About: Murder of Betty Gardner

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

On April 12, 1978, Betty Gardner, a 33-year-old black woman, was sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered during a racially-motivated hate crime in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Gardner had been hitchhiking when she was picked up by four white people: cousins John Arnold and John Plath, and their girlfriends, Cindy Sheets and Carol Ullman. After dropping Gardner off, Arnold suggested to the group that they kill her. Gardner was then sexually assaulted, strangled, beaten, and stabbed to death. After the murder, Arnold carved the letters "KKK" into her body.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • On April 12, 1978, Betty Gardner, a 33-year-old black woman, was sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered during a racially-motivated hate crime in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Gardner had been hitchhiking when she was picked up by four white people: cousins John Arnold and John Plath, and their girlfriends, Cindy Sheets and Carol Ullman. After dropping Gardner off, Arnold suggested to the group that they kill her. Gardner was then sexually assaulted, strangled, beaten, and stabbed to death. After the murder, Arnold carved the letters "KKK" into her body. All of the perpetrators were captured at a later date. Sheets and Ullman were granted immunity after they turned state's evidence and testified against Arnold and Plath; who were ultimately convicted and sentenced to death. Both were executed in 1998 by lethal injection a few months apart. The case was notable as it marked a rare occasion in which two white people were executed for murdering a single black victim. (en)
dbo:birthName
  • Betty Jean Atkins Gardner (en)
dbo:birthPlace
dbo:birthYear
  • 1945-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:deathCause
dbo:deathPlace
dbo:knownFor
dbo:occupation
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 70344824 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 22760 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1121341160 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:birthName
  • Betty Jean Atkins Gardner (en)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Frogmore, South Carolina, U.S. (en)
dbp:children
  • 2 (xsd:integer)
dbp:deathCause
  • Murder by stabbing and a blow to the head (en)
dbp:deathPlace
  • St. Helena Island, South Carolina, U.S. (en)
dbp:knownFor
  • Victim of a hate crime and anti-black racism (en)
dbp:name
  • Betty Gardner (en)
dbp:occupation
  • Farmworker (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • On April 12, 1978, Betty Gardner, a 33-year-old black woman, was sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered during a racially-motivated hate crime in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Gardner had been hitchhiking when she was picked up by four white people: cousins John Arnold and John Plath, and their girlfriends, Cindy Sheets and Carol Ullman. After dropping Gardner off, Arnold suggested to the group that they kill her. Gardner was then sexually assaulted, strangled, beaten, and stabbed to death. After the murder, Arnold carved the letters "KKK" into her body. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Murder of Betty Gardner (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Betty Gardner (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License