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James Worley Ohio Death Row

James Worley was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for the kidnapping and murder of a young woman. According to court documents James Worley would abduct Sierah Joughin and would murder her. James Worley would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Ohio Death Row Inmate List

James Worley 2021 Information

Number A743593

DOB 04/08/1959

Gender Male Race White

Admission Date 04/19/2018

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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The FBI along with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office began a search of the former property of James Worley, the man who was convicted of killing Sierah Joughin, using heavy excavation equipment.

Authorities were seen on Aug. 31 digging up a portion of the property which had been transferred to Sierah Joughin’s family following a civil settlement

A release sent by the Fulton County sheriff in regard to the search reads:

“The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office along with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing to investigate matters involving James Worley. The FBI’s Evidence Response Team is on scene to assist in collection of any evidence if there is any located.The investigation into Mr. Worley continues and no further information can be discussed at this time.”

WTOL spoke with the family of Sierah Joughin. Sierah’s family said that Monday’s search was unrelated to her murder.

Joughin was abducted and killed after a bike ride in 2016. She was found in a cornfield near the Worley property a few days later. Joughin’s DNA was found on Worley’s motorcycle helmet and his barn.

Worley’s barn, located on the property, had a concealed room where investigators found evidence that Sierah had been held there following her abduction

A jury found Worley guilty on all 17 counts brought against him. He was subsequently sentenced to death.

Worley was to be executed on June 3, 2019, but a long appeals process has delayed his death date. As inmate #A743593, he resides at Chillicothe Correctional on death row

https://www.wtol.com/article/news/crime/fbi-searching-worley-property/512-daa5748f-75a0-46cc-8830-3b463e58890c

Jeffrey Wogenstahl Ohio Death Row

Jeffrey Wogenstahl was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for the murder of a ten year old girl. According to court documents Jeffrey Wogenstahl was dating the victims mother when he grabbed Amber Garrett in the middle of the night and would murder the child. Jeffrey Wogenstahl would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Ohio Death Row Inmate List

Jeffrey Wogenstahl 2021 Information

Number A269357

DOB 11/23/1960

Gender Male Race White

Admission Date 03/17/1993

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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The family of a local murder victim is angry that the convicted killer, who is on death row, is fighting his sentence.

Amber Garrett was only 10-years-old when she was abducted and murdered in 1991.

A Hamilton County jury found Jeffrey Wogenstahl guilty of the crime.

Investigators believe Wogenstahl befriended Amber’s mother and then kidnapped Amber from a Harrison apartment, killed her and dumped her body off the side of a road in Indiana.

Amber’s family said Monday that all they have left now is memories.

“We [Amber and April] would call my grandma’s back in the day when people had telephones that had the answering machine, and we would call and leave silly messages, and for a long time, we kept those messages just to hear her voice,” April Garrett, Amber’s cousin, said.

Wogenstahl was sentenced to death in 1993, but he has been fighting that sentence with appeals.

It was revealed Monday that the Ohio Supreme Court is now going to take a look at the case.

That is because Wogenstahl is arguing that since Amber may have been murdered in Indiana, Ohio did not have jurisdiction, or the right, to prosecute him.

The prosecutor who tried Amber’s case has said that investigators do not know exactly where Amber was murdered, but do know how she was murdered and where Wogenstahl left her body.

Amber’s family thinks that Wogenstahl’s latest appeal is just another attempt to delay his fate.

“All he does is just bombard the courts with motion after motion to try to stall things,” Philip Strupel, Amber’s relative, said.

The family said that they hope the Supreme Court rules in Amber’s favor, so that they can finally feel peace and perhaps closure.

“They [the court] said that he should die and that he should be executed. Where is the follow through? Where’s justice?” Strupel said.

The Ohio Supreme Court will begin oral arguments on the case on April 4. It is expected to last three days.

Amber’s family continues to try to honor Amber and keep her memory alive in many ways. A tree was planted outside of Amber’s Elementary School in Harrison. The family also runs a memorial Facebook page.

Robert Williams Ohio Death Row

Robert Williams was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for the sexual assault and murder of an elderly woman. According to court documents Robert Williams would force his way into the victims apartment where he would sexually assault and murder the 88 year old woman, Velma McDowell. Robert Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Ohio Death Row Inmate List

Robert Williams 2021 Information

Number A381764

DOB 06/05/1964

Gender Male Race Black

Admission Date 09/08/1999

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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A man who told police he had consensual sex with an 88-year-old woman but had nothing to do with her death was convicted Wednesday of killing and raping her.

Robert Williams Jr., 35, told police that Velma McDowell invited him into her apartment Feb. 18 and they had sex. He said he panicked afterward and placed a pair of pantyhose around her neck, pulling once but not killing her.

A jury convicted Williams of murder, rape, burglary and robbery. Jurors will begin deciding Thursday whether he should be sentenced to die or given life in prison. Prosecutors will push for the death penalty.

Defense attorney Merle Dech said he wouldn’t comment until the sentence is determined.

Williams was staying with his mother at the apartment complex where Mrs. McDowell lived. Neighbors said Mrs. McDowell often left her door open and they saw Williams near her apartment around the time of the slaying.

He shoved a rag down her throat, raped her and strangled her with the pantyhose, police said. He admitted taking about $300 from her purse to pay for a car and crack cocaine.

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Clifford Williams Ohio Death Row

Clifford Williams was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a robbery murder. According to court documents Clifford Williams would shoot and kill a cab driver, Wayman Hamilton, in the process of robbing him. A few days later Williams would shoot another man during a similar robbery however the man would survive. Clifford Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

Ohio Death Row Inmate List

Clifford Williams 2021 Information

Number A237994

DOB 06/06/1972

Gender Male Race Black

Admission Date 02/27/1991

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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Andre Williams Ohio Death Row

Andre Williams was sentenced to death by the State of Ohio for a robbery murder. According to court documents Andre Williams and Christopher Daniel would force their way into a home where they would sixty five year old George Melnick and attempted to sexually assault and murder his wife. Andre Williams would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Ohio Death Row Inmate List

Andre Williams 2021 Information

Number A209534

DOB 05/01/1967

Gender Male Race Black

Admission Date 03/16/1989

Institution Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

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One of the men convicted for his role in the brutal August 1988 attack on an elderly husband and wife that left him dead and her blind is up for parole in July.

Christopher W. Daniel, 50, was sentenced to 37 to 100 years in prison after he was found guilty in 1989 of involuntary manslaughter, attempted murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery in connection to the attack on George Melnick, 65, and his wife, Katherine, inside their Wick Street SE home.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins wrote a letter this month to the Ohio Parole Board opposing Daniel’s release.

“This predator has served only one-third of the maximum sentence given to him by the court. To let him out now would only demean the seriousness of his wrongdoing and provide this relatively young 50-year-old offender the opportunity to harm others again,” Watkins wrote.

The other man convicted in connection to the attack was Andre Williams, 52. Williams was sentenced to death after he was found guilty in 1989 on charges of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery and attempted rape.

The two men broke into the couple’s home, beating both and robbing them of about $2,000, credit cards and a VCR.

Katherine Melnick was 64 when she was hit with a brick while washing dishes and then beat with an axe handle by Daniel, according to Watkins. She was blinded in the attack and spent the rest of her life in a nursing home. She died in 2012.

Daniel watched Williams rape, or try to rape, the woman, Watkins’ letter states.

“Only by a miracle did she survive the attack, but as she awoke from the attack many hours later in a hospital, she found she was left without a husband who was murdered by Daniel’s accomplice,” Watkins wrote in a previous letter to the parole board.

The parole board declined to release Daniel in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015.

Williams lost a series of appeals in an effort to get off death row. Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Wyatt McKay in April found Williams was not too intellectually disabled to avoid the death penalty.

https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2019/06/attacker-in-1988-case-seeks-parole/