Terry Blair was born on September 16, 1961, he is a known American serial killer in, Kansas City, Missouri, where he killed and raped more the seven women. He grew up in a family where he’s mother had a ninth grade education and suffered from a mental illness. Blair’s family had many encounters with the police, as he was growing up. While Blair was in prison his brother Walter Blair Jr. offered a man to kill Katherine Allen for $6,000 so she couldn’t appear at his rape trial. Terry admitted to abducting the girl and taking her to an empty lot and shooting her, Walter was imprisoned for the murder and executed in 1993. On March 27, 2008 a judge found Terry guilty for the murders of the six women, the women’s bodies were found in the Prospect Avenue corridor in 2003 and 2004. …show more content…
Terry had spent 21 years in prison already for killing his first victim, who was the pregnant mother of his two children, prior to being charged with additional murders.
The other six victims died of strangulation; Blair was also accused of two other murders, an assault and three rapes. Terry was charged with eight-counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-agree assault and three counts of forcible rape on October 15, 2004. He got out of the death penalty by agreeing to waive him right to a jury trial, but he was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment of the murder of Angela Monroe where he was sentenced to life with no possible parole. Phone records show someone calling 911 telling them where to locate the bodies, but they didn’t think it was Blair, but the caller was very precise. In the phone call the man describes the women as prostitutes. Blair is being held at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point,
Missouri. I personally believe that anyone who kills someone does it because of their past, or they have some real mental issues. Terry Blair grew up with lots of encounters with the police, so that probably had some factors of why he murdered those women. The summary I read of him didn’t say he had mental problems or anything like that, but it did say his mom did and that could have contributed a lot. No one has any excuse to kill someone; I think Terry got what he deserved. No one really knows why the killer did what he did; sometimes I think the killer doesn’t even know why he did it. Sometimes I think the killers also kill people because that person reminds them of a bad memory in their life, still gives them no excuse. I wonder if Terry took a minute to think about what he was doing while in the middle of strangling one of the women, did he think about the consequences? I used to watch this TV show where the killer’s father was also a killer and that’s why he started murdering because that was in the family. Maybe that was Terry’s situation; his family did have often encounters with the police. I was thinking that one of the main reasons he killed those women resulted in his parents. The summary didn’t say anything about his dad only his mom and how he was the fourth oldest out of ten, even having a big family could’ve contributed. Articles have been written about a few of his siblings killing people and that could’ve contributed to him murdering those innocent women. I didn’t see anything about his school or if he had friends or what, but if he did he could have hung out with the wrong group and they could’ve influenced him to do stupid things and then he just kept doing them. A lot could have contributed to why Terry Blair killed those 8 victims, and the way he did it. No one will ever know why or what his motives where to kill those women, expect for him. Serial killers are a very interesting topic, and you don’t really think about much of why they do things until you research one.
While researching this case I stumbled upon many others and I became aware of how many people have suffered from the injustice of being found guilty. While reading parts of the book “Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death the Story of Steven Truscott” I learned that the police played a large role in why 14-year-old Truscott was found guilty of murder. The book showed that they forced witnesses to change their story to further “prove” Truscott’s guilt of the crime. This led to the conclusion that in this case (like many others) the police were solely and unjustly targeting one
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On the night of November 28th 1976, 28-year-old Randall Adams was hitchhiking on a Dallas road when 16-year-old David Harris picked him up. Harris, a runaway from Texas had stolen the car along with his father’s shotgun. They spent the day together and that night went to a drive-in movie The Swinging Chandeliers. Later that same evening officer Robert Wood was shot and killed when he pulled a car matching the exact description as Harris’s over. Two witnesses-including Harris, named Adams as the murderer. Adams received a death penalty sentence that in 1979 that later was reduced to life in prison. It was early in the 1980’s when director Errol Morris happened upon Adams’s court transcripts whilst shooting a different documentary about a Dallas psychiatrist who was frequently consulted in death row cases. Convinced of Adams innocence and the false accusations made against him Morris began making a film on the subject.
Alton Crawford Brown was born in Los Angeles on July 30th, 1962. His parents were from a rural town in Georgia, Sir Alton Brown and his wife moved with their son, when he was 7, back to their home town. This is where Alton spent the rest of his days growing up. During his young age he spend a lot of time in the kitchen with his mother and grandmother learning to cook. Alton had a rough childhood at one point in time, his father committed suicide and later on his mother got remarried. While researching Alton Brown they don’t really say much about his childhood, they mainly focus on his college years and beyond into adulthood. Although through learning about his childhood you can find out that cooking was never his dream, Alton as a child dreamed
He worked hard and had his own business cutting trees. McMillian became well known due to an affair he had with a local married women Karen Kelley. Kelly was a white women and it became big news once in Monroe County about her affair with a black man. A few months after the murder of Ronda Morrison, a criminal named Ralph Myers was arrested for the murder of Vickie Pittman in a nearby county. Myers was a well-known criminal who was into drugs. Myers, but had started seeing Kelly during the months after McMillian and her split. Myers now in jail was trying to pin the murder on people including Sherriff Tate of Monroe County. Once he realized that was not sticking, he changed his story. Stevenson (2014) “… he had been involved in the murder of Vickie Pittman along with Karen Kelly and her black boyfriend, Walter McMillian. But that wasn’t all. He also told police that McMillian was responsible for the murder of Ronda Morrison.” (p, 33). Ralph Myers has now implicated McMillian, an innocent man, for the murder of Morrison who he no part in the event. McMillian was quickly charged and sent to death row before even being sentenced for the murder or Morrison. Within a year or so Myers and couple other people gave false testimony and McMillian in less than two days was sentenced to capital punishment with the death
The book Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?, written by independent journalist and private investigator Ethan Brown, tells the horrific true story of the bayou town of Jennings, Louisiana located in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. During the four year duration between 2005 and 2009, the town of Jennings was on edge after the discovery of the bodies of eight murdered women were found in the filthy canals and swamps. The victims became known as the “Jeff Davis 8.” For years, local law enforcement suspected a serial killer, and solely investigated the murders based on that theory alone. The victims were murdered in varying manors, but when alive they all shared many commonalities and were connected to
In August of 2011, Anthony Edward Sowell, also known as “The Cleveland Strangler,” was sentenced to death in the State of Ohio. Sowell’s killings began in 2007 and continued until his arrest in 2009. Sowell’s conviction include eleven counts of aggravated murder, eleven counts of abuse of corpse, three counts of attempted murder, four counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, two counts of kidnapping, and eleven counts of tampering with evidence. Sowell is currently being held at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution located in Chillicothe, Ohio. Prior to these murders, Sowell already had a criminal history of sex crimes and in 2008, one year after Sowell had begun his killing spree, law enforcement officials missed an opportunity to arrest him and stop the killings. All of Sowell’s victims were women ranging in age from twenty-five to fifty-three and there is currently an ongoing civil suit filed by victim’s families.
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In 1989 Westley Allan Dodd was hanged to death for sexually assaulting and heinously murdering three defenseless children; all boys aged 11, 10, and 4. The details and events from his shocking diaries portray horrific accounts of the murders he committed and those he planned to enact had he not been finally brought to justice by one of his potential victims.
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Upon his arrest he had confessed to 5 burglaries and several violent sexual assaults, including the two unsolved murders and sexual assaults of Barbara Krlik, 15 and Annie Mae Johnson, 24. He had also admitted to have attempted sexual assaults on more than 4 women, all of which failed because he preferred to be a necrophilia stating that “He got no thrill with the living women he raped” (Gado, 2004).
The person I chose to research was Gary Ridgway. He is also known as The Green River Killer. Gary was a serial killer in Washington. He has been convicted of murdering 49 women, he has confessed to around 60 killings, but is estimated to have killed closer to 80 women. All the women that he had killed were prostitutes that he had picked up, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He says that he never raped or tortured any of his victims, he just killed them. Gary started killing prostitutes in 1892 and is confirmed to have killed till 1998, but is thought that his last kill was around 2001. He was called the Green River Killer because his first victims’ bodies were found around the Green River.
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