Astronaut Eileen Collins, STS-93 commander, looks through a checklist on the space shuttle Columbia’s middeck in this July 1999 image. Collins was the first female shuttle commander. Collins graduated in 1979 from Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, where she was a T-38 instructor pilot until 1982. She continued her career as an instructor...
At the end of February 1998, Johnson Space Center Deputy Director James D. Wetherbee called Astronaut Eileen Collins to his office in Building 1. He told her she had been assigned to command STS-93 and went with her to speak with Center Director George W.S. Abbey who informed her that she would be going to the White House the following week. Selecting a female...
The Murder Accountability Project has consulted with Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper to produce an analysis of nearly 60 unsolved female homicides that found highly suspicious clusters of similar killings. Twelve of the murdered women had convictions for prostitution. The bodies of the sex workers were all found on or east of 70th Street in two geographic...
More than 40 women in Chicago have perished in unusual and unsolved cases of strangulation and asphyxiation in recent years, mostly on the city’s south and west sides. Many of these cases have startling similarities in which the bodies of young mostly African-American women were deposited in dumpsters which were set on fire. The Chicago Police Department told...
Reporters from WKYC-TV and Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer newspaper have collaborated to review recent unsolved homicides of women and asked the Murder Accountability Project to review their data on 61 unsolved killings going back to 2004. The review found that 34 of these women were killed by gunfire, 10 by blunt force, 9 by strangulation and 8 by stabbing. Slightly...
Chicago Police have arrested Arthur Hilliard and charged him with the homicide of Diamond Turner, the first arrest to be made among a large cluster of 51 female strangulations on Chicago’s South and West sides. The cluster was identified by a computer algorithm developed by the Murder Accountability Project. Turner, 21, was found strangled, beaten and partially...