Sonja McCaskie
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Sonja McCaskie (19 February 1939 – 5 April 1963)[1] was a British alpine skier who participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics. McCaskie lived in Reno, Nevada, with her son and worked at a nearby ski resort as an instructor prior to her death in 1963.
Murder
A neighbor who was babysitting initially called the police to check on McCaskie after she failed to pick up her son. Police found McCaskie strangled, raped, and dismembered in her 2640 Yori Avenue apartment on Friday 5 April 1963.[2] She had been murdered by Thomas Lee Bean, an 18-year-old high school student who attended nearby Wooster High School.[3] Bean was sentenced to death in the Nevada gas chamber for the murder, but was taken off death row in 1970.[4] As of 2019, he was incarcerated in Northern Nevada Correctional Center and was the longest-serving inmate in the Nevada Department of Corrections.[5] As of 2025, the Nevada Department of Corrections website reported that he was deceased.[6]
The murder was sensationalized in the September 8, 1963 issue (25-31 August early sports edition) of the National Enquirer with the frontpage headline (and a grisly photo) as: "I CUT OUT HER HEART & STOMPED ON IT".
-
8 Sept. 1963 National Enquirer
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages with script errors
- 1939 births
- 1963 deaths
- Scottish female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Scottish expatriates in the United States
- British people murdered abroad
- Olympic alpine skiers for Great Britain
- Scottish murder victims
- People murdered in Nevada
- Deaths by strangulation in the United States
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen
- People murdered in 1963