Lazslo Varga

Murderer

1known / alleged victims

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: USA
Location: Elko County, Nevada, USA
Date of birth: 1930
Age at first offence: 18
Characteristics: hitchhiking
Victim profile: Billie Rhae Morning ( a minister's wife )
Method of murder: ???
Date(s) of murder: March 22, 1948
Years active: 1948
Date of arrest: —
Status: Executed
Executed by asphyxiation-gas in Nevada on June 7, 1949

Case Summary

Outcome

Lazslo Varga was executed by asphyxiation-gas in Nevada on June 7, 1949.

Sentencing

Varga was executed at the Nevada State Prison on June 7, 1949.

The offence

Lazslo Varga was convicted in the murder of Billie Rhae Morning, a minister's wife, in Wells, Nevada on March 22, 1948.

Varga murdered the Reverend's wife and stole money from the house.

Background

Lazslo Varga was a native of Hungary and came to the United States after World War II. He was nineteen at his death.

Other details

Varga hitchhiked across eastern Nevada and asked everybody he met that he was looking for a Lutheran Councilor. He said he had come from New York and had made his way with the aid of Lutheran Councils.

At Wells in Elko County, he was directed to the Mornings, Reverend Morning being the Presbyterian minister in town. Varga went to the Mornings; however, the Reverend was not at home.

Varga was executed clad in a black shroud with a white cross on the back. He said that this was customary in Hungary for those penitents expecting immediate death.

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