By David Lohr
Monday, May 14, 2007
PORT ALLEN, La. — The Louisiana Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by suspected serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis to review a decision made earlier this month by State District Judge Bonnie Jackson, in which she ruled against a defense motion to suppress a taped confession Gillis made to police. The court has not yet given a reason for denying the appeal; however, they did lift the stay order that had been preventing the trial from proceeding. On the tape, Gillis allegedly confesses to murdering eight women over the last 10 years. To date, investigators have charged him in all eight of those murders.
JENNINGS, La.— Investigators identified the body of a woman found in the middle of a rural intersection over the weekend as 26-year-old Whitnei Charlene Dubois. The discovery marks the second body found in the area since March and the fourth discovered in the last two years. "We've got at least a serial dumper," Sheriff Ricky Edwards told KATC News, adding, "but chances are the same person is committing these crimes." According to Edwards the first three victims were known prostitutes and this most recent victim had a history of drug arrests.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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| Dennis Rader |
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Last month a jury found suspected serial killer Chester D. Turner, 40, guilty of murdering 10 women and a fetus between 1987 and 1998. Today, that same jury has recommended Turner be sentenced to death. A judge will now consider the jury's recommendation and an official sentencing will be imposed at a July 10 hearing. Turner was arrested in 2003, when his DNA linked him to the murders.
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