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In February 1956, he attempted suicide in his cell, and was thereafter put under 24-hour surveillance. [4] On May 5, 1956, Graham was convicted of the murder of his mother, Daisie King, and was sentenced to death. Graham was executed in the Colorado State Penitentiary gas chamber on January 11, 1957.
During a thorough search of the home of Jack Gilbert Graham on November 13, 1955, a duplicate travel insurance policy on the life of his mother, Mrs. King, in the amount of $37,500, was found...
Homicide, El Monte, 6 May. This is a detective modelling a mask worn by one of Baxter Shorter’s crew. Shorter was in a gang with Emmett Perkins, Jack Santo and Barbara Graham. The three of them murdered an old woman called Mabel Monohan on 9 March 1953. Shorter was appalled by his gang’s violence.
Jul 12, 2022 · Propelled by resentment and a desire for ill-gotten gains, Jack Gilbert Graham's nefarious mass murder left an indeliable mark on Colorado and national history for years to come. According to the Denver Public Library, the crime sparked a wave of insurance-motivated airline bombings.
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Jul 8, 2022 · The emotive outdoor gallery displays 50 smiling photos taken in the last days of people who died by suicide. Simon, 63. It also shares the stories of shock and grief their families and friends...
Jun 16, 2022 · The DC-6B exploded mid-air, crash-landing in a sugar beet farm near Longmont, Colorado. All 44 people onboard were killed, including King and the wife of an aide to then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jul 18, 2022 · A man killed his cancer-stricken wife of 40 years by slitting her throat and then tried to kill himself in a failed suicide pact, a court was told.
