Inman was in trouble with the law from the time he was 19
That had to come from other sources. Authorities had hoped that a tip from the public — any one of the hundreds that had poured in — might have led to a positive identification. But in the end, it was the plodding and meticulous work of forensics that did it. DNA samples run through a national database identified Inman and led authorities to his chilling record of previous arrests.
Inman's prison records in Florida and North Carolina revealed that in some respects, authorities may have been right, if Inman did indeed prove to be the man who many in the news media had dubbed "the bikini strangler" very early in the investigation.
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| Jerry "Buck" Inman |
Inman was born on December 19, 1970, making him more than a decade older than the killer profiled by law enforcement. But Inman's history of incarceration in Florida revealed that he'd first entered state custody on September 13, 1989.
Jerry "Buck" Inman entered the Florida prison system 3 months shy of his 19th birthday.
Inman's prison record in Florida described his numerous tattoos, and gave a chilling laundry list of the crimes he'd committed in that state, apparently on a single December day.
In Hillsborough County, on December 14, 1987, Jerry Inman had committed sexual battery with a weapon or force, robbery with a deadly weapon, burglary, grand theft of a motor vehicle, aggravated assault with intent to kill, and kidnapping.
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