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William Kessler Sapp (born William Kessler Lilly; March 22, 1962) is an American serial killer and rapist who committed the murders of three women and girls in Springfield, Ohio, in 1992 and 1993, the attempted murder of another, and a possible fourth murder in Florida. Sapp was detained for the murders only in 1996, after already being ...
Dillon was born in Canton, Ohio and was a resident of nearby Magnolia. He had a wife and son and was employed for twelve years as a draftsman at the Canton Ohio Waterworks. He graduated in 1972 from Ohio State University in journalism. [5] Between the period of April 1, 1989 to April 5, 1992, Dillon shot and killed five people in Ohio.
American author John Peyton Cooke wrote a fictionalized account of the murders in his novel Torsos, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for 1993, [49] [50] [51] and was noted by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review for its atmospheric depiction of Cleveland, Ohio, during the Great Depression ...
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In 2018, a book covering the real-life details of the 1992 Dayton Christmas murders, titled The Christmas Killings: 40 Hours to Justice: Black and White, was published by the Dayton Police History Foundation and co-authored by Stephen C. Grismer, Judith M. Monseur and Dennis A. Murphy. [59] [60]
The case is described in the book Sin, Shame, And Secrets: The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church by Toledo journalist David Yonke [4] and in the "Alphabet of 'New' Evil" included in The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime by Dr. Michael H. Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato.
Prosecutors in Franklin County, Ohio (where Columbus is located) also considered bringing charges of murder and attempted murder against Swango, but they decided against it for lack of physical evidence. [2] In 1989, Swango was released from prison. He worked as a counselor at the state career development center in Newport News, Virginia ...
Arthur won Mrs. Ohio in 1989 then went on to represent her state in the 1990 Mrs. America contest. [3] Arthur's 36-year-old husband, James Alan Arthur, was the victim of a murder-suicide by a fan named James Lindberg on October 29, 1991. Lindberg shot and killed him on a street in Bellefontaine, Ohio, where the family lived, and then killed ...