Dean Carter

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Dean Phillip Carter (born August 30, 1955 in Alaska ) is an American serial killer .

Life

His mother was half- Eskimo , the father is unknown. Carter spent his childhood in nursing homes. At the age of twelve he became a criminal offender for the first time and was sentenced several times as a teenager and as an adult for burglary and car theft. Carter worked for television in Alaska and went to California in the early 1980s to try his luck as a freelance cameraman .

In March 1984, he tortured, raped and murdered five women in a matter of days. All of Carter's victims came from his circle of acquaintances or friends, including two women he raped who survived his attack three weeks before his first murders. His approach was always the same, mostly he ambushed or ambushed the victims in their homes. He threatened her with a knife and tied her hands and feet. He sexually abused some women before strangling them to death . He also mutilated one of his victims, so that the cause of death could no longer be precisely clarified. He then hid the bodies in a closet so that they would not be discovered immediately and stole everything that was of value to him.

Carter drove some of the victims' stolen cars to the nearest crime scene , where the police were later able to secure the vehicles in the vicinity of the crime scene. The murders occurred between April 10 and April 14, 1984 in California, the Los Angeles , Oakland and San Diego areas , which shows the pace at which Carter moved in the few days since the scenes were several hundred miles apart.

On April 17, 1984, Carter was stopped and checked on Interstate 40 in northern Arizona by Highway Officer Robert Dapser due to his lurching driving style. A truck driver had previously reported to the officer via radio that Carter had almost touched his truck twice while attempting to overtake. During the inspection, Carter was unable to identify himself correctly or to hand the officer the vehicle documents belonging to his Datsun 280ZX . After the officer thought he could spot a burnt marijuana cigarette in the car's ashtray, he secured Carter in his patrol car to search the vehicle more closely. Inside the car were items of clothing, a fuel card, kitchen knife, keychain and a note with an access code to the bank account from the possession of his victims. The car Carter was driving in was identified as that of Jillette Mills, one of his victims. Mills was found dead in their apartment with her roommate Susan Knoll on April 12, 1984. Carter was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.78 per mille 80 minutes after he was stopped.

Dean Carter alleged in the two trials against him that he was innocent. The California Supreme Court found traces of semen in three of his murder victims. He also left a bloody palm print on a victim's home and there is a surveillance video dated April 13, 1984 of an ATM showing Carter ransacking a victim's bank account. He was sentenced to death for quadruple murder and rape . One case was dropped because it had previously been sentenced to death . There is a suspicion that he committed more crimes. Dean Carter has been on death row in San Quentin , California, pending execution since 1985 . On a website hosted by one of his friends, he published columns in which he wrote about the situation on death row and about the American judicial system. The last entries are from 2016.

Victim

  • Jillette Mills, 25 - found April 12, 1984, Cause of Death Strangulation, Los Angeles
  • Susan Knoll, 33 - found April 12, 1984, Cause of Death Strangulation, Los Angeles
  • Bonnie Guthrie, 24 - found April 12, 1984, Causal of Strangulation, Los Angeles
  • Tok Chum Kim, 38 - found April 13, 1984, cause of death undetermined, mutilated, Oakland
  • Janette Cullins, 24 - found April 14, 1984, Causal of Strangulation, San Diego

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Newton: Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers ( English ). Loompanics Unlimited, 1990.
  2. ↑ Maura Dolan: Serial killer's lone survivor torn by conscience ( English ) Los Angeles Times. November 1, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ Michael Newton: Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers ( English ) In: Murderpedia . Breakout Productions. 1990. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Dean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, Dean Phillip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Alaska