Tommy Lynn Sells was never liked amongst anyone including his family. He was always the odd one out and did not quite fit in with a regular crowd. He was always off on his own and when he tried being involved with others it did not go well, there was always some misunderstanding or issue from one to another. Tommy Lynn Sells was not the brightest of men either. From a young age he started doping and drinking which did not play in his favor in the later stages of life. Sells was not a planned killer, he was more spontaneous and an out of the blue killer. He would find the person that he would want to victimize and then execute his thoughts and turn them into a reality. Tommy was eventually caught after killing Katy Harris one night in her residence once he snuck …show more content…
She was able to escape and phone a neighbor which led to his arrest after being caught a little while later. The girl that was friends of Katy Harris survived and madea full recovery and was able to give a full description of the killer and identified him as Tommy Lynn Sells and he was then incarcerated and sent to jail in Texas when he was later then given the death penalty after being tried. Tommy Lynn Sells operated over a span of ten to twenty years killing what people believe to be more than seventy people but evidence can not prove this. Tommy was given the death penalty by Texas and was put to an end in 2014 once the system was able to get information and confessions out of him and once all the convictions and processing was done. Tommy was ended by lethal injection. I would not say that Tommy Lynn Sells had a legacy, he was more of a wanna be serial killer that was not known by many at all. He was brought up in a terrible environment as a child which led to him becoming the person that he was until the day that he
At the age of 17, Ryan Matthews was sentenced to death for the murder of convenience store owner, Tommy Vanhoose. Police failed to investigate on all evidence to convict the real killer, Rondell Love. Love shot Mr. Vanhoose four times and fled, taking off his mask and diving into the passenger side window of the getaway car. Hours after the crime, Ryan Watthews and associate, Travis Hayes (also 17) were stopped because the car they were driving in resembled the killers. A witness claimed that Ryan took part of the crime, others said he was too tall to be the suspect.
Jasmine and her boyfriend, Jeremy committed the murder. Jeremy was 23 years-olds. Jasmine was released just 10 years after the murder and he was sentenced to life. According to Antonia Monticelli’s article, “Murderous Children: Jasmine
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
If it goes as scheduled, Texas will execute Jeff Wood next Wednesday for the 1996 murder of a gas station store clerk. The problem: It was a murder Wood did not commit. Wood is scheduled to be executed on August 24 for the murder of Kriss Keeran, a store clerk at a Texaco gas station. This is despite the fact Wood was in his car when Keeran was shot, and may have not known about the shooting until after it was too late.
Although he lead a gang of hombres whom were much older than he was and had them looking up to him as a fine shooter. He grew up tough and only getting tougher, Utley wrote about how The Kid would kill and abandon the guilt like nothing since he’d killed basically as he pleased anyway. No matter where he was he always found himself trying to clear his slate with the law. Henry McCarty or Billy Booney, he was always as ruthless as he used to
Sells had a lot of childhood trauma that most likely caused him to start killing people. Tommy Lynn Sells was a serial killer that received the death penalty for the murder of Katy Harris and many others. Tommy Lynn Sells Origins Tommy Lynn Sells was born on June 28, 1964, in Oakland, California.
Till on the other hand touched the white girl and people seen it. Tom was killed by 17 shots, Till was killed by one single shot to the head. They are a little different because Tom was innocent and Till was not. Tom was left thereon the ground where he had been shot.
He also tracked outlaw Tom Story for five years between 1884 and 1889, finally killing him in a gunfight. Bass Reeves was noted for his evenhandedness, honesty and integrity. He tracked down and arrested his own son after a two week manhunt. The son, wanted for the murder of his wife, was tried and convicted but later given a full pardon. Reeves also arrested his church minister for selling illegal
A Texas Ranger working with Sells said he could confidently connect Sells with fifteen murders and crimes spanned across years of time(SC12). Tommy Lynn Sells had confessed while under trial for the murder of Katlyn Harris that he had committed many crimes throughout his life and that they stretched from coast to coast of the United States which later gave him the nickname, The Coast to Coast Serial Killer. While Tommy had committed many crimes only few had gone on record. Technology was not as advanced back in his time which allowed him to get away with so many crimes. When a crime scene witness went to testify on a case that did not have a definite killer, a man giving Tommys’ description would always be seen near the act but a time too many,
People even compare Billy the kid to Jesse James too. If this young man died at a young age and was the hot topic back in the day, he must have a good life story. How did Billy the kid end up going down the wrong path? Must’ve had a rough early life. Well, he did.
Harris work as a communication manager. Harris is being charged for murder. Harris is charged with felony murder and second- degree child cruelty in the death of a 22-month- old Cooper Harris. Harris had always work during his life. Harris graduate with his bachelor’s degree in commerce and business administration.
Tommy Lynn Sells was a man that was sentenced to death for not just one murder, but almost seventy. (Blanco, 2017)He was caught after having murdered a thirteen year old girl name Katy Harris and injuring Krystal Surles. At the time Katy Harris’ father was helping Sells out. He had broken into the house through the window, walked down the hall to the girls room and laid down next to Katy and gently woke her up. She woke up and was confused as to why he was there.
Tommy Lynn Sells, also known as the “coast to coast killer” brought into this world on June 28, 1964, in Oakland, California. As he became an adult, he was living in Alameda, California. Tommy was a Caucasian male with a lengthy criminal record. 35 years old he was arrested for the murder of Kaylene Harris. Ending to be his last crime Tommy Lynn Sells will ever be able to commit.
“But the evidence will show he directed her off the highway to a dark, secluded where he strangled her with a rope and threw her body off a bridge.” Desloup stated (pg 1). As stated in the case, the murder weapon was a rope, as she died because of strangulation. After the murder,
Tom Thomson: An Honorable Death Robert Kroetsch uses various ways to tell the story of Tom Thomson, an artist whose death remains a mystery. Kroetsch was appreciative for Thomson’s artwork and death. Kroetsch references to many pieces of Thomson's artwork, allowing readers to understand how Thomson lived his life. By referencing to Thomson’s paintings it allows readers to imagine the bliss of Thomson’s artwork.