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Karl Myers
Karl Lee Myers (March 29, 1948 – December 28, 2012) was an American murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer. Convicted and capital punishment, sentenced to death for two separate murders in Oklahoma, committed in 1993 and 1996 respectively, he was also acquitted of a 1978 killing in Kansas and remained a suspect in several other murders. Myers remained on death row for the remainder of his life, dying behind bars in 2012 without being executed. Early life and crimes Karl Lee Myers was born on March 29, 1948, in Picher, Oklahoma. Reportedly suffering from organic brain damage since birth, he was struck by a car in 1953, leading to the formation of a blood clot that caused him to suffer from severe headaches and nervousness for the rest of his life. Myers' mother, described as a possessive woman who made all the major decisions for him, frequently brought various boyfriends to the house who then emotionally and physically abused the young boy in drunken stupors. In later in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picher, Oklahoma
Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States. It was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the heart of the Tri-State Mining District. The decades of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as chat) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of the cave-in risks, groundwater contamination, and health effects associated with the chat piles (children playing on the piles and putting it in their sandboxes, as they did not know the toxic danger) and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1980 in the Tar Creek Superfund Site by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The state collaborated on mitigation and remediation measures, but a 199screeningresult found that 34% of the children in Picher suffered from lead poisoning due to these environmental effects. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
