IN LOVING MEMORY OF SALLY ANNE BOWMAN (11 SEPTEMBER 1987 TO 25 SEPTEMBER 2005)

The murder of Sally Anne Bowman concerns Sally Anne Bowman born (11 September 1987 – 25 September 2005), an up and coming British model. She was robbed, raped and murdered near her home in Croydon, South London, two weeks after her 18th birthday.

Sally Anne Bowman

Please go to these Two Blog Posts to learn more:

1. http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/in-loving-memory-of-sally-anne-bowman.html

2. http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/in-loving-memory-of-sally-anne-bowman_25.html

MICHAEL WAYNE RICHARD (EXECUTED IN TEXAS ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2007)

On this date, September 25, 2007, a rapist murderer parolee, Michael Wayne Richard was executed by lethal injection in Texas. He was convicted of the rape and shooting of 53 year old Marguerite Dixon on August 18, 1986.

Michael Wayne Richard

Summary: Two months after he had been paroled from prison, Michael Richard approached Marguerite Dixon’s son, Albert, in front of the Dixon home in Hockley and asked if a yellow van parked outside the home was for sale. Albert said the vehicle belonged to his brother who was out of town and suggested that Richard come back another time. Richard left. When Albert and his sister, Paula, left a few minutes later, Richard returned and entered the house. He took two television sets and put them in the yellow van, sexually assaulted Mrs. Dixon and shot her in the head with a .25 caliber automatic pistol. Richard admitted he was involved in Mrs. Dixon’s murder and offered to help find the murder weapon. Police found the weapon and testing revealed it to be the gun that fired the fatal shot.

QUOTE: "It means in this particular case, the system worked, it was thorough," Stephen Dixon, whose mother was killed in the attack, said after watching Richard die. "The person executed deserved what he got." Dixon said he wasn't too concerned with the delays. "I was told to expect such things," he said. "It's been a long 21 years."

AUTHOR: Stephen Dixon whose mother was murdered by Michael Wayne Richard on August 18, 1986. He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on September 25, 2007.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL (DECEMBER 31, 1908 TO SEPTEMBER 20, 2005)

We, The VFFDP, will post one quote from Simon Wiesenthal who passed away on this date, September 20, 2005. Let us remember Wiesenthal for hunting down the evil Nazis. 

 

Simon Wiesenthal

QUOTE: “There is no freedom without justice.”

AUTHOR: Simon Wiesenthal, KBE (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter.

After four and a half years in the German concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, in order to gather information for future war crime trials. Later he opened the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower, which describes a life-changing event he experienced when he was in the camp.

Wiesenthal died in his sleep at age 96 in Vienna on September 20, 2005, and was buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel on September 23. He is survived by his daughter, Paulinka Kriesberg, and three grandchildren. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles, is named in his honor.