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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.
Rescue of Jessica McClure. Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986; widely known as " Baby Jessica " in 1987 [1]) fell into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987, at the age of 18 months. Over the next 56 hours, rescuers worked to free her from the 8 in (20 cm) well casing, about 22 ft (7 m) below grade. [1] [2]
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.. Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 28th-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 ...
Buster Welch. Fay Owen "Buster" Welch (May 23, 1928 – June 12, 2022) was an American cutting horse trainer and inductee into the NCHA Members Hall of Fame, American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, NCHA Rider Hall of Fame, and Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Buster was chosen as the recipient of the 2012 National Golden Spur Award for his "outstanding ...
Midland–Odessa shootings. On August 31, 2019, a spree shooting occurred in the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa, involving a gunman shooting multiple people from a vehicle. [3] Eight people were killed, including the perpetrator, and twenty-five people were injured, including three police officers. It was the third major mass shooting ...
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]
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.