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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.
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 ...
Kiss and Kill. " Kiss and Kill " refers to the March 20, 1961 homicide of Betty Williams, a teenager from Odessa, Texas, United States. She was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Mack Herring (September 23, 1943 [1] – January 5, 2019) at her own request in Winkler County, Texas. Herring was tried and acquitted for the killing after his lawyers ...
OPD honors fallen hero. Tribune. Odessa American, Texas. September 10, 2024 at 11:46 AM. Sep. 10—The Odessa Police Department Honor Guard had the privilege of attending the funeral this past ...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction book written by H. G. Bissinger. The book follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship.
A photograph of McClure's rescue by Scott Shaw of the Odessa American received the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. [9] ABC made a television movie of the story in 1989, Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, starring Beau Bridges and Patty Duke and featuring many participants from the actual rescue as extras.
Odessa, TX 79761-4590. United States. Circulation. 4,182 (as of 2023) [1] Website. oaoa.com. The Odessa American is a newspaper based in Odessa, Texas, that serves Odessa and the rest of Ector County. [2] The paper is particularly notable for its Pulitzer Prize -winning picture of Baby Jessica McClure when she was rescued from her well in ...
Odessa American, Texas. September 3, 2024 at 8:01 PM. Sep. 3—It looked for a while like the Permian Basin had relocated to Niagara Falls as record-breaking rains saturated the area.