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This killer used an assault-type rifle to ambush two police officers in Powell County in January, 1992. Each officer was shot three times in the back. One officer was executed with a shot to the back of his head as he tried to crawl away. | Sheriff Steve Bennett Deputy Arthur Briscoe |
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This killer executed two gas station attendants in separate robberies in Laurel County in 1989. He shot and killed a service station attendant during the early morning hours of January 20, 1989 and, again in the early morning hours of February 22, 1989, shot and killed a service station manager. Both were shot while lying face down. | Marvin Hensley Ronald Smith |
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In Fayette County in 1990, this killer rammed the victims' car. He got out and shot all three victims as they sat inside their car. He then returned to his car, but walked back to the victims' car to make sure they were dead, and then drove away. | Tina Earley Eddie Earley *2-year-old son shot but lived |
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In Adair County in
2001, this killer
beat a woman
with a blunt instrument and
stabbed her to death. After leaving the scene and interviewing witnesses it
was learned that he stole a 27" color television. On August 19, 2006, Brown was sentenced to Death for Murder. In addition, he was sentenced to 20 years for Robbery and Burglary charges, to be served consecutively for a total of 40 years. Just think about it - this
brutal killer took someone's life just for a 27" television set. |
Sherry Bland | ||
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This killer beat and strangled
an elderly woman, Sue Lail, to death during a robbery at her home in
Christian County
in 1990.
She had employed Bussell to perform odd jobs around her home. Lail had multiple rib fractures, a dislocated vertebral disc, and a fractured Adam's apple. Her decomposed corpse had to be identified by dental x-rays. Bussell was sentenced to Death on January 17, 1992. |
Sue Lail | ||
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On March 15, 1998, this killer and accomplice, Jonathon Goforth,
entered the home of a 73 year old female and beat her to death. Her skull was shattered. After
killing her, they burglarized her home. They then placed her body in the trunk of her
own car and drove her to a rural area in Fayette County and set
the car on fire. The victim was burned so badly that she could not be recognized. Caudill and Goforth were sentenced to death in March of 2000. |
Lonetta White | ||
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On the morning of
August 23, 2002,
this killer murdered a seven-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy in their
home in Warsaw, Kentucky.
Both of the children's throats had been slit and they suffered multiple
lacerations and stab wounds on their bodies. Their ten-year-old sister
played dead after also being stabbed several times. The hands of the mother
were bound with duct tape and she was tied to the bed frame. She was raped
and stabbed in the chest with a knife that broke off in her chest. She was
later stabbed with a large knife and left for dead. After stabbing the victims, the killer burglarized the home and left the scene. He was arrested later the same day in West Virginia. Chapman was sentenced to death on December14, 2004. |
Seven-year-old
daughter Six-year-old son *Carolyn Marksberry and ten-year-old daughter survived the attack
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This killer, along with Benny Hodge, stabbed a female victim 12 times with a butcher knife during a robbery at her father's home in Letcher County in 1985. The victim's body was found with the butcher knife stuck through her chest and imbedded in the floor. Also her father was strangled with an electric cord but he survived. The killer was arrested in Florida. | Tammy Acker |
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During
the early morning hours of August 19th, 1993,
in Carter County,
this killer entered the home of an 84 year-old woman through a back
window. He stabbed the victim in the head and slashed her
throat. The victim died as a result of multiple sharp force injuries
of the head and neck. The large knife used to slash her throat was
found protruding from her right temple.
This killer was tried and sentenced to death in 1997. That death sentence was reversed for retrial and in January 2004, he was re-sentenced to death. |
Bess Horton | ||
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This killer shot and killed brothers Rodney and Lynn Vaughn in his home in Laurel County, Kentucky in 1991. Several adults and at least six children were present when Foley returned home from a car auction. The group sat at the kitchen table drinking beer when tempers flared. Rodney pointed at Foley and said not to sucker punch him again. Foley knocked Rodney to the floor, pulled his gun and shot him six times. Everyone left but Rodney's brother, Lynn. Foley then shot Lynn in the back of the head and later dumped the bodies in a nearby creek. The bodies were discovered two days later. Foley was charged with Capital Murder, tried by a jury and sentenced to Death. In 1994, the same Robert Foley was convicted and sentenced to Death for the murder of four people. Their names were Kim Bowerstock, Calvin Reynolds, Lillian Contino and Jerry McMillan. The bodies of these four were found in a septic tank in Laurel County. All four drove from Ohio to Laurel County. Foley became aware that Bowerstock was in the area. He was angry because he believed that Bowerstock had informed his parole officer that Foley was selling drugs. Foley found Bowerstock and immediately grabbed her by the hair. Reynolds came to her assistance. Foley pulled his pistol and shot Reynolds, then Bowerstock, then Contino, then McMillan. He returned to Bowerstock and shot her again in the back of the head. He took their valuables, placed them in a septic tank, and covered them with lime and cement. |
Kimberly Bowersock Lillian Contino Jerry McMillen Calvin Reynolds Rodney Vaughn Lynn Vaughn |
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This killer murdered a 66-year-old woman in Kenton County
in 1998 by strangling the victim. The victim was found by her
housekeeper immersed in the water in her bathtub. Furnish stole her bank account
number and debit cards and then used them to withdraw money to throw a party for his
friends. Furnish was sentenced to Death on July 8, 1999. In 2002, the Kentucky Supreme Court reversed his sentence because the jury wasn't told to consider a sentenced of life without the possibility of parole, which the Kentucky General Assembly had authorized after the crime but before the conviction. In 2004, a second jury agreed Furnish should be sentenced to death. |
Ramona Jean Williamson | ||
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This killer was murdered three people in
McCreary County in 1997. Garland, 54 at the time, had been in a relationship with a
26-year-old woman. He suspected she was pregnant by another man. Garland,
along with his son Roscoe, went to the mobile home where his former
girlfriend was with two friends, a man and a woman, and shot all three to
death. Garland's son was the key witness at the trial, but Garland claimed
his son was lying and that the murder weapon belonged to his son. Garland was sentenced to Death on February 15, 1999. |
Willa
Jean Ferrier Crystal Conaster Chris Boswell |
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On March 15, 1998, this killer and accomplice, Virginia Caudill, entered the home of a 73 year old female and beat her to death. Her skull was shattered. After killing her, they burglarized her home. They then placed her body in the trunk of her own car and drove her to a rural area in Fayette County and set the car on fire. The victim was burned so badly that she could not be recognized. | Lonetta White | ||
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This killer escaped from the Johnson County Jail in 1985. He was there while awaiting trials in three counties. He stole guns and several cars; shot at a Ky. State Police Trooper, and caused another police officer's death in a gunfight. He executed a young couple while they were inside their car. He shot the man in the face, chest, shoulder, and back of head and shot the woman in the shoulder, temple, back of head, and through the eye. He spent all but two of his 15 adult years in four Ohio, three Virginia, and four Kentucky prisons. |
Patricia Vance David Omer |
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In Fayette County in 1983, this killer, along with Mitchell Willoughby, executed a teenage female and two male victims inside a home they were remodeling. These killers shot the female eight times in the back of the head. They shot the younger male five times -- in back, testicles, right arm, left leg, and right temple. They shot the other male three times -- in the back, the chest, and in the back of his neck. | Jacqueline Greene Joe Norman Joey Durham |
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Case #1: This killer, along with Roger Epperson, stabbed a female victim 12 times with a butcher knife during a robbery at her father's home in Letcher County in 1985. The victim's body was found with the butcher knife stuck through her chest and imbedded in the floor. Also her father was strangled with an electric cord but he survived. The killer was arrested in Florida. Case #2: This killer murdered an elderly couple during a robbery in their home in Letcher County in 1985. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were found with their hands and feet tied behind them. Mrs. Morris was shot twice in the back. Mr. Morris died as a result of a gunshot wound to his head, two blunt force head injuries and obstructed breathing caused by a ligature gag. | Case #1: Tammy Acker *father survived strangulation with electric cord Case #2: Bessie Morris and Edwin Morris |
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This killer shot his estranged wife in Floyd County in 2004. When the officers arrived at the scene, they found the body of Bonita Hunt with bullet wounds to the arms, cheek area, the face, and a wound between the bridge of her nose and left eye. The victim’s infant granddaughter was also in the home. The victim was pronounced dead at the residence. Troopers were advised that the victim's estranged husband was involved in a one-vehicle accident approximately 200 feet from the residence. Upon further investigation and collection of evidence, James Hunt was lodged in the Floyd County Detention Center, charged with Murder. | Bonita Hunt | ||
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This killer stabbed the 61-year-old victim 24 times in Floyd County in 1989. Before killing the victim, the killer mutilated her vagina and rectum with a ball point pen, bit her several times, and them disemboweled her with a knife. | Helen Madden | ||
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This killer burglarized his estranged wife's home in Jefferson County in 1981. He executed his mother-in-law by shooting her in the back of the head: she agonized and convulsed for 8 hours before dying. | Mary Matthews Magdalene Cruse |
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This killer burglarized a family's home in Adair County in 2003. On February 26, 2003 he shot Joseph and Elizabeth Wellnitz and their son, Dennis Wellnitz in their home, in Columbia, Kentucky. |
Joseph Wellnitz Elizabeth Wellnitz Dennis Wellnitz |
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This killer murdered his 79-year-old landlord during a burglary and robbery in Knox County in 1995. He stabbed the victim 29 times and struck him in the head five times with a blunt object. He stole the victim's change purse containing $4.60. | Arthur Phipps | ||
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In Jefferson County in 1979, this killer kidnapped, robbed, and executed an elderly man who begged for his life. The killer drew a gun on the victim as he was returning to his car in a grocery store parking lot. He commandeered the car and threw the victim down an embankment several miles away. The killer then shot the victim from point blank range on the top of the head, in the face below the right eye, inside the right ear, and behind the right ear. He returned hours later to remove a wristwatch from the body. The victim had been on his way to celebrate his 77th birthday with his adult children. |
Virgil Harris | ||
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On December 5, 1997, this killer stabbed and killed a woman who was six-months pregnant, and her 8 year-old son. He also stabbed the woman's 5 year-old son 9 times. The five year-old survived and was able to identify the killer as the person who stabbed his mother and brother to death. Parrish was trying to take money from the woman when the murders occurred. Parrish was sentenced on Feburary 1, 2001 in Jefferson County. |
Rhonda Allen LaShawn Allen |
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This killer escaped from an Oklahoma jail where he was awaiting trial for two murders. He carjacked a man in Colorado for his truck and then shot the man. He then traveled to a Bullitt County rest-stop on October 6, 1991, where he carjacked Frank Brady. He took Brady to an isolated area where he handcuffed him and then shot him twice, killing him. He then returned to the rest-stop where he burned Brady's car and shot at a state policeman while being apprehended. | Frank Brady | ||
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This killer kidnapped, raped, sodomized, and murdered a mother of three in Henry County in 1983. He tore out the victim's hair, stabbed the victim nine times, and dumped her body alongside a country road. | Barbara Heilman | ||
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This killer executed two victims by shooting them in the back of the head during a grocery store robbery in Madison County in 1987. One victim died almost instantly, the other died two days later. The killer confessed to these crimes and to the attempted execution of another grocery storekeeper one month earlier in which the victim survived a gunshot to the back of his head. |
Jim Brandenburg Wayne Hatch |
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This killer kidnapped, beat, raped, and executed three women with a pistol in Jefferson County in 1981, 1982, & 1983. A fourth would-be kidnapping/rape/murder victim escaped. | Ms. Barnes Ms. House Ms. Bettman *a fourth 16-year-old female survived |
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This killer executed an elderly couple by beating them with a hammer and a pistol during a robbery at their home in Barren County in 1981. The killer had five prior felony convictions. He confessed. | Mae
Matthews Herman Matthews |
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This killer robbed and executed the victim by stabbing her multiple times in the chest as she worked at a used clothing store in Jefferson County in 1983. The victim's blood was found on his clothes. The killer confessed to the execution to a fellow inmate. | Ester Stewart | ||
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This killer shot and killed Armott and Edna Porter, his ex-in-laws in Oldham County in 1999. Soto also shot and wounded his ex-wife, Armotta Porter, who had been living with her parents. He also shot in the direction of his three-year old daughter. He was armed with a .38 cal. revolver and a .45 cal. semi-automatic pistol. He used the .38 to kill Mr. Porter. | Armott
Porter Edna Porter |
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This killer was assaulting a man in March of 1997 in Jefferson County when Deputy Gregory Hans pulled over to assist the assault victim. While Hans was exiting his vehicle, Stopher struggled with the deputy, taking his gun. Stopher then used the deputy's gun to shoot him in the face, killing him. | Deputy Gregory Hans | ||
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This killer kidnapped, robbed, bound, gagged and executed two high school students who became lost on their way to a football game in Jefferson County in 1984. The killer sodomized one of the victims before executing him. The killer told four people he had killed the victims. The personal property of the victims was found in his possession. |
Scott Nelson Richard Stephenson |
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This killer was serving a life sentence for a murder for hire in Pike County. While serving that sentence in 1986 in Lyon County, he reported for prisoner work detail. While on work detail, he took a hammer and hit a prison guard 12 times in the head, killing him. After killing the guard, he took the victim's body to a nearby barn where he took the victim's wallet, keys, and knife. He then drove the prison van to a bus station to try and escape. | Fred Cash | ||
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In Jefferson County, in 1997, while on parole for 10 counts of Robbery, this killer stabbed the victim Nigel Malone nine times and left him to bleed to death. The victim Nairobi Warfield was three months pregnant at the time, and this killer strangled her and stabbed her with scissors, which he left embedded in her neck. | Nigel
Malone Nairobi Warfield |
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This killer beat three senior citizens to death in the course of a robbery in Breathitt County in 1979. They were ages 74, 75 and 79. Due to the brutal nature of the fatal beatings, they had to be buried in body bags. | Charles Gross Lula Gross Sam Chaney |
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In Fayette County in 1983, this killer, along with Leif Halvorsen, executed a teenage female and two male victims inside a home they were remodeling. These killers shot the female eight times in the back of the head. They shot the younger male five times -- in the back, testicles, right arm, left leg, and right temple. They shot the other male three times -- in the back, the chest, and in the back of his neck. | Jacqueline Greene Joe Norman Joey Durham |
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This killer kidnapped, robbed, raped and executed the victim in Kenton County in 1987. After raping her, he strangled her to death despite her begging him not to kill her. The defendant went on a shopping spree with the victim's credit cards. Her body was found weeks later near the Indiana-Illinois border. The date of her death had to be established by the extent of blowfly maggot development on her body. | Deborah Pooley | ||
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In Jefferson County in 2003, this killer beat and stabbed his wife and 8-year old son. At the time of the murders, there was a valid domestic violence order in effect which ordered Shawn Windsor to remain at least 500 feet away from his wife and to commit no further acts of domestic violence. |
Betty Jean Windsor Corey Windsor |
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This killer abducted a popular 16-year-old from a local convenient store as she returned a rented movie in Muhlenburg County in 1997. Woodall took the victim from the parking lot to a wooded area where he raped her and slashed her throat. Woodall then put her body in the icy lake. | Sarah Hansen |
