A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
Lucas was convicted of first degree murder of two women and a three year old boy. In all the murders, Lucas used a knife to slash the throats of his victims. He inflicted great bodily pain on all his victims with the knife according to reports. Some of the victims were nearly decapitated.
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The day of the murders the Jacobs were expecting a delivery of new furniture set. Michael woke up early in the morning to start his daily routine and left for work at 6:00 am. Margaret Harris, a neighbor and friend, testified that she did not see Suzanne outside her house as she would normally do every morning. Harris, finding this weird decides to call Suzanne at around 11:00 am, but there was no answer, so she assumes Suzanne must have left early to do errands. Later that day, the delivery man arrives at the Jacobs residency to find that no one would answer the front door. As he waited outside for about 10 minutes, the only sign of life that he heard coming from the house was from their two dogs in the backyard which were barking insistently, so he decides to leave the furniture set on the front lawn and leaves. The friendly neighbor Harris, finds herself looking outside her window to see “dinette” furniture scattered all around the front porch. She found this extremely
On January 11, 1960 in Tecumseh, Michigan, Henry Lee Lucas killed his mother Viola Lucas during an argument in the house.
Anthony Hanemaayer was exonerated on June 25th, 2008 for being wrongfully convicted of assaulting a teenage girl on September 29, 1987, consequently being humiliated and wrongfully jailed for 16 months. Leading him to ask “What Life” has he been left with.
Marcellus Williams, had an extensive criminal record, and was incarcerated for an unrelated crime. In 1999, Williams' cellmate Henry Cole was released from prison,
Never in the sport of boxing has there ever been a photograph as powerful and amazing as Neil Leifer’s photo of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston. Not only is it one of the greatest boxing photographs of all time, but in all sports. Neil Leifer’s photography shows the strength and power of Ali after he just knocked out Sonny Liston in the WBA/WBC Heavyweight Championship rematch.
This case was about a couple, Laci and Scott Peterson who everyone thought they had a good life together, good jobs, nice cars, a golden retriever, a new house, and even a new baby on the way. Scott Peterson began to become unhappy and did not want that new baby with all the stress going on, and instead of getting a divorce he decided to kill his own wife and unborn son!
In Oklahoma, a man named Richard Gossip got sentenced to be put to death for a crime he said that he did not commit in 1997. In 1997, Gossip was convicted of demanding and ordering the brutal beating of Barry Van Treese. Barry Van Treese was a man who owned a motel where the inmate, Richard Gossip worked. According to “evidence”, Gossip hired another young coworker of the motel, Justin Steed, to brutally beat and kill Treese.
David Taylor is a 3 time all American. He’s one of the most dedicated wrestlers in Penn State history. Once you watch him wrestle you become an instant wrestling fan his motion his non-stop. He wrestles with passion. David has a national title also a Hodge trophy going into his final year as a Nittany lion. David has had a pretty good summer, making the U.S national freestyle team and the World University Games team. Taylors record is 34-0. He graduated this year. He’s known as magic man when hes on the mat. He ended his college career of 134-3.
In the fall of 2010 Ryan Morton was preparing for the most important game of his young hockey career. He will make his first start for the Stl Blues. He has be practicing tirelessly for the last 10 year of his life for this game. He was the star of his high school hockey team in Canada. He has not always been this good though. In youth hockey he was told he was to small and would never be a great player. So he worked on his game day and night to improve. He went to college and played hockey. He was taken with the 3rd pick in the 2009 draft. He will make his first game today.
James B Davis (Jim) passed away peacefully in the care of Clarehouse, Dec. 12,2016. Born Jan 12, 1933 in Tulsa, he built a life in Bixby with his wife & children.
Prison is mostly for the criminals. Some people serve time and are able to leave, while
It was summer hot and humid July but all was not well for homicide was in the air. Jeremy Ringquist had, after a divorce and begin unemployed, had taken up residence with his parents once again. Thirty-eight years of age Jeremy, was charged with the death of his parents and attempting to hide the bodies in a freezer.
Because the murder of Richard Malloy seemed to everyone to be a random criminal act, it came as a surprise to many when another male body, also shot several times was found in a wooded area of Citrus County, Fl not far from where Malloy’s body had been found barely six months prior. The victim was identified as 43 year old David Spears of Sarasota, Fl. His truck was soon discovered on Interstate 75, unlocked with the license plate missing. Around the same time, 30 miles south of Citrus county another naked body was discovered a short distance off of the Pasco county side of Interstate 75. The victims’ entire body was so decomposed that the medical examiners could not obtain any usable prints to use for identification. They did, however, find that the victim, later identified as Charles Carskaddon, had been shot nine times with a 22. During the next six months more male victims, with a total of eight, were killed and disposed of in similar ways, each somewhere around the Interstate 75 corridor.
The night of September 13, 1986, Jonathan Nobles was consumed with a combination of drugs and alcohol when he broke into the house of Mitzi Johnson-Nalley and Kelly Farquar. Nobles brutally stabbed both Nalley and Farquar more than 20 times to death. He severely wounded Nalley’s date, Ron Ross, who barely survived with a lost eye and 19 stab wounds. During the time of the attack, Nobles was on parole for about 4 months. He was also employed by the Central Texas Crime Prevention Association of Round Rock. A week after he escaped the night of the murder scene, the police had enough physical evidence to put him in custody. That is when he confessed and showed all the evidence he had hidden. He said he did not remember everything that happened the night of the murders because of his impairment from drugs and alcohol. In 1987, Nobles was found guilty and placed on death row for the murder of Nalley and Farquer. Nobles was not rehabilitated. He knew right from wrong given that he was on parole for theft and employed at a crime prevention association, he showed no remorse when he plead insanity at his trial, and he used the media to convince the public that he changed.
On November 13, 1974, in the house at 112 Ocean Ave., Amityville, 24-year-old Ronald DeFeo murdered his family. DeFeo used a high-powered rifle, shot to death his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters. All six members of Ronald DeFeo’s family were killed as they slept and all, said police, were found lying in the same position, on their stomachs with their heads resting on their arms.
It was midnight when it all happened. Tom Peterson was sleeping in bed next to his wife after a tiring day at work, while his two little daughters slept in the next room. Suddenly he was violently awakened by the terrified screams of his wife only to get a glance of a huge man standing over him with a butcher's knife. Tom was stabbed thirteen times, one of his daughters was killed and his wife was severely injured. Now, the Peterson family has just exited the supreme court of justice in which the judge has condemned the murderer of their little girl to the death penalty, for as it turns out the Peterson family had not been the first victim of this murderer.