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Aileen Wuornos Serial Killer

Aileen Wuornos was a serial killer who operated in Florida. Her story was made into the movie Monster which starred Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. After she was arrested for a series of murders she would be convicted and sentenced to death. Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida in 2002. In this article on My Crime Library we will take a closer look at Aileen Wuornos.

Aileen Wuornos Childhood

Aileen Wuornos was born in Rochester Michigan to Diane Wornos and Leo Dale Pittman on February 29, 1956. At the time of the marriage Diane was fourteen years old and Leo was sixteen years old. Two months before Aileen was born her parents would divorce. The marriage lasted two years and produced two children.

editors note – just realized that Aileen Wuornos shares the same birthday as Richard Ramirez

Aileen Wuornos would never meet her father who would be arrested and incarcerated at the time of her birth. Leo Pittman would later be arrested and convicted for sex crimes against children. Pittman would commit suicide in prison in 1969

When Aileen Wuornos was four years old her mother would abandon her children and leave them with Lauri and Britta Wuornos her maternal grandparents. Unfortunately her grandfather was a severe alcoholic and Wuornos claimed she was sexually abused by him.

Aileen Wuornos would trade sexual favors at school for cigarettes, food and money when she was eleven years old and reportedly had a sexual relationship with her brother. By the time Aileen was fourteen years old she was pregnant after she was raped by an accomplice of her grandfather.

Aileen Wuornos would give birth after she moved to a home for unwed mothers. The child was immediately given up for adoption. Aileen would drop out of school soon after and her grandmother would die from liver failure. Around this time Wuornos began working as a prostitute.

Aileen Wuornos Young Adulthood

Aileen Wuornos would move to Colorado where she was soon arrested for driving under the influence, disorderly conduct and firing a weapon from a moving vehicle. Aileen would be allowed to bail out but she did not return for her court date and a warrant was issued for her arrest.

When Aileen was twenty years old she would hitchhike back to Florida and soon after would marry a sixty nine year old man who was the president of a yacht club. The marriage would be printed in the society pages in the local newspaper.

The marriage was doomed from the start as Aileen was still frequently bars and causing trouble. She would be arrested for assault and soon after would assault her husband with his own cane. The husband would file a restraint order against his wife of a month.

Aileen Wuornos would travel to Michigan where once again she would be arrested for assault after throwing a cue ball at a bartenders head. At this time Aileen brother would die from cancer.

Aileen would inherit $10,000 from her brothers life insurance policy but her trouble with the law continued as she was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. Aileen would be fined and let go. At this time Aileen and her husband would annul their marriage after nine weeks.

Wuornos would travel back to Florida where she was soon arrested yet again but this time for armed robbery. Aileen would be sentenced to two years in prison and she served just over a year

A year after getting out of prison Aileen would be arrested and charged for passing forged checks. A year later she was named as a suspect in the theft of a handgun however she was not charged

A year later Aileen would find herself in hot water as she was arrested and charged for car theft, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.

Aileen Wuornos And Tyria Moore

Aileen Wuornos would meet Tyria Moore in a lesbian bar in Daytona Beach Florida. The two were soon detained by police for an assault that took place at a bar. The relationship between Tyria Moor and Aileen was complicated and Wuornos claimed that she loved Moore all of the way to her execution.

Around the time Aileen Wuornos and Tyria Moore met Aileen claimed she was assaulted by a bus driver however no charges were filed. Aileen claimed the bus driver had pushed her off a bridge and that Tyria Moore witnessed it take place.

Aileen Wuornos Murders

When it comes to the murders that Aileen Wuornos committed there has been a rather large debate regarding claims that Aileen was acting in self defense and was not a cold blooded murderer. Now when it comes to the first victim Richard Charles Mallory who was a convicted sex offender who spent time in prison for rape a case could be made however the next six men she murdered it is a bit more difficult.

Aileen Wuornos Victims

Richard Charles Mallory – Richard Charles Mallory owned an electronic store in Clearwater Florida. As mentioned he was a convicted rapist who spent time in prison. Aileen claimed that she was severely beaten and sodomized. Police would find his vehicle abandoned on December 1, 1989 and would find his body two days later, he had been shot several times. Mallory was fifty one years old
David Andrew Spears – David Andrew Spears was a construction worker from Winter Garden Florida who was declared missing on May 19 1990. Spears body would be found on June 1, 1990 he had been shot several times.
Charles Edmund Carskaddon – Charles Edmund Carskaddon was a rodeo worker whose body was found on June 6, 1990. He was wrapped up in a blanket and shot multiple times. Carskaddon was forty years old
Peter Abraham Siems – Peter Abraham Siers left Jupiter Florida for Arkansas in June 1990 and his car was found on July 4 1990. Aileen Wuornos and Tyria Moore were seen abandoning the car as well as Aileen hand print was found in the vehicle. Peter Abraham Siems body was never found. Siems was sixty five years old
Troy Eugene Burress – Troy Eugene Burress was a sausage salesman whose body was found on August 4, 1990 five days after he was reported missing. Burress was fifty years old and had been shot twice
Charles Richard “Dick” Humphreys – Charles Richard Humphreys was fifty six years old and a former US Air Force Major and a former Chief Of Police. On September 11, 1990 his body was found fully clothed and shot twice. He was fifty six years old
Walter Jeno Antonio – Walter Jen Antonio was sixty two year old and a truck driver and security guard. Antonio was found on November 19, 1990, he had been shot four times

Aileen Wuornos Arrest And Capture

When Aileen Wuornos and Tyria Moore had abandoned the car belonging to Peter Siems they were seen by a number of witnesses who would describe the two women to police. Police would also link Aileen to several of the victims after their belongings were found at pawnshops with Wuornos fingerprints still on them.

On January 9, 1990 Aileen Wuornos was arrested for an outstanding warrant stemming from an assault. Unknown to Aileen police had picked up Tyria Moore, who was in Pennsylvania and transferred back to Florida. Tyria had made a deal with the police where in exchange in getting a confession from Wuornos she would be immune from prosecution

Aileen Wuornos during several phone conversations Wuornos would not confess however after Tyria Moore pleaded with her that she was going to prison for something that Aileen did Wuornos would confess to the murders however she stated she was attacked by the men first.

Aileen Wuornos Trial

Aileen Wuornos first trial began in January 1991 and she faced the charges of murder regarding the case of Richard Charles Mallory. Aileen defense team would call a number of psychologists to the stand who testified that Wuornos suffered from an assortment of mental health illnesses such as borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. The defense team would also try to bring up Mallory criminal history where he was convicted of sexual assault however the judge would not allow it.

The prosecutors made sure that jury was aware of all of the trouble Aileen Wuornos had with the police over the years. Aileen Wuornos was convicted and sentenced to death.

A year later Aileen Wuornos would plead no contest to the murders of Humphreys, Burress, and Spears. Again Aileen Wuornos was sentenced to death for the three murders.

A few months later Aileen would plead guilty to the murder of Carskaddon and would receive her fifth death sentence.

Aileen Wuornos Execution

Aileen Wuornons would spend over ten years on death row and towards the end she was asking to be executed as she was tired of being in prison. Aileen would tell the Supreme Court that “she killed those men” and “robbed them as cold as ice. And I’d do it again, too. There’s no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I’d kill again. I have hate crawling through my system…I am so sick of hearing this ‘she’s crazy’ stuff. I’ve been evaluated so many times. I’m competent, sane, and I’m trying to tell the truth. I’m one who seriously hates human life and would kill again”

Aileen Wuornos would start making complaints about the way she was treated in prison accusing officials of tainting her food and that she overheard staff talking about pushing her over the edge so that she would commit suicide.

When Aileen Wuornos was speaking with director Nick Broomfield, who would make two documentaries about Wuornos, she spoke about meeting God and blamed society for the way her life turned out. She also continued to complain about the staff treatment towards her.

On October 9, 2002 Aileen Wuornos was executed by the State of Florida by lethal injection. Her last words are the following

“Yes, I would just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I’ll be back, I’ll be back.”

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Aileen Wuornos was executed for the murders of seven men

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Aileen Wiornos was executed on October 9, 2002

Margaret Allen Women On Death Row

Margaret Allen is currently on Florida death row for the murder of her housekeeper. According to court documents Margaret Allen suspected the woman of stealing from her and instead of firing the woman she proceeded to murder her after torturing the woman for hours. Margaret Allen was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death in Florida

Margaret Allen 2021 Information

DC Number:	699575
Name:	ALLEN, MARGARET A
Race:	BLACK
Sex:	FEMALE
Birth Date:	01/23/1966
Initial Receipt Date:	05/19/2011
Current Facility:	LOWELL ANNEX
Current Custody:	MAXIMUM
Current Release Date:	DEATH SENTENCE

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Housekeeper Wanda Wright died a horrible death. She was beaten, had bleach poured down her throat and her mouth duct-taped before she was strangled with a belt.

The 39-year-old Titusville woman was killed, police said Friday, because Margaret Allen, whose house she cleaned, was convinced that Wright had stolen a purse containing $2,000.

As Margaret Allen, her 18-year-old son, Quintin, and her boyfriend, James Terry Martin of Titusville, went to court Friday to face charges in the case, investigators collected evidence from Wright’s shallow grave west of Mims.

“I cannot imagine what she went through, having to ingest cleaning fluids and having a belt tied around her throat,” said Cmdr. John Lau of the Titusville Police Department. “This is just pure torture.”

According to police, Wright was cleaning the house Tuesday when Margaret Allen, who has a long criminal history, accused her of stealing the purse.

After failing to elicit a confession by beating her, Margaret Allen, 39, poured bleach and other household chemicals down Wright’s throat as Quintin Allen held her down, police spokesman Warren Van Vuren said.

After the mother and son covered Wright’s mouth with duct tape, Margaret Allen wrapped a belt around her neck and strangled her, Van Vuren said.

The two then enlisted Martin, 54, to help dispose of the heavyset woman’s body on the following night, he said.

“They hauled her out on plywood and drove on State Road 46 to the middle of the woods,” Van Vuren said. There, the three dug a shallow hole and buried her, he said.

On Thursday, Wright’s husband, Johnny Dublin, reported her missing.

But it wasn’t until later that same day when a tipster walked into the police station that investigators realized she might have been killed.

“This [investigation] all started with somebody coming in the lobby and saying, ‘I think there may have been a murder,’ ” Lau said.

The informant, whose name was withheld, learned about the crime from one of the three suspects, Van Vuren said.

After arresting Quintin Allen late Thursday on an unrelated warrant, the teen led investigators to Wright’s grave, police said. Margaret Allen and Martin were arrested a short time later.

Both mother and son were arrested on charges of first-degree murder and false imprisonment, and Martin has been charged with accessory after the fact. All three were being held late Friday at the Brevard County Jail in Sharpes.

It was not Margaret Allen’s first brush with the law. Police and court records indicate she has been arrested at least 28 times since 1988. Charges have included everything from shoplifting to aggravated battery, drug possession and child abuse.

Her son pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession, according to court files.

Dublin could not be reached for comment Friday.

Despite Margaret Allen’s extensive criminal history, relatives said they were surprised by her arrest.

“Oh, Lord, was I shocked,” said Floyd Strozier, 84, who lives three houses away from Allen, his stepgranddaughter. “All I knew was that she was fooling around with some dope and stuff.

“Margaret always treated me with respect,” he added. “That’s all I can say for her.”

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A jury trial commenced on September 13, 2010. Johnny Dublin testified for the State. Dublin testified that on the day Wright went missing, Allen came to Dublin and Wright’s house and whispered something into Wright’s ear. In response, Wright and Allen left the house together. A little while later, Allen returned to Dublin’s house and told Dublin that Wright stole about $2000 of Allen’s money and Allen asked Dublin if she could search his house. Dublin obliged and Allen searched Dublin’s house. Dublin testified that he noticed that Allen had scratches on her when she came back to his house. Dublin asked Allen where Wright was, and Allen responded that she was still at Allen’s house. Dublin testified that the next day, Allen came back to his house and asked him where Wright was. Dublin testified that Quintin was with Allen.

Quintin Allen testified for the State. He acknowledged that he was serving a fifteen-year sentence of incarceration followed by five years’ probation for his guilty plea for second-degree murder based on his involvement in Wright’s murder. Quintin testified that he was at Allen’s house on the day of the murder when Margaret Allen noticed that her purse was missing. Allen left her house and told Quintin to stay with her children. Allen returned to her house with Wright and asked Quintin to come inside. Allen told Quintin that Wright must have stolen Allen’s purse because Wright was the only person at Allen’s house before the purse went missing. Allen and Quintin searched for the purse. Allen left the house again and told Quintin not to let Wright leave if she tried. At one point while Allen was gone, Wright tried to leave; Quintin told Wright that Allen wanted her to stay, and Wright obliged.

Upon Allen’s return, Quintin plaited Allen’s hair. Quintin testified that at one point Wright started crying and begged Allen to let her go home. Wright attempted to leave Allen’s house and Allen hit Wright on the head; Wright fell to the ground. Quintin testified that Allen had a gun and told him that if he did not help her with Wright, she would shoot him, so Quintin held Wright down on the floor. While he held Wright down, Allen found chemicals including bleach, fingernail polish remover, rubbing alcohol and hair spritz and poured them all onto Wright’s face. At one point, one of Allen’s children walked into the room in which this was taking place, and Allen told the child to rip off a piece of duct tape for Allen. Allen attempted to put the duct tape over Wright’s mouth, but because Wright’s face was wet from the chemicals that were poured on her face, the duct tape would not stick to her skin. Allen retrieved belts from her closet and beat Wright with them. Quintin then tied Wright’s feet together with one of the belts. Quintin testified that at that point Wright was not struggling. Allen then put one of the belts around Wright’s neck and pulled. At one point, Wright said, “Please, stop. Please stop. I am going to piss myself.” Wright’s body started shaking and after about three minutes, Wright did not move. Allen then told Quintin to get some sheets to tie Wright’s hands together in case Wright woke up.

Quintin left soon after the incident. Allen called Quintin throughout the night, but he did not answer her calls. The next day, Allen found Quintin at the barbershop. Quintin testified that Allen still had the gun. Quintin got into the truck that Allen was driving; James Martin was also in the truck. Allen told Quintin that Wright was dead. Allen then told Quintin that he had to help her get rid of the body.

Allen, Quintin, and Martin drove to Lowe’s to buy plywood to help move Wright’s body from inside the house into the truck. They also borrowed a dolly hand truck from a local shop to help move the body. Quintin testified that upon returning to Allen’s house, Wright’s body had been moved from where he had last seen her and had been wrapped in Allen’s carpet. They were eventually able to get Wright’s body into the truck. Then, all three took shovels from Allen’s mother’s tool shed and drove to an area off of the highway to dump Wright’s body. Quintin and Martin dug a hole while Allen stood as a lookout. They placed Wright’s body in the hole, covered the hole with debris, and took the carpet with them. They threw the carpet into a dumpster outside of a truck stop and picked up Allen’s daughter from school. Quintin went to the police and turned himself in. Quintin also took the police to the place where Wright’s body had been buried.

James Martin testified that he was sentenced to sixty months’ incarceration for his participation in hiding Wright’s body. Martin testified that on the day of the murder, he was at Allen’s house helping her repair a car. Allen asked Martin to help her search for her purse, and Martin did. He testified that he left Allen’s house around 10 p.m. to get a starter belt for the car. Martin finished repairing the car and asked Allen if she had any cocaine. She did not, so Martin left Allen’s house, found cocaine, came back to Allen’s house, and smoked it. Martin testified that when he got back from finding the cocaine, Wright was the only one at Allen’s house. Martin testified that the timing of the events of the day was unclear because he had been high. Martin testified that he slept at Allen’s house until the morning and got a ride from Allen when she took her children to school. At that point, Allen told Martin that she needed help. Allen and Martin went back to Allen’s house, and Martin saw Wright’s body. Martin testified that Allen told him, “He must have hit her too hard.” Martin testified that he noticed a bandana tied around Wright’s hands.

Allen told Martin that they had to bury Wright’s body. Allen sent Martin to Allen’s brother’s house to borrow a truck. Martin testified that the truck was never found by police. Martin testified that the entire plan, including getting the plywood at Lowe’s was Allen’s idea. Martin testified that he was the only smoker of the group, and he dumped all of the ashtrays out of the car after they buried the body. When they got back to Allen’s house, Quintin left, and Martin cleaned the nylon strap that had been used to secure the carpet around Wright’s body. Martin also washed the truck but testified that he did not know what became of the vehicle. Martin was at Allen’s house when the police came to Allen’s house with a search warrant.

On cross-examination, Martin testified that it was Quintin who first told Wright that she could not leave. Martin also testified that Quintin gave directions to bury the body. The defense elicited that Martin told Allen’s sister that Quintin “did this.” On redirect, the State elicited from Martin that he was asleep and did not see who killed Wright.

Denise Fitzgerald, a crime scene technician, testified that she exhumed Wright’s body and located a cigarette butt in the vicinity. The State and defense stipulated that the DNA found on the cigarette butt was consistent with Martin’s DNA.

Dr. Sajid Qaiser, a forensic pathologist and chief medical examiner for Brevard County, testified that while he did not perform the autopsy on Wright, he had reviewed the autopsy report. He testified that Dr. Robert Whitmore,¹ the medical examiner who had performed the autopsy on Wright was no longer the chief medical examiner. Dr. Qaiser testified that a body cannot bruise once dead and that Wright had bruising in the following places: upper and lower eye lid, front and back of her ear, left torso, all over the left side, trunk, right hand, thigh, knee, left eyebrow, forehead, upper arm and shoulder area. Additionally, Wright’s chest, hands, torso, face, and lower lip had contusions. Wright’s wrist showed signs of ligation, meaning her hands were tied. Wright’s neck showed signs of ligation, meaning that she was either hung or something was tied tightly around her neck. Dr. Qaiser testified that his medical conclusion was that Wright’s death was the result of homicidal violence, and strangulation and ligature were an important cause of death. Dr. Qaiser testified that Wright was morbidly obese, with an enlarged heart, which contributed to her death. He testified that it would take from four to six minutes of strangulation to die. He could not tell whether she was rendered unconscious during the beating.

The State rested, and the defense filed a motion for judgment of acquittal asserting that the State had not proven the underlying charge of kidnapping for felony murder. The trial court denied the motion, and the defense rested without calling any witnesses. The jury found Margaret Allen guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping.

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Margaret Allen was convicted of the murder of her housekeeper

Tina Lasonya Brown Women On Death Row

Tina Brown is currently on Florida death row for the murder of a young woman. According to court documents Tina Lasonya Brown and the victim were involved in an argument that quickly turned deadly. The victim was hit with a stun gun and a crowbar before being kidnapped and brought to a wooded area where she was then set on fire. The victim would die two weeks later in hospital. Tina Lasonya Brown would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Tina Lasonya Brown 2021 Information

DC Number:	155917
Name:	BROWN, TINA L
Race:	BLACK
Sex:	FEMALE
Birth Date:	07/19/1970
Initial Receipt Date:	10/03/2012
Current Facility:	LOWELL ANNEX
Current Custody:	MAXIMUM
Current Release Date:	DEATH SENTENCE

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A Pensacola woman on death row for the fatal assault, kidnapping and burning of her neighbor had her most recent appeal denied last week.

Tina Lasonya Brown, 48, was one of three people who in 2010 ambushed 19-year-old Audreanna Zimmerman, attacked her repeatedly with a stun gun, gagged her, stuffed her in the trunk of a car, drove her into the woods, beat her with a crowbar, doused her with gasoline, set her on fire and left her to die.

In 2017, Tina Lasonya Brown filed a motion for post-conviction relief that raised numerous arguments for vacating her conviction and sentence. Among them were claims that her attorneys were ineffective, that multiple jurors should have been dismissed from the trial because of their biases and that “new evidence” implicated one of her co-defendants was more culpable in the murder than jurors were led to believe.

In a 110-page order filed Friday, Circuit Judge Gary L. Bergosh reviewed all of Tina Lasonya Brown’s arguments and found them insufficient. In most instances, the accusations failed to provide supporting evidence or demonstrate how they had impacted the outcome of the trial.

Tina Lasonya Brown was the only one of the three co-defendants who received the death penalty in the case. Tina Lasonya Brown’s daughter Britnee Miller, who was 16 when she participated in the vicious attack, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the murder.

Heather Lee, a friend and neighbor of Tina Lasonya Brown and Miller, was the third accomplice in the killing, and she was sentenced to 25 years in prison after making a plea agreement with the state.

Much of Tina Lasonya Brown’s appeal was dedicated to a claim that Lee had actually been the party most responsible for Zimmerman’s killing.

The appeal claimed Lee wanted revenge against Zimmerman because she had an affair with Lee’s husband. It said all the weapons used in the attack — the stun gun, crowbar and gas can — came from Lee’s house, and that Lee later admitted to associates she had been the one to set Zimmerman on fire.

Tina Lasonya Brown’s appeal said multiple witnesses could have testified to these facts, but Bergosh noted that none of that testimony would have affected the case against Brown. He said there was evidence Brown had been the one to use the stun gun against Zimmerman, to kidnap her and to beat her with the crowbar.

“The evidence is simply too strong against (Tina Lasonya Brown) that she played a substantial role in the victim’s murder,” the judge wrote. “… Regardless of whether (Brown) actually poured the gasoline and lit the victim on fire, the evidence at trial shows (Brown) was not being dominated or under extreme duress when she launched the fatal attack against the victim.”

Tina Lasonya Brown was sentenced to death because of the brutality of Zimmerman’s murder, and she is currently one of only three Florida women on death row.

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In March 2010, Tina Brown, Brown’s sixteen-year-old daughter Britnee Miller, Heather Lee, and Audreanna Zimmerman lived in neighboring trailers in an Escambia County mobile home park. The four women were initially good friends, but their relationships—particularly between Miller, Brown, and Zimmerman— were volatile and often escalated to violence. Brown had previously accused Zimmerman of slashing her tires. Zimmerman had accused Brown of shattering a window in her car, having her boyfriend arrested, and reporting to the Florida Department of Children and Families that she was providing inadequate care to her children. Lee testified that she had intervened on multiple occasions to stop physical altercations between Miller and Zimmerman. On one occasion, Miller, who had recently discovered that Zimmerman was sexually involved with her boyfriend, attempted to strike Zimmerman. Zimmerman, however, defended herself by attempting to disable Miller with a stun gun. Later that day, Lee informed Brown that Zimmerman had used a stun gun on Brown’s daughter, to which Brown responded that she was “going to get” Zimmerman. 1 Several days later, on March 24, 2010, Brown invited Zimmerman to her home under the guise of rekindling their friendship. Before Zimmerman arrived, Brown, Miller, Lee, and Miller’s thirteen-year-old friend, were inside the trailer. Brown and Lee were in the kitchen, where Lee instructed Brown on the proper use of a stun gun. Miller then pulled her friend aside and told her, “we’re fixing to kill Audreanna [Zimmerman].” Shortly after 9 p.m., Zimmerman entered the trailer. 1. Lee’s testimony regarding Brown’s state of mind following the altercation was corroborated during trial by Corey Doyle, an inmate housed with Brown at the Escambia County jail. Doyle testified that Brown told her when she heard Zimmerman had used a stun gun on Miller, Brown informed Miller, “don’t worry, I’ll take care of it.” -2- Brown waited several minutes and then used the stun gun on Zimmerman multiple times. When Zimmerman lost muscular control and fell to the floor, Brown continued to use the stun gun on Zimmerman, who was screaming and crying for help. Eventually, Brown pulled Zimmerman across the trailer into the bathroom. Zimmerman continued to scream and cry for help, so Miller struck Zimmerman in the face and Lee stuffed a sock into Zimmerman’s mouth. Zimmerman was then forcibly escorted outside and forced into the trunk of Brown’s vehicle.2 Brown, Miller, and Lee then entered the vehicle and drove away. The women drove to a clearing in the woods about a mile and a half from the trailer park. Brown exited the car and pulled Zimmerman out of the trunk. Zimmerman attempted to flee, but stumbled in the darkness and was caught by Brown and Miller. The two women wrestled Zimmerman to the ground and simultaneously attacked her. Brown used the stun gun again on Zimmerman as Miller beat her with a crowbar. Brown and Miller then switched weapons and continued to torture and beat Zimmerman. Miller eventually dropped the stun gun and repeatedly punched Zimmerman. Brown returned to the car, retrieved a can of gasoline from the trunk, and walked back toward the beaten and prone, but still 2. During trial, Lee disputed this summation of what occurred in the trailer after Brown began to attack Zimmerman. The veracity of Lee’s testimony concerning her involvement in this crime, however, was significantly challenged during trial, particularly because Lee, who claimed that she was a victim and was not involved in Zimmerman’s murder, pled guilty to second-degree murder based on her involvement in Zimmerman’s death. -3- conscious, Zimmerman. Brown poured gasoline on Zimmerman, retrieved a lighter from her pocket, set Zimmerman on fire, and stood nearby to watch the screaming Zimmerman burn. Lee testified that she was standing beside Miller, who exuberantly jumped up and down and screamed, “Burn, bitch! Burn!” After a few minutes, the three women returned to the car and drove away. During the ride home, Miller said, “Mom, you’ve got to turn around. I left my shoes and the taser.” Brown, however, refused to return to the location of the event. Shortly thereafter, Terrance Hendrick was outside his home which was located approximately one third of a mile away from the location of the attack. Hendrick heard a faint female voice asking for help, but he could not see anyone in the darkness. Eventually, Hendrick saw Zimmerman walking slowly toward his house. When Zimmerman reached Hendrick’s house, she asked for assistance and sat on the front steps. As he waited on the porch with Zimmerman, Hendrick noticed that she had suffered a significant head injury, did not appear to be wearing clothes, and had a strong odor of gasoline. He testified that her skin was black and he could not identify her race. At 9:24 p.m., an emergency medical technician (EMT) arrived at the scene. When the EMT approached Zimmerman, he observed her sitting on the porch, rocking back and forth with her arms straight out. Due to the extensive nature of Zimmerman’s burns, the EMT testified that he could not initially identify whether -4- she was wearing clothing. The EMT noticed that Zimmerman’s skin was falling off her body, and he believed that over ninety percent of her body was burned. She had severe head trauma, and her jaw was either broken or severely dislocated. The EMT explained that the extent and severity of the burns prevented him from providing Zimmerman medical assistance. He testified that while he generally placed sterile gauze and oxygen on burns, he did not have enough gauze to cover her entire body. He attempted to stabilize her neck, but her skin was charred to such an extent that he could not touch Zimmerman without her skin rubbing off onto his gloves. Despite her injuries, Zimmerman was conscious and alert. She identified Brown and Lee as her attackers and told the EMT that she was “drug out of the house, tased, beaten in the head with a crowbar, and then set on fire.” She also provided her address as well as the addresses of her attackers, and asked the EMT to protect her children. The ambulance arrived within a few minutes and transported Zimmerman to the hospital. Inside the ambulance, Zimmerman repeatedly asked if she was going to recover. She told the paramedic that Brown, Miller, and Lee poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. She also stated that she “thought they had made up.” Zimmerman was stabilized at a local hospital and then transferred to the Burn Center at the University of South Alabama Hospital in Mobile, Alabama, where she died sixteen days later. -5- When Brown, Miller, and Lee returned to Brown’s trailer, Brown and Miller removed their bloodstained clothing and placed it in a garbage bag. Lee removed her shoes, which were also stained with blood, and placed them in the bag. Miller informed her friend, who had remained at the trailer during the attack, that she had injured her hand striking Zimmerman, and that the three women had set Zimmerman on fire. Miller and her friend then used Brown’s car to drive to the hospital to get medical care for Miller. Before returning from the hospital early the next morning, Miller discarded the bag of bloodstained clothing in a dumpster and attempted to remove the bloodstains from the inside of Brown’s car. With the information provided by Zimmerman, law enforcement officers apprehended Brown and Lee shortly after the attack and Miller was arrested after she returned from the hospital the next day. The three women were, however, released while Zimmerman was in the hospital. During that time, Brown informed her friend Pamela Valley that she, Miller, and Lee had beaten Zimmerman, forced her into a car, driven her to an open field and “lit her on fire and didn’t look back.” A few days later, Brown informed Valley that Zimmerman was still alive and requested Valley to finish her off. Valley declined and later reported the conversation to law enforcement. Brown, Miller, and Lee were re-arrested on April 9, 2010, the date of Zimmerman’s death. -6- At the scene of the burning, law enforcement officers discovered several pieces of evidence including a pair of white shoes; a stun gun with blood on the handle; paper stained with blood; an orange, gold, and black hairweave 3; a crowbar; and a pool of blood. Additional blood was discovered on the passenger seat headrest in Brown’s vehicle. During trial, a DNA expert testified that the blood on the headrest matched the known DNA profile of Zimmerman. Another DNA expert testified that the blood on the stun gun matched the known DNA profile of Brown. Finally, the medical examiner testified that the cause of Zimmerman’s death was multiple thermal injuries, and the manner of death was homicide. On June 21, 2012, a jury convicted Brown of the first-degree murder of Audreanna Zimmerman. During the penalty phase, the defense presented the testimony of several family members, including Brown’s two sons, her brother, her aunt, and two of her uncles. The defense also presented the testimony of Dr. Elaine Bailey, a psychologist, and introduced several family photos. The State presented one witness, Dr. John Bingham, a licensed mental health counselor, and also entered a photograph of Zimmerman into evidence.

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Tina Brown was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of a woman

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Tiffany Cole is currently on Florida death row for the murders of her elderly neighbors. According to court documents Tiffany Cole , Alan Wade and her then boyfriend Michael Jackson planned to kidnap and rob the elderly couple before murdering them. The group predug a grave in Georgia two days before the double murder took place.

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DC Number:	J35212
Name:	COLE, TIFFANY
Race:	WHITE
Sex:	FEMALE
Birth Date:	12/03/1981
Initial Receipt Date:	03/07/2008
Current Facility:	LOWELL ANNEX
Current Custody:	MAXIMUM
Current Release Date:	PENDING

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The Florida Supreme Court is ordering new sentencing hearings for four inmates currently on the state’s Death Row, including one of three women residing there.

The high court on Thursday threw out the sentences because a jury did not unanimously recommend the death penalty in the cases. The Court ruled last year that death sentences have to be unanimous, and anyone sentenced after a 2002 ruling could be eligible for a new sentence.

Among those getting a new hearing is Tiffany Cole. She was convicted for her role in the 2005 murders of a Jacksonville couple that was buried alive.

The court also ordered a new sentencing hearing for Michael Bargo, who was convicted for taking part in 2011 the murder and torture of a Marion County teenager.

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In 2007, “Cole was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of robbery for the 2005 murders of James and Carol Sumner.” Cole v. State, 36 So. 3d 597, 599 (Fla. 2010). On appeal, this Court set out the facts of the crimes:

The evidence presented at trial established that on the night of July 8, 2005, Cole and codefendants Michael James Jackson, Bruce Kent Nixon, Jr., and Alan Lyndell Wade robbed, kidnapped, and murdered the victims. At trial, the evidence primarily consisted of codefendant Nixon’s testimony, Cole’s taped interview with Homicide Detective David Meacham of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO), and Cole’s in-court testimony.

Cole was the only codefendant who knew the victims. The victims were friends with and previous neighbors of Cole’s father before the victims moved from the Charleston, South Carolina, area to Jacksonville, Florida. The victims also had recently sold Cole a vehicle and informed her that she was welcome at their home if she was ever in Jacksonville. The plan to rob and murder the victims evolved from knowledge that Cole already had about the victims and that she obtained from the victims in the weeks prior to the crimes.

Cole and Jackson met and became involved in a personal relationship two months before the crimes. During that two-month period, Cole and Jackson often traveled together. In June 2005, Cole and Jackson went to Jacksonville, Florida, to visit Jackson’s friend Wade. During this visit, Cole contacted the victims, and Cole and Jackson stayed one night at the victims’ home. During the visit, Mrs. Sumner informed Cole that she and Mr. Sumner had recently sold their home near Charleston, South Carolina, and had profited $99,000. Following the initial trip to Jacksonville and additional trips between Charleston and Jacksonville, Cole, Jackson, Wade, and Wade’s friend Nixon developed a plan to rob the victims. At the time of the crimes, Cole and Jackson were twenty-three years old and Wade and Nixon were eighteen years old. The victims were in their early sixties but were both in poor health and especially frail.

In preparation for the robbery, Nixon stole four shovels to dig a hole. From a rental agency in South Carolina, Cole had previously rented a Mazda RX–8, which she used to transport the group. Two days before the murders, Cole, Jackson, and Wade picked Nixon up in the Mazda. The group drove around until they selected a remote location—in Georgia, just across the Florida state line—to dig a large hole. While Cole held a flashlight, Jackson, Wade, and Nixon dug the hole, which was approximately four feet deep and six feet square. The group left the shovels at the hole when they completed the excavation. Nixon testified that in the two days after digging the hole, the foursome drove around discussing “what [they] were going to do” and “how [they] were going to do it.” He stated that the foursome planned the robbery together and that Cole was the one who knew the victims and who “set everything up.” The group initially did not know whether they would enter the Sumners’ home while the victims were home and kidnap the victims or wait until the victims were away from their home. Nixon testified that Cole knew when the victims would be away from their home for a doctor’s appointment. The foursome ultimately decided that they would kill the victims. Nixon testified that Jackson informed the others that he would kill the victims at the grave site by injecting them with a lethal dose of medication.

On the night of the crimes, July 8, 2005, Cole and her codefendants purchased duct tape and plastic wrap. Cole wrote a personal check for these items. Later that night, Cole drove the foursome to the victims’ home. Initially, Cole and Jackson remained outside in the rented Mazda. Wade and Nixon knocked on the door, and when Mrs. Sumner responded, Wade asked to use her telephone. After Mrs. Sumner allowed Wade and Nixon into her home, Wade ripped the telephone cord from the wall. Nixon held the victims at gunpoint with a toy gun, took the victims to a bedroom, and bound them with duct tape. After Wade and Nixon contacted Jackson through Nextel two-way radio phones—which the group used to communicate throughout the course of the crimes—Jackson entered the victims’ home. Jackson and Wade then searched the victims’ home for bank account records. Cole drove down the street and waited in the Mazda. Eventually, the victims were taken to their garage and forced into the trunk of their Lincoln Town Car. Cole drove back to the victims’ home in the Mazda after Jackson called her. Jackson placed a trash bag containing some of the victims’ belongings in the Mazda’s trunk and got into the Mazda. Wade and Nixon then drove the victims’ Lincoln to a gas station to refuel it, and Cole and Jackson followed in the Mazda.

The foursome, with the victims in the Lincoln’s trunk, then drove to the remote Georgia location where they had previously dug the large hole. Upon arrival, Cole remained with the Mazda at the edge of the road, while her codefendants drove the Lincoln into the woods to the hole. At some point, Nixon joined Cole at the road. The evidence shows that only Jackson and Wade were present at the hole when the victims were put into the hole and buried alive. When Jackson returned from the woods to the Mazda, Jackson had the personal identification number (PIN) for the victims’ automated teller machine (ATM) card. The foursome drove both cars from the grave site to Sanderson, Florida, where they wiped down the Lincoln and abandoned it. The foursome then left in the Mazda, with Cole driving.

The group next stopped at an ATM in Jacksonville, from which Jackson withdrew money from the victims’ bank account. The group then retired to a motel. Later that night, after purchasing Clorox and gloves, Cole and Wade returned to the victims’ home. The evidence shows that at that time Cole and Wade took the victims’ computer from the home. Subsequently, Cole pawned Mrs. Sumner’s rings and the victims’ computer.

On July 10, 2005, Rhonda Alford, Mrs. Sumner’s daughter, reported to the JSO that she had been unable to contact the victims for several days. That same day, Officer Vindell Williams of JSO spotted a Lincoln Town Car in Sanderson that was later determined to be the victims’ Lincoln. On July 12, 2005, Homicide Detective David Meacham of the JSO responded to the victims’ home to investigate. In their home, he saw a bank statement that showed a large sum of money in the victims’ bank account. After contacting the bank, he learned that during the past few days there had been an unusually large amount of ATM withdrawals—totaling several thousand dollars—from the victims’ account.

Later on July 12, Detective Meacham learned that someone claiming to be Mr. Sumner had contacted the JSO. Detective Meacham returned the call. The person claiming to be Mr. Sumner was later identified as codefendant Jackson. As Mr. Sumner, Jackson asked Detective Meacham to assist him in accessing his bank account; by that time Jackson was apparently having trouble accessing the account. As Mr. Sumner, Jackson explained that he and Mrs. Sumner had left town quickly to attend Mrs. Sumner’s sister’s funeral in Delaware. When Detective Meacham asked to speak to Mrs. Sumner, Cole posed as Mrs. Sumner and pretended to be tired and ailing. Detective Meacham contacted the bank and requested that it continue to allow access to the victims’ account so that Detective Meacham could continue his investigation.

Since Detective Meacham suspected that he was not actually speaking to the Sumners, he contacted United States Marshal David Alred to assist in tracking the cellular telephone number used by the callers. The cell phone was registered to Jackson and had been used near the victims’ home around the time of the victims’ abduction. The cell phone records also showed calls to a South Carolina rental car company. Detective Meacham contacted the company, which indicated that it had rented a silver Mazda RX–8 to Cole and that the car was overdue. Using the rental car global positioning system, law enforcement officers determined that the Mazda had been within blocks of the victims’ home on the night of the murders.

As Detective Meacham continued to investigate the victims’ disappearance, Jackson continued to withdraw money from the victims’ bank account. Jackson made multiple ATM withdrawals from the victims’ bank account between the early hours of July 9 and the night of July 13, 2005. Photo surveillance captured Jackson making several of these withdrawals. Cole drove Jackson to the ATM machines in the rented Mazda; the Mazda could be seen in some of the surveillance photographs.

Detective James Rowan of the North Charleston Police Department testified that he found the rented Mazda in the parking lot of an abandoned office building near the rental company. Detective Rowan went to Cole’s residence near Charleston, South Carolina, and David Duncan, Cole’s brother, led Detective Rowan and other officers to the nearby Best Western Hotel where Cole, Jackson, and Wade were staying. Two rooms were rented to Cole. At the motel, officers found and arrested Cole, Jackson, and Wade. The police obtained a search warrant for the motel rooms. In the motel room where Cole and Jackson were staying, police found the victims’ South Carolina driver licenses, credit cards, checkbook, mail, and papers indicating the victims’ America Online account and passwords, social security numbers, and birthdates. In the same room, police found what appeared to be a new laptop computer and bags of new merchandise. Additionally, officers found photographs showing Cole, Jackson, Wade, and another female, who was uninvolved in the crimes, “partying” in Myrtle Beach before the crimes. The victims’ ATM card was found in Jackson’s back pocket. In the motel room where Wade was staying, police found a key ring that belonged to the victims. The victims’ coin collection was found in the trunk of Cole’s car.

Detective Meacham testified that he drove to Charleston immediately after learning that Cole, Jackson, and Wade were apprehended. A recording of Detective Meacham’s July 14, 2005, interview of Cole was played for the jury. In it, Cole admitted that before the crimes she had gone to Myrtle Beach with Jackson, Wade, and another female uninvolved in the crimes. Cole stated that the group stayed in a hotel room, “[s]pending money up there, partying up there.” She stated also that on the return trip from Myrtle Beach, the group stopped at a flea market, where Wade and Jackson purchased pocketknives and BB guns that appeared to be real firearms. Cole admitted that she knew that Jackson, Wade, and Nixon were going to the victims’ home to steal things such as credit cards. Cole also admitted that she spent the victims’ money after the murders and impersonated Mrs. Sumner during the telephone call with Detective Meacham.

Codefendant Nixon was also arrested. Nixon revealed to law enforcement officers the location where the victims were buried, and on July 16, 2005, the victims’ bodies were discovered. Nixon testified that he understood that because of his guilty plea that he could receive a sentence between fifty-two years and life imprisonment without parole. Nixon understood that he would not be sentenced until after testifying against Wade. (Nixon had previously testified against Jackson.)

Dr. Anthony J. Clark, Medical Examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, performed autopsies on the bodies and testified that both of the victims died as a result of mechanical obstruction of the airways by dirt. Essentially, the victims were buried alive and asphyxiated from the dirt particles smothering their airway passages.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-supreme-court/1866373.html

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The only white woman on Florida’s Death Row will ask the Florida Supreme Court to throw out her conviction and death sentence this week for robbing, kidnapping and burying a disabled Jacksonville couple alive.

Lawyers for Tiffany Cole, 33, will argue the attorneys who represented her during her criminal trial in Jacksonville were ineffective. Cole was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, armed robbery and kidnapping. A jury recommended death by a 9-3 vote and Circuit Judge Michael Weatherby concurred.

Tiffany Cole was one of four people who kidnapped Carol and Reggie Sumner, both 61, from their St. Nicholas home in 2005 and drove them to Charlton County, Ga., where they were buried alive.

Michael James Jackson, 27, the mastermind of the murder plot, and Cole’s boyfriend, Alan Lyndell Wade, 27, are also on Death Row. A fourth participant, 27-year-old Bruce Nixon, testified against the others and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for second-degree murder

They were arrested in Charleston, S.C., a week after the Sumners disappeared. Police found Jackson with the couple’s ATM cards and personal information.

In court filings attorney Wayne Henderson, who’s representing Cole on appeal, argues that defense lawyers Quentin Till and Greg Messore did a poor job during both the criminal trial and the sentencing phase of Cole’s case. Oral arguments in Cole’s appeal will occur Thursday.

Henderson argued that Till, the lead lawyer, expected to reach a plea deal for Cole and was unprepared for trial when Cole rejected the state’s offer.

Tiffany Cole didn’t believe she was guilty of first-degree murder because she didn’t personally kill the Sumners, saying that she did not “bury the bodies and therefore was not guilty.” But under Florida law someone who participates in a crime can be found equally culpable for a murder even if they didn’t pull the trigger or directly cause the death.

Henderson also argues that Messore, who handled the penalty phase, was unprepared because he didn’t join the case until a month before Cole’s trial began and was only properly certified to be a lawyer in death-penalty cases days before Cole’s trial began.

“Cole’s appointed trial counsel was ineffective in both the guilt and penalty phases for failing to adequately investigate her background and psychological deficiency in order to show that she was under extreme duress and effectively under the control of her co-defendants during the time of the offense,” Henderson said. “Had trial counsel sufficiently investigated Cole’s psychological makeup and history, they would have discovered that Cole does not interact well with men and is generally fearful, intimidated and willing to please.”

Till and Messore never investigated Cole’s mental-health or dysfunctional family history and substance-abuse problems. During the penalty phase, the jury heard nothing about Cole’s low intelligence level and mental health.

Tiffany Cole was an abused child who started running away at 12. She left home as a teenager and turned to drugs and prostitution, Henderson said.

Cole’s lawyers also didn’t object to evidence that had been seized in the case or make a motion to suppress statements Cole made after she was arrested. Till has acknowledged that he made a tactical decision to use Cole’s statements because he believed they supported their contention that she was a minor participant in the crime and a good person who got caught up with bad men.

But a large amount of the information introduced at trial, including that the Sumners’ strongbox was found in Cole’s car, hurt Cole and letting it in had no strategic benefit, Henderson said.

But prosecutors respond by saying that Till and Messore put on a solid defense.

Assistant Deputy Attorney General Carolyn Snurkowski, in filings to the Supreme Court, argues that Till did look into Cole’s mental health but decided the best defense would be to portray Cole as a non-violent good person who exhibited aberrant behavior after getting involved with Jackson.

Till believed that bringing out the bad parts of Cole’s life would not help her with the jury and preferred they not know that she’d been a prostitute and dealt drugs, Snurkowski said.

During a hearing to throw out the conviction, Till also testified that the strategy in the guilt phase was to show that Cole’s participation was marginal, she was not involved in the killings and didn’t know that the Sumners were going to be killed.

Till also said during that hearing that Cole had admitted to him that she had a bigger role in the kidnapping and murder than she’d previously said, Snurkowski said.

Till and Messore could not be reached for comment.

The Florida Supreme Court previously affirmed Cole’s death sentence in 2010. It did disagree with Weatherby’s finding that Cole’s behavior in the killing was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel because Cole didn’t bury them alive herself, but the court found that error didn’t justify setting aside the conviction or death sentence.

This second appeal occurred after Henderson moved to throw out the original conviction, and Weatherby denied the motion.

Tiffany Cole was the only one of the four who knew the Sumners. At one point the couple were friends and neighbors with Cole’s father in South Carolina, and they had sold a car to Cole and told her she was welcome at their house if she was ever in Jacksonville.

The plan to rob and murder the Sumners evolved from knowledge Cole had about the couple.

There are 394 people on Death Row and five of them are women. Two women are black and the other two are Hispanic.

It is unclear how long it will take the Supreme Court to rule on Cole’s appeal. But death-penalty appeals usually take months to decide after oral arguments occur.

https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20150503/NEWS/801244522

Valessa Robinson Teen Killer Murders Mother

Valessa Robinson was just fifteen years old when she took part in her mothers murder. According to court documents Valessa began dating a much older teen named Adam Davis who was already a convicted felon by the time he was eighteen years old. Needless to say Valessa’s mother was not happy and tried to get her daughter to end the relationship however instead of leaving Adam Davis the young couple planned a murder.

On the night of the murder Valessa, Adam and another teen named Jon Whispel were high on LSD when they attacked Valessa’s mother. The trio attempted to murder the woman in several different ways from injecting bleach into her veins. In the end the woman was stabbed multiple times causing her death. The victim’s body was shoved into a garbage can. The trio would steal the woman’s van and leave the Tampa Bay Florida area

Soon the trio would attract attention and would be stopped by police in Texas following a brief chase. Initially the police thought that Valessa had no role in her mother’s brutal murder however that would soon change. In the end the trio would be sent back to Florida to stand trial. Valessa and Jon were given long prison sentences, This teen killer was released in 2015 after serving nearly fifteen years. Whispel is due to be released this year. Adam Davis who confessed to murdering Valessa’s mother was sentenced to death and remains on Florida death row.

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Nearly two decades after taking part in her mother’s murder, Valessa Robinson is now a mother herself, according to public photos posted on her Facebook page.

In her profile picture, dated late September 2015, Robinson is showing off her new baby boy.

Robinson, now 32, was released from prison in 2013 after serving 13 years of her 20-year sentence. She was convicted of third-degree murder in the 1998 murder of her mother, Vicki Robinson, a 49-year-old real estate agent and a single mother of two.

Vicki Robinson vanished from her Carrollwood home on June 27, 1998, after Valessa Robinson, then 15, her boyfriend Adam Davis and friend Jon Whispel plotted the mother’s death.

The trio took LSD before Davis, now on Florida’s death row, injected Vicki Robinson with bleach and stabbed her to death.

Robinson’s Facebook says she’s in a relationship with Hunter Markarian. They live in South Florida.

Markarian’s Facebook page shows public photos of the baby playing with his own feet earlier this week. Friends of the couple commented on the photos calling the baby a “cutie.” The child appears to have been born in August.

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Jon Whispel, who charged with assisting in the 1998 murder of Vicki Robinson has been released, the Florida Department of Corrections has confirmed.

He was released on Thursday.

Robinson’s murder in 1998 shocked Carrollwood and the Tampa Bay area. The crime also gained national attention.

Adam Davis, Robinson’s daughter, Valessa and Whispel plotted to kill Robinson. At the time, Davis was 19 and Valessa was 15.

Investigators said they killed Vicki because she didn’t approve of Valessa’s relationship and was planning to send her daughter to a Christian reform school.

Authorities found the three teens injected Vicki with bleach, stabbed her and stuffed her body in a garbage can.

Davis was put on death row. Whispel was sentenced to 25 years and was originally set to be released in 2020. Valessa was released from Homestead Correctional Institution in 2013.

In June 2017, Davis’ sentence was vacated after his requests under the 2016 Hurst v. Florida ruling.

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DC Number:	145267
Name:	DAVIS, ADAM W
Race:	WHITE
Sex:	MALE
Birth Date:	12/10/1978
Initial Receipt Date:	01/04/2000
Current Facility:	UNION C.I.
Current Custody:	MAXIMUM
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