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    • Mar 5, 1996
    Bounty hunters arrest Huey Meaux in Juarez, Mexico, and return him to Houston, where he's to stand trial on charges of sexual assault, child pornography and cocaine possession. Meaux produced Freddy Fender's "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"
    Mar 31, 1996
    Con Hunley is stopped for running a red light in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and is charged with DUI. He is later convicted for the offense
    May 12, 1996
    A former mental patient is arrested for aggravated criminal trespassing when he appears in Barbara Mandrell's driveway in Whites Creek, Tennessee. He has reportedly stalked Mandrell for 15 years, and was previously arrested in 1987
    Sep 13, 1996
    Rapper Tupac Shakur dies of a head wound in Las Vegas, six days after he was shot in a drive-by shooting on Flamingo Road. He will be referenced 20 years later in the chorus of a Florida Georgia Line collaboration with Tim McGraw, "May We All"
    Sep 15, 1996
    Billie Jean Horton is robbed of $250,000 in cash and more than $1 million in jewelry by three masked men at her home in Louisiana. Some of the gems were gifts from her late husbands, Hank Williams and Johnny Horton
    Dec 3, 1996
    Con Hunley is convicted in Sevierville, Tennessee, of DUI. He was charged in March, after running a red light in Pigeon Forge
    Feb 11, 1997
    Hoyt Axton is arrested in Hamilton, Montana, when police find more than a pound of marijuana in his home
    Apr 16, 1997
    Christopher Davis is imprisoned for second-degree murder. A suspected drug dealer, he is indicted 19 months later for the 1995 shooting of 12-year-old Nashvillian Adriane Dickerson, whose death inspired Vince Gill's "Pretty Little Adriana"
    Jul 9, 1997
    John Denver's second trial for drunk driving in August 1994 ends with a hung jury in Aspen, Colorado, a repeat of the first trial. Denver claimed he did not feel intoxicated, though his blood alcohol level registered at 0.128, over the state's legal limit
    Jul 15, 1997
    Fashion designer Gianni Versace is killed by a gunman outside his home in Miami Beach, Florida. A dozen years later, his namesake company is referenced in Tim McGraw's hit "It's A Business Doing Pleasure With You"



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