Tag: Oklahoma
Mug Shot Monday! Joe Crowe, 1938
Joe Crowe’s Prison Mug Shot Oklahoma State Penitentiary convict Joe Crowe is a great example of the laxness with which prisons once guarded their inmates. In 1938, Crowe was a prison trustee on a dam project near Fort Towson, Oklahoma, where state convicts provided a large portion of the labor force. That November, Crowe left […]
Posted: March 30th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1930s, Escape, Oklahoma
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Mug Shot Monday! George Darnell, Captured 1931
When railroad section hand George Darnell was fired from his job on August 17, 1929, he set his mind on revenge. The following day, Darnell tampered with a track switch near Henryetta, Oklahoma, which later caused a passenger train to jump the track. Thirteen people, eleven of them passengers, were killed and ten more were […]
Posted: March 9th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1920s, 1930s, Murder, Oklahoma, Workplace Violence
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Mug Shot Monday! William T. Horton, 1946-2011
William Tyson Horton was a serial rapist and child molester from Oklahoma City who operated between 1970 and 2010. The unique aspects of his life of crime is that between 1970 and 1983, Horton repeatedly was able to wiggle out of many serious rape and molestation charges against him by lenient judges and high priced […]
Posted: February 16th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1970s, Oklahoma, Psychopath, Sex Crimes
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Mug Shot Monday: Nathan Jerry Ellis, 1956-1986
This unfortunate face belongs to Nathan Jerry Ellis, killer and rapist. In 1956, Ellis and another man were convicted for the murder of Victor Quick in Custer County, Oklahoma. He was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder. He appealed, received a new trial, and was re-sentenced to serve sixty-years for manslaughter. […]
Posted: January 5th, 2015 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1950s, Murder, Oklahoma, Sex Crimes
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Mug Shot Monday! WJ Edwards 1938
. WJ Edwards 2-15-39, Convicted of Murder Story 1: “Two Are Held in City Death, Shots Blamed on Robbery Fear” Two men were held in the city jail Monday and funeral arrangements completed for a third as the aftermath of a shooting Sunday night in a one-room house at 129 West Chickasaw Avenue, Services for […]
Posted: August 25th, 2014 under Mug Shot Monday.
Tags: 1930s, Murder, Oklahoma
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