Claim: Arizona State Senate candidate Bobby Wilson fatally shot his mother in 1963.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Shootout at Wilson Ranch
text: Haldermans' trial. As for the Wilson family, Rena later committed suicide for her involvement in the case and in 1913 Mary was put in an insane asylum by her brother, Tol, who was killed shortly thereafter in what became known as the Cottonwood Canyon Murder. Shootout at Wilson Ranch The Shootout at Wilson Ranch resulted in the final and most famous hanging in the history of Tombstone, Arizona. On April 7, 1899, the brothers William and Thomas Lee Halderman were confronted by two lawmen at a ranch located in the Chiricahua Mountains. A brief gunfight ensued, during which Constable Chester

title: Jimmy Wilson (politician)
text: in Caddo Parish in 1972. While a conflict of interest by virtue of his activities with the bank in Vivian prevented him from serving on the board in Blanchard as well, he did own stock in the Blanchard bank, and as a legislator he was able to get the state charter approved. Wilson was a Shriner. Wilson was elected mayor of the town of Vivian in 1966 and served until 1972, when he assumed the District 1 seat in the state legislature. When Wilson won the Democratic nomination for the seat, the Republican candidate, Bruce Lynn withdrew in favor of

title: Jim Leslie (journalist)
text: Antonio, Texas, and hence never faced trial for his role in the case. Nine days after taking office as the sheriff of Caddo Parish, Harold Terry (1925-2016), had the unpleasant duty of informing the Leslie family in Shreveport of Leslie's assassination in the evening of July 9, 1976. Josiah Lee "J. L." Wilson, III (1940-2015), then a reporter for "The Shreveport Times" reported that deputies told him that Sheriff Terry's eyes were red from weeping as he left his office to meet with Mrs. Carolyn S. Leslie (born April 30, 1934) and the couple's two sons, D. Scott Leslie (born

title: Robert Spangler
text: engineer. On the morning of December 30, 1978, deputies from the Arapahoe County, Colorado, Sheriff's Office responded to the scene of a possible double homicide/suicide in a private residence in Littleton, Colorado. A neighbor had discovered the bodies of a 45-year-old woman, her 17-year-old son, and her 15-year-old daughter. All three had suffered gunshot wounds from a .38-caliber handgun. The daughter, found partially clothed in her bed, had a bullet wound in her back. The son, also in bed, had been shot once in his upper chest. The mother's body lay slumped over a typewriter in the basement with a

title: Charles Schmid
text: left in the desert. The mother, Norma Rowe, went to the police and was told that she needed more evidence before they could go looking in the desert. One of Schmid's many girlfriends was Gretchen Fritz, daughter of a prominent Tucson heart surgeon and community leader. Schmid confided to Gretchen that he had murdered Alleen Rowe. There were also rumors that Fritz knew of an earlier, unsubstantiated murder that Schmid supposedly committed. When Schmid decided to break up with Fritz, she threatened to use the information against him. Schmid strangled Gretchen Fritz and her sister Wendy on August 16, 1965.

title: Dick Wilson (tribal chairman)
text: murder. In 1972 Wilson ran against the incumbent tribal chairman, Gerald One Feather. Before the election, his political connections were largely limited to Pine Ridge due to his years as a councilor, but he campaigned in all parts of the reservation and sought the support of both traditionalists and progressives. He supported protests that year organized by AIM, following the murder of Raymond Yellow Thunder in Gordon, Nebraska. The election was close, but Wilson won five of the reservation's nine districts and won heavily in Pine Ridge village. Wilson was inaugurated on April 10, 1972. He helped set up the

title: Kathy Augustine
text: nurse who had been involved in Charles' care. On August 27, 2012, Dallas shot her partner, Jessie McCaskill, before killing herself at their Phoenix, Arizona home in a murder-suicide. From 1993 to 1995, Augustine served one term in the Nevada Assembly. During the 1992 campaign, she was criticized for a campaign advertisement featuring a bad photograph of her African-American opponent (the same photograph, however, was used by her opponent in her own campaign literature). Above descriptions of the two candidates' positions on various issues was a caption reading, "There is a real difference." Augustine served in the Nevada Senate from

title: Robert William Fisher
text: Bobby (age 10). Investigators had, ironically, theorized that Fisher murdered his family because he felt threatened by Mary's intent to divorce him, and didn't want his children to go through what he did as a child. Fisher, who disappeared at the time of the murders, was named as an official (and to date, only) person of interest in the case on April 14, 2001, when Arizona Department of Public Safety officers were instructed in a statewide bulletin to arrest him. On April 20, the last physical evidence of Fisher's whereabouts surfaced, when police found Mary's Toyota 4Runner and their dog,

title: J. T. Ready
text: a non-partisan position such as sheriff, political affiliation did not matter. After Ready's death, former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce released a statement saying that he had previously rejected Ready due to his association with "despicable groups in society", and had objected to Ready's position in the Republican Party. On May 2, 2012, Ready entered his home in Gilbert, Arizona, and fatally shot his girlfriend Lisa, her daughter Amber, Amber's boyfriend, Jim Hiott, and Amber's infant daughter Lilly. He then fatally shot himself. A 9-1-1 call made from the house referred to an argument before the call was interrupted by

title: Ann Day
text: also served on the Arizona Industrial Commission. Day was the sister of retired United States Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Day was killed in an automobile accident involving three vehicles by a drunk driver at 7:28am, on Ina Road near Oracle Road, less than a mile from where Gabrielle Giffords was shot in an assassination attempt near Tucson, Arizona. Ann Day Eleanor Ann Day (August 10, 1938 – May 7, 2016) was an American politician. Born in El Paso, Texas, Day received her bachelor's degree in education from Arizona State University and her master's degree in counseling and guidance

title: Dick Wilson (tribal chairman)
text: 50 opponents of Wilson died violently. One was Pedro Bissonette, head of the civil rights organization, who had originally invited AIM activists to Pine Ridge. He died in a reported altercation with a BIA policeman. Residents accused GOONs of arson and frequent assault. Wilson was alleged to have personally directed an assault on six AIM lawyers in February 1975, but no charges were filed. When Wilson ran for reelection in 1974, he faced a dozen challengers. He placed second in the primary, and defeated Russell Means in the runoff election on February 7. A United States Civil Rights Commission investigation

title: Pete McCloskey
text: McCloskey, Bob Dornan, Barry Goldwater Jr. (son of Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater), Maureen Reagan (daughter of then-President Ronald Reagan), San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, former Rep. John G. Schmitz, and Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce president Ted Bruinsma. Wilson was the eventual victor and went on to defeat the Democratic candidate, then-Governor Jerry Brown, in the general election According to Paul Findley, McCloskey was hounded by the Anti-Defamation League, both during his political career and when he retired to private practice as a lawyer, for his outspoken views on Israel's attitude to Palestinians and on

title: Tommy Burks
text: a practice to go home to his district and his farm almost every night, even during legislative sessions. Burks was assassinated by his Republican Party opponent Byron Looper less than a month before his likely re-election. Burks was shot and killed by Looper on Burks' property. An eyewitness to the murder helped seal the conviction of Looper, the Putnam County Tax Assessor at the time. Burks' widow, Charlotte, ran for his seat and won, becoming the first Tennessee State Senator to win as a write-in candidate and one of very few American politicians to win as a write-in candidate ever.

title: Sue Wilson Beffort
text: candidates filed to run in the general election of November 6, 2012. Sue Wilson Beffort Sue F. Wilson Beffort (born July 16, 1946) is a Republican politician serving in the New Mexico State Senate. She was also the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor as the running mate of John Dendahl in 2006. Beffort has a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University. Her late husband, Steve Beffort, served as General Services Secretary under Republican Governor Gary Johnson. Wilson Beffort listed her occupation on the official New Mexico Legislature website as Employment Consultant. She joined the New Mexico State Senate in 1997

title: Eugene McCarthy 1968 presidential campaign
text: with the latter announcing he would exit the race if he lost the state's primary. The two candidates each appeared in televised forums, which McCarthy criticized for not being in a debate format. On June 5, Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles after winning both the California and South Dakota primaries. McCarthy immediately canceled his campaign plans and was placed under heavy guard in his hotel. Kennedy died the next day, shifting a large number of his delegates to Humphrey while popular opinion seemed to shift to McCarthy. McCarthy was grief-stricken from the event, and considered dropping out of

title: Tommy Herron
text: the resignation of joint chairman Jim Anderson, who shared his duties with Harding Smith but who had been in effect leader during the latter's absence, had left a power vacuum. Fears were raised that the issue might bring about the much feared Harding Smith and Herron feud, but in the end a compromise candidate, Andy Tyrie, was chosen in an effort to avert the war. Herron remained in an unsafe position. On 15 June 1973 masked gunmen broke into his Braniel home and shot and killed his brother-in-law, 18-year-old Michael Wilson. Herron had been out of the house at the

title: Wilson Chouest
text: on July 15, 1980 in Delano, Kern County, California in an almond orchard. Tire tracks were observed at the scene. She was murdered approximately one day prior; she was stabbed 29 times and was then transported to the location she was found. The woman was possibly picked up from a now closed bar known as "Ruby's" that was located in Lemoore, California. She had two unique tattoos; one was a heart containing the words "I Love You," "Shirley" and "Seattle" and another that read "Mother" and "I Love You." She also had scars on her abdomen and buttock. She had

title: Bobbie Spencer
text: kids. But in reality, as revealed by her older sister Patricia Spencer in on April 1, 2015, On April 1, 1963, Luke accidentally killed his mother and then his father in a fit of rage. Luke had been blocking out the memory for over 50 years, with Pat and Bill Eckert helping keep it a secret. Luke befriended Lila Quartermaine, who was planning to adopt both orphans, but they then leave town, and move in with their aunt Ruby Anderson, who lived in Jacksonville, Florida. Ruby was a prostitute and to make ends meets, Bobbie had to start working too.

title: Shooting of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
text: and currently believed to be Erron Brown - reportedly drew a weapon and shot 18-year-old Brian Wilson twice, before fleeing the area. Stray gunfire also hit a 12-year-old female bystander. Shortly after the shooting, two officers from the Hoover Police Department approached Bradford, who was armed. One of the officers fired at Bradford from behind and killed him. Brian Wilson and the injured 12-year-old were taken to different hospitals; Wilson in serious condition with two gun shots to the torso and the 12-year-old in stable condition with a lodged bullet near her spine. The mall was closed for the night.

title: Howard Unruh
text: was absent, but his wife Helga was there and was shot and killed by the gunman. He then went to a foodstore but found the door locked. He shot through the door but failed to injure anyone. Finding a car waiting at the intersection, he walked up to it and shot everyone inside, Helen Wilson, her son John, and mother Emma Matlack. The two women died instantly. The boy died later in hospital. He then shot at someone through an apartment window, claiming he didn't know who it was or whether he hit them. It was 2-year old Thomas Hutchinson