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Murder of Heather Rich
The murder of Heather Rose Rich (January 19, 1980 – October 3, 1996) took place on the night of October 2, 1996 on a remote bridge over a creek in Texas. Rich, a 16-year-old sophomore high school student from Waurika, Oklahoma, had been driven to the location by three young men, two of them her schoolmates. She was in a state of severe intoxication following a session of heavy drinking, and had been sexually assaulted and raped by two of the men while semi-conscious, with the third also admitting sex but claiming Rich had consented. Rich was shot nine times on the bridge, and her body dumped in the creek. All three accused were convicted of her killing after trials featuring conflicting testimony and recanted plea bargains, leading to lingering controversy over the eventual verdicts and the identity of the person who pulled the trigger. The case received national coverage and was the subject of a feature on ABC News's ''20/20'' magazine show, and an episode of the ''American Justice'' documentary series as well as a portion of Justice Files, episode "Small Town Trouble."
==History==
Heather Rich attended high school in Waurika. She was a cheerleader, successful academically and a popular student, and had been nominated as homecoming queen for the approaching school celebrations. She had exhibited some troubled behavior in the weeks before her death, and had been suspended from the cheerleading team for drinking alcohol.〔
Late on the evening of October 2, 1996, Rich slipped out of her home without her parents' knowledge in order to meet 17-year-old Joshua Bagwell in a trailer at the home of Bagwell's grandfather. Bagwell had already been drinking with his friends Curtis Gambill and Randy Wood, who went off for an hour and left Rich and Bagwell alone together. When they returned they found both naked, with Rich intoxicated and largely insensible. Bagwell accepted the two had had sex during this interval, but claimed Rich had consented. According to Wood's testimony, Gambill had sex with the semi-conscious Rich after he himself had sexually assaulted her; after this, fearing a rape prosecution, Gambill decided to kill her〔 and persuaded the others to help him. Rich was dressed, placed in Bagwell's grandfather's pickup truck and driven to a lonely spot on Belknap Creek in Texas. Bagwell carried her to the bridge where Gambill shot her repeatedly in the back and head with a shotgun.〔 The body was thrown into the creek, where it was discovered on 10 October by a rancher.
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