Around 6:30 p.m. on November 13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr entered Henry’s Bar in Amityville, Long Island, New York, and declared: “You got to help me! I think my mother and father are shot!”^[ DeFeo and a small group of people went to 112 Ocean Avenue, which was located near the bar, and found that DeFeo’s parents were dead inside the house. One of  DeFeo’s friends, Joe Yeswit, made an emergency call to the Suffolk County Police Department, who searched the house and found that six members of the family were dead in their beds.

The victims were Ronald Jr.’s parents: Ronald DeFeo Sr. (43) and Louise DeFeo (43); and his four siblings: Dawn (18), Allison (13), Marc (12), and John Matthew (9). All of the victims had been shot with a .35 caliber rifle  around three o’clock in the morning of that day. The DeFeo parents had both been shot twice, while the children had all been killed with single shots. Physical evidence suggests that Louise DeFeo and her daughter Allison were both awake at the time of their deaths.  According to Suffolk County Police, the victims were all found lying face down in bed. 

Ronald DeFeo Jr., also known as “Butch”, was the oldest son of the family and its lone surviving member. He was taken to the local police station for his own protection after suggesting to police officers at the scene of the crime that the killings had been carried out by a mob hit man. 

However, an interview at the station soon exposed serious inconsistencies in his version of events. The following day, he confessed to carrying out the killings himself; and the alleged hitman had an alibi proving he was out of state at the time of the killings. DeFeo told detectives: “Once I started, I just couldn’t stop. It went so fast” He admitted that he had taken a bath and redressed, and detailed where he had discarded crucial evidence such as blood-stained clothes and the Marlin rifle and cartridges before going to work as usual.

DeFeo’s trial began on October 14, 1975. He and his defense lawyer, William Weber, mounted a defense of insanity, with DeFeo claiming that he killed his family in self-defense because he heard their voices plotting against him. The insanity plea was supported by the psychiatrist for the defense, Daniel Schwartz. The psychiatrist for the prosecution, Dr. Harold Zolan, maintained that, although DeFeo was a user of heroin and LSD, he had antisocial personality disorder and was aware of his actions at the time of the crime.

On November 21, 1975, DeFeo was found guilty on six counts of second-degree murder. On December 4, 1975, Judge Thomas Stark sentenced DeFeo to six sentences of 25 years to life. 

There are some controversies around the murders. All six of the victims were found face down in their beds with no signs of a struggle. The police investigation concluded that the rifle had not been fitted with a sound suppressor and found evidence of sedatives having been administered. DeFeo admitted during his interrogation that he had drugged his family. 

However, the autopsy report indicated otherwise, per the doctor, “We did extensive toxicology not only on the blood and urine but on all of the organs that we removed and it turned up zero that there wasn’t anything in their body,” Dr. Adelman explained. Neighbors did not report hearing any gunshots being fired, and those who were awake at the time of the murders simply heard the family’s sheep dog, Shaggy, barking.DeFeo died on March 12, 2021, at the Albany Medical Center. Official cause of death is not told due to privacy laws. 

The Lutz family spent twenty-eight days in the home. They moved in on December 18, 1975 and fled on January 14, 1976. They moved in just over 13  months after the murders. 

George and Kathy Lutz were married in July of 1975. They moved into the home with Kathy’s 3 children: Daniel, 9, Christopher, 7, and Melissa (Missy), 5. They also had a dog named Harry. Much of the DeFeo family’s furniture was still in the house, because it was included for $400 as part of the deal. They did so because it was very good – they liked it better than their old furniture – and it was offered at a price the Lutzes felt they couldn’t refuse.

Looking back on it, this may sound strange; but remember the Lutzes were skeptical of the paranormal at the time. George considered himself a “realist”; they didn’t think the house was haunted; and no strange events had taken place yet.

It wasn’t like the furniture was soaked in blood or anything. Obviously the mattresses were ruined and were taken out of the house prior to it being on the market. George & Kathy kept their own old bed, as did the children. Apparently they bought the old bedframe that once belonged to Dawn, and moved it to Missy’s room.

A friend of George Lutz learned about the history of the house and insisted on having it blessed. At the time, George was a non-practicing Methodist and had no experience of what this would entail. Kathy was a non-practicing Catholic and explained the process. George knew a Catholic priest named Father Ray who agreed to carry out the house blessing. 

He arrived to perform the blessing while George and Kathy were unpacking their belongings on the afternoon of December 18, 1975 and went into the building to carry out the rites.  As he blessed the sewing room, he heard a very deep voice behind him saying “Get out.” Even though there was no one else in the room with him, Father Ray also felt someone slap him across the face. When leaving the house, Father Mancuso did not mention this incident to either George or Kathy.

 On December 24, 1975, Father Mancuso called George Lutz and advised him to stay out of the second floor room where he had heard the mysterious voice, the former bedroom of Marc and John Matthew DeFeo, that Kathy planned to use as a sewing room, but the call was cut short by static. Following his visit to the house, Father Mancuso allegedly developed a high fever and blisters on his hands similar to stigmata. At first George and Kathy experienced nothing unusual in the house. Talking about their experiences subsequently, they reported that it was as if they “were each living in a different house”.

It seems to be after Christmas when the family started to notice things were a bit odd. That’s when Kathy first mentioned how the noises in the house changed, becoming ugly and disturbing. She talked of scrapings, bangings, footsteps on the floors above (when the children were fast asleep).

For George, it came later. It seemed to be when Kathy first told him about being embraced from behind when she was alone in the house. George knew it wasn’t like her to be subject to hallucinations. George remembers her being very serious about explaining this experience to him, and how she found it very difficult to do so.

Did the family all experience the same thing, living in the same house? Not really. George has said each family member could see things drastically different then the person right next to them. Kathy described it as a 3-ring circus, with each ring being a separate area of the house. For instance when George would hear the “marching band” sounds from downstairs, Kathy could sleep right through it.

What did the “marching band” sound like? It has been referred to as a “marching band,” but that’s not totally accurate. George described it as “a whole bunch of musicians going – each one in their own direction, playing their own song” – like an “unorganized musical sound.” The sounds were coming from downstairs.

At first George thought it might be a clock radio that went off downstairs – perhaps tuned slightly off-station. But he could distinctly hear the sound of many feet stomping around. The floor downstairs had carpets, but the sound of the marching feet George heard sounded like they were on a hard floor, not carpet. Some people mistake this for the carpet being rolled-up.

When George got downstairs to check it out, there was nothing out of order. The sound had stopped. The carpet was in place, and Harry, their dog, was sound asleep at the foot of the front door.

George heard the front door slam during the middle of the night. It had a very distinct sound, and was very heavy, so you could hear it throughout the house. When he went down to investigate, he found their dog sound asleep at the base of the door, making it impossible for the door to have been recently opened.

George says he heard just about every door in the house slam shut at various times with no explanation.

Another weird thing was George became obsessed with keeping the fire going. He felt as if he could never get warm enough, and worried that they might not have enough firewood. This was just another personality change for George while in that house. Keeping the fire going had become the most important thing to him.

Yes, one night Kathy’s facial appearance turned into, what George referred to as, that of “a really ugly old woman.” Kathy was in a deep sleep, and George woke her. She was shocked by the look of revulsion on his face. Kathy looked at herself in the mirror and saw that her face was severely wrinkled with deep impressions under her eyes and across her forehead. Her lips were tight and drawn, and her hair had turned into a greyish white color. It took hours for this to go away.

At the time, Kathy recalled feelings of confusion and illness as she tried to understand what was happening. George can’t recall what exactly was going through his mind at that moment, besides a great feeling of revulsion; but he didn’t connect the incident right away with the house. He was trying to figure out a rational explanation for what could have caused this.

George would awaken between 3 and 3:30 am each night. Which is around the time the Defeos were murdered. 

Kathy came across the “red room” by accident one day, as she was moving furniture around in the house and setting up storage space. In the basement, she saw one particular bookshelf that she wanted to move. She was surprised to find that behind the bookshelf was the entrance to a small hidden area which was painted a bright red color. It was not as it appeared in the movies. It didn’t contain a pit of blood, and it was not behind a solid wall that George had to break down to gain access.

Nevertheless, the Lutzes found this little “red room” a bit disturbing – it wasn’t included in the diagrams of the house; it has a foul odor; and their dog, Harry, wouldn’t go near it. Normally Harry was a very curious animal, but he backed right out of the area and ran up the stairs.

Jodie was described by Missy as an angel, who could appear in many different forms. It was a friend to Missy. For some reason it appeared to Missy as a pig – either on its own, or at the request of Missy. Missy said Jodie could change size – that it could be as small as a teddy bear, or bigger than the house – and that it could not be seen by others unless it wanted them to. Kathy recalls one day in the kitchen when Missy came in and asked if angels could talk. She said there was an angel living in her bedroom. At first Kathy thought nothing of Missy having an imaginary friend – her sons also had imaginary friends in the past – but when Missy asked if angels could talk, and when Missy told her parents that Jodie said they would live there forever, George and Kathy were concerned. That didn’t seem a normal thing for a little 5 year old girl to say.

Danny’s hands were crushed by a window in the sewing room. His hands were literally deformed – they were flat. As they were about to leave for the hospital, they looked at his hands again and they appeared fine. It was almost like the house didn’t want them to leave, which is a conclusion they arrived at much later.

By mid-January 1976, after another attempt at a house blessing by George and Kathy, they experienced what would turn out to be their final night in the house. The Lutzes declined to give a full account of the events that took place on this occasion, describing them as “too frightening”.

But they did talk about the levitation. On their last night, The children’s beds were being slammed around upstairs – levitating up then crashing down onto the floor. Kathy was in a deep sleep, very rigid, and was sliding away from George across the bed. The “marching band” noise George heard before was once again coming from downstairs, and it sounded like every window and door downstairs was being violently slammed open and closed repeatedly. George couldn’t get out of bed, which was soaked from sweat.

Something got into the bed with George and Kathy – something invisible, but George could see the impression of its footprints on the mattress. He could feel its weight and he sensed he could feel its breath, although there was so much noise happening at the time, he couldn’t be sure.

For the first couple of nights at Kathy’s mother’s house, there were two separate occasions during which they levitated. One occurred as they were meditating (they soon stopped that practice). George woke from the mediation to see Kathy being pulled up the side of the wall. He grabbed her, pulled her back down and woke her up.

For a long time they tried to explain away everything that was going on, even when Kathy turned into an “old hag.” When they experienced the strange noises and smells, they looked for natural explanations such as broken pipes, possible leaks and they even tore down ceiling panels, looking for hidden speakers or speaker wire. The Lutzes tried to find natural explanations for the events, but over time too many things just didn’t seem to add up:

–the odor of sweet/cheap perfume

–the foul “sewer-type” odors in the basement (where there were no pipes)

–the red room, its odor and its effect on their dog (again no pipes)

–the changes in the family’s personality

–George’s obsession with the fire

–George being awakened each night around 3:15am

–the flies in the middle of winter

–the epoxy drips in the keyholes

–the fluctuations in the heat

–the black stains in the toilets

–George not wanting to eat or shower

–the family not wanting to leave the house at any time

–doors mysteriously opening on their own

Individually, these were not things the family seemed to be overly alarmed about, but collectively it got to a point where George was questioning his own sanity. They started to realize there was something seriously wrong.

After getting in touch with Father Mancuso, the Lutzes decided to take some belongings and stay at Kathy’s mother’s house in nearby Deer Park, New York, until they had sorted out the problems with the house. They claimed that the phenomena followed them there, with  “greenish-black slime” coming up the staircase towards them. On January 14, 1976, George and Kathy Lutz, with their three children and their dog Harry, left 112 Ocean Avenue, leaving all of their possessions behind. 

The thought of why no other owner has experienced any phenomena is because the haunting left with the Lutz. They have all passed polygraphs about their experiences. 

Tennessee is home to the Great Smokey Mountains and volunteers. This week Allison tells the story of the abuse and murder in the Solomon family. Sara tells us about Skinned Tom.

Meet the Solomons. Aaron was a former Nashville news 4 anchor and sports reporter. He is a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch. Angelia, Angie, was a doctor of pharmacology. They have 2 kids Grant and Gracie

They look like your typical American family. Kids go to private school associated with their church. Aaron is well respected and has lots of powerful friends.  But that perfect appearance was just that. Aaron is physically and mentally abusive.  He is very controlling and manipulative.  

In 2013 Angie has had enough. She and the kids have taken to locking themselves in the master bedroom to escape Aaron’s rage and violence.

She wants to divorce Aaron and take the kids somewhere safe. Aaron comes after her and attempts to strangle her with the cord from a blow dryer. He takes her to a hospital and says that she tried to kill herself with an electrical cord. He says the reason the kids sleep with Angie is because Gracie had eye surgery and then Grant wanted to keep her company. 

Aaron and Angie’s parents attempt to have her committed but she is released the following day. All 3 psychiatrists who spoke with Angie said she was calm and seemed to be telling the truth and was very credible. They also said Aaron was volatile and possibly violent after talking to him.  She comes home to an empty house as Aaron had taken the kids and left, after he drained their bank accounts. She files for a restraining order. The following day Aaron files and gets one as well. 

2014 and their divorce is finalized. Angie was told if she didn’t sign it she’d never see her kids again. They go to court and Aaron’s friend the judge says that since Angie was suicidal and had been in a mental hospital, Aaron would get full custody of the kids and Angie could have a couple hours of supervised visitation a week. 

Almost immediately Aaron starts to refuse Angie visitation. And at one point even told the kids she had died so they would stop asking to see her. 

Through all the abuse, Grant was a great big brother and was very protective of his mom and sister. He even yelled at Aaron that when he was grown up and 6 ft 4, he would never hurt his mom or sister again. 

In 2015 Gracie starts telling her mom that in addition to physical abuse, Aaron had been sexually assaulting her. When she was 6, which was right after Aaron got custody, he started molesting her. And then when she was 11 he began raping her.  As the kids get older, Angie gets a little more visitation and its occasionally not supervised On one of these occasions Angie takes the kids into a neighboring county to try and get help for them. Aaron finds out and has her arrested since she wasn’t supposed to take the kids out of the county according to her visitation rights. She’s in jail for 3 days, which she says were the scariest days of her life. I think its notable that she says jail was the worst time in her life, not living with Aaron and his constant abuse and even attempted murder. 

Aaron and the judge tell her that if she tells anyone about the sexual abuse they will keep her in jail for at least 30 days. And somehow, I don’t really understand, but the 27 days she didn’t serve were like reserved? So Aaron had her thrown in jail another 2 times. 

During all of this, Grant would go to his friend’s house and his friend’s mom would try and help him.  She would kind of mother him and they knew his home life was bad but not the extent of the abuse. Also kids at school knew about the abuse and that Grant and Gracie were afraid of their dad and didn’t want to go home. Multiple friends told the headmaster of their private school about it. Gracie and Grant told him too. And Tennessee is a mandated reporting state so he should have reported it. The headmaster Robbie Mason likes to brag that he met his wife when she was 15 and he was coaching her basketball team.  So he’s obviously a real stand up guy anyway. 

So I had mentioned earlier that their school was actually affiliated with their church. Or rather cult. Grace Chapel is a fundamentalist church. They raise their daughters to be meek, submissive, and to cater to their husband’s every demands. Angie’s parents who had tried to have her committed, attended a similar church and Angie was raised in that environment. The church covers up accusations of sexual abuse by gaslighting the victims and providing refuge for the abusers. Angie’s father had said that Aaron could do anything he wanted with Angie, even hit her. 

The founding pastor of Grace Chapel, Steve Berger, gave a sermon called “Biblical Qualifications for bringing an accusation against someone” in which he said that there must be multiple witnesses, such as other people, fingerprints, or DNA in order for the accusation to be valid. So in the times of the metoo movement those accusations weren’t biblical since there weren’t any witnesses. Since sexual assult is not usually performed in front of a crowd of witnesses, those rape accusations are invalid.  He stepped down from his position in early 2021 and denied that it had anything to do with the backlash he had received from attending the Jan 6th, capital riot because of course he’s a Trump supporter. 

Grace Chapel has some very prominent members like the Tennessee governor Bill Lee, Senator Jack Johnson and his wife Judge  Deanna Johnson, remember her name for just a minute. Also the judge who had presided over the divorce and visitation case and threw Angie in jail was also a church member. 

They have a court date in Sept 2018. Grant feels like the judge will rule in their favor because of things he said to him. He also has a friend with him who wanted to speak and back up their claims of abuse. The judge refuses to let him speak and denies the kids request to live with their mom.  The kids can’t handle the constant abuse and they run away and go to their mom’s house shortly after. When Gracie takes the stand to talk about her abuse, Aaron’s attorney, Scott Parsley tries to intimidate her and gaslight her very similarly to the way her father has treated her.

In Jan of 2019, Angie and Aaron are in court again.  Who did I tell you to remember? This time they are in front of Judge Deanna Johnson. The Senator’s wife and fellow Grace Chapel member. She accuses Angie of harassing Aaron and tells her her claims of abuse are without merit and bars her from filing any civil cases against Aaron for 6 years which coincidentally will be after Gracie is 18. How the is that legal? Also she refused to listen to 3 different mental health professionals who all said Angie was very sane and actually had PTSD thanks to the years of torment from Aaron. 

Also sometime in 2019- 2020 Aaron goes and buys burial plots for himself, the kids, AND Angie.

June 13, 2020 Grant turns 18. He’s living with his mom and tells Gracie that now that he’s 18, he’s going to go to court and get custody of her so she’ll finally be free of Aaron. She’s 13 at the time. 

July 20, Grant has pitching practice. Aaron is meeting him at the field.  7:37am Grant leaves the house. He calls his mom at 751 and tells her his plans to go out with his girlfriend after baseball. That was the last time Angie spoke to him. 

According to life 360 Grant arrived at the field between 8:27 and 8:41am. 

According to Aaron, the only witness, Grant parked his truck and went to get his baseball gear out of the bed when it rolled backwards, dragged him across the pavement, down a hill, and into a ditch. 

Aaron said he was packed next to him and was sitting in his car checking work emails when he realized what happened. Aaron calls 911 at 844am. Grant was taken by ambulance from the scene and pronounced dead at 928 am. 

In Aaron’s 911 call recording he says “I got 3 guys here and he’s trapped under the truck” Those 3 guys are not identified and when police arrive they are unable to find any other witnesses besides Aaron.  Grant was diagnosed as being in cardiac arrest with blunt force trauma to the back of the head and a traumatic brain injury. 

For Gracie and Angie, Aaron’s account of what happened never made any sense. Grant never kept his gear in the bed of the truck but in the backseat on the driver’s side. Why would he be behind the truck? How did Aaron not hear him scream or cry for help? Family and friends say Grant always contacted his girlfriend when he got to a new location before he got out of his truck. No one can explain why he didn’t that day. Also where is his phone? 

A week later when Aaron is explaining to Angie what happened,  which was being recorded, he said Grant was getting his stuff out of the backseat. Angie was shocked to see the condition of her son’s body Remember she’s a doctor. It was intact with very little injury. Hospital staff recorded a bleeding wound on his skull and 3 bruises one on his jaw, one near his left hip and the other on his right thigh. Where were the injuries from being dragged down a hill, where are the injuries from the rocks, from being under the hot car? No fractures, punctures, bleeding, or any other wounds besides the bruises. 

Although Angie requested an investigation, the cops took Aaron’s statement and promptly closed the case.  Before Angie could get to the hospital, Aaron refused an autopsy, any post mortem inspection or organ donation. Aaron also refused to have the truck investigated to see if there was something faulty. 

Today Gracie is 14 years old. On May 12, 2021 an anonymous account called Freedom for Gracie, posted an 18 min video to YouTube. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpNRNuaFhAk

In it Gracie talks in detail about the sexual abuse and the various ways Aaron controlled them and terrorized their family.  Even though she has a temporary restraining order against him, he shows up at Gracie’s school whenever he wants and no one prevents him from coming on the property. In the video Gracie says she thinks her dad killed Grant to keep him from going to court and that she fears for her life.  

A week after the video is uploaded, Aaron files a suit against Angie and 20+ other people including friends of Grant’s for having a smear campaign against him.  And 2 weeks later DCS finally removed Gracie and placed her in foster care.  Aaron is still her custodial parent and hasn’t been charged in any of the crimes that he has been accused of.

Your best friend is your PERSON – the one individual on the planet who gets you when no one else does…but what if your best friend turns into your worst enemy? Or leaves when you get abducted?

Join Allison & Sara around the campfire this week as they discuss…BEST FRIENDS…and the worst case scenario. 

National Parks are full of wonder and beauty. But there is a darker side to the wilderness. Today we’re talking about people who disappeared in a park.

Summer is in full force, and what says summer better than an awesome vacation? But…what happens when fun in the sun turns deadly?

Join us around the campfire as we discuss two very different cases where innocent vacationers never made it home.

First, a 1989 murder of a mother and her two daughters. Joan Rogers just wanted to take her girls to the beach, but instead, they ended up brutally murdered. Who was the man capable of such a horrific crime…and what would he choose for his last meal? 

Second, two healthy, American women are found dead in the same room, on the same bed, with no sign of what killed them – was it the butler? Or did something even more strange happen that night? The authorities have had this one wrapped up for a while…but, we’ve got questions!

Joan “Jo” Rogers, 36, and teenagers Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were on vacation headed from Ohio to sunny Florida.  They had been excited about this trip for weeks, planning which theme parks to go to, getting a pre-tan at their local tanning salon.

They had good reason to be excited. This was the first family trip of their lives, the first time they had managed to free themselves from the farm and get away together. It was the afternoon of Friday, May 26, 1989.

“When you run a dairy farm,” explains Colleen Etzler, Jo’s sister-in-law, “you don’t get a vacation.”

They had a week to enjoy their vacation before the unthinkable happened. They had a camera, and as they vacationed their way around FL visiting the zoo, Epcot, Seaworld, they took tons of photos. Not knowing that they were leaving behind a series of snapshots that investigators would eventually pore over and study. 

“That Thursday evening, they shot one more photo. It was the last snapshot on the last roll of film discovered in their room. Taken from the balcony outside room 251, with the camera pointed toward the bay, it shows a cluster of palm trees silhouetted against a glowing evening sky.

Sometime after they snapped the picture, the three of them left the Days Inn and got into the car and drove toward the horizon they had just glimpsed from the balcony. They had an appointment to keep. Jo had written the directions on a piece of paper, and now she and the girls were on their way.  They would not see the sun again.”

That was a direct quote from Kevin French who wrote a 7 part series on this case that won him the Pulitzer. 

3 days later on Sunday, June 4th, The bodies of all three women were found tied and weighted down in Tampa Bay.  Each woman was naked from the waist down, arms and legs bound, and a cinder block was tied by a rope around their necks.  Medical examiners determined the cause of death of all three women was asphyxiation, but the medical examiner could not determine whether they had drowned or been strangled by the ropes around their necks. The youngest daughter Christe, had managed to work one of her hands out of the rope. 

Hal Rogers was worried and had no idea what to do.  His wife and girls were supposed to be home by Sun at the latest. He called all his family and friends to see if anyone had her from them. He called the highway patrol to see if they had been in a car accident. He reported them missing and on Wed June 7th he went to try and hire a private plane and pilot to look at the roads from FL to Ohio, determined to find his family.  

On Thurs June 8th, Housekeeping staff approached the manager to tell him that room 251 hadn’t been used for days. They still had their suitcases and personal belongings but the beds hadn’t been slept in and the shower hadn’t been used. The manager called the police to report the guests missing. The police were able to match prints from the room with the bodies found in the bay to confirm that they were one and the same. 

Upon investigation, Rogers’ car was found abandoned beside a boat ramp a couple of miles down from the bay.  Inside the car they found a brochure with directions on it, parts of which were written in the killer’s handwriting. They were also able to get fingerprints off of it. 

Investigation revealed similarities between the Rogers’ murders and the rape of a woman in a nearby area.  Judy Blair met a man at Tampa Bay and he offered to take her on a sunset cruise, on which he raped her. She thinks she only survived because she had friends waiting for her on the dock.  She was able to describe him so a composite drawing was made of the suspect and printed in the local paper, along with the stories of the two crimes.

Tampa resident Jo Ann Steffey realized that the sketch of the rape suspect resembled her neighbor, Oba Chandler.

But the task force investigating the murders was flooded with tips. It took more than a year before they focused on Chandler.

The case became high-profile in 1992 when local police posted billboards bearing enlarged images of the suspect’s handwriting recovered from the pamphlet in the victims’ car. This was the first use of billboards by law enforcement in the US. Billboards then became useful tools in searches for missing people.

After seeing the billboard, his neighbors realized that handwritten directions given to the Rogers family matched Oba Chandler’s handwriting.

Chandler was arrested on September 24, 1992. More than 3 years after the murders.

It took the jury 90 minutes to convict Chandler and 30 minutes to recommend the death penalty. Judge Susan Schaeffer handed out that sentence on Nov. 4, 1994. “Oba Chandler was probably the vilest, most evil defendant I ever handled,” she said.

17 years later on Nov 15, 2011
Chandler’s last meal was two salami sandwiches on white bread with mustard. He also asked for a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich on white bread but ate only half of it. He ordered an iced tea, but drank coffee instead.

Chandler requested no spiritual adviser and had no visitors. He never had a visitor in his 17 years in prison. No one in his family had even filled out the paperwork to come visit him.

Update- Feb 2014
DNA evidence in the killing of Ivelisse Berrios-Beguerisse, who was asphyxiated on November 27, 1990 was recently retested using more sophisticated techniques than were available in the 90s and proved that Chandler had raped and killed her. It is believed his crimes probably began as early as in the 70s.

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