Michael Sharp was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents Michael Sharp would abduct a mother and her two daughters. The trio would be driven to a remote location where the mother and one of the daughters would be stabbed to death and buried in a shallow grave: Brenda Kay Broadway and eight year old Christy Elms. The older daughter was able to escape
Michael Sharp was also responsible for the murder of 18 year old Bianca Guerrero though due to being under a death sentence was not formally charged. Sharp was also suspected in a number of other murders
Michael Sharp would be executed by lethal injection on November 19 1997
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Michael Sharp Case
On Friday, June 11, 1982, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Brenda Kay Broadway, the victim herein, returned home from work. She and her two children, Christy Michelle Elms, age 8, and Salina Kay Elms, age 14, then left their home to go wash Brenda’s car. Soon after they arrived at the car wash, appellant forced Brenda and her two daughters, at knife point, into his truck and began driving south from Kermit on the Monahans highway. After appellant made Brenda and the two girls remove their clothes, he turned off the highway onto a dirt road, tied them with rope, and forced Salina and her mother to perform deviate sexual acts upon each other.
Appellant then began to stab Brenda. At this point, Salina, the only surviving eye-witness, worked her legs free and escaped. Salina stated that she wandered through the woods the majority of the early hours of June 11, 1982, stopping only to rest. Near dawn, Salina came upon a drilling rig, where the men there untied her, gave her a blanket to cover herself, and called police. The police transported Salina to a local hospital. The bodies of Brenda Kay Broadway and Christy Michelle Elms *614 were found in a shallow grave later that morning by a search party, made up of deputy sheriffs from Winkler and Ward Counties.
On Monday morning, June 14, Winkler County Deputy Sheriff Mike Eggleston, based on a composite sketch and a statement taken from Salina, obtained an arrest warrant for appellant. Several officers went to the drilling rig where appellant worked, but appellant was not there. After hearing that appellant was possibly en route to Louisiana, Deputy Eggleston wired several police departments along a probable route. Appellant was arrested pursuant to the arrest warrant in Sweetwater on June 16, 1982.
https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/court-of-criminal-appeals/1986/69301-4.html
