James Collier, 56, was executed
James Collier, 56, was executed
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James Collier, 56, was executed.
In what authorities believed was an attempted kidnapping of his 13-year-old daughter, Collier went into the home of the girl's stepfather, Phillip Hoepfner, with a shotgun on March 14, 1995.
He killed Timothy Don Reed, 31, who lived there with Hoepfner, and also Reed's mother, Gwendolyn, 51.
In what authorities believed was an attempted kidnapping of his 13-year-old daughter, Collier went into the home of the girl's stepfather, Phillip Hoepfner, with a shotgun on March 14, 1995.
He killed Timothy Don Reed, 31, who lived there with Hoepfner, and also Reed's mother, Gwendolyn, 51.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, 11/12/2002)
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