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Walter Ogrod case. Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn's murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false.
Capital punishment is a legal punishment in Pennsylvania. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Pennsylvania since 1999, and only three since 1976 (all occurring in the 1990s, during the governorship of Tom Ridge ). In February 2015, Governor Tom Wolf announced a formal moratorium on executions that is still in ...
FBI surveillance photograph of the Lucchese crime family members Vic Amuso, Anthony Casso and Frank Lastorino. Frank "Big Frank" Lastorino (April 9, 1939 – November 5, 2022) [121] was a soldier, caporegime and consigliere of the Lucchese family. Lastorino was formally inducted into the crime family in 1987. [122]
April 3, 2024 at 4:21 PM. FALLSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania authorities said Wednesday they plan to pursue the death penalty against a man charged with killing his stepmother, sister and the ...
A man sentenced to death in a deadly Philadelphia apartment fire that he long denied setting has been freed after spending nearly 30 years in prison. Daniel Gwynn, 54, was released Thursday from ...
April 19, 2024 at 8:02 PM. A former Philadelphia police officer who killed a 12-year-old boy and allegedly fired two of the shots during a foot chase after the boy had discarded his gun pleaded ...
Killing of Walter Wallace. / 39.957928; -75.243799. On October 26, 2020, Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot by Philadelphia police officers Sean Matarazzo and Thomas Munz at 6100 Locust Street in the Cobbs Creek section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two officers arrived in the area to respond to a ...
Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside County, California, USA. On October 15, 2008, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jan Paweł Pietrzak (March 13, 1984 – October 15, 2008) and his wife Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak (February 16, 1982 – October 15, 2008) were tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered by four American Marines.