• Melbert Ford

    1960 - 2010

    Melbert Ford (1960 - 2010)

    Melbert Ford An American convicted double murderer who in 2010 was executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Georgia after being convicted of murder in 1987.  Ford was born in Georgia, America. He was convicted in 1987 of killing his former girlfriend, Martha Chapman Matich, and Lisa Chapman, her 11-year-old niece, in a […]

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  • Joseph Paul Franklin

    1950 - 2013

    Joseph Paul Franklin (1950 - 2013)

    Franklin was born James Clayton Vaughn in Mobile, Alabama, to a poor family. He suffered severe physical abuse as a child. As early as high school, he had become interested first in evangelical Christianity, then Nazism, and later held memberships in both the National Socialist White People’s Party and the Ku Klux Klan and even […]

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  • Jason Getsy

    1975 - 2009

    Jason Getsy (1975 - 2009)

    Jason Getsy Getsy was hired for US$5,000 to kill Charles Serafino, as well as any and all potential witnesses to the crime, in an argument over a lawn care business. On July 7, 1995, Getsy killed Charles Serafino’s mother, 66-year-old Ann Serafino, in Hubbard, Ohio, and shot Charles seven times, including once in the face […]

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  • David Alan Gore

    1951 - 2012

    David Alan Gore (1951 - 2012)

    David Alan Gore was born on August 21, 1953 in Florida. In his youth he had two major obsessions: firearms and women. His obsession for women lead him to lose his first job as a gas station attendant after his boss found a hole that allowed Gore to look into the women’s bathroom.  Fred Waterfield […]

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  • Marlin Gray

    1967 - 2005

    Marlin Gray (1967 - 2005)

    On the night of April 4/morning of April 5, 20-year-old Julie Kerry, 19-year-old Robin Kerry, and their 19-year-old cousin, Thomas Cummins, were on the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River. Gray, Antonio Richardson, Reginald Clemons, and Daniel Winfrey went to the bridge that night together. The two groups, who did not know each […]

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  • Martin Grossman

    1965 - 2010

    Martin Grossman (1965 - 2010)

    Martin Grossman Grossman, an only child, grew up having to care for his mentally and physically ill father and uncle, a full-time responsibility which led to his dropping out of the ninth grade. His father died when he was 15 years old, followed shortly by his uncle, grandfather and other relatives. Grossman experienced severe depression […]

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  • Scott Hain

    1970 - 2003

    Scott Hain (1970 - 2003)

    Hain was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a teenager, he accumulated juvenile convictions for trespassing, theft, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.  On October 6, 1987, Hain and Robert Lambert carjacked an automobile in Tulsa that was occupied by Michael Houghton and Laura Sanders. Hain and Lambert eventually stopped the car, robbed Houghton and […]

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  • Richard Henyard

    1974 - 2008

    Richard Henyard (1974 - 2008)

    On the evening of January 30, 1993, Dorothy Lewis and her daughters arrived at a Winn-Dixie supermarket in Eustis. As Lewis, the eventual survivor, and her daughters, the victims, entered the Winn-Dixie, she noticed a few people sitting on a bench near the doors. After Lewis exited the store with Jamilya, age 7, and Jasmine, […]

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  • Paul Jennings Hill

    1954 - 2003

    Paul Jennings Hill (1954 - 2003)

    Paul Hill was born in Miami, Florida on February 6, 1954, to Oscar Jennings Hill, an airline pilot, and his wife Louise. He was raised in Coral Gables. He was charged with assault at the age of 17, by his father, when his father attempted to get treatment for Hill’s drug problem. Hill said he […]

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  • Ronald Ray Howard

    1973 - 2005

    Ronald Ray Howard (1973 - 2005)

    Born in Houston, Texas, Howard dropped out of school in the 8th grade. By age 15, he was stealing cars and dealing drugs.(American Justice). He started, but never finished training in electrician, building maintenance, computer data entry, and heavy diesel mechanics. He was married with three daughters and one son.  Howard’s prior criminal convictions were […]

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  • Shawn Paul Humphries

    1971 - 2005

    Shawn Paul Humphries (1971 - 2005)

    His father was extremely abusive towards Humphries and introduced him to alcohol, drugs, and paint fumes when he was between the ages of six and ten. Humphries’ aunt said that his father had said on several occasions that he did not love his children and wished that they had been aborted. Humphries had only been […]

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  • Gregory Scott Johnson

    1965 - 2005

    Gregory Scott Johnson (1965 - 2005)

    Gregory Scott Johnson (February 18, 1965 – May 25, 2005 at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana) was legally executed for beating and stomping 82-year-old Ruby Hutslar to death in Anderson, Indiana on June 23, 1985. He then set her house on fire in an attempt to conceal his crime.  Johnson sought a […]

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  • Andrew Lackey

    1983 - 2013

    Andrew Lackey (1983 - 2013)

    Lackey broke into Newman’s Limestone County home on Halloween night in 2005. Lackey had been told by Newman’s grandson that there was a vault in the home containing gold bars and cash. Newman made a call to 911 on the night of the murder, in which he could be heard saying, “Don’t do that,” ”Leave […]

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  • Leslie Dale Martin

    1967 - 2002

    Leslie Dale Martin (1967 - 2002)

    On June 20, 1991, Martin and Michael Roland went to the 12th Street Lounge in Lake Charles at about 11:00 p.m., after playing pool and drinking beer for about two hours. The victim, a college student and part-time employee at a pizza outlet, also went to the lounge between 11:00 p.m. and midnight with some […]

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  • Jason Massey

    1973 - 2001

    Jason Massey (1973 - 2001)

    Jason Massey In July 1993, James King was awakened early one morning by the sound of a car pulling up to his house, honking its horn twice, and driving away. A little later, when the car came by again, King looked out his window and observed a tan car turn off its headlights and park […]

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  • Royce Kendall

    1934 - 1998

    Royce Kendall (1934 - 1998)

    Royce Kendall Culled from the album Let the Music Play, both father and daughter were drawn to the song from the start. As Royce later recalled: “We’d only played the thing once, and we remembered it. That’s a good sign . . . that’s the reason we cut it.” The song was originally the B-side […]

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  • Charlie Waller

    1935 - 2004

    Charlie Waller (1935 - 2004)

    Charlie Waller Founder and leader of the Country Gentlemen, died Wednesday (Aug. 18) of an apparent heart attack in the garden of his home in Gordonsville, Va. He was 69. Although Waller had been ailing the past several years, he and his group have maintained a busy concert schedule and were preparing to go on […]

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  • Vernon Dalhart

    1883 - 1948

    Vernon Dalhart (1883 - 1948)

    Vernon Dalhart Vernon Dalhart came to country music from outside the tradition, becoming a national star in the years just before more indigenous kinds of country music found their place in the machinery of the music industry. A 1924 recording by Dalhart became country music’s first million-selling record; pairing a train song (“Wreck of the […]

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  • Alan Matheney

    1950 - 2005

    Alan Matheney (1950 - 2005)

    Alan Lehman Matheney (6 November 1950 – 28 September 2005) was an American convicted of beating to death his ex-wife, Lisa Bianco, with a .410 bore shotgun, while on an eight-hour release from prison on 4 March 1989. At the time he was serving a sentence at Pendleton Correctional Facility for battery and confinement of […]

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  • Steven Van McHone

    1970 - 2005

    Steven Van McHone (1970 - 2005)

    Steven McHone’s stepbrother Wesley Adams Jr. and his wife Wendy were visiting Wesley Adams Sr. and his wife, Mildred. Just after midnight on June 3, McHone was heard arguing with the couple by Wesley Jr. and Wendy, who were in bed. Mildred Adams entered their room and asked if they had moved a handgun that […]

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  • Scott Andrew Mink

    1963 - 2004

    Scott Andrew Mink (1963 - 2004)

    Scott Andrew Mink (October 13, 1963 – July 20, 2004) was executed by the State of Ohio. A drug addict and alcoholic, he had been sentenced to die on June 29, 2001, for beating his 79-year-old father and 72-year-old mother to death with a hammer.  The crimes occurred on September 19, 2000, when Mink, angry […]

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  • Eric Nance

    1960 - 2005

    Eric Nance (1960 - 2005)

    On October 11, 1993, 18-year-old Julie Heath was driving on U.S. Highway 270 between Malvern and Hot Springs, Arkansas to visit her boyfriend in Hot Springs. Nance stated that he stopped to help Heath after her car broke down and offered her a ride to Malvern. The prosecution said that Nance then raped and murdered […]

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  • Sara Dougherty Carter

    1898 - 1979

    Sara Dougherty Carter (1898 - 1979)

    Sara Dougherty Carter The most influential group in country music history, the Carter Family switched the emphasis from hillbilly instrumentals to vocals, made scores of their songs part of the standard country music canon, and made a style of guitar playing, “Carter picking,” the dominant technique for decades. Along with Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family […]

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  • Jay Wesley Neill

    1965 - 2002

    Jay Wesley Neill (1965 - 2002)

    In 1983, Neill joined the United States Army. He met Robert Grady Johnson in February 1984 at a bar and became romantically involved. Neill was discharged in the summer of 1984 after disclosing that he was homosexual and quickly began having financial difficulties.  Neill and Johnson shared an apartment in Lawton, Oklahoma and a joint […]

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  • Rose Maddox

    1925 - 1998

    Rose Maddox (1925 - 1998)

    Rose Maddox  April 15, 1998 –  Ashland, Or.   Rose Maddox, a flamboyant country music pioneer who earned a Grammy nomination late in life for her autobiographical “$35 and a Dream,” has died at 71. Maddox was born Roselea Arbana Maddox, December 15,  1925, near Boaz, Alabama and died of kidney failure Wednesday April 15, 1998 […]

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  • Uncle Dave Macon

    1870 - 1952

    Uncle Dave Macon (1870 - 1952)

    Uncle Dave Macon Born David Harrison Macon in Smartt Station in middle Tennessee’s Warren County, he was the son of a Confederate officer who owned a large farm. Macon heard the folk music of the area when he was young, but he was also a product of the urban South: after the family moved to […]

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  • Max Duane Barnes

    1936 - 2004

    Max Duane Barnes (1936 - 2004)

    Max Duane Barnes Max D. Barnes, the co-writer of such hits as “Chiseled in Stone,” “Look at Us” and “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes,” died early Sunday (Jan. 11) of pneumonia at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. He was 67. During his nearly 40 years as a professional writer, Barnes saw his songs recorded by George […]

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  • Dusty Rhodes

    1945 - 2015

    Dusty Rhodes (1945 - 2015)

    Dusty Rhodes Known worldwide as “The American Dream,” Rhodes (real name Virgil Runnels Jr.) spent several decades as a main-event attraction in pro wrestling, becoming a major influence in terms of his charisma and his ability to give captivating and entertaining interviews. Rhodes was also a major influence as a booker and had recently spent […]

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  • Jim Ed Brown

    1934 - 2015

    Jim Ed Brown (1934 - 2015)

    Jim Ed Brown Jim Ed Brown, a longtime Grand Ole Opry member who had solo and group hits and was a prominent figure on country music television shows, died Thursday. He was 81. Brown died of cancer at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee, according to a news release from Webster Public Relations. He will […]

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  • William Dillard Powell

    1946 - 2005

    William Dillard Powell (1946 - 2005)

    Mary Black Gladden was an employee of The Pantry on Charles Road in Shelby, North Carolina. She was killed on October 31, 1991, while on duty at The Pantry. On that day between 3:15 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., Scott Truelove bought $5 worth of gasoline at The Pantry. Later he would state that while paying […]

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