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List Of Homicides In Nevada
This is a list of homicides in Nevada. It includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Nevada that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. The list is divided into three sub-lists as follows: 1. Multiple homicides – homicides having multiple victims, including the worst mass shooting in American history (2017 Las Vegas shooting) and the 1981 Hilton arson 2. Serial killers – persons who murder three or more persons with the incidents taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them 3. Individual homicides – notable homicides involving a single fatality, including the Murder of Tupac Shakur and the murder of casino executive Ted Binion This article also does not include all people who have been executed in Nevada. Such persons are listed separately at List of people executed in Nevada The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Nevada. __NOTOC__ Between 1861 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homicide
Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no intent to cause harm. Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death. These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered crimes, while others are permitted or even ordered by the legal system. Criminality Criminal homicide takes many forms including accidental killing or murder. Criminal homicide is divided into two broad categories, murder and manslaughter, based upon the state of mind and intent of the person who commits the homicide. A report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Landsberry
Michael Terrence Landsberry (January 20, 1968 – October 21, 2013) was an American math teacher, Marine veteran, and Nevada Air National Guardsman who had served in the war in Afghanistan. During the Sparks Middle School shooting, he unsuccessfully attempted to reason with the shooter, Jose Reyes, before being shot and killed. Early life and education Landsberry was born in Birmingham, Alabama on January 20, 1968. Landsberry attended McQueen High School in Reno and lettered four consecutive years in swimming, soccer and cross country before graduating in 1986. After graduating, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. In 1996, he graduated from Truckee Meadows Community College with an associate degree in criminal justice and law enforcement. In 2000, he received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Nevada, Reno. He received a master's degree in education administration and supervision from the University of Phoenix in 2005. Military career After gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Stephen Middleton
David Stephen Middleton (born June 25, 1961), known as The Cable Guy, is an American former police officer, kidnapper, murderer, and suspected serial killer. Convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of two women in Nevada committed in 1994 and 1995, he is also the prime suspect in at least one additional murder in Colorado and rapes committed while serving in the Miami-Dade Police Department. Early life David Stephen Middleton was born on June 25, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts, the only son of a police officer. Little is known about his upbringing, but at some point during his life, Middleton moved to Miami, Florida, where he studied at a police academy and later applied for a job at the Miami-Dade Police Department. He was accepted sometime in 1981 and served as an officer in the Miami-Dade County area. Employment at Miami-Dade PD During his tenure at the Miami Police Department, Middleton used his position to pick up and rape vulnerable young women. Among his victims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brookey Lee West
Brookey Lee West (born June 28, 1953) is a convicted American murderer who is currently sentenced to life imprisonment at the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center for the murder of her mother, Christine Smith in February 1998. Though officially convicted of one murder she is suspected to have killed 3 people including her brother and husband. She was also suspected in the attempted murder of Diane Smith. Early life West grew up with her father, Leroy Smith, who taught her witchcraft, Satanism and violence from a young age. Her mother, Christine Smith, had numerous affairs and often neglected West and her brother, Travis Smith. Criminal career In 1993, Travis Smith disappeared. Though a body was never found, West was accused of having connections to Travis's disappearance after it was discovered that a man had checked into Santa Clara Valley Medical Center using Travis's social security number and the bill was sent to an address where West was residing. In 1994, West marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reno, Nevada
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the county seat and largest city of Washoe County, Nevada, Washoe County and sits in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. The Reno metro area (along with the neighboring city Sparks, Nevada, Sparks) occupies a valley colloquially known as the Truckee Meadows which because of large-scale investments from Greater Seattle and San Francisco Bay Area companies such as Amazon (company), Amazon, Tesla, Inc., Tesla, Panasonic, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Apple, and Google has become a new list of technology centers, major technology center in the United States. The city is named after Civil War Union Major General Jesse L. Reno, who was killed in action during the American Civil War at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Mack
Daryl Linnie Mack (August 28, 1958 – April 26, 2006) was an American man who was executed in Nevada for murder. Mack was sentenced to death for the October 1988 rape and murder of Betty Jane May in Reno. The murder went unsolved for twelve years until DNA evidence linked him to the crime. He was already in jail at the time, having been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the April 1994 murder of Kim Parks. He was sentenced to death, waived his appeals and asked to be put to death. Mack was executed via lethal injection at Nevada State Prison on April 26, 2006. He remains the last person executed in Nevada. Murders On October 28, 1988, the body of 55-year-old Betty Jane May was found in her basement room at a boarding house in Reno, Nevada. Her neighbor, Steven Floyd, found the body. An autopsy was carried out the next morning. Medical experts concluded that she had been raped and then strangled to death. The murder would go unsolved for twelve years. On April 8, 1994 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Basin Murders
The Great Basin Murders is the name given to a series of murders of at least nine women committed between 1983 and 1997 across the states of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. It derives its name from the Great Basin geographical area, as most of the victims had their bodies dumped near Interstate Highway System, interstate highways that transverse it. Most victims were teenage or adult females who were sexually assaulted then murdered - either by strangulation, stabbing, or shooting - and then abandoned on hilltops, deserted expanses, snowdrifts, or rivers. Some of their bodies were posed post-mortem. This initially led to speculation that all killings were the work of a single serial killer, who was nicknamed "The Great Basin Killer". This assertion has since been abandoned, as over the years it has been established that multiple unrelated serial killers operated in the area and that a majority of the killings were committed by different perpetrators. Of the nine murders linked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wayne Crump
Thomas Wayne Crump (1940 – June 14, 2018) was an American serial killer who murdered at least two women and one man between July and October 1980 in the states of New Mexico and Nevada. He was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment, but a few years later he escaped from prison and killed a fourth victim. He was later sentenced to death in Nevada but died while awaiting execution. Early life Thomas Wayne Crump was born in 1940 in Muncie, Indiana. In his teenage years, Crump teamed up with fellow teens Larry Morris and William Wagner, and formed a habit with them of stealing cars during the mid-1950s. In 1958, Crump was charged in his first serious crime, that of attempting to kill a woman who had a dispute with his mother in the past. A year later, Crump was accused of stealing four separate cars during the span of 48 hours. Crump avoided prison time for all of these offenses. In 1960, Crump and another man attempted to rob a man in the public bathroom o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Childs (serial Killer)
Terry Childs (September 22, 1955 – February 11, 2023) was an American serial killer serving several life sentences for the murders of at least five people in Nevada and California spanning from 1979 to 1985. While his true victim count is unknown, Childs himself claimed at one point to have killed 12 victims, and that he had been pressured into confessing after seeing the ghosts of the people he had killed. Biography Terry Childs was born on September 22, 1955, in Santa Clara County, California, into a family with six other children. He grew up in Aptos, where his father, Gary, worked as a bail bondsman. During his teenage years, Childs began to use a variety of drugs and alcoholic beverages, and by early 1970, had his first arrest for robbery. In subsequent years, he dropped out of school and would frequently spend time in jail for a variety of crimes, but was often given light sentences. He shared this trait with several of his brothers, who themselves were also petty crimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Burkett
Nathaniel Burkett (1946 – January 19, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist who was responsible for at least four murders in Nevada and one in Mississippi between 1978 and 2002. As a result of a DNA breakthrough in 2012, Burkett was charged with three of the murders, after having already been convicted of the other two. He pleaded guilty to the crimes in 2018 and was sentenced to life in prison, but he died just three years later from COVID-19. Early life Burkett's exact date of birth is not known. He used several different birthdays throughout his life, but what is known was that he was born sometime in 1946 in Picayune, Mississippi. Burkett spoke little about his childhood, other than he suffered from polio which later caused him to walk with a limp. Due to this, in his adult years he garnered the nickname "Criptoe". From 1965 until his arrest, Burkett resided between Mississippi and Las Vegas, Nevada. Murders Between 1976 and 1979, Burkett racked up numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carroll Cole
Carroll Edward Cole (May 9, 1938 – December 6, 1985) was an American serial killer who was executed in 1985 for killing at least fifteen women and one boy by strangulation between 1947 and 1980. He confessed to a total of 35 murders. Early life Carroll Cole was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the second son of LaVerne Cole (May 25, 1900 – February 5, 1975) and Vesta Cole (September 4, 1904 – January 27, 1984). His younger sister was born in 1939 and soon afterwards, his family moved to California, where LaVerne found work in a shipyard. Not long after that, LaVerne went to fight in World War II. While his father was away, his mother had several affairs and sometimes took Cole along to her rendezvous, threatening to beat him if he told his father. Vesta was emotionally abusive to Cole and dressed him as a girl. At school, he was teased about his "girl's name" by his peers. First murder At age 8, he retaliated against one of his classmates, a boy of the same age named Duane, by d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Shooting
On December 6, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Three people were killed, and three additional people were wounded. Two of the wounded were police officers. The perpetrator was killed in a shootout with police. Background The Frank and Estella Beam Hall is one of UNLV's instructional buildings and the primary building for the Lee Business School. The shooting occurred about from the Mandalay Bay casino, which six years earlier was the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Shooting The shooter, Tony Polito, arrived at the UNLV campus at around 11:30 a.m. PST and was armed with a legally purchased Taurus 9mm handgun and 11 loaded magazines. Fifteen minutes later, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received a call about a shooter in the Frank and Estella Beam Hall. Officers reportedly entered the hall after about a minute from the first 911 call. The shooter reportedly started on the fourth f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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