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Death of David Glenn Lewis

1993 hit and run in Moxee, Washington, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

On the night of February 1, 1993, an unidentified man was struck and killed by a vehicle outside Moxee, Washington. It took 11 years for him to be identified as David Glenn Lewis, a missing lawyer from Amarillo, Texas. The reasons for his disappearance and journey 1,606 mi (2,585 km) away, and how he was able to get to Moxee from his home in 24 hours, remain unknown.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Death of David Glenn Lewis” is 1993 hit and run in Moxee, Washington, US. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Death, David and Glenn, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Death, David and Glenn is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Death of David Glenn Lewis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.