Crime & Criminals (11)

by Hollingsworth, Biff, West, Tim. Margie Velma (née Bullard) Barfield was a convicted murderer executed by the state of North Carolina;  the first woman put to death by lethal injection in the United States, the first woman executed [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Shuman, Elizabeth L. Carawan, George Washington by Elizabeth L. Shuman, North Carolina State University, 2013; Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, January 2023 1800- Nov. 30, [...] (from NCpedia.)

by McGibney, Ian. Cuming, Alexander By Ian McGibney, North Carolina State University, 2013. December 18, 1691-August ? 1775 Sir Alexander Cuming, Scottish aristocrat, adventurer, confidence man, and the [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Hollingsworth, Biff, West, Tim. Foster, Allen by Biff Hollingsworth and Tim West, Special Collections at Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008 ? - January 24, 1936 In the summer of 1935, a [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Parker, Mattie E. E. Robert Holden (Holding), Council member, secretary, customs collector, receiver general, and escheator, was identified in January 1678/79 as a "Merchant Lately belonging to Virginia and now bound for [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Yanchisin, D. A. Gaston Bullock Means, detective, scoundrel, and swindler, was born on his family's plantation, Blackwelder's Spring, near Concord in Cabarrus County, the son of William Gaston Means, a lawyer and [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Tomberlin, Jason. On January 6, 1870, North Carolina’s State Penitentiary accepted its first prisoners, housing them in a temporary log structure that was surrounded by a wooden stockade. Charles Lewis, a [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Childs, T. Mike, Hollingsworth, Biff, West, Tim. Peterson, Charles Augustus by Biff Hollingsworth and Tim West, Special Collections at Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. Additional research by T. Mike [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Spell, Richard V. Silver, Frances [Frankie] by Richard V. Spell, 1994 d. 12 July 1833 See also: Silver, Frankie, Murder Case; Silver, Francis [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Hollingsworth, Biff, West, Tim. Elias Hanna Syriani was a convicted murderer executed by lethal injection by the state of North Carolina. His photograph was used in a controversial 2000 Benetton "We, On Death Row" advertising [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Agan, Kelly. Late in the evening of November 23, 1963 as the clock neared midnight in Raleigh, an attempt was allegedly made at the Dallas County jail on behalf of Lee Harvey Oswald to contact one or two phone [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Robinson, Catherine L. Wood, Otto by Catherine L. Robinson, 1996 9 May 1895–31 Dec. 1930 Otto Wood, criminal and escape artist, was born in Wilkes County of a law-abiding Baptist family. His father died when he [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)