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Burglar Knocked Woman Unconscious and Stabbed Her Teenage Daughter to Death
Gary Etheridge was put on death row for brutally murdering 15 year-old Christie Chauviere in her own home.
On 2nd February 1990, Gail Chauviere returned to her home in Brazoria County, Texas, after a day of work and was confused to find an unknown vehicle parked on her driveway. Things then took a sinister turn when Gail walked through the front door and was confronted by an intruder standing beside her 15 year-old daughter, Christie.
However, the intruder was not a stranger. The man standing in Gail’s home demanding money was Gary Etheridge, a maintenance worker she had hired just two weeks earlier. Gail worked as a project manager at an apartment complex, and Etheridge was aware that she returned home daily with money received from the tenants.
Gail pleaded for Etheridge to just take the money and not harm her daughter, all while a frightened Christie tried to edge slowly across the room towards he mother. Instead, Etheridge lunged and grabbed Christie by the hair, threatening to slit her throat if she did not stay quiet. He then proceeded to pull a knife and viciously stabbed Gail multiple times, before striking her so hard across the head that she passed out.
