Marlin Joseph was sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of a mother and her daughter. According to court documents Marlin Joseph would shoot and kill Kaladaa Crowell, 36, and her daughter, Kyra Inglett. Marlin Joseph was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.
A man who shot and killed a woman and her daughter in West Palm Beach will pay for the crimes with his own life.
A judge sentenced Marlin Joseph to death for the killings of Kaladaa Crowell, 36, and 11-year-old Kyra Inglett.
“It’s not bitter, it’s not sweet, it’s neither one,” said Kevlin Fedrick, Kaladaa’s cousin. “We can’t get back what was taken from us.”
The shooting happened at a home on 3rd Street in West Palm Beach just days after Christmas in 2017.
Police said Joseph and Crowell had a heated argument about Kyra’s attitude just before the shooting.
Investigators said Joseph first shot and killed Crowell inside her home, then chased her daughter outside where he shot her.
Joseph, 29, received the death penalty for both murders, and 15 years in prison for the possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, court records show.
Fedrick described his cousin as a generous, and energetic person. He said her daughter was quiet, observant, and a sweet kid.
“Kyra did not deserve anything she got,” said Fedrick. “Whether she had to listen to the gun shots ring out or had to run, she did not deserve that.”
Florida Death Row for men is located at the t Florida State Prison in Raiford, FL, and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, FL. The Florida Death Row for women is located at the Lowell Annex in Lowell FL. Florida primary execution method is lethal injection. It needs to be noted that a ton of death row cases are going through resentencing due to a Florida Supreme Court ruling so I am going to leave them off of this list until their death sentences are finalized.
Henry Jones was sentenced to death by the State of Tennessee for the murder of an elderly couple. Henry Jones was also sentenced to death by the State of Florida for the murder of a teenager. According to court documents Henry Jones would break into the elderly couples home where he would stab to death the two victims, Clarence James, 82, and Lillian James, 67. Henry Jones would also be convicted of a Florida murder where he stabbed a man to death during a robbery. Henry Jones was sentenced to death
The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a Florida man convicted of murdering a Bartlett couple in their home in 2003.
During a second trial in 2015, a jury found Henry Lee Jones guilty of premeditated murder in the deaths of Clarence and Lillian James. He was sentenced to death for the killings.
82-year-old Clarence James and his 67-year-old wife Lillian were found strangled with their throats slashed at their home on Bartlett Boulevard in August 2003. Jones once lived near Bartlett, and was arrested three weeks later in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale.
Jones had been convicted and sentenced to death in 2009, but the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 2014.
Jones filed appeals after the second conviction and sentencing, which were upheld by the Court of Criminal Appeals and now the Tennessee Supreme Court.
From the Tennessee Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court, which is required to review all death penalty cases, also considered other issues on appeal, including whether the defendant was unconstitutionally denied the right to counsel, whether the trial court properly admitted the former testimony of a witness upon a determination that the witness was “unavailable,” whether the evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to convict the defendant, and whether the trial court erred when it denied the appointment of a mitigation expert. The Court also conducted a required review of Jones’ death sentences.
The Court held that the trial court did not err in denying the defendant’s motion for mistrial based upon Jones’ own ineffectiveness in representing himself or in denying Jones’ motion to appoint a second attorney. Furthermore, the Court found no error on the part of the trial court on a number of evidentiary issues raised by Jones. Next, the Supreme Court determined that the evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to support Jones’ convictions for the premeditated murder of both victims.
Under the Court’s mandatory review of Jones’ death sentences, the Court determined that the evidence presented by the State supported all of the aggravating circumstances applied by the jury. Additionally, given that Jones waived any presentation of mitigating circumstances, the Court agreed with the jury that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstance in this case. Finally, the Court determined that the death sentences were not disproportionate to sentences imposed in other similar cases.
In her concurring opinion, Justice Sharon G. Lee agreed with the Court’s outcome, but stated she believed that when reviewing whether a death sentence is disproportionate to similar cases, the Court should not limit its review solely to cases in which the death penalty was imposed, but should review all first degree murder cases in which life imprisonment or a sentence of death was imposed. Using that analysis, she also concluded that the defendant’s sentence of death was not excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases.
Oral arguments for this case were heard as part of the Court’s S.C.A.L.E.S. (Supreme Court Advancing Legal Education for Students) project at Lipscomb University during the American Legion Auxiliary Volunteer Girls State program. To read the majority opinion in State of Tennessee v. Henry Lee Jones, authored by Chief Justice Jeff Bivins, and the concurring opinion by Justice Sharon G. Lee, go to the opinions section of TNCourts.gov.
Jones remains the suspect in another similar murder in 2002 in Fort Lauderdale. Jones Was also convicted and sentenced to death in a 2003 Melbourne, Florida killing.
Paul Durousseau is a serial killer from Florida who is responsible for the murders of at least seven women however the number is believed to be higher. Paul Durousseau who was in the United States Army was stationed in Germany where local authorities believe he is responsible for several local murders. In this article on My Crime Library we will take a closer look at Paul Durousseau
Paul Durousseau Early Life
Paul Durousseau was born in Beaumont Texas on August 11, 1970. Soon after his birth his family would move to Los Angeles California after his father deserted the family.
Paul Durousseau would be arrested a couple of times for having an unconcealed hand gun. In 1992 Paul would enlist in the United States Army and would be stationed in Germany for a number of years. Authorities believe he may have started to sexually assault and murder women during this time however nothing was ever proven. Durousseau would get married in 1995
In 1996 Paul Durousseau would be transferred to Fort Benning Georgia and within a year he would be charged with the sexual assault of a teenage girl, however he would later be cleared of the charges. In 1997 Paul would be charged with being in possession of stolen goods and would be court martial in 1999 and would be dishonorably dischared.
Paul Durousseau Murders
Paul Durousseau and his wife would move to Jacksonville Florida where the couple would have two daughters.
Soon after he was acquitted of rape charges in Fort Benning Georgia back in 1997 the body of Tracy Habersham was found. The woman had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death with a cord. Paul Durousseau would later confess to the murder
In 1999 Durousseau would murder Tyresa Mack inside of her apartment, the woman was sexually assaulted and murdered. Paul was seen leaving her apartment carrying a tv set.
In 2001 Paul Durousseau was charged with the sexual assault of woman in Jacksonville and when convicted would be sentenced to thirty days in jail plus two years of probation.
In 2002 the body of Nicole Williams was found in the bottom of a ditch in Jacksonville, the woman had been wrapped in a blanket after she was reported missing 48 hrs before
In 2003 the body of Nikia Kilpatrick was found inside of her apartment, Nikia had been sexually assaulted and murdered by strangulation with a cord. Nikia was six months pregnant at the time of her death
Later in 2003 Shawanda Denise McCalister was found sexually assaulted and murdered in her apartment. Like Nikia she was pregnant at the time of her death
The bodies of seventeen year old Jovanna Jefferson and nineteen year old Surita Cohen were found at the bottom of a ditch in close proximity to each other. Police believe the two women had been murdered ten days apart.
Paul Durousseau Conviction
Witnesses would tell police that they saw the last two victims with Paul Durousseau and he would soon be arrested. Paul was convicted of five murders and sentenced to death. In 2017 Durousseau death sentence was overturned and he is currently waiting for a resentencing
Death Row inmate Paul Durousseau has been brought back to the Duval County jail ahead of a hearing next week on his re-sentencing.
Durousseau was convicted in the 1999 murder of 24-year-old Tyresa Mack, one of seven murders he was accused of committing from 1997 to 2003 in Jacksonville and Georgia.
After his conviction, prosecutors opted not to try him in the other murders.
Durousseau’s death sentence was thrown out in 2017 by the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered a new sentencing hearing. The high court rejected arguments for a new trial.
A Jacksonville cab driver killer who was convicted of killing one woman and suspected of killing four more could be taken off death row.
Paul Durousseau, a cab driver who befriended the women whom he was accused of killing, was sentenced to death in 2007. He became known as ”the “Cabbie Killer.”
Under a new Supreme Court opinion Durousseau will have to be resentenced in the wake of a new Supreme Court order that found some death sentences in Florida unconstitutional.
Durousseau was convicted and sentenced to death for killing Tyresa Mack, 24, who was found dead in her apartment in 1999. He was also charged in the deaths of four other Jacksonville women, but was never tried.
The Florida Supreme Court recently ruled that non-unanimous death penalty sentences after 2002 will have to be resentenced by a 12-member jury.
The 12-person jury will have to unanimously decide that the defendant should get the death penalty. It’s unclear when Durousseau will be resentenced.
Paul Durousseau is currently incarcerated at the Union Correctional Institute in Florida
Paul Durousseau Release Date
Paul Durousseau was sentenced to death however he is currently going through a resentencing process.
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The death penalty for Paul Durousseau, 46, has been thrown out by the Florida Supreme Court.
Durousseau was a taxi driver convicted in the 1999 murder of Tyresa Mack. He was sentenced to death in 2007.
He was charged with murder in the deaths of five young women killed in Jacksonville between December 2002 and February 2003, but was only prosecuted in the Mack case. Two of the women were pregnant.
German authorities suspect Durousseau may have killed several local women when he was stationed there with the Army during the early 1990s. Georgia law enforcement suspected Durousseau killed a woman near Fort Benning in 1997 before he was dishonorably discharged.
Tuesday’s decision cited a January 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case known as Hurst v. Florida, saying, “Durousseau’s death sentence was imposed under an unconstitutional capital sentencing statute.”
The trial jury split on the death sentence was 10-2. The state Supreme Court threw out the death sentence since the jury was not unanimous.
Bobby Joe Long was a serial killer and a serial rapist from Florida. Bobby Joe Long would murder at least ten women during a ten month period near Tampa Bay Florida. In this article on My Crime Library we will take a closer look at Bobby Joe Long.
Bobby Joe Long Early Years
Bobby Joe Long was born in Kenova West Virginia on October 14, 1953. According to doctors reports Bobby was born with an extra X chromosome which leads to Klinefelter syndrome which causes extra estrogen to be produced. Long was teased for his large breasts and would undergo a breast reduction when he was a teenager Apparently the relationship with his mother was dysfunctional as he slept in the same bed with her until his teens
Bobby Joe Long would marry his high school girlfriend in 1974 and they had two children together before they divorced in 1980
Bobby Joe Long The Serial Rapist
Before moving to Florida Bobby Joe Long moved to California where during his time there he sexually assaulted and robbed a number of women. According to police Long answered ads in a Penny Saver magazine and when he arrived at the home and the woman was alone she would be sexually assaulted and robbed. By the time police in California figured out who was responsible the Statute of Limitations had expired.
Bobby Joe Long would move to Florida in 1980 and soon after he was pulling a similar move that he did in Florida. Police believed that he had sexually assaulted up to fifty women.
Bobby Joe Long Murders
Starting in 1983 Bobby Joe Long had moved to the Tampa Bay Florida area and soon women began to disappear. According to police Bobby Joe Long would drive around picking up prostitutes and women who were alone. Long would convince them to get into his vehicle where he would then drive to his apartment where the women were tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered. Some of the women were strangled to death and others were fatally stabbed.
Artiss Ann Wick, 20 – killed on March 27, 1984
Ngeun Thi Long, 19 – killed on May 13, 1984
Michelle Denise Simms, 22 – killed on May 27, 1984
Linda Nuttall – assaulted in May 1984; survived
Elizabeth Loudenback, 22 – killed on June 8, 1984
Vicky Marie Elliott, 21 – killed on September 7, 1984
Chanel Devoun Williams, 18 – killed on October 7, 1984
Karen Beth Dinsfriend, 28 – killed on October 14, 1984
Kimberly Kyle Hopps, 22 – killed on October 31, 1984
Lisa McVey, 17 – assaulted on November 3, 1984; survived
Virginia Lee Johnson, 18 – killed on November 6, 1984
Kim Marie Swann, 21 – killed on November 11, 1984
Bobby Joe Long Arrest
One of the last women that Bobby Joe Long attacked was able to get away and describe to police. After taking evidence from the woman they were able to match it to DNA left on other victims. Bobby Joe Long would be arrested outside of a movie theater and charged with the kidnapping and sexual assault of Lisa McVey.
During interrogation by Tampa Bay police Bobby Joe Long would ask for a lawyer however none was provided. Bobby Joe would eventually confess to eight murders.
Evidence at eight of the crime scenes would be matched to fibers found in Long’s vehicle
Bobby Joe Long Trial
Bobby Joe Long presented with an overwhelming amount of evidence agreed to plead guilty to an assortment of charges including eight murders and would be sentenced to twenty six life sentences without the possibility of parole . Part of the reason the plea deal was offered was that Bobby Joe Long confession was ruled inadmissible as he asked for a lawyer and none was given
However Florida prosecutors would charge him with the murder of Michelle Simms in which he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Bobby Joe Long Execution
Bobby Joe Long was executed on May 23, 2019 by lethal injection. Bobby made no final statement and his last meal was roast beef, bacon, french fries and soda.
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It took more than three decades, but convicted serial killer and rapist Bobby Joe Long was executed Thursday evening in Florida as two of his surviving victims looked on.
“I wanted to look him in the eye,” said Lisa McVey Noland, who was 17 when Long kidnapped her early November 3, 1984, as she was riding her bicycle home from work. Long raped her and held her hostage for more 26 hours before letting her go, she said.
“I wanted to be the first person he saw,” Noland said. “Unfortunately, he didn’t open his eyes.”
Bobby Joe Long, 65, was executed at 6:55 p.m. without incident, a Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman told reporters. He had been convicted in the killings of eight women that terrorized the Tampa Bay area in 1984, according to CNN affiliate WFLA, and received a death sentence for the murder of Michelle Simms
“Now, after 35 years, we can say we have some peace of mind, knowing that justice has been served,” said Lula Williams, whose daughter Chanel was among Long’s victims.
After the execution, families of the victims and survivors addressed the media outside the Florida State Prison in Raiford, thanking Gov. Ron DeSantis and the law enforcement officers and prosecutors who they said saw to it that justice was served.
The other survivor, Linda Nuttall, said there was “no describing how this moment would feel.”
She and her husband had placed a classified newspaper ad in 1984 to sell some furniture. Long responded, and when he came to their home, he raped Nuttall while her two young children were in the house, she said.
“It’s just surreal,” Nuttall said. “But it closes another door for me.”
“He got what he deserved,” said Nuttall’s husband, Kevin. “Today’s just another chapter.”
Noland, now a deputy for the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, read a victim’s impact statement and asked everyone to remember those who died at Long’s hands. But Noland said she had “no ill will” toward Long and that she had forgiven him.
“God has shown me the only way to really be free when someone bestows injustice against you is complete forgiveness,” she said. “My life changed forever and for the better. I chose not to remain a victim. I chose to live.”
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