Joseph Metheny was a serial killer from Maryland who was convicted of two murders but confessed to over a dozen. The main issue with researching Joseph Metheny on My Crime Library is that he was also a prolific liar. Joseph Metheny who claimed to have grounded his victims up and served them up at a roadside stand has never been proven. Lets take a closer look at Joseph Metheny.
Joseph Metheny Childhood
Joseph Metheny was born in Baltimore Maryland on March 2, 1955. His father was an alcoholic who abused his family and would die in a car accident when he was six years old.
Joseph Metheny mother worked a series of jobs and was seldom home due to her working double shifts. Metheny claimed his mother was dead and she sent them off to live with relatives. However Josephs mother is very much alive and she denied sending off her children
Joseph would join the US Army when he turned eighteen years old in 1973. According to him he served time in Vietnam however this was never proven and that Metheny would spend his time in Germany plus the time frame does not make sense as the American involvement in the Vietnam was was over by the time he enlisted.
After his stint in the Army Joseph Metheny would drift around and his addiction to drugs and alcohol would begin.
Joseph Metheny Murders
Joseph Metheny was living in a series of homeless camps in the Baltimore Maryland area as all of his money was spent on alcohol and drugs. However he was able to keep a job as a forklift operator at a wooden pallet company
In 1994 Joseph Metheny would murder a woman, Cathy Ann Magazine, who would be buried in a shallow grave on the wooden pallet company where the body remained for over two years. Methany said he later dug her up, put her head in a box and threw it in the trash
In 1995 Joseph Metheny would attack and murder two homeless men with an axe. Apparently there was a dispute between two groups of homeless people that escalated to violence. Another homeless man Larry Amos stole the axe and murdered another man. Amos would later be convicted of manslaughter and Joseph Metheny would not be convicted due to a lack of evidence. He would later confess to the first two murders
In 1996 Joseph Metheny would murder Kimberly Lynn Spicer with a knife. Joseph would attempt to sexually assault another woman who was able to escape and ran to police. A month later Metheny would ask a friend to help him bury Kimberly Lynn Spicer however the friend went to the police and Methany would be arrested.
Joseph Metheny Trials
Joseph Metheny would be convicted on the case where the victim was able to escape and would be sentenced to fifty years in prison for attempted sexual assault and kidnapping in 1997
In 1998 Joseph Metheny would be sentenced to death for the murder of Kimberly Lynn Spicer, this would later be reduced to life in prison without parole
A year later Joseph would plead guilty to the murder of Cathy Ann Magaziner where he was sentenced to life in prison without parole
Joseph Metheny Death
Joseph Metheny would be found dead in his prison cell on August 5, 2017, at the age of 62. His matter of death was from natural causes
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A Southwest Baltimore man who was convicted of two murders but claimed to have killed 10 people was found dead in his prison cell Saturday afternoon, Maryland corrections officials said.
Joseph Metheny, 62, was found unresponsive by a prison guard about 3 p.m. and pronounced dead shortly after, said Gerard Shields, spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Metheny had his own cell at Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, and officials are conducting a routine investigation into his death.
Metheny was serving two life sentences for killing two women in 1994 and 1996 and burying their remains under his trailer at a Southwest Baltimore pallet company. He was sentenced to die in 1998, but an appeals court overturned the sentence and sent him to prison for life without parole.
At his sentencing, he requested to be put to death and said, “The words, ‘I’m sorry’ will never come out, for they would be a lie. I am more than willing to give up my life for what I have done, to have God judge me and send me to hell for eternity.”
He said he killed because he “enjoyed it.”
Metheny received the life sentences for killing Cathy Ann Magaziner and Kimberly Spicer. He had been acquitted in 1998 for killing two homeless men with an ax at a makeshift camp in South Baltimore and admitted later he had lied and gotten away with it when he denied his involvement. He said he threw other bodies in the Patapsco River that were never found.
Baltimore police were unable to confirm Metheny’s claims to have committed the additional murders. Prosecutors dropped charges against Metheny in the killing of another woman for lack of evidence.
During the time of the killings, Metheny worked as a $7-an-hour forklift driver at the pallet factory in Southwest Baltimore. Spicer’s body was found Dec. 15, 1996, under a trailer at the factory. Three days later, Metheny led police to a shallow grave on the property that held Magaziner’s remains.
His defense attorneys described Metheny’s childhood as one of neglect, with an absent, alcoholic father and a mother who worked double shifts to support her six children in Essex. A large man but nicknamed “Tiny,” Metheny preyed on women addicted to heroin and cocaine, police said.
Claire Miller a fourteen year old TicToker has been charged with the murder of her older sister who was confined to a wheelchair. According to police reports Claire Miller would stab her sister multiple times before calling 911 to report what she had done. According to police Claire Miller parents were sleeping when the murder occurred
The popular TicToker who had millions of views under the name ‘spiritsandsuchconsulting’ account when through the roof when news was released regarding the murder.
The alleged teen killer is being held in an adult prison without bond
A 14-year-old girl accused of stabbing her older disabled sister to death in the middle of the night was on the phone with someone who told police Claire Miller was having “suicidal and homicidal thoughts.”
The new detail was included in court records filed to support a search warrant of the Manheim Township home where Claire lived with her sister, Helen, and their parents, in the 1500 block of Clayton Road.
The records didn’t explain whether the witness talked to Claire Miller before, during or after the stabbing of Helen Miller, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair.
Police were called to the family’s ranch home at 1:08 a.m. Monday, and they arrived five minutes later. They were greeted outside by Claire Miller, wearing bloody pants and with blood on her hands, repeatedly saying “I stabbed my sister,” according to court records.
Officers went inside and found Helen Miller, 19, on her back in a bedroom with a bloody pillow over her face. When an officer removed the pillow, a large knife was sticking out of her neck and blood was pooled on her chest and bed. She died from multiple stab wounds, the coroner said.
Police said they heard from a witness at 1:42 a.m. that the witness previously had been communicating with Claire Miller on the phone and that the teen was having “suicidal and homicidal thoughts.”
No further details on the witness’ identity or conversation with Claire Miller were included in the court documents. The documents outlined what items police collected from the crime scene, including the clothes Claire Miller was wearing at the time of the killing: A blue t- shirt with a white cat face on it and black, white and gray checkered pajama pants.
Police also collected bloody sheets, blankets and a comforter from Helen’s front bedroom, and a stuffed rabbit toy that was on a blanket.
Officers took swabs for DNA testing from the front door inside doorknob, the closet door in Helen’s room, Helen’s box springs, her carpet, an alarm keypad and a spot of suspected blood on the floor in front of an elevator. The ranch home has a finished basement.
Police also collected several sharp objects from the home to see if any were used in the stabbing in addition to the knife left in Helen’s neck. They took nine kitchen knives found in drawers or the dishwasher and they found these items in a rear bedroom: an Exacto knife in a desk; a dart board on the desk, and a paper towel with suspected blood on the floor.
Police also took a white board with chores for Claire located in the dining room. Officers said in their application for a search warrant that they would be looking for Claire’s cell phone, which could assist the investigation potentially establishing a motive and the events that occurred before, during and after the crime, but no phone was listed as among the items seized by police.
Claire Miller, who was charged with criminal homicide, is being held without bail in the Lancaster County Prison as she awaits court proceedings. She had a preliminary hearing set for Friday but it was continued. She is being held in prison in a cell by herself in the female unit of the facility under constant observation, officials sad.
Shortly after police say Claire Miller stabbed her sister to death early Monday morning, a person told police the 14-year-old girl had been having suicidal and homicidal thoughts, according to a search warrant application.
The person is identified only as witness one in the warrant. The person told police at 1:42 a.m. that they had been talking with Miller by phone. The warrant does not say when they had been talking.
Miller called police shortly after 1 a.m. Monday and told them, hysterically, that she had killed her sister, according to Manheim Township police. When officers arrived to the Clayton Avenue home, they found Helen Miller, 19, in a bedroom with a pillow over her face and a knife sticking out of her neck. Helen Miller, who had cerebral palsy, had been stabbed repeatedly, an autopsy found.
Claire Miller’s attorney, Robert Beyer, who has previously declined comment, could not immediately be reached Thursday.
The search warrant lists items police wanted to take as evidence, including DNA samples, sheets, clothing, knives and a whiteboard listing Claire Miller’s chores. The application also said police wanted Claire Miller’s phone, but a phone was not listed on the inventory of items seized.
Claire Miller is being held in Lancaster County Prison without bail.
A 14-year-old girl in Manheim Township has been charged in the killing of her older sister, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office.
Claire Miller was arraigned Monday on a homicide charge and is being held without bail at Lancaster County Prison. She is charged as an adult in the killing of her sister, Helen Miller, 19.
Authorities said police responded shortly after 1 a.m. Monday to the family home in the 1500 block of Clayton Road.
According to court documents, Miller was outside the home when officers arrived and repeatedly said, “I stabbed my sister.”
Police said they went inside the home and found 19-year-old Helen Miller, who is wheelchair-bound, in a bedroom with a large knife in her neck. Life-saving measures were attempted but were unsuccessful, police said.
Investigators want to know what led up to the stabbing.
“Looking for evidence and trying to come up with a timetable and whatever they can find to help them understand what might have happened,” Manheim Township police chief Tom Rudzinski said.
Police believe the girls’ parents were home but asleep when the stabbing occurred.
“My heart goes out to them, and I can’t even begin to understand or imagine the pain that they feel at this point,” Rudzinski said.
The Lancaster County coroner on Wednesday released the autopsy results for Helen Miller.
The coroner said she died of multiple stab wounds.
Her death has been ruled a homicide.
“A Manheim Township teenager is charged with killing her older sister in her family home in the early morning hours on February 22, 2021.
“Officers with the Manheim Township Police Department were dispatched shortly after 1:00 am Monday, February 22, 2021, to the 1500 Block of Clayton Road, Manheim Township, after a female called 911 and reported that she had killed her sister. Arriving officers were met by Claire E. Miller F/14 who directed them to a bedroom where they found Helen M. Miller F/19 with a stab wound in her neck. Officers and EMS personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but they were unsuccessful. Information obtained so far determined that the incident happened during the overnight hours when the girls’ parents were asleep.
“Claire Miller was taken into custody at the scene. The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office is assisting with the investigation and approved charging Claire Miller with Criminal Homicide. Miller will be arraigned by Magisterial District Judge David Miller. It is expected that Miller will be transported to Lancaster County Prison after arraignment on the charge of Homicide. Anyone charged with homicide in Pennsylvania is not eligible for bail. Claire Miller is being charged as an adult because homicide is not considered a delinquent act in Pennsylvania.
“Police indicate there is no threat to public safety. Manheim Township Police are fully committed to this investigation. Investigators and members of the Lancaster County Major Crimes Unit are still at the residence collecting evidence and working to determine the circumstances that led to Helen Miller’s death.
“Detective Steve Newman of the Manheim Township Police Department filed the charges which were approved by Assistant District Attorney Christine Wilson.
Emilia Carr was in a love rivalry with a woman by the name of Heather Strong that would end in murder and with Emila sent to death row in Florida.
Emilia Carr was dating a man named Josh Fulgham who use to date Heather Strong and the pair had two children together. When Heather Strong left Josh she would move in with another man in order to take care of his children however the work relationship turned to an intimate one.
According to witnesses Josh Fulgham would harass Heather Strong and her new boyfriend however things would take an odd turn when Strong would leave her new boyfriend to return to Josh. Josh and Heather would actually get married but within a week Heather would be calling the police on her new husband.
Josh Fulgham would spend sometime sitting in jail and would rekindle his relationship with Emila Carr who was pregnant with his child. Emilia tried to convince Heather Strong to drop the charges however she refused to do so. Emilia would step up her intimidation by grabbing Strong and putting a knife to her throat demanding that she drop the charges.
Around this time Emilia Carr would decide they only way that she and Josh could be together was to get rid of Heather Strong so she tried to find a hit man that would murder the other woman for five hundred bucks. Her search came up empty.
Heather Strong would go missing on February 15 2009 and the last time she was seen she was in a vehicle with Josh Fulgham. Ten days later Heather Strong was reported missing by her cousin and when police began to investigate the missing woman all paths led to Josh Fulgham and Emilia Carr.
The story that would come out later is that Josh Fulhgham had convinced Heather Strong to go back to his trailer as he told her that Emilia Carr had hidden money in the home. When they arrived at the trailer Emilia, who was seven months pregnant, jumped out with a knife in her hand.
The pair would duct tape Heather Strong to a chair where she was then forced to sign over custody of the two kids she shared with Josh Fulgham. Josh would break a flashlight over the head of Strong then a garbage bag was put over Heather’s head and duct taped by Emilia Carr. Josh would use his hand to smother Heather Strong until she stopped breathing
The pair would leave Heather Strong in the chair and Josh would come back two days later where he would move the body and bury it in a shallow grave.
When the two were being questioned by police Josh would tell police where they could find the body of Heather Strong and blamed the murder on Emilia.
Emilia Carr who was friends with Josh’s sister would confess to her on how exactly the murder took place which was way different than what she had told police. Eventually Emilia would tell police more than they needed to know.
Emilia Carr would be convicted rather quickly and would be sentenced to death. Emilia would refuse to testify against Josh and ultimately he would be sentenced to life in prison with no parole. Emilia would remain on death row until 2017 when she was resentened to life in prison without parole.
Emilia Carr, once Marion County’s only female death row inmate, will now spend the rest of her life in prison.
After an evidentiary hearing May 19, the State declined to seek a new death penalty phase, according to court records, and 5th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Willard Pope resentenced Carr, 32, to life in prison without parole. She has been fighting her death sentence since 2011. There are now only three women on death row in the state of Florida.
A Marion County jury in 2010 found Carr guilty as charged of kidnapping and first-degree murder in the 2009 death of 26-year-old Heather Strong. Carr and her boyfriend, co-defendant Joshua Fulgham, 35, lured his estranged wife, Strong, to a storage trailer in Boardman in north Marion County.
When Carr arrived, Strong tried to leave and a scuffle ensued. Fulgham held Strong down as Carr taped her to a chair. Fulgham then forced Strong to sign a document that gave him custody of their two children.
Carr placed a garbage bag over Strong’s head and Fulgham held it tight and wrapped tape around his wife’s neck. Carr tried twice to break Strong’s neck. Carr said Fulgham then put his hands over Strong’s nose and mouth, and suffocated her.
Strong’s body was found near the trailer four days later.
The jury voted 7-5 to recommend death for Carr. Fulgham was sentenced to life in 2012 with a vote of 8-4.
Carr appealed her sentence, raising several issues including possible errors by the trial judge and the proportionality of the death sentence.
In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed Carr’s death sentence.
“This case involves a love triangle between the victim, Heather Strong, her estranged husband, Joshua Fulgham, and the defendant, Emilia Carr, that ended when Carr and Fulgham carried out their plan to murder Strong,” the high court wrote in its decision.
Carr restarted the appeal process, claiming ineffective assistance from her lawyer. It was during an evidentiary hearing on this appeal that her fate changed.
Neither the State or defense attorneys were available Tuesday for comment.
Carr’s resentencing comes at a pivotal time for Florida’s death penalty.
After being ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2016, Florida’s death sentence scheme became a topic of debate and revision. The Florida Supreme Court released an opinion in October 2016 calling for a unanimous jury.
In March of this year, Gov. Rick Scott signed new rules requiring a unanimous jury decision for the death sentence. The Florida Supreme Court is still hammering out final jury instructions for the new death sentence scheme.
Several appeals for resentencings have entered the state Supreme Court’s queue. Of the now seven convicted Marion County murderers on death row, one is arguing for a reduced sentence of life on an intellectual disability claim, two were granted resentencing by the Florida Supreme Court, the other four are still fighting their death sentence with various appeals.
Eight Marion County defendants await sentencing in death penalty-eligible cases. Kelvin Coleman is scheduled to be the first local defendant to put the state’s new death penalty ruling to the test. Jury selection for the penalty phase of his trial starts Aug. 21. Coleman was convicted in October 2016 of two counts of first-degree murder.
Lois Nadean Smith was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of her sons ex girlfriend. Lois Nadean Smith was executed by lethal injection on December 4, 2001
Lois Nadean Smith was known as mean Nadean would hear that her sons ex girlfriend was going around trying to find someone to murder her son and that the woman would also tell police that Smith was dealing drugs.
Lois Nadean Smith and her son would find the ex girlfriend who would be stabbed in the throat by Smith before being forced into a vehicle. The victim would be driven to a home where she would be shot multiple times causing her death.
Lois Nadean Smith would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. On December 4, 2001 Smith would be executed by lethal injection
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Lois Nadean Smith, 61, was convicted of the July 4, 1982 murder of 21-year-old Cindy Baillee in Gans. Baillee was the former girlfriend of Smith’s son, Greg. Smith, along with her son and another woman, picked up Baillee from a Tahlequah motel early on the morning of the murder.
As they drove away from the motel, Lois Nadean Smith confronted Baillee about rumors that Baillee had arranged for Greg Smith’s murder – charges which Baillee denied. Smith choked Baillee and stabbed her in the throat as they drove to the home of Smith’s ex-husband in Gans. At the house, Smith forced Baillee to sit in a recliner and taunted her with a pistol, finally firing several shots. Baillee fell to the floor, and while her son reloaded the pistol, Smith laughed and jumped on Baillee’s neck. Smith then fired four shots into Baillee’s chest and two to the back of her head. An autopsy revealed nine gunshot wounds to Baillee’s body.
The evidence shows that Lois Nadean Smith, her son Greg, and Teresa Baker [DeMoss] picked up Cindy Baillee at a Tahlequah motel early on the morning of July 4, 1982. Baillee had been Greg’s girlfriend, but allegedly had made threats to have him killed.
As the group drove away from the motel, Lois Nadean Smith confronted Ms. Baillee with rumors that she had arranged for Greg’s murder. When Ms. Baillee denied making any threats or arrangements, appellant choked the victim and stabbed her in the throat with a knife found in the victim’s purse. The car traveled to the home of Jim Smith, the appellant’s ex-husband and Greg’s father in Gans, Oklahoma. Present at the house were Smith and his wife Robyn. [Robyn] left shortly after the group arrived.
While at the Smith house, appellant forced Ms. Baillee to sit in a recliner chair. Lois Nadean Smith then threatened to kill Ms. Baillee, and taunted her with a pistol. Finally, appellant fired a shot into the recliner, near Ms. Baillee’s head. She then fired a series of shots at Ms. Baillee, and the wounded victim fell to the floor. As Greg Smith reloaded the pistol, appellant laughed while jumping on the victim’s neck. Lois Nadean Smith took the pistol from Greg and fired four more bullets into the body. A subsequent autopsy showed Ms. Baillee had been shot five times in the chest, twice in the head, and once in the back. Five of these gunshot wounds were fatal. The knife wound was also potentially fatal.
Once known as “Mean Nadean,” Lois Nadean Smith went meekly to her death.
The 61-year-old Smith, gray-haired and wearing glasses, asked her victim’s family for forgiveness and embraced her faith before being executed by injection Tuesday night for killing her son’s ex-girlfriend in 1982.
“I want to say I’m sorry for the pain and loss I’ve caused you,” Smith said. “I ask that you forgive me. You must forgive to be forgiven.”
Lois Nadean Smith thanked her attorneys, sent her love to her children and then quoted Scripture.
“To live is Christ, to die is gain,” she said. “Thank you Jesus.”
Lois Nadean Smith was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m., two minutes after the lethal mix of drugs was administered. Four of her attorneys, a spiritual adviser and an investigator watched from the front row of the witness room.
Lois Nadean Smith, the last female on death row in Oklahoma, was the third woman executed by the state this year. No state has executed as many women in one year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.
Lois Nadean Smith is the 17th person executed this year in Oklahoma. On Thursday, Iraqi national Sahib Al-Mosawi is scheduled to become the 18th, which would give Oklahoma more executions than any state _ Texas has had 16, with one more scheduled before year’s end.
Lois Nadean Smith was convicted of killing Cindy Baillie, 21, in Sequoyah County on July 4, 1982, because she thought Baillie was trying to have Smith’s son killed.
Baillie’s daughter, Brandy Fields, witnessed the execution with her husband, a family friend and an aunt.
“If she really meant it, you have to forgive even though it’s very hard and it doesn’t help me at all,” Fields said, sobbing occasionally. “It does a little bit, but it doesn’t bring back my mom.
“I wish she thought of this before she did what she did. We wouldn’t be in this position.”
Smith and her son, Greg, and another woman picked up Baillie in Tahlequah the morning of the killing, said Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Smith confronted her about rumors that she had threatened to have Greg Smith killed.
Prosecutors said Lois Nadean Smith, who had earned her nickname in high school, then began to choke Baillie and stabbed her in the throat with a knife. Baillie was driven to a home in Gans, where Nadean Smith shot her in the chest, head and back and jumped on her neck.
Greg Smith was convicted of murder and given a life sentence. He reloaded Smith’s gun during the shooting.
Fields said she will be at Greg Smith’s parole hearing in May.
“It’s not completely over because I still have to go and do that until he dies,” she said. “I’m glad this part of it’s over because I don’t ever have to hear that she’s got clemency or is going to stay the rest of her remaining life in prison. She’s got what the court handed down to her.”
Eight women were arrested Tuesday night while protesting Smith’s execution. They were held on misdemeanor trespassing complaints after crossing a police line at the Mabel Basset Correctional Center in Oklahoma City, where Smith was housed before being transferred to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
A small group of anti-death penalty protesters prayed by candle light outside the prison. Nearby, a group of victim’s advocates stood vigil. One wore a T-shirt that said, “The crime scene will return to normal. What about the victims?’
A woman convicted of killing her son’s former girlfriend in 1982 was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection, making her the third woman and 17th inmate put to death this year in Oklahoma.
With the execution of Lois Nadean Smith, 61, Oklahoma now leads the nation in the number of executions this year.
Texas has had 16 executions, with one more scheduled before year’s end. Oklahoma also has one more execution scheduled for this year. Sahib Al-Mosawi, an Iraqi national, was scheduled to die Thursday for killing his wife and her uncle.
Lois Nadean Smith was the last woman on Oklahoma’s death row. No state has executed as many women in one year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.
Before the drugs were administered, Smith thanked her attorneys and asked for forgiveness.
“To the families, I want to say I’m sorry for the pain and loss I’ve caused you,” Smith said. “I ask that you forgive me. You must forgive to be forgiven.”
Lois Nadean Smith was convicted of killing 21-year-old Cindy Baillie in July 1982. Baillie was shot nine times and stabbed in the throat.
Authorities said Smith and her son Greg picked up Baillie the morning of the killing. Smith then confronted her about rumors that she had threatened to have her son killed.
Prosecutors said Lois Nadean Smith began to choke Baillie and stabbed her in the throat with a knife; Baillie was then driven to a home where Lois Nadean Smith shot her.
Greg Smith was convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Prosecutors said he reloaded his mother’s gun during the shooting.
Lois Nadean Smith’s attorneys said she was trying to protect her son and was under the influence of alcohol and drugs at the time of the slaying.
Authorities in the city of Bozeman, Montana, have arrested a Cherokee County man who allegedly held a woman against her will inside a motel room for two months.
James Gregory Smith, 50 – a convicted Oklahoma murderer who is also wanted for warrants issued in Cherokee County – is being held for felony kidnapping and a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault. His bond in Montana has been set at $250,000.
According to a report published by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, police in that community were dispatched to a motel last Friday when a woman called for help. When police found the woman, she claimed she had tried to flee from Smith in Colorado, but Smith had tracked her down in Bozeman.
The newspaper reports the woman said Smith had been assaulting her; that he threatened to kill her; and that he had kept her as a “prisoner” at the motel since early October.
The newspaper also reports Smith claims he and the alleged victim were drunk when he was arrested, and he denies holding her captive.
Court records show a bench warrant was issued for Smith’s arrest on Oct. 6 when he failed to appear in Cherokee County District Court.
Smith was accused of stabbing another man during a fight in September 2013, and was later charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
He has also faced a string of other charges in Cherokee County, including assault and battery and possession of a controlled dangerous substance in August of this year; driving under the influence, unlawful possession of paraphernalia, and open container alcohol in June of this year; and driving while impaired in May 2014.
In 1982, prosecutors alleged Smith and his mother, Lois Nadean Smith, tortured and killed his ex-girlfriend, Cynthia L. Baillee, after picking her up in Tahlequah and driving her to Sequoyah County.
Baillee was choked and stabbed in the throat, shot nine times, and stomped on, according to reports of the murder.
Smith was 18 at the time and was given a life sentence, which was complete in 2009, according to state records. Lois Nadean Smith was executed for her part.
If Smith is convicted of his charges in Montana, he could face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $50,000 for kidnapping.
Bozeman is a city about 140 miles west of Billings, Montana
Lynda Block was executed by the State of Alabama for the murder of a police officer. Lynda Block would be executed by way of the electric chair on May 10, 2002
Lynda Block aka Lynda Lyon Block was born on February 8, 1948 in Orlando Florida.
Lynda who worked for a number of charity organizations and was the editor of a political magazine would enter into a common law relationship with George Sibley.
Lynda Block and George Sibley had failed to show up at court regarding an assault on Lynda’s ex husband and were on the run from authorities. Someone would phone the police and report a boy who appeared to need help and of a family living in their car.
When the police officer showed up he would park behind the car which contained George Sibley, Lynda Block and her nine year old son were in a nearby store, the officer would ask Sibley for his drivers license and soon after a gun fight began.
Lynda who would see what was taking place would draw her own gun and fire at the officer. When the officer turned towards her he was fatally shot in the chest.
Both George Sibley and Lynda Block would be charged with the murder of the officer and both would be convicted and sentenced to death.
George Sibley was executed on August 4, 2002. Lynda would be executed on May 10, 2005
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Lynda Block, 54, and her common-law husband, George Sibley Jr., were on the run after failing to appear on a domestic battery charge. With Block’s 9 year old son in the car, they stopped so Block could use the telephone in a Walmart parking lot. Opelika Police Sergeant Roger Lamar Motley had just finished lunch and was shopping for supplies for the jail when a woman came up to him and told him there was a car in the parking lot with a little boy inside. The woman was worried about him. She was afraid that the family was living in their car. Would he check on them?
Motley cruised up and down the rows of parked cars and finally pulled up behind the Mustang. Sibley was in the car with the boy, waiting for Block to finish a call to a friend from a pay phone in front of the store. Motley asked Sibley for his drivers license. Sibley said he didn’t need one. He was trying to explain why when Motley put his hand on his service revolver. Sibley reached into the car and pulled out a gun. Motley uttered a four-letter expletive and spun away to take cover behind his cruiser. Sibley crouched by the bumper of the Mustang. People in the parking lot screamed, hid beneath their cars and ran back into the store as the men began firing at each other. Preoccupied by the threat in front of him, Motley did not see Lynda Block until the very last moment.
She had dropped the phone, pulling the 9mm Glock pistol from her bag as she ran toward the scene, firing. Motley turned. She remembered later how surprised he looked. She kept on firing. She could tell that a bullet struck him in the chest. Staggering, he reached into the cruiser. She kept on firing, thinking he was trying to get a shotgun. But he was grabbing for the radio. “Double zero,” he managed to say — the code for help. He died in a nearby hospital that afternoon. In letters to friends and supporters, Lynda Block later would describe Motley as a “bad cop” and a wife beater with multiple complaints against him.
As part of the conspiracy against her, Lynda Block said, she was prohibited from bringing up his record in court. His personnel file makes no mention of any misbehavior. His wife says he was a kind and patient man. Both Lynda Block and Sibley received deeath sentences.
True to their “patriot” ideologies, Lynda Block waived her appeals. She has refused to accept the validity of Alabama’s judicial system, claiming that Alabama never became a state again after the Civil War. Lynda Block has been completely non-cooperative with her court-appointed attorney, who nevertheless attempted to work against her death sentence. First execution of a female in Alabama since 1957. She is the 9th female executed in the U.S. since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976.
The notoriously anti-government George Sibley was defiant up to the very end. Less than a minute before the chemicals entered his body he offered these last words. “Everyone who is doing this to me is guilty of a murder. To my sister and my niece, I want to express my gratitude and my love and my gratitude to my personal my saviour the Lord Jesus Christ.”
For a full three to five minutes after the procedure began Sibley held his gaze. He kept his eyes on his family sitting with those of us in the media. He glanced only one time at Officer Motley’s family.
He then gasped heavily three or four times before he passed out. Doctors pronounced Sibley dead after 15 minutes.
Afterwards, the officer’s family asked reporters not to focus on Sibley’s death.
It was an intense seen inside the condemned man’s witness room. The media sat with Sibley’s family. Sibley’s sister and niece prayed constantly. Both were forced to leave not by officers but by their own emotions before doctors pronounced Sibley dead. The family isn’t saying where they will bury the convicted cop killer but he is from Florida.
Officer Motley’s widow, Juanita Kirkwood, told us Wednesday she personally did not want the execution. Thursday, she said it was extremely difficult to watch but she felt justice was done
Anti-government extremist George Sibley Jr. nodded to his relatives, stared at his victim’s family and gave a final statement of defiance before he was executed Thursday for the 1993 shooting death of an Opelika police officer.
“Everyone who is doing this to me is guilty of a murder,” Sibley said.
“My sister and my niece, I want to express my love and gratitude . . . and gratitude to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” Sibley said after being strapped to a gurney for the lethal injection to begin.
Officials at Holman Prison near Atmore said Sibley died at 6:26 p.m. The execution was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Sibley’s request for a delay and Gov. Bob Riley turned down Sibley’s request for a six-month postponement.
“There is no new evidence that would justify such a delay,” the governor said.
George Sibley and Lynda Block refused for years to file appeals. Before Lynda Block was put to death, she claimed through an attorney that Alabama never became a state again after the Civil War and she therefore did not recognize the state’s court system.
Motley’s widow, Juanita Motley Kirkwood, witnessed the execution, along with his mother, sister, son and two stepsons
Lynda Block was executed for the murder of a police officer
When Was Lynda Block Executed
Lynda Block was executed on May 10, 2002
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