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Nov. 8—ODESSA — James Ratliff "Buzz" Hurt was the grandson of Ector County ranching pioneers Sarah Jane "Miss Sallie" Whittenburg Ratliff and Harvey Stewart "Bud" Ratliff. Miss Sallie and Bud ...
State (s) Texas. Date apprehended. August 20, 1987. Imprisoned at. Clements Unit. David Albert Dowler (born 1953) [1] is an American serial killer who poisoned three acquaintances in Odessa, Texas with chloroform and cyanide between 1983 and 1987. Convicted of a single murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988.
Lucio was the first woman of Hispanic descent in Texas to be sentenced to death. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary The State of Texas vs. Melissa. Otis McKane: Shooting of Benjamin Marconi. 3 years, 48 days Scott Panetti: Murder of his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Odessa (/ ˌ oʊ ˈ d ɛ s ə /) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County. [4]Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 34th-most populous city in Texas; it is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ector County.
Texas High School Hall of Fame. Gary Gaines (May 4, 1949 – August 22, 2022) was an American football coach. Gaines was the head coach of the 1988 Permian High School football team, which was the focus of Buzz Bissinger 's book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream and the 2004 motion picture Friday Night Lights starring Billy Bob ...
Website. www.co.ector.tx.us. Ector County Coliseum. Ector County Courthouse Administration annex building. Ector County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In the 2020 census, its population was 165,171. [1] Its county seat is Odessa. [2] The county was founded in 1887 and organized in 1891. [3]
He settled on Odessa, Texas. Permian High School and its football team, the Permian Panthers, had a substantial, rich history of winning in Texas' 4A and 5A divisions, [a] having won championships in 1965, 1972, 1980, and 1984. Bissinger moved his family to Odessa and spent the entire 1988 football season with the Permian Panther players, their ...
Noël worked to establish the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, which opened in Odessa with barely a thousand students in 1973. [3] In 1974, Noël and his wife, the former Ellen Witwer (March 21, 1914 – May 1, 2008), [2] with an initial outlay of $245,525, endowed the Ellen and Bill Noël Scholarship Fund at UTPB.