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Danette Elg
On July 18, 1984, in Blackfoot, Idaho, 31-year-old Danette Jean Elg (December 6, 1952 – July 18, 1984) was murdered in her home after being stabbed and slashed 15 times. Her killer, Richard Albert Leavitt (November 12, 1958 – June 12, 2012), also mutilated her body by removing her sexual organs. Elg's body was discovered several days after her murder. Leavitt was found guilty of murder and Capital punishment in Idaho, sentenced to death. Twenty-eight years later, on June 12, 2012, he was executed by lethal injection. Leavitt was the third person executed in Idaho since 1976 and remains the most recent person to be executed by the state. Murder and investigation On July 18, 1984, at her home in Blackfoot, Idaho, 31-year-old Danette Jean Elg, who was sleeping in her bedroom, was set upon by a male intruder, who used a knife to stab and slash her 15 times. The killer also mutilated her by chopping off her sexual organs. Some of the knife wounds inflicted upon Elg were found to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), Washington and Oregon to the west; the state shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border to the north with the Canadian province of British Columbia. Idaho's State capital (United States), state capital and largest city is Boise, Idaho, Boise. With an area of , Idaho is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 14th-largest state by land area. The state has a population of approximately two million people; it ranks as the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 13th-least populous and the List of U.S. states by population density, seventh-least densely populated of the List of US states, 50 U.S. states. For thousands of years, and prior to European colonization, Idaho had been inhabited by Native American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
