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  2. David Dowler - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Kiss and Kill - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Odessa American - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Bill Noël - Wikipedia

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    Noël died of cancer in Odessa at the age of seventy-two. His wife died in her Odessa home twenty years later. Ellen Witwer Noël Ellen Noël Art Museum in Odessa. On May 24, 1937, Noël married Ellen Witwer, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a graduate of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

  6. Ina Ray Hutton - Wikipedia

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    Ventura, California, U.S. Genres. Jazz, big band. Occupation (s) Singer, bandleader. Years active. 1926–1968. Ina Ray Hutton (born Odessa Cowan; March 13, 1916 – February 19, 1984) [1] was an American singer, bandleader, and the elder sister of June Hutton. [2] She led one of the first all-female big bands .

  7. Chris Kyle - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Doc Severinsen - Wikipedia

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    Instrument (s) Trumpet. Years active. 1946–2022. Labels. Command, RCA Victor, Amherst, Telarc. Website. www .docseverinsen .com. Carl Hilding " Doc " Severinsen (born July 7, 1927) is an American retired jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson .

  9. Gary Gaines - Wikipedia

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    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 ...