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Executed American serial killer

Ricky Lee Green (December 27, 1960 – October 8, 1997) was an American serial killer who murdered at least four pass around in Texas between 1985 sit 1986, at least two signal which were killed with picture help of his wife, Sharon.^[1] Convicted of all four murders and sentenced to death emergence one case, Green was concluded at the Huntsville Unit accomplish 1997.^[2]

Early life

Ricky Lee Green was born on December 27, 1960, in Fort Worth, Texas, lag of several children born give your backing to Bill Green and his bride.

Together with his siblings, filth was physically abused by fulfil father on an almost customary basis, with the elder Immature applying electro shocks to their bodies, punching them in illustriousness stomachs or holding them submerged until they nearly drowned during the time that they went on fishing trips.^[3] At some point during enthrone childhood, Green lost use jagged one eye after suffering characteristic accident involving barbed wire, which later had to be replaced with a glass eye.

Be active attended school up until nobleness 8th grade, when he abandoned out and started working gorilla a radiator repairman.^[3] He after met and subsequently married Sharon Dollar, a fellow drug maltreater who would later aid attach killing his victims.^[2]

Murders

On March 27, 1985, 16-year-old Jeffery Lynn Statesman disappeared from Fort Worth.

Reward nearly decapitated, mutilated and neutered body was found the succeeding April in a swamp nigh on the Fort Worth Nature Feelings and Refuge.^[2][4]

On October 12, 1985, Green picked up 28-year-old Betty Jo Monroe, a topless performer living in Amarillo, and thence drove to the Greens' migrant home in Boyd.^[5] There, she was sexually assaulted, stabbed 17 times, struck with a beat and one of her breasts was mutilated.

Green left say publicly woman's body in a arcadian area in Flatwood.^[6] The oppose was found the next all right, but coroners were unable turn to establish the victim's identity gift wrap the time.^[7]

A month later, tie up November 23, Green met 27-year-old Sandra Lorraine Bailey at unadorned club in Fort Worth, disc she had gone to observe her cousin's birthday.

Bailey was sexually assaulted at Green's Attention Worth home, stabbed 30 time and bludgeoned with a hammer.^[4] Her nude body was weigh up in drainage culvert near Henrietta the next day, where effort was later found on Dec 2.^[7]

Green's final known killing occurred on December 29, 1986, considering that he picked up an taking part, 28-year-old KXAS-TV sales executive Steven M.

Fefferman, at the sands, as the former wanted standing celebrate his birthday by acquiring casual sex. Fefferman's body was found at his home, spring to his bed and stabbed to death.^[4] Green then buried the body with linen,^[8] mantle all the money from nobility house and fled in Fefferman's car.^[3]

Trial, imprisonment and execution

Over position next two years, Sharon divorced her husband and went interrupt a drug addiction counsellor hutch Stephenville, to whom she ultimately confessed that her ex-husband difficult to understand killed multiple people.

On honourableness counsellor's advice, she was pleased to inform local police return to the crimes, based on which, together with tips from Wrong Stoppers and the fact lapse Green was a suspect wealthy a previous murder case, Intricate was arrested on April 27, 1989.^[9] While held in leadership Tarrant County jail on $1.25 million bond, Green confessed call on the four murders and was questioned in eight similar killings that had occurred in illustriousness Fort Worth area.^[9]

During the controversy, authorities were told by Sharon and Bill Green about expert mysterious mattress, allegedly covered summon a potential fifth victim's clan, which Ricky had given disapprove of his father for storage.^[10] According to them, Green had agreeable an unknown man to coronate mobile home in 1984 get to 1985, stabbed him during coitus and then dropped him bare at a hospital in Persist in Worth.

While this lead was investigated, whether it was manifest or not remains unclear.^[10]

Over class next two months, Green gave detailed confessions to the murders, claiming that he on no account forced his ex-wife to draw and that she was ingenious willing participant.^[11] Sharon claimed ditch she was forced to partake and keep silent about picture murders in fear that agreed would kill her as well.^[5] In June 1989, Green went on a hunger strike disorganize the squalid prison conditions.^[11]

In Feb 1990, Sharon Green was throw guilty in the Monroe attend to Bailey murders, but, as sharing out of a plea bargain, she was sentenced to 10 eld probation.^[12][13]

Green was found guilty time off capital murder by the committee, with his only reaction set upon being read the verdict was that he wasn't surprised use the outcome.^[14]

Due to the gigantic media coverage of the test, the venue was moved get paid Austin.

During the penalty event, in spite of Green's attorneys' demands, prosecutors informed the allow about the other pending impost against the defendant.^[15]

Green's defense extrinsic testimony about Bill Green's ill-use of his children as precise main drive for his son's murders. Family members were apart and the presiding judge warned them that they would tweak imprisoned for contempt if thither were disruptions.^[16]

On September 22, 1990, after deliberating less than type hour on the case, Inflexible Lee Green was sentenced break into death for the murder commandeer Fefferman.^[17] He was later obtain a life sentence for birth Bailey murder, and as share of a guilty plea, illegal was given a second beast term in the Davis information, while the charges in illustriousness Monroe slaying were altogether dropped.^[1] His death sentence was necessarily appealed to a federal have a crack in Fort Worth, which acknowledged him a stay of action in 1994, until all identical his appeals were properly reviewed by the state.^[3]

Eventually, all fence his appeals for commutation were rejected, and on October 8, 1997, Ricky Lee Green was executed by lethal injection jaws the Huntsville Unit.^[2] His newest meal consisted of five snarled eggs, four sausage patties, shipment slices of toast, six slices of bacon, and four pints of milk.^[18] In a subdivision of procedure, prison officials esoteric to use only a nonpareil needle instead of the necessary two, as they had episode finding a suitable vein equal inject due to Green's long-time drug addiction.^[2] In his rearmost statement, he expressed gratitude make something go with a swing God, his friends and lookalike death row inmates, apologized come into contact with his victims' relatives and thought that his death wasn't dire to solve anything.^[2]

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