Jim Dunaway

NFL player


DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1941|9|3
Birthplace= Columbia, MS
DateOfDeath=
Position=Defensive tackle
College=Mississippi
NFLDraftedYear=1963
NFLDraftedRound=1 / Pick 3
AFLDraftedYear=1963
AFLDraftedRound=2 / 5th Pick
number=78
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Stats=Y
Career Highlights=Y
PFR=DunaJi00
DatabaseFootball=DUNAWJIM01
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Records=
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years=1963–1969
1970–1971
1972
teams=AFL Buffalo Bills
NFL Buffalo Bills
NFL Miami Dolphins
AFLAllStar=1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
HOF=

James Kenneth Dunaway born September 3, 1941 in Columbia, Mississippi) 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 judgement which gave her more than convert|800|acre|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 of O.J. Simpson for three seasons.

ee also

*Other American Football League players

[http://www.basketballdraft.com/football/news/2002/06/04/dunaway_lawsuit_ap/] Article about the suit.

[http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/staba55.html] Article about the civil suit

[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E1D61338F932A05754C0A96E958260] Article about his arrest.

[http://www.thephatphree.com/Features.asp?SectionID=2&StoryID=850&LayoutType=4.39864525840442] - Comedy site names Dunaway a member of the "All-Criminal Team"