Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Elmer Wayne Henley Texas

Status: Incarcerated


Frank Aguirre
Elmer Wayne Henley is a serial killer in the United States. They were active from 1970–1973 . They currently have 6 victims, though they are suspected of 6 . According to Wikipedia, Crimes referred to as the "Houston Mass Murders" . According to Wiki,
Houston Mass Murders in which a minimum of 28 teenage boys and young men were abducted, tortured, raped and murdered by Dean Corll between 1970 and 1973. Henley and David Owen Brooks (Corll's other teenage accomplice), together and individually, lured many of the victims to Corll's home. Henley, then 17 years old, shot Corll to death on August 8, 1973

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to life imprisonment .

Marty Ray Jones
His appeal includes:
On December 17, 1973, approximately four months after appellant was indicted by the Harris County grand jury for six of the highly publicized mass, homosexual rape and torture murders, Honorable William M. Hatten, Judge of the 176th District Court, Harris County, commenced hearings on appellant's numerous pretrial motions in Cause No. 198,892. Appellant did not file a *68 motion for change of venue from Harris County but filed a motion for continuance asserting that "Because of the massive dissemination of potentially prejudicial material by all elements of the news media .. the defendant cannot obtain a fair trial at this time." Finding "too great a prejudice" existing against appellant in Harris County and all adjoining counties, Judge Hatten on his own motion[1] ordered a change of venue in Cause No. 198,892.[2] Judge Hatten transferred the case to the 175th Judicial District in San Antonio, Bexar County, where it was assigned No. 74CR-424.

Dean Corll
Honorable Preston H. Dial, Judge of the 175th District Court began pretrial hearings on April 8,
1974. The following day appellant filed a motion for change of venue in compliance with Article 31.03, V.A.C.C.P. Appellant's motion was supported by his sworn affidavit and sworn affidavits of nine Bexar County citizens, all of which asserted that "there does in fact exist in said Bexar County, Texas so great a prejudice against him that the said ELMER WAYNE HENLEY, JR., Defendant, cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial of said cause in said County." On April 22, 1974, following the State's filing of four sworn affidaits controverting appellant's motion for change of venue,[3] the trial court advised appellant that:

Victim

His victims include six t.eenage boys he lured to the home to be killed. Henley was found guilty and sentenced to six consecutive 99-year terms of imprisonment. The.ir names were Frank Aguirre, Johnny Delone, Billy Ray Larence, Homer Garcia, Charles Cobble, Marty Ray Jones, and Dean Arnold Corll

Links
Elmer Wayne Henley Wiki
Teenager Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. Aided One Of History’s Worst Serial Killers — Before Shooting Him To Death

 

You can write to Elmer Wayne Henley at:

Elmer Wayne Henley 241618
Michael Unit 
2664 Farm to Market Road 2054
Tennessee Colony, TX 75886



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Monday, February 3, 2020

Ronald Jeffrey Prible Jr. Texas

Ronald Jeffrey Prible Jr.was sentenced to death in the state of Texas for the murders of Esteban "Steve" Herrera, 29; his fiancee, Nilda Tirado, 24, and their daughters Rachel, 7; Valerie, 7, and Jade, 22-month-old via gun shots and fire.

His appeal includes: Gregory Francisco, who lived across the street from Steve Herrera, testified that he saw Steve in his driveway with two of his children at 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. on April 23.   At 9:00 or 9:30 p.m., he noticed that Steve's garage door was lowered to shoulder-level and that there were people inside the garage listening to music.   Some vehicles were parked in front of the house, including a white car that looked like a Ford Escort.   He went to bed at about 12:30 a.m. When he went outside at approximately 6:00 a.m. the next morning, Steve's garage door was lowered and he saw smoke and heard loud music coming from the house.   No one answered the front door when Francisco and his wife rang the doorbell, so they tried to enter the house through the side door to the garage.   The door was hot, and there was smoke coming out from under it.   Francisco kicked the door open and saw Steve lying face-down in a pool of blood inside the garage, so he told his wife to call 911.   Firefighters arrived shortly thereafter and found Nilda's badly burned body on a couch in the living room.   The fire was confined to the couch area and was merely smoldering at the time, but the house was filled with smoke.   Firefighters also discovered the bodies of Steve's seven-year-old daughter, Valerie Herrera, and Nilda's seven-year-old daughter, Rachel Elizabeth Cumpian, in one bedroom, and the body of Steve and Nilda's twenty-two-month-old daughter, Jade Herrera, in the master bedroom.   The children's bodies were covered in soot, and they appeared to have died from smoke asphyxiation.



You can write to Ronald Jeffrey Prible Jr. at:

Ronald Jeffrey Prible Jr.  999433   
​Polunsky Unit
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, TX 77351

David Leonard Wood Texas

Desiree Wheatley
David Leonard Wood is incarcerated in texas for the murder of Desire Wheatley. According to the El Paso Times, By numerous accounts, Desiree got into a tan-colored truck driven by David Leonard Wood. The then-29-year-old man — an ex-convict who had served time on several rape charges — is believed to have offered the young girl a ride home. That was on June 2, 1987. And it was the last time Desiree was seen alive.

According to his appeal,  David Leonard Wood was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering six young women in 1987.  His direct, state habeas and federal habeas appeals were all denied.    Shortly  before  his  execution  date  in  2009,  Wood  filed  a  subsequent  state habeas  application  arguing  thathe  is  intellectually  disabled.    The  Texas  Court  of Criminal Appeals (CCA) stayed Wood’s execution and remanded the case to the trial court  for  a  hearing  pursuant  to Atkins  v.  Virginia, 536  U.S.  304  (2002).At  the hearing, Wood presented only three lay witnesses to support his claim and no expert testimony.  The State, on the other hand, presented an expert who interviewed and extensively tested Wood and concluded that heis not intellectually disabled, as well asadditional evidence and lay testimony supporting that conclusion.  The trial courtfoundthat Wood is not intellectually disabled because he failed to show sub-average intellectual  functioning  or  adaptive  deficits  with  onset  prior  to  age  eighteen.    The CCA adopted the trial court’s findings.


You can write to David Leonard Wood  at:

David Leonard Wood     999051  
Polunsky Unit
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, TX 77351














Charles Albright Texas

Charles Albright is accused of three murders, though only sentenced for one in the state of Texas.

His victims include: Mary Lou Pratt, Susan Beth Peterson, and Shirley Williams. He was convicted of Shirley's murder. His story has been featured on "See No Evil".

View the Texas monthly article on him here. The article includes Throughout his life, Albright had been described by many who knew him as the portrait of happiness, untroubled and troubling no one. He was, they said, a kind of Renaissance man – fluent in French and Spanish, a masterful painter, able to woo women by playing Chopin preludes on the piano or reciting poetry by Keats. It was simply impossible to believe that he could have viciously murdered three Dallas prostitutes in late 1990 and early 1991. The person who should have been arrested, Albright’s friends and lawyers insisted, was Axton Schindler, a paranoid, fast-talking truck driver who lived in one of Albright’s rental homes. The evidence pointed to him, they claimed, not to their beloved Charles Albright. Perhaps Albright was a touch eccentric, but he was certainly harmless; he was even squeamish when it came to violence.



You can write to Charles Albright at

Charles Albright   606168  
Montford Unit
8602 Peach Street
Lubbock, TX 79404




Thursday, January 9, 2020

Robert Ben Rhoades Texas, Illinois

Status: Incarcerated


Patricia Candace Walsh
Robert Ben Rhoades is a serial killer in the United States. He was active from 1975–1990 . he currently has 3 victims, though he is suspected of 50+ . According to Wikipedia,  he is known as the "Truck Stop Killer" .

This happened primarily in Texas, and Illinois. He was sentenced to life imprisonment .

His appeal includes:
The grand jury also heard evidence that defendant was arrested in Arizona when a state trooper stopped to check on defendant's tractor-trailer, which was parked along the side of a highway, and noticed a nude woman handcuffed and chained to the sleeper of defendant's tractor-trailer.   When the officer shined a light into the truck, the woman started screaming, and defendant got out of the truck.   Regina K. Walters' notebook was found in defendant's truck.

The grand jury heard evidence that a search warrant was issued for defendant's residence in Houston, Texas.   The search produced numerous items of women's clothing, numerous obscene magazines and books, and instruments that could be used in bondage-type situations. The search also produced photographs of nude women, one of whom was Regina K. Walters.   Some of the clothing that was found resembled the clothing worn by Walters in other photographs found in defendant's apartment.   Other photographs showed Walters in defendant's truck and in front of the barn where her body was found.

Victims

Regina Kay Walters

You can write to Robert Ben Rhoades at:

Robert Ben Rhoades B24683
​Menard Correctional Center
P.O. Box 1000
Menard, IL 62259




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Friday, January 3, 2020

Faryion Wardrip Texas

Tina Elizabeth Kimbrew

Status: Incarcerated, Condemned


Faryion Wardrip is a serial killer in the United States. Hr was active from 1984–1986 . He currently has 5 victims, though he is suspected of 5 . According to Wikipedia, his death sentence currently under appeal .

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to death .

His appeal includes:

Terry Sims
Toni Gibbs
Appellant acknowledges that we have repeatedly declined to conduct a factual sufficiency review of the future dangerousness special issue.  McGinn v. State, 961 S.W.2d 161, 169 (Tex.Crim.App.), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 967, 119 S.Ct. 414, 142 L.Ed.2d 336 (U.S.1998).   When reviewing the
future dangerousness special issue, we have employed the legal sufficiency standard set forth in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).  McGinn, 961 S.W.2d at 169.   We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict and determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that there is a probability that appellant would commit criminal acts of violence constituting a continuing threat to society.  Jackson, 443 U.S. at 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781;  Chambers v. State, 866 S.W.2d 9, 16-17 (Tex.Crim.App.1993), cert. denied, 511 U.S. 1100, 114 S.Ct. 1871, 128 L.Ed.2d 491 (1994).

Debra Taylor
Ellen Blau
In McGinn, we stated that “future dangerousness is, in essence, an issue of 2  961 S.W.2d at 168.   We explained:  “Findings of historical fact are either right or wrong at the time of trial.   But, predictions are not right or wrong at the time of trial-they may be shown as accurate or inaccurate only by subsequent events.”  Id. We held that a Clewis review of the future dangerousness issue is impossible because it would require us to assign some evidence mitigating value and to substitute our judgment for that of the jury.  Id. We concluded that the Jackson standard should instead be used because it views the evidence in the light that supports the jury's verdict and asks only whether circumstances are present that a rational person somewhere could find a probability of future dangerousness beyond a reasonable doubt.  Id.
prediction,” as opposed to “an issue of historical fact.” 


Victims

His victims include: Terry Lee Sims, Toni Jean Gibbs, Debra Taylor, Ellen Blau, and Tina Elizabeth Kimbrew

You can write to Faryion Wardrip at:

Faryion Wardrip 999331
Polunsky Unit 
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, TX 7735





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Juan Segundo Texas

Status: Incarcerated, Condemned


Juan Segundo is a serial killer in the United States. He was  active from 1986–1995 . He currently has 4 victims, though he is suspected of 7+ . According to Wikipedia, .

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to death .

His appeal includes:

Vanessa lived with her mother, Rosa Clark, her one-year-old brother, Enrique, her aunt, Alicia Avila, and her aunt's three children in a small house in northwest Fort Worth. On August 2, 1986, Vanessa came home at about 5-6 p.m. after working at a flea market. She fell asleep, fully clothed, in the bedroom that she shared with her mother and baby brother. At about 10 p.m., her mother and aunt left to run some errands. When they returned an hour later, Rosa went into her bedroom, and she "hollered" to Alicia. When Alicia came into the bedroom, she saw a comatose Vanessa lying on the bed. Her blouse and bra were pushed up, she was naked from the waist down, and her bare legs were slightly separated. The window fan was on a bedroom chair and the window screen was hanging loose. Alicia saw what she thought was semen on Vanessa's legs.

Vanessa Villa
They called the police. Vanessa was taken to the hospital, but she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. According to the medical examiner, the cause of her death was manual strangulation. Vanessa also had abrasions and bruises on her face consistent with a hand pushing down on her mouth and nose. There was muddy debris on her thighs, consistent with a hand grabbing her thigh, abrasions on her left breast, and a bruise on her right arm. She had a "huge tear" on the back wall of her vagina, and there was blood around her external genitalia. The medical examiner thought that these injuries were "perimortem"-caused right around the time she died. Sperm was found on the bedspread, the fitted sheet she was lying on, and in Vanessa's vagina. The medical examiner agreed that sperm can remain in the vaginal vault for anywhere from 48-72 hours.


Victims

His victims include:  Vanessa Villa, Melissa Badillo, Francis Williams, and Maria Reyna Navarro

You can write to Juan Segundo at:

Juan Segundo 999520
Polunsky Unit 
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, TX 7735






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Kimberly Clark Saenz Texas

Status: Incarcerated


Kimberly Clark Saenz is a serial killer in the United States. She was active in 2008 . She currently has 5 victims, though they are suspected of 10+ . According to Wikipedia, she killed five patients by injecting bleach into their dialysis lines .

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to life imprisonment .

Her appeal includes:

During April 2008, five patients died and at least five patients suffered episodes of unexplained illnesses and cardiac arrest while undergoing dialysis treatment at the DaVita Healthcare Dialysis Clinic.   Appellant Kimberly Saenz, a licensed vocational nurse employed at the dialysis clinic, was charged by indictment with five counts of aggravated assault involving five separate individuals and one count of capital murder also involving five different individuals.   A jury found Saenz guilty of capital murder and three counts of aggravated assault and acquitted Saenz on two counts of aggravated assault.   The jury sentenced Saenz to twenty-years' imprisonment in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for each count of aggravated assault and to life in prison without parole for capital murder.

On January 22, 2014, this court overruled each of Saenz's twenty-one issues on appeal and affirmed the trial court's judgment.   On December 10, 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed this court's holding regarding the jury charge and remanded this matter for an egregious harm analysis under Almanza v. State, 686 S.W.2d 157, 171 (Tex.Crim.App.1985) (op. on reh'g).   Saenz v. State, 451 S.W.3d 388, 392 (Tex.Crim.App.2014).   Although both the jury charge and argument of counsel weigh in favor of egregious harm, we conclude the state of the evidence and the record as a whole substantially support a finding of guilt with regard to each of the five capital murder victims.   Accordingly, we hold the record does not establish egregious harm, and we affirm the trial court's judgment.

Victims

Her victims include five patients at the Davita Dialysis Center where she worked.

You can write to Kimberly Clark Saenz at:

Kimberly Clark Saenz 1775033
Mountain View Unit 
2305 Ransom Road
Gatesville, TX 76528






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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Jack Reeves Texas

Status: Incarcerated


Jack Reeves is a serial killer in the United States. He was active from 1967–1994 . He currently has 4 victims, though he is only suspected of 4 . According to Wikipedia, he killed his three wives after they planned to leave him; also killed a man while stationed in Italy .

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to 99 years imprisonment .

His appeal includes:
On July 20, 1978, Sharon Reeves died of a single shotgun blast to the chest. At the time, her death was ruled a suicide. However, on March 30, 1995, the Coryell County grand jury indicted Jack Reeves, her husband, for murder. After a five day trial, a jury convicted him and assessed punishment of thirty-five years' incarceration. Reeves appeals from the judgment, claiming, first, that the evidence is both legally and factually insufficient to support the jury's verdict; second, that the court erred in failing to dismiss the indictment because the State had not preserved Sharon's alleged suicide note; and, finally, that the court erred in failing to instruct the jury that it could infer that the facts in the note were contrary to the State's interest due to State's failure to preserve the note. We affirm.

Sharon DeLane Vaughn Reeves

Victims

His victims include:  Sharon DeLane Vaughn Reeves, Emelita Reeves, Myong Reeves.

You can write to Jack Reeves at:

Jack Reeves 739133
Wallace Pack Unit
2400 Wallace Pack Road
Navasota, TX 77868





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Genene Jones Texas

Status: Paroled


Rolando Santos
Genene Jones is a serial killer in the United States. They were active from 1977–1982 . They currently have 2 victims, though they are suspected of 60+ . According to Wikipedia, Genene Jones was a Texas pediatric nurse who poisoned infants in her care; was due to be released March 2018; however, prosecutors charged her with two additional murders .

According to My San Antonio,  A judge Wednesday denied a motion to return personal property, including a Bible, to convicted child killer Genene Jones, who is accused in five deaths of San Antonio children in the 1980s.

Jones, 68, worked in the pediatric intensive care unit of what was later University Hospital in the early 1980s. She was convicted of murder in 1984 for killing Chelsea McClellan, 15 months, by injecting the toddler with a fatal dose of a muscle relaxer while the nurse worked in Kerr County. She was sentenced to 99 years in that case and received 60 years for a similar attempt on a San Antonio child who survived

This happened primarily in Texas. He was sentenced to Sentenced to 99 years in prison .

His appeal includes: Appellant was convicted, in a jury trial, of the offense of murder and sentenced to 99 years. She brings nine grounds of error: the trial court erred in denying the requested instruction on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter; it erred in overruling appellant's motion to suppress results of tests performed on the body of the deceased; the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction because the State failed to prove that appellant committed an act clearly dangerous to human life; the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction because the State failed to prove the "corpus delecti" of the offense; and the court erred in admitting evidence of five extraneous transactions. We will overrule all of appellant's grounds of error and affirm the judgment of conviction.

Victims

Chelsea McClellan
Her victims include:  Chelsea McClellan and Rolando Santos

You can not write to Genene Jones as she has been released due to prison overcrowding. She will not have access to nursing and is quite elderly.







Videos are included when possible. Victim name links are to memorials or grave sites, while links on the killer's names are to their full appeal or articles that are of particular interest. If you are familiar with this inmate or the victim or the victim's family, feel free to comment below. Comments will not be censored (unless they are spam).