List of homicides in 1987
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This is a List of homicides in 1987, including all such incidents occurring in the Birmingham area during the calendar year.
This list is incomplete and may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness. You can help Bhamwiki by expanding it.
Cullman County
- January 24: Patrick Joseph Cunningham, a clerk, was killed during a robbery at the Anderson Motel in Cullman. Doyle Lee Hamm was convicted and sentenced to death. In his appeals, it was noted that his defense failed to challenge the prosecutors' misleading reference to a previous conviction for armed robbery in Tennessee. It was also noted that the judge's 89-page opinion had apparently been written by the Attorney General's office. An appellate court found that while those issues were troubling, that no evidence of error had been introduced. An attempt to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court was not heard. (report)
Hale County
- A 28-year-old woman was thrown off a bridge on the Greene County line. He boyfriend, Terry Ray "Tico" Snow, was suspected, but never charged due to lack of evidence.
Jefferson County
Bessemer
- July 20: Emmett Ray Owens, 78, was found beaten to death in a ditch near a golf course. In March 2008, Antonio Ross was arrested by cold-case homicide detective Jody Jacobs. He was charged with capital murder on May 6. [1]
Birmingham
- __ homicides (list)
Tuscaloosa County
- June 14: The body of Martin Luther King, Jr Elementary School teacher Chanda Fehler, 23, was found in the Black Warrior River. She was last seen on June 10 leaving the University of Alabama Campus Pool. Her Honda CVX was found abandoned at the Riverside Pool on McCorvey Drive with her belongings inside. No arrest.
- November 11: James Lee Tilley was shot to death on the side of Alabama State Highway 140. Terry Ray "Tico" Snow was charged after new evidence surfaced in November 2012. (report)
References
- Reeves, Wendy (January 1, 1996) "First murder of '95 unsolved" The Birmingham News