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"The world is dangerous to live in not because of the people
who do evil things,
but because of the people who know about it but do nothing to stop it." |
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The children's
first names are links that will
take you to websites with more
information...
I would like to give credit to
The
Victims,
Children Who Never Made It Home and
Stolen Innocence webpages for most of the names
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Latara
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Chandler |
13 |
Arizona, Date of crime: November 2000
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Arthur Lee Gales strangled and
sexually assaulted 13-year-old Latara Chandler and her 7-year-old
brother Tramar, and beat their mother Judy almost to death. Gales
maintained his innocence. He had previously been convicted of armed
sexual battery in 1986. At the penalty phase the defense presented
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Brittany |
Hendrickson |
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Prosecution’s case/defense response: Fred
Mundt Jr. killed his 7-year-old step-daughter, Brittany Hendrickson, by
dumping her in a well then dropping large stones on her until she
stopped screaming. Mundt confessed to the murder to psychologists.
Brittany was also a victim of on-going sexual abuse. In the penalty
phase, the defense argued Mundt was raised in a dysfunctional home, and
suffered from bipolar disorder and post traumatic stress syndrome.
The prosecution argued that Mundt continually exaggerated his mental
illness to deflect responsibility. Prosecution’s case/defense response:
Mundt killed his 7-year-old step-daughter, Brittany Hendrickson, by
dumping her in a well then dropping large stones on her until she
stopped screaming. Mundt confessed to the murder to psychologists.
Brittany was also a victim of on-going sexual abuse. In the penalty
phase, the defense argued Mundt was raised in a dysfunctional home, and
suffered from bipolar disorder and post traumatic stress syndrome. The
prosecution argued that Mundt continually exaggerated his mental illness
to deflect responsibility.
Sentenced to death in Noble County, Ohio By: A jury |
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Tonya |
Jarman |
5 |
Date of crime: 12/7/93
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Michael Edward Hooper kidnapped his
ex-girlfriend Cynthia Jarman and her two children (Tonya, age 5, and
Timothy, age 3), shot each of them twice in the head, and buried them
atop each other in a field. At the resentencing Hooper did not wish to
present evidence that might spare him from death, but his attorney
nonetheless pointed out that Hooper suffered from serious mental health
issues and was a victim of childhood abuse and neglect.
Sentenced to death in Canadian County, Oklahoma (re-sentence after an
appellate reversal of the death sentence)
By: A judge after waiving a jury. Hooper had been sentenced to death by
a jury in 1995, but his sentence had been reversed, which led to this
second sentencing proceeding. |
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Timothy |
Jarman |
3 |
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Elizabeth |
Wholaver |
15 |
Date of crime: 12/24/02
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Ernest
Wholaver was estranged from his wife Jean, and she had a protective
order against him. His two daughters (Victoria, age 20, and Elizabeth,
age 15) had accused him of sexually abusing them for many years, and
were within weeks of the trial where they would testify against him.
Wholaver had his brother drive him to his wife’s house (his brother
pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree murder for his role in
the crime, and testified against Ernest). Ernest burglarized the home,
shooting and killing Jean, Victoria, and Elizabeth. He killed Victoria
while she was holding her infant daughter. The police found the infant
alive by her mother’s body the next day.
Wholaver was also convicted of attempting to hire a hit man from jail to
kill Victoria’s ex-boyfriend and frame him for the crime by leaving a
suicide note confessing to the crime. In defense, Wholaver denied
committing the murders. The defense attempted to point the finger at
Victoria’s ex-boyfriend, and claimed that Wholaver had attempted to have
him killed because Wholaver believed the ex-boyfriend had killed the
three victims.
Sentenced to death in Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania By: A jury |
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Shemika |
Patterson |
16 |
Date of crime: 9/11/03
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Anthony Francois snuck into the home of his
ex-girlfriend Shemika Patterson (age 16). He proceeded to shoot and kill
her three
sisters who were sleeping: Nikesha (15), Ashley (11), and Brittany (10).
Francois also shot Shemika and her mother Sheila in their heads and
backs,but they
survived. Quinn had a long criminal record, including for burglary and
armed
robbery. He had also told another woman a week before the murders that
he was
going to kill Shemika’s family while she watched.
Francois told the police, however, that he panicked and snapped.
In the penalty phase the prosecution
presented evidence of rape by
Francois for which no charges had been
filed. The
defense presented evidence that Francois had been fathered by a rapist,
and had
suffered a traumatic childhood.
Sentenced to death in Harris County, Texas By: A jury |
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Nikesha |
Patterson |
15 |
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Ashley |
Patterson |
11 |
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Brittany |
Patterson |
10 |
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Sarah  |
Harper |
10 |
The question is really why Robert Black was
not identified as a suspect at any stage. After Black's trial criticism
was directed at Hector Clark from the media and,more distressingly, from
other officers on the inquiry, particularly Detective Superintendent
John Stainthorpe who had headed the Sarah Harper investigation.
Stainthorpe's criticism was that Clark had defined his parameters too
narrowly when looking at men with records for sexual offences as
potential suspects. Clark had confined his search to men who had been
convicted of serious sexual offences: the attempted or actual abduction,
rape or murder of a child under 16. Black however, had been convicted of
'lewd and libidinous' behaviour - a charge which did not match the
severity of the offence - with a seven-year-old girl in Scotland in
1967. Stainthorpe said that if Clark had included all sexual offences
Black would have been a first-class suspect straight away, or at the
very least would have been in the system: "Black should have been
arrested years ago, with his history and convictions."
Clark was quick to defend himself to the press and public: "We just
couldn't check on everybody," he said, "It would have overloaded the
system to an unmanageable extent." He argued that criteria based on the
most likely suspects had to be utilised, and given that the charges
being investigated were for murder, looking at those offenders with
convictions for more serious offences seemed the most sensible way to
proceed.
However, when we look at research done into the backgrounds of serial
killers we see that if they have any past convictions they are hardly
ever serious and usually not sexual. John Christie, Ian Brady, Colin
Ireland and Fred West had previous convictions for offences such as
theft, fraud and breaking and entering.Peter Sutcliffe, Dennis Nilsen,
Myra Hindley and Rose West had no criminal records at all before their
convictions for murder. But Black was not just – or primarily - a serial
killer, he was also a paedophile and unlike serial killers paedophiles
often do have past convictions for sexual offences. These offences,
however, may often be relatively minor. Thus if the investigation was to
be centred around the creation of suspects based on previous form,
Stainthorpe was right to say that even minor sexual offences needed to
be included. But of course this was not a viable way to conduct the
inquiry. In this sense, at least, Clark was right: the creation of a
database with all sexual offences committed in the past 20 years on
it, and the subsequent investigation of the offender, was not a task the
inquiry could manage.
Just as the case of Peter Sutcliffe highlighted the need for a computer
system such as HOLMES to replace the old manual system of data
collation, the Black inquiry made apparent the need for a constantly
updated national database of all sex offenders and killers. They needed
a system such as the FBI's VICAP which can search its memory of sex
offenders and their MO’s to match the case under investigation. As John
Stainthorpe said, "had Black been on a computerised criminal
intelligence system, his name would have popped up like a cork out of a
bottle." And it probably would have, provided that the types of offence
initially fed into the computer were comprehensive and went far enough
back in time.
In a case such as Sutcliffe's where the killer has committed no past
sexual or violent offences, such a system would be of little use in the
identification of possible suspects. In Black's case, however, the
system would have had a two-fold usage. It would have identified Black
as a man with convictions for sexual assaults on young girls, and also
have unearthed offences which he may have perpetrated but had not yet
been linked to.
As it was it emerged only after Black's trial that he was almost
certainly responsible for more than the three murders for which he was
convicted. A serial killer like Black having killed Susan in 1982 and
Caroline in 1983, is highly unlikely to then leave a gap of three years
before killing Sarah in 1986. And Susan was unlikely to have been his
first victim. At the age of 17 Black had assaulted and left a
seven-year- old girl for dead; his first murder was allegedly when he
was 35. But the incident in 1967 hadn't left him full of remorse or
regret: these were things he told Wyre that he knew he should, but could
not,
feel. When looking back on the event all he felt was lust. The image of
that day reformed again and again in Black's fantasies, as he relived it
and improved upon it until it was just right. The compulsion to re-enact
and refine the experience in reality would have been too deep and
over-powering to leave for almost 20 years.
In July 1994 a meeting was held in Newcastle to consider the possibility
of Black’s involvement in similar murders. As well as possible murders
in France, Amsterdam, Ireland and Germany, there were up to ten unsolved
abductions and murders in England which bore Black’s MO: April Fabb who
was abducted from her bicycle in Norfolk in 1969; nine-year-old
Christine Markham who was snatched in Scunthorpe in 1973; 13-year-old
Genette Tate who disappeared in Devon in 1978; 14-year-old Suzanne
Lawrence who was found dead in Essex in 1979; 16-year-old Colette Aram
who was found strangled and sexually assaulted in a field in Nottingham
in 1983; 14-year-old Patsy Morris who was found dead near Heathrow in
1990; and Marion Crofts and Lisa Hession.
One senior officer was quoted in the Express as saying, "We know he
killed Genette Tate and April Fabb, and we believe that their bodies are
buried somewhere in the Midlands Triangle." John Stainthorpe said that
in his opinion there was an 80 percent likelihood of Black being
involved in the disappearance of Genette. Inquiries into these murders
have been re-opened. Had these abductions and murders been linked at the
time to the cases of Susan, Caroline and Sarah, the police might have
unearthed useful new leads. Had they had a national database Black might
have been identified as a suspect. An enormous amount of fruitless work
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Hogg |
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Susan
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Maxwell |
11 |
Genette
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Tate |
13 |
Suzanne
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Lawrence |
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Morris |
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Colette
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Aram |
16 |
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Markham |
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Jetseta Marrie
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Gage |
10 |
IOWA CITY, Iowa Mar 26, 2005
— The body of a girl found in an abandoned mobile home
was identified Saturday as that of a 10-year-old who was abducted,
authorities said. Police canceled an Amber Alert for Jetseta Marrie
Gage on Friday after finding the body in a rundown mobile home near
the small town of Kalona, about 45 miles south of the girl's home in
Cedar Rapids.
Authorities formally identified the
remains Saturday. An autopsy showed the girl had suffocated, the
Johnson County sheriff's office said.
The man accused of snatching Gage
from her home was being held Saturday on $1 million bond.
Roger P. Bentley, 37, a registered sex
offender, made an initial court appearance earlier in the day in
Linn County District Court on one count of child stealing.
Additional charges could be filed by Monday, authorities said.
According to state's sex offender
registry, Bentley was convicted in 1994 of lascivious acts with a
child.
Police said he was working on the
van of Jetseta's mother, Trena Gage, Thursday night before
disappearing with the child.
Gage, who was away at the time
taking a college course, said her 7-year-old son saw Bentley leave
in his pickup with Jetseta. The children's grandmother also was at
home.
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Felicia Ann
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Elliott
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8 |
In July of 1998, Felicia Ann had just
turned 8 years old and her brother Gregory was about to turn 7. Felicia
was a straight A honor roll student who loved school, Barbie dolls and
wanted to become a doctor. Gregory had just learned to play baseball and
loved his dog Chance. On the morning of July 30, 1998, Lisa Elliott, and
her son Gregory, were found brutally beaten and stabbed to death at
their home. Carl’s body was found days later in a river. He had been
shot and beaten.
Felicia’s whereabouts were unknown for 2 years until a hunter found her
remains miles from her home. In August of 2003, Chad Green and his
father Billy Green, neighbors to the Elliott’s, were both indicted with
the family’s murder as well as Felicia’s kidnapping. Chad took a plea
bargain in exchange for testifying against his father. On 5/21/04, Billy
Dale Green was convicted of 4 counts of capitol murder and kidnapping.
On 5/24/04, he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Chad Green
will only get 40 years. At the trial, it was revealed that, in addition
to watching her mother and brother killed, little Felicia was taken
alive from the house, so that the Greens could rape her. She was duct
taped, hands, mouth and feet and kept alive inside a trash can for two
days before being killed by Billy Green.!!!!!! Unbelievable!!!!!!! |
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Elliott |
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Sarah Michelle
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Lunde
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RUSKIN, Fla. Apr 17, 2005
— A registered sex offender confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl who
disappeared a week ago, saying he got into an argument with her and he
choked her to death in her home, the sheriff said Sunday.
David Onstott, 36, was charged with
first-degree murder Sunday, a day after investigators found Sarah
Lunde's partially clothed body in an abandoned fish pond, Hillsborough
County Sheriff David Gee said.
Sarah was last seen April 9, shortly
after returning home from a church trip. Early the next morning, Onstott
paid an unexpected visit to the family's home to look for Sarah's
mother, Kelly May Lunde, whom he once dated, Gee said.
fter Sarah let Onstott into the house,
they got into an argument and Onstott put her in a choke hold and killed
her, Gee said.
"You are talking about a person who
would murder a child. Who knows what's in his mind," Gee said, who
didn't give further details of the confession.
Sarah's 17-year-old brother came home
later and found the front door wide open and his sister gone, but the
family initially assumed Sarah had gone to a friend's house. She was not
reported missing until Monday.
Gee said Onstott "went to great effort
to keep her body from being discovered."
Onstott, who has a rape conviction, has
been held without bail in the Hillsborough County Jail since Tuesday on
unrelated charges. His attorney, Pat Courtney, did not return a phone
message Sunday.
Sarah's relatives and members of her
First Apostolic Church congregation turned out in droves Sunday to
tearfully mourn the loss of the girl. Her young friends dropped to their
knees and wept.
Sarah's mother was too shaken to talk
Sunday, but her brother Larry May said: "It's devastating, it's just
unbelievable."
"Everybody has things they wished
they'd done spending more time with their children or keeping in closer
contact," May said.
Among the mourners were Mark Lunsford,
whose daughter Jessica was found dead last month after she was kidnapped
from their Citrus County home, and Roy Brown, whose daughter Amanda was
murdered in 1997 by a convicted child molester in Tampa. |
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