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Reinaldo Rivera Georgia Death Row

Reinaldo Rivera was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for four murders. According to court documents Reinaldo Rivera, a serial killer, was responsible for the murders of four women between 1999 to 2000 in South Carolina and Georgia. Reinaldo Rivera would be convicted on one of the murders and sentenced to death.

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Reinaldo Rivera 2021 Information

YOB: 1963
RACE: UNKNOWN
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’10”
WEIGHT: 240
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BROWN

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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Investigators are looking into whether a South Carolina man sentenced to death for murdering an Augusta, Georgia, woman may have killed even more people.

Reinaldo Rivera is already accused of raping and killing three other people. Richmond County sheriff’s homicide investigator Wayne Bunton says it doesn’t make sense that Rivera would suddenly, in his 30s, become a serial killer.

Rivera was sentenced to death Monday after a jury found him guilty on 14 counts in the fatal attack on Fort Gordon soldier Sergeant Marni M. Glista and an assault on Chrisilee Barton.

Reinaldo Rivera of North Augusta showed no emotion when the Superior Court jury in Richmond County returned its verdict Monday after more than eight hours of deliberation. When Judge Albert Pickett asked him if he had anything to say, Rivera said only, “I’m sorry.”

On Saturday, during the sentencing portion of his trial, the 40-year-old Rivera asked the jurors to sentence him to die. He told the jury that if he had the chance, he would likely kill again. He says he still fantasizes about hurting the same girls that he killed.

Rivera also has been charged in the deaths Tabitha L. Bosdell, 18, in Richmond County, Georgia; and Melissa Dingess, 17, and Tiffaney Wilson, 17, in Aiken County, South Carolina, in 1999.

https://www.wistv.com/story/1620286/authorities-work-to-determine-if-sc-man-convicted-of-rape-murder-attack-killed-others/

Lawrence Rice Georgia Death Row

Lawrence Rice was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a double murder. According to court documents Lawrence Rice was harassing Trevor Mincher for thirteen years before the murder due to a working relationship gone bad. Lawrence Rice on the night of the murder would travel to the Mincher household, break into the home and murder Connie Mincher and her 14–year–old son, Ethan Mincher. Lawrence Rice who was seen in the area was shortly arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Lawrence Rice 2021 Information

YOB: 1949
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’00”
WEIGHT: 185
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: SLT&PEP

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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Viewed in the light most favorable to the State, the evidence presented at trial showed the following. Lawrence Rice met Trevor Mincher in or around 1990, when Rice began working at a video production company under Mr. Mincher’s supervision. Shortly afterward, another man was hired at the company, and Rice resigned in anger after he came to believe that this other man was being paid more than he was. After resigning, Rice began a 13–year course of harassing Mr. Mincher and his wife, beginning with his standing around at a convenience store near Mr. Mincher’s work and then repeatedly making unwanted telephone calls. Rice also was the likely source of a Christmas card sent to Mr. Mincher that had been altered to depict an angel with a blackened eye and blood dripping from its wings, that contained feathers and Carribean coins, and that stated that the “curse of Akbar” had been placed on Mr. Mincher and his family. Rice’s motive and plan for the crimes were most clearly demonstrated in a lengthy manuscript that he had written, titled “Culture Shock,” in which he detailed his belief that Mr. Mincher had been speaking ill of him within the video production industry and thus preventing him from finding employment, his evolving financial difficulties, and his plan to murder Mr. Mincher’s family with a hatchet if his situation did not improve.

In the days leading up to the murders, several witnesses observed Lawrence Rice in the Minchers’ neighborhood sitting in his damaged gold Mercedes and walking around. On the day of the murders, April 17, 2003, several neighbors and a school bus driver described seeing Rice’s automobile parked in the Minchers’ driveway around the time of the murders, Rice getting something out of the trunk of his automobile and going into the Minchers’ house, Ethan Mincher arriving from school and entering the house, and Rice leaving the house hurriedly in his automobile. Trevor and Connie Mincher’s daughter arrived home from school shortly after Rice was seen fleeing the scene. She observed an automobile-sized dry spot on the driveway, which, because there was drizzling rain that day, showed that Rice had only recently departed. Inside the house, Connie Mincher was lying face down on a bed with a rug over her head and was already dead. Ethan Mincher was lying face down in a large pool of blood in the kitchen, but he was still alive. Ethan Mincher died shortly afterward.

When investigators told Mr. Mincher about the gold Mercedes that had been seen at the Minchers’ house, Mr. Mincher told them about Lawrence Rice. Investigators met up with Lawrence Rice, and he admitted that he had been at the Minchers’ house around the time of the murders. However, Rice claimed that he had been at the Minchers’ house to receive money from Connie Mincher, that he had gone into the house when Ethan Mincher arrived, that a man named “Jason” had arrived later, and that he had left because “Jason” was not “cordial” to him. Contrary to Rice’s account, a number of witnesses testified at trial that the Minchers had never mentioned anything about lending money to Rice or anything about someone named “Jason.” A search of Rice’s automobile revealed a map with the Minchers’ neighborhood circled and a handgun containing one bullet. Mr. Mincher’s video-recorded deposition testimony, which was seen by the jury, confirmed other evidence of Rice’s motive, Rice’s history of harassing and threatening Mr. Mincher and his wife, and the fact that the Minchers did not know someone named “Jason.”

A paramedic testified that Ethan Mincher had duct tape over his mouth and in his hair when unsuccessful medical treatment on him was begun, and the medical examiner testified that Connie Mincher had duct tape over her mouth and around her head and neck. The medical examiner further testified as follows. Connie Mincher’s hands had been bound behind her back, and Ethan Mincher had a set of handcuffs attached to one of his wrists. Connie Mincher had a black eye, a bruise on her upper back, fractured ribs, and petechial hemorrhages in her eyes indicative of her having been asphyxiated by the duct tape that was wrapped around her neck. She had suffered at least 5 and perhaps 11 or more blows to her head with an instrument or instruments consistent with the sharp and blunt ends of a hatchet, and her skull was fractured and depressed into her brain. Ethan Mincher’s body showed signs of having been in a struggle, including bruises to his eye, cheek, lips, chin, scalp, and upper chest and abrasions to his arm and neck. Ethan Mincher’s most serious wounds, like Connie Mincher’s, were consistent with the murder weapon’s having been a hatchet. He had suffered at least two blunt force blows to his back, which broke his ribs and left a rectangular abrasion. He had also suffered multiple blunt force blows to his skull, which was fractured and depressed into his brain.

Upon our review of the record, we conclude that the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to authorize a rational trier of fact to find Rice guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on all counts. See Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). See also U.A.P. IV(B)(2) (providing that, in all death penalty cases, this Court will determine whether the verdicts are supported by the evidence).

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1614848.html

Billy Raulerson Georgia Death Row

Billy Raulerson was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for three murders. According to court documents Billy Raulerson would find the first two victims, 18-year-old Charlye Dixon and her fiance, 19-year-old Jason Hampton, at a Lover’s Lane who he would shoot and kill before sexually assaulting Dixon. Billy Raulerson would then break into the home of the third victim, Teresa Gail Taylor, 40 and would murder her as well. Billy Raulerson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Billy Raulerson 2021 Information

YOB: 1969
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’06”
WEIGHT: 210
EYE COLOR: GREEN
HAIR COLOR: RED&ABN

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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On May 31, 1993, the bodies of Jason Hampton, Charlye Dixon, and Gail Taylor were found in separate locations in Ware County. Each victim had been shot multiple times by a .22 caliber rifle, and Ms. Taylor suffered a potentially fatal knife wound to her wrist. Semen and spermatozoa were found in Ms. Dixon’s rectum. Seven months later, appellant was arrested on unrelated aggravated assault and weapons charges and gave police a blood sample. Analysis of the DNA from the blood sample and from the semen recovered from Ms. Dixon led an expert to conclude that both samples of body fluid originated from the same person. After receiving the DNA test results, law enforcement officers questioned Billy Raulerson about the three murders, and he admitted killing the three victims. When officers executed a search warrant at appellant’s residence, they found a fishing rod and reel identified as having been taken from Hampton’s pickup truck the night he was killed, and parts of a .22 caliber rifle. A ballistics expert testified that the shell casings found near Hampton’s body and in Ms. Taylor’s home were probably fired from the rifle found in appellant’s home.

In statements to investigating officers after the DNA test results were known, appellant admitted parking his car the evening of May 30, 1993, at a Ware County lakeside “lovers’ lane” near the pickup truck occupied by Hampton and Dixon. Appellant stated that he stood on the bed of the pickup truck and shot Hampton several times, and then shot Dixon as she attempted to flee. Appellant dragged Hampton’s body from the truck and shot him several more times; he then put Dixon and two fishing rods from the pickup truck in his vehicle and drove to a wooded area several miles away where he shot Dixon again and sodomized her. His attempt to return to Dixon’s body the next day was thwarted by the presence of people at the site, so he drove to a rural section of the county looking for a house to burglarize. He stopped at a home with no vehicle in the carport and, when no one responded to his knock at the door, Raulerson broke into a utility shed and stole meat from the freezer. As he was loading the meat into his car, he heard someone inside the house. He entered the home, struggled with Gail Taylor who was armed with a kitchen knife, and shot her multiple times. He then stole Taylor’s purse. Appellant told the officers interviewing him that he had stolen the .22 caliber rifle from a Pierce County residence he had burglarized three weeks before the shootings.

In response to expert testimony presented by appellant that tests administered after the crimes established that appellant was mentally retarded with an IQ of 69, the State presented expert testimony appellant’s IQ at age 15 (9 years earlier) was 83. The State’s psychologist opined that there was no indication that appellant was severely mentally ill.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1242332.html

Mustafa Raheem Georgia Death Row

Mustafa Raheem was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for two murders. According to court documents Mustafa Raheem was with the first victim, nineteen year old Brandon Hollis, in a remote location firing guns when Raheem would shoot Hollis in the head and proceeded to take his belongings. Mustafa Raheem then went over to Brandon Hollis mother’s home where he would shoot and kill her as well before stealing from her home. Mustafa Raheem would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Mustafa Raheem 2021 Information

YOB: 1979
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’01”
WEIGHT: 220
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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The evidence adduced at the guilt/innocence phase of Raheem’s trial showed the following. On April 2, 1999, Mustafa Raheem picked up Michael Jenkins and Dione Feltus in Raheem’s girlfriend’s blue Honda automobile. Raheem dropped Mr. Feltus off at his place of employment at 4:00 p.m., where, according to the testimony of Mr. Feltus’s manager, Mr. Feltus remained until 10:00 p.m. Raheem told Jenkins that he wanted to shoot his .380 caliber handgun. He then shot the handgun out the window of the blue Honda, explaining to Jenkins that he wanted to make sure the weapon would not jam. Raheem purchased black plastic trash bags at a grocery store and called Brandon Hollis from a nearby payphone. Raheem picked up Brandon Hollis and then drove Brandon Hollis and Jenkins to a remote location, where Raheem fired his .380 caliber handgun in the direction of a tree and handed the handgun to Jenkins. After Brandon Hollis said the handgun was too loud, Raheem took the handgun from Jenkins and began walking toward the blue Honda. As Jenkins walked some distance behind Raheem and Brandon Hollis, Raheem shot Brandon Hollis in the head. Jenkins inquired whether Brandon Hollis was dead, and Raheem replied, “ No, but he is on his way out.” Raheem then took Brandon Hollis’s watch and commented to the dying man, “I guess you ain’t going to be needing this watch no more.” Raheem also took Brandon Hollis’s keys and commented to Jenkins, “ I’m glad you didn’t run.”

After killing Brandon Hollis, Raheem drove himself and Jenkins to the home of Miriam Hollis, Brandon Hollis’s mother. Raheem opened Ms. Hollis’s door with Brandon Hollis’s key and instructed Jenkins to bring a trash bag into the home. Ms. Hollis stood to her feet as Raheem and Jenkins entered her home, and Raheem fired a shot at her but missed her. Raheem then ordered Ms. Hollis to her hands and knees and shot her in the head. Raheem placed the trash bag over Ms. Hollis’s head, got Ms. Hollis’s keys from her kitchen, placed Ms. Hollis’s body in the trunk of her white Lexus automobile, and then attempted to mop up Ms. Hollis’s blood inside the home. Raheem told Jenkins later that he previously had given Ms. Hollis money for the Lexus automobile but that she had refused to give the automobile to him.

Raheem drove with Jenkins in Ms. Hollis’s Lexus to visit Raheem’s girlfriend, Veronica Gibbs. Raheem boasted that he had a new automobile, opened the trunk to show Gibbs Ms. Hollis’s body, and informed Gibbs that he had shot the woman and a young man. Later, Raheem drove back to Ms. Hollis’s home with Jenkins and Gibbs, where they burglarized the home, stole a number of items, and retrieved Gibbs’s blue Honda. Later, Raheem changed his shoes, which had blood on them, and drove with Jenkins to dispose of Ms. Hollis’s body. The body was placed underneath planks and tires, doused with a flammable liquid, and set ablaze.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the guilt/innocence phase verdicts, the evidence adduced at the guilt/innocence phase was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Raheem was guilty of the crimes of which he was convicted. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1197247.html

Willie Pye Georgia Death Row

Willie Pye was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of a woman. According to court documents Willie Pye and two accomplices Chester Adams and Anthony Freeman, planned to rob the new boyfriend of the victim Alicia Lynn Yarbrough who use to date Pye. When the three men arrived at the home they discovered the boyfriend was not home. Willie Pye would break into the home at gunpoint and abduct the victim leaving an infant behind. The victim was brought to a motel room where she was sexually assaulted by Willie Pye. The victim was brought to a remote location where she was forced to lay down and shot three times. Willie Pye would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Willie Pye Execution Is Scheduled For March 20 2024

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Willie Pye 2021 Information

YOB: 1965
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’08”
WEIGHT: 140
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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Willie Pye had been in a sporadic romantic relationship with the victim, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough, but, at the time of her murder, Ms. Yarbrough was living with another man, Charles Puckett.

Pye and two companions, Chester Adams and Anthony Freeman, planned to rob Puckett because Pye had heard that Puckett had just collected money from the settlement of a lawsuit. Pye was also angry because Puckett had signed the birth certificate of a child whom Pye claimed as his own.

The three men drove to Griffin in Adams’ car and, in a street transaction, Pye bought a large, distinctive .22 pistol. They then went to a party where a witness observed Pye in possession of the large .22. Just before midnight, the three left the party and drove toward Puckett’s house. As they were leaving, a witness heard Pye say, “it’s time, let’s do it.” All of the men put on the ski masks which Pye had brought with him, and Pye and Adams also put on gloves.

They approached Puckett’s house on foot and observed that only Ms. Yarbrough and her baby were home. Pye tried to open a window and Ms. Yarbrough saw him and screamed. Willie Pye ran around to the front door, kicked it in, and held Ms. Yarbrough at gunpoint. After determining that there was no money in the house, they took a ring and a necklace from Ms. Yarbrough and abducted her, leaving the infant in the house.

The men drove to a nearby motel where Pye rented a room using an alias. In the motel room, the three men took turns raping Ms. Yarbrough at gunpoint. Pye was angry with Ms. Yarbrough and said, “You let Puckett sign my baby’s birth certificate.”

After attempting to eliminate their fingerprints from the motel room, the three men and Ms. Yarbrough left in Adams’ car. Willie Pye whispered in Adams’ ear and Adams turned off onto a dirt road. Pye then ordered Ms. Yarbrough out of the car, made her lie face down, and shot her three times, killing her. As they were driving away, Pye tossed the gloves, masks, and the large .22 from the car.

The police later recovered these items and found the victim’s body only a few hours after she was killed. A hair found on one of the masks was consistent with the victim’s hair, and a ballistics expert determined that there was a 90 percent probability that a bullet found in the victim’s body had been fired by the .22. Semen was found in the victim’s body and DNA taken from the semen matched Pye’s DNA. When Willie Pye talked to the police later that day, he stated that he had not seen the victim in at least two weeks. However, Freeman confessed and later testified for the State.

The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find proof of Pye’s guilt of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, rape, and burglary beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). The evidence was also sufficient to authorize the jury to find that Pye’s commission of kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, rape, and burglary were aggravating circumstances which supported his death sentence for the murder.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1292287.html