John Joubert (serial killer)

John Joseph Joubert (born July 2, 1963 in Lawrence , Massachusetts , † July 17, 1996 in Lincoln , Nebraska ) was an American serial killer .

Life

Coming from a dysfunctional background, he suffered, as the psychiatrists later found out, from obsessive-compulsive disorder , from a schizoid personality disorder and had sadistic tendencies. His parents divorced when he was 6 years old. He moved to Portland with his mother . He wasn't allowed to see his father. He was humiliated and abused by his mother. He had fantasies about violence from an early age. He discovered his sadistic tendencies at the age of 13 when he stabbed a girl with a pencil and her screams sexually aroused him. As he got older, he began to abuse younger classmates. He became a soldier and served as a radar technician at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue , Nebraska .

Murders and Procedures

He murdered three children between August 1982 and December 1983. On August 22, 1982, 11-year-old Richard "Ricky" Stetson was reported missing in Portland, Maine. His body was found the next day. An innocent man was initially arrested for this murder, but the bite marks did not match. On September 18, 1983, 13-year-old Danny Joe Eberle, a newsboy, disappeared in Bellevue, Nebraska. The body was found three days later.

The profiler Robert Ressler was involved in the investigation early on, and he then discussed this case extensively in the documentary series Serial Killer. About three months later, on December 2nd, 12-year-old Christopher Walden, also a newsboy, disappeared in the early hours of the morning in Papillion , Nebraska. His body was discovered three days later. When found, he had deep cuts on his neck and chest. All of the acts had in common that no sexual acts could be proven on the victims, but they were sexually motivated. In 1984, Joubert was arrested and confessed to the murders. Later it turned out that Ressler's predictions regarding age, sexual orientation, habits, and personal and professional environment - here it was a special rope - were correct.

Condemnation

It was not established that there was a psychosis when the offenses were committed. Joubert was sentenced to life imprisonment for the Portland murder because the state of Maine does not impose the death penalty. He received the death penalty for the murders of the newsboy. In 1995, Joubert's attorneys filed a habeas corpus in federal court ruling that the death penalty was cruel and, given his difficult childhood, constitutionally questionable. However, due to the proven sadism, this was not complied with in the second instance before a federal court. Joubert was executed on the electric chair on July 17, 1996 in Nebraska.

Documentary representation

In the documentary series Medical Detectives , episode 42 ("Handschrift Mord"), the acts of John Joubert are re-enacted on film and backed up with statements from investigators or contemporary witnesses involved.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman, Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Hunting Serial Killers for the FBI, St. Martin's Press, New York 1992. Chapter 5, Death of a Newsboy, pp. 93-112.