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Murder of Mary Margaret Moran

The murder of Mary Margaret Moran (alias Peggy Moran; February 10, 1948 – July 31, 1975) occurred on July 26, 1975, in San Antonio, Texas. Moran, a nurse working at the San Antonio Veterans Administration Hospital, was kidnapped from the parking lot of her workplace and she was raped and stabbed by her abductor, Donald Gene Franklin (September 21, 1951 – November 3, 1988). Moran was left for dead throughout the next four days before her nude body was found by a passer-by on July 30, 1975.

Moran, who was still alive but mortally wounded at the time of her discovery, died in hospital the next day due to her wounds. Franklin, who was also a suspect behind the 1974 rape and strangulation death of another woman, was charged with capital murder after his arrest for Moran's death. Franklin was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death, and executed by lethal injection on November 3, 1988. Provided by Wikipedia