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Post by Tracy on Sept 22, 2008 11:25:03 GMT -6
The worst ive heard is the guy (for the life of me i cant remember his name I think he was from like LA, or MS somewhere down south) he took his 18 mnth old daughter out to a field and poured gas or lighter fluid over her and lit her on fire, they said she ran around on fire for quite a while b4 finally collapsing. It was the most sickening, heartbreaking story ive ever read and ive read em all. Not sure if hes been executed yet or not, i think he has tho, I certainly hope so. The most disgusting POS ever! Lethal injection or the chair were far too lenient of a death for him.
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Post by Lotus Flower on Sept 22, 2008 11:59:37 GMT -6
Welcome tracy.
It is a terrible story, however, I think they are all the worst of the worst. Some grab at you more than others, but all are victims of murder and deserve justice. I know you weren't saying otherwise, just stating how I feel about murder.
I've not heard of the story you just shared... maybe you can find a link and we can get a status update?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2008 8:40:34 GMT -6
m.naplesnews.com/news/2005/Nov/04/ndn_30_year_florida_death_row_inmate_loses_another/30-year Florida death row inmate loses another appeal Associated Press Friday, November 4, 2005 TALLAHASSEE — Thomas Knight, who has been on Florida's death row for 30 years, longer than all but three other condemned inmates, lost an appeal Thursday in the state Supreme Court. The justices voted 7-0 to reject the latest in a series of appeals from Knight, 54, who has two death sentences for the 1974 murders of Sidney and Lillian Gans of Miami Beach. Knight, who changed his name to Askari Abdullah Muhammed while in prison, received a third death sentence for fatally stabbing prison guard Richard Burke with the sharpened end of a spoon in 1980. Knight had a criminal record when he was hired by Sidney Gans, who owned a paper bag company and made it a practice of giving ex-convicts a second chance. Knight abducted him from the company's parking lot at rifle-point, forced him to drive home where they picked up his wife and demanded $50,000. They drove to a Miami bank where the company had an account and officials there alerted police. Knight then took the couple to a secluded part of southern Miami-Dade County and killed them as police closed in. The Supreme Court also turned down an appeal by another death row inmate, Ernest Whitfield, 38, who fatally stabbed Claretha Reynolds, a Sarasota mother of five, in 1995
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Post by Felix2 on Sept 25, 2008 8:42:33 GMT -6
m.naplesnews.com/news/2005/Nov/04/ndn_30_year_florida_death_row_inmate_loses_another/30-year Florida death row inmate loses another appeal Associated Press Friday, November 4, 2005 TALLAHASSEE — Thomas Knight, who has been on Florida's death row for 30 years, longer than all but three other condemned inmates, lost an appeal Thursday in the state Supreme Court. The justices voted 7-0 to reject the latest in a series of appeals from Knight, 54, who has two death sentences for the 1974 murders of Sidney and Lillian Gans of Miami Beach. Knight, who changed his name to Askari Abdullah Muhammed while in prison, received a third death sentence for fatally stabbing prison guard Richard Burke with the sharpened end of a spoon in 1980. Knight had a criminal record when he was hired by Sidney Gans, who owned a paper bag company and made it a practice of giving ex-convicts a second chance. Knight abducted him from the company's parking lot at rifle-point, forced him to drive home where they picked up his wife and demanded $50,000. They drove to a Miami bank where the company had an account and officials there alerted police. Knight then took the couple to a secluded part of southern Miami-Dade County and killed them as police closed in. The Supreme Court also turned down an appeal by another death row inmate, Ernest Whitfield, 38, who fatally stabbed Claretha Reynolds, a Sarasota mother of five, in 1995 How has he managed to stay alive for 30 years there with a track record like that.?
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Post by Tracy on Sept 25, 2008 17:27:56 GMT -6
Welcome tracy. It is a terrible story, however, I think they are all the worst of the worst. Some grab at you more than others, but all are victims of murder and deserve justice. I know you weren't saying otherwise, just stating how I feel about murder. I've not heard of the story you just shared... maybe you can find a link and we can get a status update? Im going nuts trying to remember what site i read about this guy, it was an inmate search i remember that, and i remember he had a long French last name, I got a feeling that im remembering it wrong and that he wasnt executed but his sentenced commuted to LWOP, man i wish i hadnt smoked all that *** back in the day, maybe my memory wouldnt be so shot. Then again im OLD so ill blame it on the age thing.
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Post by Charlene on Sept 26, 2008 12:45:25 GMT -6
The worst ive heard is the guy (for the life of me i cant remember his name I think he was from like LA, or MS somewhere down south) he took his 18 mnth old daughter out to a field and poured gas or lighter fluid over her and lit her on fire, they said she ran around on fire for quite a while b4 finally collapsing. It was the most sickening, heartbreaking story ive ever read and ive read em all. Not sure if hes been executed yet or not, i think he has tho, I certainly hope so. The most disgusting POS ever! Lethal injection or the chair were far too lenient of a death for him. I guess this is not the same case, but sounds like they read the same murderer training manual... Coushatta man found guilty of burning 5-year-old to death Posted: Sep 25, 2008 05:25 PM CDT COUSHATTA, LA (KSLA) - A Ruston, LA jury brought in to hear a murder case in Red River Parish took only two hours to find the suspect guilty. Terrance Carter was on trial for tying five-year-old Corinthain Houston to a chair inside a vacant house in Coushatta, dousing him with gasoline, then setting him on fire. Earlier that day Houston had been abducted from his grandmother's house in Natchitoches. A sentencing date has not been set. Carter faces either life in prison or the death penalty.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2008 3:09:21 GMT -6
www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume01/002/021.htmI think this is the case. The animal's name was Shawn Ryan Grell. "Shawn Ryan Grell's account to investigators as he was charged with first-degree murder was that he had driven his 2-year old daughter to her death under the guise that she was going to look at Christmas lights. Grell took his 2-year-old daughter who was laying in the grass, doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. She died face first in a nearby ditch. When he set her on fire she was lying on the ground, she got up and ran about 12 feet, walking in circles at one point as the blaze spread towards her face. The heat was so intense that a barrette on the left side of Kristen’s head melted, and the plastic started running down her face. She finally collapsed face first in a ditch and died. Autopsy shows that her lungs were covered in soot, proving that she was alive when she was set on fire. "
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Post by honeyroastedpeanut on Oct 16, 2008 12:04:13 GMT -6
I really hope I mixed something up here but wasn't there a woman in VA who killed her own child by putting it in a microwave oven and turning it on? I think I heard that on the radio while driving and thought: "No focking way". Does anyone know what she got for it?
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 16, 2008 12:22:38 GMT -6
m.naplesnews.com/news/2005/Nov/04/ndn_30_year_florida_death_row_inmate_loses_another/30-year Florida death row inmate loses another appeal Associated Press Friday, November 4, 2005 TALLAHASSEE — Thomas Knight, who has been on Florida's death row for 30 years, longer than all but three other condemned inmates, lost an appeal Thursday in the state Supreme Court. The justices voted 7-0 to reject the latest in a series of appeals from Knight, 54, who has two death sentences for the 1974 murders of Sidney and Lillian Gans of Miami Beach. Knight, who changed his name to Askari Abdullah Muhammed while in prison, received a third death sentence for fatally stabbing prison guard Richard Burke with the sharpened end of a spoon in 1980. Knight had a criminal record when he was hired by Sidney Gans, who owned a paper bag company and made it a practice of giving ex-convicts a second chance. Knight abducted him from the company's parking lot at rifle-point, forced him to drive home where they picked up his wife and demanded $50,000. They drove to a Miami bank where the company had an account and officials there alerted police. Knight then took the couple to a secluded part of southern Miami-Dade County and killed them as police closed in. The Supreme Court also turned down an appeal by another death row inmate, Ernest Whitfield, 38, who fatally stabbed Claretha Reynolds, a Sarasota mother of five, in 1995 How has he managed to stay alive for 30 years there with a track record like that.? Because the Antis make it so hard to execute someone, even people like this.
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Post by Tracy on Oct 16, 2008 13:48:02 GMT -6
www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume01/002/021.htmI think this is the case. The animal's name was Shawn Ryan Grell. "Shawn Ryan Grell's account to investigators as he was charged with first-degree murder was that he had driven his 2-year old daughter to her death under the guise that she was going to look at Christmas lights. Grell took his 2-year-old daughter who was laying in the grass, doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. She died face first in a nearby ditch. When he set her on fire she was lying on the ground, she got up and ran about 12 feet, walking in circles at one point as the blaze spread towards her face. The heat was so intense that a barrette on the left side of Kristen’s head melted, and the plastic started running down her face. She finally collapsed face first in a ditch and died. Autopsy shows that her lungs were covered in soot, proving that she was alive when she was set on fire. " yes this is the sick sob i was talking about,,obviously he doesnt have a long french last name shows you what kinda memory i have. do we know if this evil POS was sentenced to death or not?? again another case that makes me literally sick to my stomach, poor baby girl RIP.
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Post by Tracy on Oct 16, 2008 13:51:23 GMT -6
www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume01/002/021.htmI think this is the case. The animal's name was Shawn Ryan Grell. "Shawn Ryan Grell's account to investigators as he was charged with first-degree murder was that he had driven his 2-year old daughter to her death under the guise that she was going to look at Christmas lights. Grell took his 2-year-old daughter who was laying in the grass, doused her in gasoline and set her on fire. She died face first in a nearby ditch. When he set her on fire she was lying on the ground, she got up and ran about 12 feet, walking in circles at one point as the blaze spread towards her face. The heat was so intense that a barrette on the left side of Kristen’s head melted, and the plastic started running down her face. She finally collapsed face first in a ditch and died. Autopsy shows that her lungs were covered in soot, proving that she was alive when she was set on fire. " here is the rest of the article from the above link... In America, every citizen charged with a crime is constitutionally guaranteed a competent defense. And when that isn't available a good lie or two seems to be an acceptable substitute. The challenge for his defense is to somehow find a lie that will get their client some mercy from the court. Dr. Seth Asser, an expert in child trauma and burn injuries, testified today that there is no doubt in his mind that little Kristen Salem suffered horribly as she burned to death, the majority of her body consumed by flame. "Kristen became extremely confused from the lack of oxygen before her heart eventually stopped," he said. The little girl "would have had to be in pain from the quickest instant when she was set on fire until she fell over, and maybe sometime after that," Asser said. Kristen's mother, Amber Salem, ran from the courtroom crying during Asser's testimony. I have heard religious men say that there are no evil men only evil acts, but aren't evil acts committed by evil men? I applaud Grell defense team. It takes a really skilled attorney to come up with a *bullcrap* defense that is legit enough to avoid getting the case overturned by appeal but weak enough not to stand a chance of a piece of *crap* like Grell from getting out of spending the rest of his life in prison. i guess that means he got LWOP luckily i stand corrected the POS got death sentence
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Post by Tracy on Oct 16, 2008 13:54:09 GMT -6
Shawn R. Grell May. 16, 2004 09:48 AM
Shawn R. Grell
Date of Birth: December 17, 1975
On December 2, 1999, Grell took his 2-year-old daughter, Kristen, to a remote area in Apache Junction, doused her with gasoline, and set her on fire.
After Kristen was engulfed in flames, she managed to walk around and stomp her feet for up to 60 seconds before collapsing in the dirt.
Kristen suffered third- and fourth-degree burns over 98 percent of her body, and she died from a combination of the burns and smoke inhalation.
Trial
Convicted: September 1, 2000 (Guilty Plea)
Sentenced to death: July 9, 2001
Aggravating Circumstances
Prior conviction for a serious offense
Especially cruel, heinous and depraved
Age of victim
Mitigating Circumstances
Troubled childhood
Alcohol use
Remorse
Family support
Sources
Arizona Department of Corrections "Death Row" Web site
"Profiles of Arizona Death Row Inmates," Arizona Attorney General's Office
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Post by me1 on Oct 16, 2008 15:51:14 GMT -6
m.naplesnews.com/news/2005/Nov/04/ndn_30_year_florida_death_row_inmate_loses_another/30-year Florida death row inmate loses another appeal Associated Press Friday, November 4, 2005 TALLAHASSEE — Thomas Knight, who has been on Florida's death row for 30 years, longer than all but three other condemned inmates, lost an appeal Thursday in the state Supreme Court. The justices voted 7-0 to reject the latest in a series of appeals from Knight, 54, who has two death sentences for the 1974 murders of Sidney and Lillian Gans of Miami Beach. Knight, who changed his name to Askari Abdullah Muhammed while in prison, received a third death sentence for fatally stabbing prison guard Richard Burke with the sharpened end of a spoon in 1980. Knight had a criminal record when he was hired by Sidney Gans, who owned a paper bag company and made it a practice of giving ex-convicts a second chance. Knight abducted him from the company's parking lot at rifle-point, forced him to drive home where they picked up his wife and demanded $50,000. They drove to a Miami bank where the company had an account and officials there alerted police. Knight then took the couple to a secluded part of southern Miami-Dade County and killed them as police closed in. The Supreme Court also turned down an appeal by another death row inmate, Ernest Whitfield, 38, who fatally stabbed Claretha Reynolds, a Sarasota mother of five, in 1995 LOL he killed the death row guard so as to prolong his life as that would mean he would need to be kept alive for a new trial and new appeals. Crafty fooker avoided old sparky due to that trick.
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Post by me1 on Oct 16, 2008 16:01:17 GMT -6
What happened to this thomas knight anyway? I just can't believe he killed a CO on death row and never saw old sparky. He must have been the governers nephew or something.
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Post by mst3k4evur on Oct 16, 2008 17:00:27 GMT -6
What happened to this thomas knight anyway? I just can't believe he killed a CO on death row and never saw old sparky. He must have been the governers nephew or something. He managed to overturn his original death sentences for the robbery-murders and had to be resentenced in 1996. Therefor, his appeals are only 12 years along. www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/case_updates/Htm/017434.htmWorse yet, according to a poster who was at a meeting for the Commission on Capital cases, he is not on the short list for executions. blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2007/07/crist-restarts-.htmlHopefully, he is far enough along in his appeals for the 1980 prison guard murder to get a date in the next few years. Georgia authorities could have pushed for the death penalty in 1974 (Knight escaped from county jail, went to Georgia and committed a contract murder) but decided not to because Knight already had a Florida death sentence.
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Post by me1 on Oct 17, 2008 5:22:47 GMT -6
May aswell keep him alive now. Why let him have LI? Thats a soft option. Just keep him on lockdown until he snuffs it.
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Post by mst3k4evur on Oct 17, 2008 10:54:33 GMT -6
May aswell keep him alive now. Why let him have LI? Thats a soft option. Just keep him on lockdown until he snuffs it. What if he stabs another guard?
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Post by Stormyweather on Oct 17, 2008 11:49:33 GMT -6
May aswell keep him alive now. Why let him have LI? Thats a soft option. Just keep him on lockdown until he snuffs it. Why not just execute him when his appeals are done from the first murder?
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Post by mst3k4evur on Oct 17, 2008 12:03:10 GMT -6
May aswell keep him alive now. Why let him have LI? Thats a soft option. Just keep him on lockdown until he snuffs it. Why not just execute him when his appeals are done from the first murder? He got his original sentences thrown out and was resentenced to death in 1996, so his execution is still a ways off.
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Post by me1 on Oct 17, 2008 12:39:56 GMT -6
May aswell keep him alive now. Why let him have LI? Thats a soft option. Just keep him on lockdown until he snuffs it. What if he stabs another guard? Hence keeping him on lockdown.
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Post by mst3k4evur on Oct 17, 2008 12:56:59 GMT -6
What if he stabs another guard? Hence keeping him on lockdown. People have still been murdered by inmates in lockdown. In fact, CO Merle Clutts was murdered by Aryan Brotherhood enforcer Thomas Silverstein while the inmate was in leg irons and cuffs in the AdSeg section of a supermax prison.
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Post by me1 on Oct 17, 2008 13:47:38 GMT -6
Hence keeping him on lockdown. People have still been murdered by inmates in lockdown. In fact, CO Merle Clutts was murdered by Aryan Brotherhood enforcer Thomas Silverstein while the inmate was in leg irons and cuffs in the AdSeg section of a supermax prison. How the hell did that happen? On death row they are given one plastic spoon to eat their meals with and they have to hand this back after each meal is finished right?
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Post by mst3k4evur on Oct 17, 2008 14:25:07 GMT -6
People have still been murdered by inmates in lockdown. In fact, CO Merle Clutts was murdered by Aryan Brotherhood enforcer Thomas Silverstein while the inmate was in leg irons and cuffs in the AdSeg section of a supermax prison. How the hell did that happen? On death row they are given one plastic spoon to eat their meals with and they have to hand this back after each meal is finished right? Just because that is what they are allowed to have does not mean they can't sneak something into their cells. Freddie Owens has stabbed three inmates and one guard while on South Carolina's death row. Leon Dorsey stabbed a prison guard 17 times before his execution in Texas. That, and Silverstein was not on death row. He was serving three 25 to life sentences for murders he committed in federal prisons after going away for bank robbery. Because there was no dp in the federal system at the time, he got another 25 to life sentence.
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Post by me1 on Oct 17, 2008 17:35:49 GMT -6
There is nothing that can be said that wasnt said in the last paragraph. Jesus. I hope that POS suffered befor he died. What has happened to the other kids, how have they turned out. How much were they effected by this treatment and what do they do as adults, employment wise,are any married and have kids? Where were the neighbours when this was going on, where were the social services, the reports from teachers etc, the hospitals, the police. How could this have happened. I thought you said killers should be treated with compassion haha you are totally lost fella!
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Post by me1 on Oct 17, 2008 17:43:33 GMT -6
Stephen Hugueley, 40 Death Row State of Tennessee Written by mst3k4evur from News, documentary and prodp sources. On a night in 1984 Stephen Hugueley, then a 16 boy still living with his mother in Tennessee, was on the phone with his 26-year-old girlfriend, talking about a date they had planned for later. His mother had never approved of the relationship and upon seeing her son on phone referred to the woman as a ‘whore.’ Huguely then told the woman that he was “fixin to kill this b*tch” but that they would still go out later. He then shot his mother in the head with a rifle, put his mother’s corpse in the trunk of his car and threw it off a bridge. He went on his date but was arrested soon after. He was caught and sentenced to life in prison with a chance at parole after 25 years. To this day he expresses no regrets for his mother’s murder-or the two that would follow. “She was sticking her nose in my love life,” he said later. It would be a common theme, show Hugueley the slightest disrespect and he would kill-and kill brutally. It would be just five years after his 1986 conviction that he would kill again. This time it was inmate James Shelton in the West Tennessee State Prison in 1991. Shelton had been stabbed over 60 times with a homemade knife and bludgeoned with a pillow case full of d-cell batteries. He was convicted again sentenced to life, this time with no parole. “I’ve never lost a moment of sleep over anything I’ve ever done,” said Huguely during a documentary interview. Hugueley claims Shelton had come to his cell the day of the murder to threaten him, but it seems unlikely given the weapons Huguely had with him. Most likely the murder stemmed from Hugueley’s other complaint about the victim: he made too much noise. In 1997 he tried again, repeatedly stabbing another inmate, only the poor construction of this knife saved the victim. In 2002, one man decided he was not impressed with Hugueley, no longer the teenager he had been in 1984 but a hulking, muscular adult with a tattoo of a swastika across his forhead. Counselor Delbert Steed began filing disciplinary reports on Hugueley and was unsympathetic to his demands for art supplies, perhaps because they included sharp pencils, and his request for a cleaner cell mate. Hugueley also claims that Steed made ‘derogatory remarks’ about the twice convicted murderer. After grievances filed on the matter were ignored Hugueley made another knife and confronted Steed in the hallway of the Hardeman County Correctional Facility. He stabbed him and kept stabbing as Steed fell to the ground, using a weapon fashioned from a piece of metal melted into a magic marker. Hugueley later explained his desire to stab through the lungs and the heart. He did and Hugueley committed his third murder. After he received a death sentence for Steed’s murder, Huguely dropped his appeals but then resumed them as his execution date neared in 2006. He believes that he may kill again. “It may be one year, five years or 10 years, but sooner or later, somebody will do something to set me off,” he said. He remains incarcerated at the Administrative Segregation unit of the Brushy Mountain Maximum Security Prison, awaiting execution rather than with other death row inmates at Riverbend Prison because of the unique threat he poses. According to inmate and close friend Ron Mosby, Hugueley is the most feared inmate in the state of Tennessee. Theres an interview with this freak on youtube recorded from death row. He says he commited the prison murders because he wanted to use the states lethal injection as a means of suicide.
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Post by mst3k4evur on Oct 17, 2008 18:04:36 GMT -6
Theres an interview with this freak on youtube recorded from death row. He says he commited the prison murders because he wanted to use the states lethal injection as a means of suicide. Nope, just the last one. He got an execution date in 2006 but decided not to go through with it in the end and is still appealing. Guess livin' ain't so bad after all.
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Post by me1 on Oct 18, 2008 7:12:53 GMT -6
Lol yeah that was weird. Maybe he just enjoys getting his special last meal before starting up his appeals again lol.
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Post by me1 on Oct 19, 2008 2:42:02 GMT -6
Good grief, these older cases that I am unfamiliar with are shocking me. Arthur Frederick Goode, III was a child molester who went on a crime spree that resulted in the abduction, sexual assault and murder of two boys and the kidnapping and sexual assaults of at least one other boy. In his teenage years, Goode had been arrested three times for sexually assaulting minors in his neighborhood. His parents bailed him out each time. In March of 1975, Goode was again arrested on five sexual assault charges regarding a 9-year-old boy. His parents paid the $25,000 bond but while out on bail, Good molested an 11-year-old boy. Incredibly, he received only a 5 year probation sentence, on the condition that he undergo voluntary psychiatric treatment at a state hospital. Less than four months later, Goode left the hospital and hopped a bus for home. A bench warrant was issued but no further action was taken to arrest Goode. On March 5, 1976, Goode asked 9-year-old Jason Verdow to help him find something in the woods near a bus stop where the boy was waiting. Goode later said, "I told him he was going to die and described how I would kill him. I asked him if he had any last words and he said, "I love you," and then I strangled him." Goode said he strangled the boy by putting a belt around his neck and swinging him through the air. The body of Jason Verdow was found near Pondella Road in Cape Coral, Florida, nude except for his socks. A memorial park was later established in Jason's name in Cape Coral, Florida. Goode was questioned in Jason's murder on two occasions, so he left town and returned to the state hospital, however he did not remain long. He imagined that the receptionist was calling the police to turn him in so he fled. He then kidnapped 10-year-old paperboy Billy Arthes, taking him to Washington, D.C. where they spent the next 10 days touring the capital. On March 20, Goode picked up 11-year-old Kenny Dawson and took him and Billy on a bus to Tysons Corner, Virginia. While there, Goode took the boys on a hike in a wooded area where he forced Kenny to undress, sexually assaulted him and then strangled him with a belt in front of a frightened and horrified Billy. That same week, a woman in Falls Church recognized Billy Arthes from news photos and called the police, resulting in Goode's arrest and Billy's rescue. When Goode was placed under arrest, he said to police, "You can't to nothing to me. I'm sick." Goode wrote a letter to Jason's parents, saying, "Ha! Ha! I murdered your sexy little boy, Jason, and I'm proud of it!" Goode was tried in Maryland for Kenny Dawson's murder and sentenced to life in prison. Extradited to Florida, Goode went on trial for the murder of Jason Verdow. Goode acted as his own attorney and a brave 11-year-old Billy Arthes testified that he was in Goode's company for several days shortly after Jason Verdow's murder and that Goode had told him that he had killed Jason. After Billy's brave testimony was complete, Goode handed him a piece of candy and said: "I love you, Billy. Goodbye." The trial judge's handling of the matter was forceful, effective and appropriate. He called a recess for coffee, and forcefully reprimanded Goode out of the presence of the jury. Goode, although he declined to plead guilty, systematically and cleverly brought out evidence to assure his own conviction, testified in gory detail as to his guilt, and argued to the jury that he should be convicted and sentenced to death. In the sentencing phase Goode himself testified, in awful specificity, of his willingness to kill again: "The next statement I have here to prove my guilt, is if Judge John Shearer would authorize this next statement, which I know he won't--I know you won't authorize it--but if the judge would authorize me to murder a little boy ... I am ready right now, I am ready right now to murder another little boy. I am strictly a dangerous, cold-blooded murderer." Prosecutor Joe D’Alessandro said Goode once asked him to visit his jail cell. “I wasn’t there five minutes when he invoked something in me that has never been invoked," he said. “I wanted to hurt him. If I had been there alone, I would have hurt him. That scared me." In pronouncing the sentence on March 21, 1977, the trial court judge said, "If organized society is to exist with the compassion and love that we all espouse, there comes a point when we must terminate that, and there are certain cases and certain times when we can no longer help, we can no longer rehabilitate and there are certain people, and Arthur Goode is one of them, that's actions demand that society respond and all we can do is exterminate. Philosophically I believe that in certain limited instances we should do that. In this particular case that is my opinion, and that is my order, and the only answer I know that will once and for all guarantee society, at least as far as it relates to this man, is that he will never again kill, maim, torture or harm another human being. You have violated the laws, you have had your trial and I am convinced that the punishment is just and proper, and truthfully, may God have mercy on your soul." Goode was known as the "most hated man on the row." Other inmates threw things at him and even ministers avoided contact with him. In 1984, a reporter from Baltimore interviewed Goode extensively. www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=13919 During the interview, Goode said, "There's nothing wrong with me. It's the damn people in society who are prejudiced against pedophilia. There's every reason in the world why I want to be executed. Of course, that's the last thing I really want because I'd like to be on the street doing sex with young boys. What I want to do is get a legal way to marry a boy. Society doesn't have the right to get into my business." He also said, "Kenny Dawson, I wish I hadn't killed him. He was one of the nicest kids I ever met." When asked later if he felt guilt about killing the boys, Goode said, "Yeah, I do. You see, I loved the kids. That's one thing I hate to do, but it's my way to protest. I feel proud I killed those two kids knowing that society will never let me have sex with kids again. At least I can pay them back." Every line of questioning on other topics was almost instantly turned back to pedophilia by Goode. "I like children in general, be friends with them. I'm like a clown. I'd like to be a scoutmaster. People don't understand pedophilia. In other words, there's going to be more kids missing and killed until society understands and possibly considers pedophilia. In the future they're going to have to do something. people better start considering all sorts of life, not just being selfish on normal sex. They need to understand what it is, not that they're going to like it, but they've got to accept it and understand it. Somehow they must legalize it in certain ways or their kids will be raped or molested. People are responsible for their own kids." He talked about assaulting a 13-year-old boy in Baltimore. "I lured a 13-year-old boy in the woods in Dundalk area and I had sex with him and kept all his clothes. They found him, some motorist saw him coming out of the woods with no clothes on. I had actually tried to kill him. I gave him some Dramamine. That was before I knew anything about strangling. The thing that was funny is that he came out of the woods with no clothes on." Eight years after Jason's murder, Goode was executed in the electric chair. Goode cried as he made his final statement. "I want to apologize to my parents. I have remorse for the two boys I murdered. But it's difficult for me to show it." At least he fried. I hope they did'nt wet the sponge.
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Post by Tracy on Oct 20, 2008 16:40:27 GMT -6
eric nenno has to be up there with the worst as well,,oct 28th cant come soon enuff for this sicko pos
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2008 9:10:20 GMT -6
My god , Charlene, i hope you take time out from reading all this rubbish and depressing accounts of murder. Its enough to turn anyone inside out with dispair. It is hard for me as an anti to remain so after reading some of these accounts. There truly is some scum about. I think that is the point. To get you thinkingl to see the details of their crimes and then you can be free to make a judgement whether they should live or die and give a satisfactory arguement why they should live.
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