Florida man scheduled for execution in connection to Hog Trail Murders
Daniel Owen Conahan Jr’s sentence will make him the state’s 15th person executed this year A Florida man was scheduled for execution on Thursday after being convicted of one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the Hog Trail Murders in the 1990s. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr, 72, was sentenced to die by lethal injection for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery. Authorities found Montgomery’s mutilated body in a wooded south-west Florida area where the…
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- First observed by CurrentWire: ABC News · Sep 10, 2026 at 7:54 AM ET
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Man faces execution for 1996 killing connected to 'Hog Trail Murders' in woods(opens original report in a new tab)A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the “Hog Trail Murders” in the 1990s is scheduled to become the state’s 15th person executed this year — ABC News
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