
In this family portrait taken in July 1968,
Priscilla Ford stands with her two sons and daughter,
Wynter Scott,
who later testified that her mother had talked about having the girl
artifically
inseminated, so that she could give birth to a messiah.

Priscilla Ford

Reno Police escort Priscilla Ford into the police department
following her arrest Thanksgiving Day
in 1980. She was charged with
murdering six people (another died later) and attempting to
murder
at 23 others. It was at this point she stopped in front of the
photographer and said
"Oh my, you're a pretty one. I'll remember who
you are."
(Photo by Marilyn Newton)

Priscilla Ford

Priscilla Ford in court on Feb. 2, 1990, to have her execution
date set. It was 10 years earlier that
she ran down and killed or
injured numerous people on Virginia Street on Thanksgiving Day.
(Photo Marilyn Newton/RGJ file)

A shoe from one of Priscilla Ford's victims is still on the hood
of her car more than two blocks from
where her rampage ended. She
ended up stuck in traffic on Virginia Street at Fifth Street.
(Photo
Marilyn Newton/RGJ file)

Security guards tend to one person in front of where the Nevada
Club once stood while spectators
tend on another by the cab after
Priscilla Ford drove down the sidewalk in front the
casinos killed
six and injuring 23.
(Photo Marilyn Newton/RGJ file)

Victims lay scattered in front of the Club Cal Neva while
witneeses have looks of show and disbelief
on their faces after
Priscilla Ford went on a rampage Thanksgiving day, 11-27-80.
(Photo
by Marilyn Newton)

The dead and injured litter the sidewalk and Virginia Street in
front of Harolds Club after Priscilla
Ford drove her car along the
sidewalk hitting and killing as many people
as she could on
Thanksgiving Day 1980.
(Photo by Marilyn Newton)

Onlookers view the carnage left by Priscilla Ford when she drove
down the sidewalks on Virginia
Street Thanksgiving day in 1980
killing six people and injuring 23.
A seventh person died of
injuries a year later.
(Photo by Marilyn Newton)

Reno Policewoman Pam Engle tends to one of those injured when
Priscilla Ford drove her car
down the sidewalks in front of the
casinos killing six and injuried 23.
(Photo by Marilyn Newton)