By David Lohr
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| Joseph Franklin |
July 27, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
MISSOURI— A federal appeals court has dismissed Joseph Paul Franklin's request for a new trial on the grounds that Franklin, 57, waived all rights to appeal his conviction when he represented himself at his first trial. Franklin has been convicted of several murders over the years and has confessed to killing as many as 20 people from 1977 to 1980. Franklin has also claimed responsibility for the 1978 shooting of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Franklin once said his only regret in life was that killing Jews was not legal.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
VACAVILLE, CA— The state parole board has ruled that convicted serial killer Edmund Kemper, 58, will have to spend at least five more years in prison. Kemper's attorney failed in his attempts to convince the board that Kemper should be released because he is a model prisoner. During the hearing prosecutor Ariadne Symons said, "We don't care how much of a model prisoner he is because of the enormity of his crimes." Kemper, the media dubbed "Co-ed Killer," murdered eight women, including his own mother, during a killing spree that began in May 1972 and ended in April 1973. For his crimes Kemper was sentenced to eight concurrent life prison terms. Kemper will again be eligible for parole in July 2012. Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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| Coral Eugene Watts |
KALAMAZOO, MI — A jury heard opening statements today in the trial of convicted killer Coral Eugene Watts, 53, for the 1974 stabbing death of Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele, 19. In March the Michigan Supreme Court denied Watts request for a new trial in the 1979 murder of Helen Dutcher, 36. In November 2004, Watts was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence for Dutcher's murder. In 1982, Watt's agreed to a plea bargain with prosecutors for which he received immunity for a dozen murders. Some investigators think he could be responsible for at least 80 unsolved murders.
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