Screenshot/truecrimeauctionhouse.comIn the 15 years that Andy Kahan, victims’ rights advocate for the City of Houston, has closely monitored “murderabilia” from serial killers sold online, he has never seen anything for sale from convicted baby killer Genene Jones.
Then he found a Christmas card Jones had written to someone from prison, for sale on a website called truecrimeauctionhouse.com for $750.
Stanton StephensRhonda Williams waited 40 years to tell her story publicly.
For a moment, she thinks it’s her dad. Then she opens her eyes and sees it’s Dean Corll, the electrician who’s renting this house in Pasadena. She looks over and sees her friend Wayne Henley handcuffed, his feet bound, his mouth duct-taped. She looks to the other side, and there’s the boy Tim she hadn’t met until the night before, when she escaped from her father’s home in the Heights. He’s tied and taped, too.
Dean’s still berating her when she looks down at her own body and realizes she’s also been tied. Dean never liked her — never liked any girls — but this is unexpected. Dean had disappeared before she passed out; retreated to his bedroom, saying something about having to work in the morning. The three plopped down on the living-room carpet and got to feeling good. Wayne and Tim were huffing acrylic paint from a bag; all three shared shots of Wayne’s dad’s moonshine. She had taken a puff of a joint that one of them passed her way, and then it was lights out.
Ted Soqui/L.A. WeeklyA jury that started deliberations Friday in the sentencing of “Grim Sleeper” serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. returned this afternoon with a recommendation that he be put to death.
The 63-year-old’s defense attorney had argued that a death sentence would only send Franklin’s case into a bureaucratic holding pattern and that life behind bars would offer the victims’ families quicker closure.
On May 5, the seven-woman, five-man jury found Franklin guilty of killing 10 women and attempting to murder one more in a spree that lasted from 1985 to 2007.
Tales of the Grim SleeperLonnie Franklin, Jr.
Lonnie Franklin Jr., accused of killing 10 women and attempting to murder one more, was convicted of the crimes by a Los Angeles jury today.
A woman identified as Juror No. 2 read off the verdicts in Los Angeles Superior Court Department 109 today. Nine of the counts against Franklin included firearms enhancements, which likely will affect sentencing. All but one of the counts was for first-degree murder.
His killing spree dates back to the crack-fueled year of 1985.
We told you about Stephen Koschal, the Brickell memorabilia detail who’s been the world’s leader in selling art by executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Now we bring you the ten creepiest prison-made Gacys we could find photos of. Not all of them were brokered by Koschal, but all are certifiable nightmare fuel.
Photo by Laura Wilson“I’m still haunted by what I don’t know. I just think there’s something out there,” says Hollandsworth. He’s hoping that somebody will read the book, go up into his attic or down into the basement archives of a police station, and find a letter that will reveal one key bit of evidence. “It just seems impossible to believe that there is no way that we will never know who the Midnight Assassin was. Austin only had 17,000 people [at the time]; how did nobody know who he was?”
Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: The young lawman encountered Bundy after his capture and was given a wanted poster, since it wasn’t needed anymore. But that was before Bundy escaped and started killing again. Westword has the story.
Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: Ridgway has been moved from the Pacific Northwest area where he killed at least 49 women and possibly many more — earning him infamy as the Green River Killer. Learn more about his crimes here. Westword has the story.
Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: Hardy was pregnant when she she was strangled at a motel. When cops collared Vann, he admitted to killing Hardy and many more women. There are six bodies so far, and cops fear that’s only the beginning. Westword has the story.
Breakfast reading from the Voice Media Empire: Joseph Franklin, the white supremacist and convicted serial killer who reportedly shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt — because he was enraged about the appearance of an interracial couple — is scheduled to be executed in November. Riverfront Times has the story.
