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Jul 13, 1995
Two women suffocate their 86-year-old landlady in a Cincinnati suburb, intending to rob her. The crime is part of an elaborate plot, in which they intend to take hostages at the Grand Ole Opry and force authorities to bring Reba McEntire to meet them
Oct 17, 1995
Twelve-year-old Adriane Nicole Dickerson is shot to death in a supermarket parking lot in Nashville. The tragedy inspires Vince Gill to write "Pretty Little Adriana"
Sep 13, 1996
Rapper Tupac Shakur dies of a head wound in Las Vegas, six days after he was shot in a drive-by shooting on Flamingo Road. He will be referenced 20 years later in the chorus of a Florida Georgia Line collaboration with Tim McGraw, "May We All"
Jul 15, 1997
Fashion designer Gianni Versace is killed by a gunman outside his home in Miami Beach, Florida. A dozen years later, his namesake company is referenced in Tim McGraw's hit "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You"
Jan 22, 1998
David "Skull" Schulman is murdered at Skull's Rainbow Room, a Printers Alley club he owned. Skull had ties to Mel Tillis and Tanya Tucker, and made several appearances on "Hee Haw"
Aug 29, 1998
Johnny Rodriguez shoots and kills Israel Borrego, an acquaintance he says he thought was an intruder in his home in Sabinal, Texas. Rodriguez is charged with murder and freed on a $250,000 bond
Oct 23, 1999
Sandy Rosas, the wife of Los Lobos' Cesar Rosas, is reported missing from their Los Angeles home. Her half-brother is eventually convicted of killing her. Los Lobos' "Will The Wolf Survive" is ranked among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation book "Heartaches By The Number"
May 4, 2001
Bonny Lee Bakley, the wife of "Baretta" star Robert Blake, is shot and killed at Vitello's in Los Angeles. She had claimed in 1993 that Jerry Lee Lewis fathered her child. Lewis denied the claim, though he reportedly had reached an out-of-court settlement
Jul 24, 2002
Richard D'Antonio is arrested in Las Vegas and charged with the first-degree murder of his then-employee, Kevin Hughes, 13 years earlier on Music Row, when both worked at Cash Box trade magazine
Feb 3, 2003
Pop record producer Phil Spector is booked on suspicion of murder when a woman is found shot in his home in Alhambra, California. Spector wrote "To Know Him Is To Love Him," a 1987 country hit for Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
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