Role American football player Positions Tackle Name Jim Dunaway | College: Mississippi Weight 126 kg High school: Columbia (MS) Height 1.93 m | |
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Date of birth: (1941-09-03) September 3, 1941 (age 74) NFL draft: 1963 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3 AFL draft: 1963 / Round: 2 / Pick: 9 Profiles | ||
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James Kenneth Dunaway (born September 3, 1941) is an American retired 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.
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- Ap entry best sports anchor jim dunaway
- Mark prater the big blue arrow and jim dunaway
- Murder charge and aftermath
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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, she 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.
Coincidentally, 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.