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Kevin Cooper (born Richard Goodman; January 8, 1958) [1] is an American man currently imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison 's death row. [2] Cooper was found guilty of four murders in the Chino Hills area of California in 1983. Cooper's conviction has garnered repeated attention from both Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times [3] and Erin ...
San Quentin Rehabilitation Center ( SQ ), formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, [2] is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated [3] place of San Quentin in Marin County . Established in 1852, and opening in 1854, [4] San Quentin is the oldest ...
Rampart scandal. The Rampart scandal was a police corruption scandal which unfolded in Los Angeles, California, United States, during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The scandal concerned widespread criminal activity within the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department 's Rampart ...
William Lester Suff (born Bill Lee Suff; August 20, 1950), also known as The Riverside Prostitute Killer and The Lake Elsinore Killer, is an American serial killer. Early crimes [ edit ] In 1974, a Texas jury convicted Suff and his then-wife, Teryl, of beating their two-month-old daughter to death. [1]
Randy Steven Kraft (born March 19, 1945) is an American serial killer and rapist known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler, and the Freeway Killer, who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of sixteen young men between 1972 and 1983, the majority of whom he killed in California. Kraft is also believed to ...
Stanley Tookie Williams III [1] [2] (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang. During the 1970s, Williams was the de facto leader ...
November 8, 2023 at 10:18 PM. Nov. 8—Over 30 years after the Lindhurst High School school shooting, 52-year-old death row inmate Eric Houston is filing another appeal, claiming that a ...
William Paul "Bud" Thompson (May 2, 1938 – June 19, 1989) was an American criminal, spree killer, and self-described serial/contract killer. Convicted for three murders committed between March and April 1984 in California and Nevada , he later confessed to three additional murders (which remain unsubstantiated) in three other states. [1]