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Robert Lee Willie (January 2, 1958 – December 28, 1984) was an American serial killer who killed at least three people in Louisiana from the late 1970s to 1980. He was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Faith Hathaway and was executed in 1984.
In the film, Sister Helen Prejean (Sarandon) establishes a special relationship with Matthew Poncelet (Penn), a character based on convicted murderers Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie. He is a prisoner on death row in Louisiana, and she visits him as his spiritual adviser after corresponding with him.
Sister Helen Prejean published a book, Dead Man Walking (1993), about her relationship with Elmo Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, another inmate on death row whom she counseled. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name directed by Tim Robbins and starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean and Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet, an amalgam ...
THE FINAL SCENE. 1993. A clearing in the woods near Chicago, sun shining, puffy clouds. Robert Downey Jr., twenty-seven years old, just a few months past his Best Actor Academy Award nomination ...
For her book, she drew from her experiences with Sonnier and with the convict Robert Lee Willie. He had been sentenced to death after being convicted of kidnapping and murder in two attacks in May 1980. [7] Prejean also explored the effects that conducting the death penalty has on attorneys, prison guards, other prison officials, and the ...
Pleaded guilty along with Robert Lee Willie in 1980 to kidnapping a young couple in Louisiana, repeatedly raping the female victim. The two were also convicted of an unrelated state murder charge. Vaccaro was sentenced to life in prison and Willie was executed in 1984. Isaac Jackson Hurt: Unlisted Paroled in 1977. Died in 1984.
Mary Lee Peters 5 Earnest Knighton Jr. Black 38 M October 30, 1984 Bossier: Ralph Shell 6 Robert Lee Willie: White 26 M December 28, 1984 St. Tammany: Faith Hathaway 7 David Dene Martin: White 32 M January 4, 1985 Terrebonne: 4 murder victims [b] 8 Benjamin A. Berry: White 31 M June 7, 1987 Jefferson: Jefferson Parish Deputy Sheriff Robert ...
A San Francisco jury has convicted a tech entrepreneur on charges of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Bob Lee, the founder of mobile payment service Cash App. Nima Momeni, 40, faces a ...