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Robert E. Williams (murderer)
Robert E. Williams (October 14, 1936 – December 2, 1997) was an American spree killer who, in August 1977, killed three women: one in Iowa and two in Nebraska. He also nearly killed a fourth woman in Minnesota after raping her. Williams was sentenced to death in Nebraska and was executed in 1997 at the Nebraska State Penitentiary by electric chair. He was the last person executed in Nebraska via electrocution. Early life Williams was born on October 14, 1936, in East Chicago, Indiana. He had five brothers and one sister. Both Williams and his siblings claimed their father was a violent alcoholic who abused his wife and children. When Williams was still young, his mother abandoned the family and he and his siblings were separated by welfare officials. From the age of 14, he lived in a succession of foster homes. He enlisted into the army but was honorably discharged as a corporal in 1958. In 1971, he arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska. A year later, he met Merrily, a white woman, whom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Journal Star
The ''Lincoln Journal Star'' is an American daily newspaper that serves Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital and home of the University of Nebraska. It is the most widely read newspaper in Lincoln and has the second-largest circulation in Nebraska (after the '' Omaha World-Herald''). The paper also operates a commercial printing unit. History The ''Lincoln Journal Star'' is the result of a 1995 merger between the city's two historic longtime daily newspapers. The ''Lincoln Star'', established in 1902 / 1905, was Lincoln's longtime morning newspaper while the ''Lincoln Journal'' was distributed in the afternoon / evenings. The ''Journal'' was itself the conglomeration over the decades of several previous Lincoln daily newspapers, dating back to 1867 and they beginnings of the change of Nebraska from the old Nebraska Territory (1854-1867) to the 37th state admitted to the federal Union on March 1, 1867, following its southern neighbor of the state of Kansas as the 35th in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sioux Rapids, Iowa
Sioux Rapids is a city in Buena Vista County, Iowa, Buena Vista County, Iowa, United States. The population was 748 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Two early surveyors, Lane and Ray, found the area so attractive for settlement that in 1855 they illegally laid a claim and built a cabin in section 12 of Barnes Township and over-wintered there. William S. Lee was a wealthy New Yorker who came to Sioux Rapids in 1858, staked a very early claim, and soon controversially acquired around 60,000 acres of “swamp land” at 16¢ per acre. For this he was contracted to build a courthouse and construct a bridge over the Little Sioux River, but never did. He sold large amounts of this land, but after years of legal action, Lee and his purchasers lost all their claims in 1882 in a final case against them. Lee returned to New York in 1863 to educate his children, returning in 1868 to find his early claim had been “jumped” by a William Fuller. In 1870, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Joubert (serial Killer)
John Joseph Joubert IV (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer executed in Nebraska. He was convicted of murdering three boys: one in Maine, and two in Nebraska. Childhood Joubert was born on July 2, 1963, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had one sister. In 1969, at the age of six, his parents divorced; in 1974, he and his sister moved with their mother to an unkempt, dilapidated apartment in Portland, Maine, to start a new chapter. Despite wanting to do so, Joubert was not allowed to visit his father, and grew to despise his controlling mother. "My impression was that the mother was cold and extremely manipulative", said Rich Pitre, Joubert's high school band teacher, friend, and mentor. "He was under a very, very tight leash". Though he was, by all accounts, an honor roll student and very driven academically, Joubert was targeted negatively by some of his peers; he would be bullied by bigger boys for seeming meek, shy, or otherwise helpless. According t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People Executed By Electrocution
This is the list of people executed by electrocution through the electric chair. The electric chair was mainly used in the United States from the 1890s till today, and the Philippines from 1926 to 1976. United States Alabama *John Louis Evans and Wayne Eugene Ritter, both convicted of killing a pawn shop owner. * Larry Gene Heath, who kidnapped and killed his pregnant wife. *Edward Dean Horsley Jr., accomplice of executed killer Brian Keith Baldwin. *Walter Hill, convicted serial killer. *Henry Francis Hays, a member of Ku Klux Klan who was executed for the lynching of Michael Donald . * Brian Keith Baldwin, who was executed for killing a woman but allegedly innocent. Accomplice of Edward Dean Horsley Jr. (also executed). *Lynda Lyon Block, who was convicted of killing a police officer. Block committed the murder alongside her husband George Sibley, he was executed on August 4, 2005, by lethal injection. * Billy Wayne Waldrop, along with William Eugene Singleton and Henry Leslie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
