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Research Paper On Tommy Lynn Tolls

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Rachel Bierle
Mrs. Neuberger
Composition II
23 February 2023
Tommy Lynn Sells’ Acts His crimes started when he was a teenager and started assaulting people at that time. Sells was in prison for two years for car theft in May of the year 1984. After his release in February, he did not follow the regulations and rules of his probation. When Sells started his killings, did not stay in one place for long, hence his name as the “Coast to-coast killer”. He worked at a fair in Forsyth when he was living in Missouri. While he was working at this country fair, he met a woman named Ena Cordt, who was the age of thirty-five, and her son. Sells confessed that he murdered both of them. As stated by Sells, the woman offered Sells to go to her house, but he then found her digging through his bag. This turned out to be unfortunate for Cordt because Sells then picked up a baseball bat and beat her to death with it. Rory, Cordt’s four-year-old son witnessed the crime occur, so Sells also beat him with a bat till he passed away. Three days later their mutilated bodies were discovered (Montaldo). Sells was brought back to jail in September 1984 for drinking and driving, which resulted in him crashing his car. He was released from jail on May 16, 1986, and traveled back to …show more content…

To commit all of these crimes, he must have been psychotic (BE 9). He was hitchhiking in Ina, Illinois when a kind man brought him back to his house for food. Once Sells got to the house, he shot the man and butchered his penis. He went on to kill his son that was three years old by hitting him with a hammer. Sells was not done with the family at this point. Elaine, the man’s pregnant wife, was up next to take on the torture. He tried to rape her, and the attack resulted in Elaine going into labor. She gave birth to a girl and then Sells beat them both to death with a bat. He later penetrated her with the bat, tucked the family into bed, and left the home

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