He is known as the "Truckstop Killer" for frequenting truck stops around Texas and Illinois to look for victims, usually prostitutes or hitchhikers. Robert Ben Rhoades was born November 22, 1945. She is scheduled to be released in 2018 due to prison overcrowding. Later, a concurrent term of 60 years was added for the killing of Rolando Santos with the use of heparin. She was sentenced to 99 years in prison for the murder of fifteen month old Chelsea McClellan. She drugged the children during routine visits with drugs, such as digoxin, heparin and succinylcholine all three drugs cause temporary paralysis of skeletal muscles, as well as decreased breathing, which results in cardiac arrest in children. She was a nurse, employed at a clinic in Kerrville, Texas, where she was suspected of murdering forty six infants in her care. The only female on the list Genene Jones was born July 13, 1950. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Terry Sims, and three consecutive life sentences for the murders of Toni Gibbs, Debra Taylor and Ellen Blau. He targeted young, pretty women under the age of twenty five, often raping or sexually assaulting them before stabbing or strangling them. He is responsible for the rapes and murders of five women in Wichita Falls, Texas. Watts died of prostate cancer in prison September 21, 2007.įariyon Wardrip was born March 6, 1986. Eyewitness to Dutcher's murder, Joseph Foy described Watts as evil and deprived of emotion. While in prison however, Watts was linked to ten other murders, and was given two additional life without-the-chance-of-parole sentences for the murders of Gloria Steele and Helen Dutcher.
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In exchange for only 60 years in prison, Watts agreed to a plea deal and gave the police full confessions. He was expelled after being accused of stalking and assaulting women.
Watts moved to Houston, Texas at the age of twenty, after being expelled from Lane College in Tennessee where he was on football scholarship.
Unlike most serial killers, Carl Eugene Watts did not stick with one specific method of killing his victims he would switch between stabbing, bludgeoning, strangulation, and even drowning. He was known as the "Sunday Morning Slasher." Police suspect Watts of being responsible for the deaths of at least 90 women. His victim profile was young women, usually prostitutes, between the ages of fourteen and forty four he was known for stalking and torturing his victims before ultimately killing them. Watts harbored fantasies about kidnapping, raping and killing women during his adolescence he is suspected of killing his first victim at age fifteen. Carl Eugene WattsĬarl Eugene Watts was born November 7, 1953, in Killeen, Texas. He was sentenced to life in prison December 18, 1991. He was convicted for the murders of prostitutes Shirley Williams, Mary Pratt, and Susan Peterson all three women had their eyes surgically removed by Albright. Albright lived a seemingly normal life in Dallas, Texas with his wife, whom he had dated all through college, and their daughter no one in his family knew he was hiding such sadistic obsessions and fantasies. "Eyeball Killer" and "Dallas Ripper" Charles Albright was born August 10, 1933. Henry Lee Lucas died of heart failure in prison on March 12, 2001. However, he was sentenced for the murder of a Jane Doe dubbed "Orange Socks," by police, who was found Halloween night in Texas. Lucas' other victims include ranch owner Katie Rich in Ringgold, Texas and his own mother. Lucas married Toole's mentally challenged niece Frieda Powell, who was thirty years his junior, and later murdered and dismembered her. He met drifter Ottis Toole in Jacksonville, Florida who later became his lover and killing partner.
He is linked to at least eleven unknown victims and disappearances, but has confessed to over a hundred, earning him the nickname "Confession Killer." Lucas was born into a very unstable and volatile household both of his parents were alcoholics and his mother had a raging temper that Lucas found himself the victim of almost daily. He is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Henry Lee Lucas was born August 23, 1936. He was ultimately executed Novemhis final statement was, "I'm ready to be released, release me". The rapes and murders of Melissa Northrup, 22 in Waco, Texas and Colleen Reed, 28 from Austin, Texas, sent McDuff to death row. McDuff is known as the "Broomstick Murderer," because he used a broomstick to help him strangle his victims. Kenneth McDuff was born March 21, 1946, is suspected in the strangulation deaths of fourteen people around central Texas, and was sentenced to death twice.
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