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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Gerke says OPD has cracked Swinney cold case. May 2—More than four years after the shooting death of a 42-year-old Odessan, the Odessa Police Department held a Thursday news conference to detail ...
Christopher Scott Kyle was born on April 8, 1974, in Odessa, Texas, the eldest of two boys born to Deborah Lynn ( née Mercer) and Wayne Kenneth Kyle, a Sunday school teacher and deacon. [3] [10] His father bought Kyle his first rifle at the age of eight, a bolt-action .30-06 Springfield rifle, and later a shotgun, with which they hunted deer ...
Apr. 6—United Way of Odessa presented American Momentum Bank with the Spotlight Award during an event at the MCM Grandé Hotel and FUNDome in Odessa on February 27. Hosted by United Way of ...
Boobie Miles. James Earl " Boobie " Miles Jr. (born April 16, 1970) [1] is a former high school football running back for Permian High School, and was a primary subject in the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger, and the movie inspired by the book. He attended Permian High School in Odessa, Texas.
Murder of Sylvia Likens. / 40.046134; -86.454622. Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before ...