Jim Dunaway
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| Defensive Tackle | |||
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Personal information
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| Date of birth: September 3, 1941 | |||
| Place of birth: Columbia, Mississippi | |||
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Career information
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| High school: Columbia (MS) | |||
| College: Mississippi | |||
| NFL Draft: 1963 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3 | |||
| AFL Draft: 1963 / Round: 2 / Pick: 9 | |||
| Debuted in 1963 for the Buffalo Bills | |||
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Career highlights and awards
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Career NFL statistics
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| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |||
| Stats at DatabaseFootball.com | |||
James Kenneth Dunaway (born September 3, 1941) was an American football player. A defensive tackle, he played college football at the University of Mississippi, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills, as part of a defensive line that held opposing runners without a rushing touchdown for a pro football record seventeen consecutive games in the 1964 and 1965 AFL seasons.
Murder Charge and Aftermath
In 1998, Dunaway's ex-wife, Nonniel Dunaway was found dead in a half-empty swimming pool. An autopsy revealed that she had a fractured skull and was unconscious when she was placed in the water by her assailant where she drowned. Prior to this event, Nonniel had won a divorce judgment which gave her more than 800 acres (3.2 km2) of property that the couple owned, $1800 a month in alimony and half of Dunaway's NFL pension. They had been divorced since 1995 and Dunaway was planning to appeal.
Dunaway was charged with her murder but a grand jury chose not to indict Dunaway of the charges. In response, his children filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that Dunaway was responsible for their mother's death. In 2002, Dunaway was found liable and ordered to pay $579,000 to his children.
Ironically, Dunaway had been a teammate for three seasons of star running back O.J. Simpson, who was similarly found responsible for his ex-wife's death after being acquitted of her murder in a controversial trial in 1995.
See also
[1] Article about the suit.
[2] Article about the civil suit
[3] Article about his arrest.
[4] - Comedy site names Dunaway a member of the "All-Criminal Team"
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