Incredibly powerful portrait & profile of MO serial child killer Lorenzo Fayne,who is believed to have brutally harvested 6 children in 4 yr rampage,between 1989-'93,when he was only 17-21 yrs old,prosecutors insanely vow to MURDER this TORTURED child
Joe1orbit
The coincidences of life are sometimes truly AMAZING. Here are FOUR
absolutely fascinating articles on a pretty much UNHEARD of serial child killer
in Missouri, and yet were it not for the quadruple mass murder that occured in
St. Louis Friday night, and my DECISION to go looking for more detailed
articles on that massacre in the Post-Dispatch newspaper, it is VERY likely
that I NEVER would have SEEN, much less gotten the chance to post, ANY of these
four fascinating articles! The winds of Fate, are certainly blowing favorably
towards me, these days. :)
Lorenzo Fayne. Does that name ring any serious bells?? Probably not, and what
a BEAUTIFUL illustration of the worthlessness of children, that fact is. You
see, Lorenzo is a SERIAL child killer. Operating in a slum neighborhood of St,
Louis, Lorenzo is believed to have serially harvested SIX children, over a 4
year time period. The MARVELOUS thing is, nobody even KNEW that a serial killer
was at work, despite the fact that Lorenzo was operating in a very SMALL area.
You see, Lorenzo was WISE enough to CHOOSE to operate in a SLUM area. He KNEW
that his society did not CARE about the citizen-slaves, mostly on welfare or
engaged in some sort of criminal behavior, who lived in this EXTREME slum area.
He further knew that subhuman CHILDREN were even LESS valued than adults. His
choice to serially kill in this area, was a tactically brilliant one!
Lorenzo was finally arrested & charged withj harvesting a 17 year old girl.
Cops still had NO INKLING that a serial killer was even at work in the area,
until Lorenzo FOOLISHLY chose to CONFESS that he had killed four OTHER
children, in addition to the 17 year old. Later, after an investigation,
detectives decided he likely killed a SIXTH child as well.
He is CLEARLY the most prolific serial child killer in St. Louis history, and
yet even in the LOCAL area, his name is NOT very well known. Again, this is
SOLELY due to the CLASS of victims that he targeted, SLUM-dwelling, penniless,
and therefore decreed WORTHLESS, children. If the six victims had been
attending private prep schools, and lived in RICH neighborhoods, this would be
a NATIONAL story, Lorenzo would already be ALMOST as famous as someone like
Danny Rolling, across amerikkka. Instead, even people who live in the very CITY
where Lorenzo operated, are unfamiliar with his name.
These six harvestings are NOT recent. They occured between 1989 and 1993.
Obviously Lorenzo qualifies as an ABSOLUTE serial killer. We get some
FASCINATING details on his childhood, and of course he was SEVERELY abused as a
child, as are ALL serial killers. Amazingly, Lorenzo is STILL only 28 years
old, which means he COMMITTED his serial killings, ALL 6 of them, between the
ages of 17 and 21! That is REMARKABLY impressive!
Lorenzo has been tried for only ONE of the 6 murders, and condemned to Life
in prison with no chance for parole. Now, prosecutors are getting ready to put
him on trial for a second murder, and we get the OUTRAGEOUS news that they plan
to seek the legal MURDER of this TORTURED child, total victim and creation of
YOUR evil and diseased society.
You EVIL WHORES are VOWING to put Lorenzo on trial for EACH and EVERY one of
the murders, UNTIL they manage to COERCE & terrorize at least ONE jury, into
agreeing to impose MURDER upon Lorenzo. How EVIL! THank you folks, for PROVING
that Lorenzo had EVERY right to kill these 6 children, and even if he harvested
600 children, he couldn't come CLOSE to being as EVIL and PERVERSE and IMMORAL
as the society that created him. YOUR society, of amerikkkan citizen-slaves.
Lorenzo targeted a WIDE variety of victims, notwithstanding the fact that
all were children. He killed 6 year old boys, as well as 17 year old girls.
Gender did NOT seem to be a determining factor in his victim choices. Cops SAY
he was "sexually motivated", but INTELLECTUAL RAGE probably played a primary
role, in my opinion. The fact that sexual gratification occured within the mind
of this tortured victim, does not mean he was MOTIVATED to commit these serial
killings, out of "sexual lust".
The victims were all VICIOUSLY beaten, and most were raped, but in some cases
they may have already been DEAD. Lorenzo gets in a bit of necrophilia, cool!
Although when the body is still so FRESH, I don't know if labelling the act as
necrophilia, is appropriate.
We learn how police INVADED the neighborhood after the first murder, and
COERCED all of the poor, male, uneducated, slum-dwellers to provide fingerprint
samples. Most probably had NO IDEA that they had a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to
REFUSE to give their prints. Luckily, Lorenzo had already LEFT the area.
We get marvelous details of HOW each murder was carried out, the EXPLOSION of
RAGE in each attack, but please read the SECOND article below most carefully,
as it reveals the TRUE LENGTHS of SYSTEMATIC TORTURE, that your society CHOOSES
to impose upon child-slaves, creating the LIMITLESS, and 100% JUSTIFIED, rage
and hate that dwelled within the innermost core Reality, of torture victim
Lorenzo.
Just a FASCINATING story here, folks, of how a helpless child found the
COURAGE to become a serial killer, and to harvest SIX fellow children, before
he even reached the age of 21.
Lorenzo, you are ALREADY a PREMIER Martyr. The INJUSTICE that you have
already endured in your short, 28 years of life, is mind-boggling. That your
society would even THINK of MURDERING you, defies all sanity, and proves that
your society is worthy of nothing less than COMPLETE anihilation and
destruction. I thank you LOrenzo, for finding the internal strength and courage
to survive your torturous childhood, and to choose to direct your rage and hate
outward.
Stay Strong, Lorenzo!
Take care, JOE
The following three news articles all appear courtesy of the 3/12/00 online
edition of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper:
Sunday, March 12, 2000
He killed five children here
By Denise Hollinshed And Michael Shaw
Of The Post-Dispatch
He was the killer no one saw.
As if invisible, Lorenzo Fayne killed children for four years, most of them in
the forlorn Parkside neighborhood of East St. Louis and Centreville.
Yet no one -- not police, not residents of the neighborhood, not the news media
-- realized that a serial killer who targeted children was at work. It was only
after Fayne, arrested in the killing of a 17-year-old girl, confessed to four
other killings that the scope of his brutality became apparent.
At five murders, he is the St. Louis area's most notorious serial killer of
children. And police suspect him in a sixth killing.
Yet few people recognize his name.
The reasons have a lot to do with time and place: the time -- 1989 to 1993 --
was a period of record murder in East St. Louis, and the place, Parkside, was
and is an area of run-down ranch houses with barred windows and little social
cohesion.
The East St. Louis Police Department was at its nadir in manpower and
equipment; still, the police chief did not call for outside help from the Major
Case Squad.
"You don't think of a small town having a serial killer," said Gerald Crenshaw,
a former East St. Louis detective, when asked why police never linked the
murders. "I think of a serial killer as John Wayne Gacy or Wayne Williams. But
I guess he is the closest thing we have had to a serial killer."
Actually, Fayne meets the standard definition. Police say he killed multiple
times over an extended period, without any other motive than sexual
gratification.
Scott Decker, criminology professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis,
said most police departments are unprepared to deal with serial killers because
they are so rare.
"To see the links between cases requires much more attention than some
departments are able to give them," he said.
Fayne, 28, will never be a free man. He is in the Menard Correctional Center in
Chester, Ill., serving a sentence of life without parole that was imposed in
his first murder trial.
He is awaiting his second murder trial, rescheduled from last month to
September.
And he will have a third and a fourth and a fifth murder trial, if necessary,
as State's Attorney Robert B. Haida has vowed to try Fayne until a jury agrees
to execute him.
Two cousins at play
On July 13, 1989, two 6-year-old boys, Aree Hunt and his cousin, were playing
outside their homes in the Parkside neighborhood.
A man approached and asked them if they wanted to make some money. Aree
accepted and followed the man to nearby Frank Holten State Park.
Aree never returned.
Late that night, the cousin, who didn't follow the man, told his relatives
about the encounter.
A police search ensued. About 2 a.m. the next day, police found Aree's body in
the park, near the viaduct that carries Interstate 255, in Centreville.
Aree had been viciously beaten, his head smashed against the concrete
underpass. The killer had had sex with his lifeless body.
The Centreville police called in the Illinois State Police violent crimes unit,
and its detectives believed at the time that they had a good shot at catching
the killer.
First, the killer must have been familiar with the Parkside neighborhood
because he had mentioned Aree's brother by name. Second, police found a bloody
thumbprint on the inside of Aree's thigh.
State Police investigators canvassed the neighborhood, taking fingerprints from
every man who lived there.
But the killer, Lorenzo Fayne, had left town. He was back in his hometown of
Milwaukee.
Fayne would later tell a court psychologist that he was out looking for sex
with "somebody, anybody," when he came upon Aree. Killing the boy was another
impulsive decision. In his confession to police, he said he wanted to hear the
sound of a neck snapping.
Violence grips a community
Lorenzo Fayne first came to East St. Louis in the spring of 1989 at age 18 to
stay with his grandmother for the summer. He left a history of crime and a
brutalized childhood behind in Milwaukee.
He arrived in a community teeming with violence. During the period that Fayne
killed, East St. Louis logged an average of 57 murders a year, more than twice
last year's rate.
East St. Louis had 284 murders in those five years. In 1989 and 1991, its
per-capita homicide rate was the highest in the nation. By comparison,
University City, a city similar in population to East St. Louis, had 13 murders
in that period.
Part of the Parkside neighborhood is in Centreville, which had crime problems
of its own. One-fifth the size of East St. Louis, Centreville had 29 murders in
the 1989-93 period. The small Centreville Police Department regularly called in
the Illinois State Police to investigate its homicides. So the string of
killings eventually attributed to Fayne would be divided between two
departments.
While crime was off the charts in East St. Louis, the city's Police Department
could not afford radios for its police cars. The city's revenue jackpot, the
Casino Queen gambling boat, had not yet opened.
The Illinois State Police was lending the city six officers a day for routine
patrols, yet East St. Louis police officers complained of being overwhelmed.
Still, Isadore Chambers, East St. Louis police chief at the time, believed that
his detectives did not need outside help from the Illinois State Police or the
St. Louis Major Case Squad, with its 80 percent solution rate.
"We had investigators that were capable of solving the crimes," Chambers said.
"We had our own fingerprint identification section. Surrounding police
departments were coming to us for help."
Chambers called in the Major Case Squad just four times in his 11-year tenure
as chief. But he said he had a strong relationship with the squad and allowed
his officers to serve on it.
Crenshaw, then a detective who investigated two of the killings, wished he had
had help.
"That's a lot of murders for six or seven detectives," said Crenshaw, who,
along with Chambers, now works for the Alorton police. "The body count was
pretty serious in those days. There were times we could've used (Major Case
Squad) help."
Fayne killed Aree Hunt about the time that two other young children were
murdered by other killers.
Carl E. Officer Jr., mayor of East St. Louis at the time, did not see evidence
of a serial killer.
"We're certainly not looking at anywhere near an Atlanta situation," he said at
the time, alluding to Atlanta child murderer Wayne Williams, who was eventually
charged with 21 murders. (The two other murders of children in 1989 in East St.
Louis were quickly solved.)
In a recent interview, Officer said his faith in the East St. Louis Police
Department was as strong as Chambers', but he said he would have called in the
Major Case Squad if he had been advised that a serial killer was at work.
Officer added that the addition of police officers was no guarantee that the
murders would be solved. Officer said the investigation of the Wayne Williams
case had been hindered by a law enforcement "circus."
Debra Powell, who became mayor of East St. Louis a year ago, said the city is
different from when Fayne roamed the Parkside neighborhood.
"I think what we've probably learned is to be more conscious of everyone's
children," she said.
"I would hope nothing like that will ever occur again.
"That was a horrible time in our lives."
A fateful walk home
On Oct. 4, 1989, nearly three months after Aree Hunt was killed, the body of
Nicole Willis, 16, was found lying face up and beaten on the head in a vacant
lot. The spot was a block from where Aree had been abducted.
Nicole was making the 10-minute walk home from a Bi-State bus stop after
returning from Cahokia High School, where she was an honor-roll student.
Nicole had been raped, then mutilated with a stick.
Some detectives suspect Fayne killed Nicole, but they have been unable to track
his movements enough to put him in Parkside at the time of the killing. While
admitting to five other murders, Fayne has vehemently denied any involvement in
Nicole's death.
Early the next year, Fayne was back in Milwaukee. He stole a car there and went
to prison for 19 months, starting in April. He returned to East St. Louis in
early 1992.
The killing resumed.
Death of a runaway
East St. Louis police knew Fayne was one of the last people to see runaway
Latondra Dean, 14, alive on March 20, 1992. They questioned him but could not
link him to the crime.
Fayne had been playing cards with a group of people, including Latondra, on the
day she died.
Fayne would later tell a court psychiatrist that he followed her to the home
where she stayed with a friend and listened to some music with her on the
couch. When he went to get a drink of water, he noticed a knife in the kitchen,
took it and forced Latondra into a bedroom.
He raped her, stabbed her 21 times, then washed her body, possibly to remove
evidence of the crime, and left her in a bathtub.
Murder at a high school
Just four months later, East St. Louis police were questioning Fayne again in a
killing that outraged East St. Louis.
It was the murder on July 20, 1992, of Fallon Flood, 9.
When she didn't return home from a summer lunch program at East St. Louis High
School, her mother went looking for her at the school. A gym teacher found the
girl strangled, hanging from a belt inside a gymnasium locker room. Her
underwear was pulled down to her ankles.
Fallon and another girl had been playing when a man approached. The man told
Fallon to follow him and told the other girl to go away.
Fallon's killing, because of its nature and its occurrence in a school, stunned
East St. Louis. A $5,500 reward was offered for finding the killer, and police
were under heavy pressure to find the person responsible.
Fayne was working as a janitor at the school. Although he was questioned, Fayne
was not the main suspect. That was Charles King, 17, whose IQ was measured at
57.
He was also a janitor at the school. And, like Fayne, he fit the general
description of the suspect.
King was arrested without ever being identified by the girl who was with
Fallon.
Police questioned King for several days before he signed a confession. But
according to some observers, King seemed unsure of what was happening around
him. He would ask jailers when his coloring books were going to arrive at the
St. Clair County Jail.
While King, an innocent man, sat in jail, Fayne returned to Milwaukee. (King
was released a year later, after Fayne confessed to killing Fallon.)
Failing to make a connection
Fayne didn't just elude police. Parkside residents didn't draw a connection
between the murders.
"It's not a tight neighborhood," said Mark O'Donnell, former Centreville police
chief.
"We banged on a lot of doors. There was a lot of drug activity in that area and
a lot of transients. Fayne just walked around and did his thing."
Parkside resident Ernestine Slaughter knew children had been murdered, but she,
like police, considered the crimes isolated and didn't fear for her family.
"At the time I really didn't think about it," she said. "I didn't think
somebody was targeting kids."
Her daughter, Glenda Jones, 17, was Fayne's next victim.
On June 25, 1993, Fayne, just back from Milwaukee, spotted Glenda cutting
across a field behind Martin Luther King Junior High School.
Fayne stabbed her to death, and sexually assaulted her before and after killing
her.
Tracking a trail of blood
A month after Glenda was killed, firefighters responded to a fire at the home
of Annette Davis. While putting out the fire, they found the body of Davis'
daughter, Faith, 17. She had been stabbed to death.
Police, including Detective Crenshaw, later noticed a trail of blood leading
around the back of the house. Police dogs followed the trail to the home of Lee
Fayne, Lorenzo's aunt.
She told them that Fayne had gone to St. Mary's Hospital in East St. Louis for
a cut on his hand. When police checked, no one named Fayne had checked into the
hospital.
But paramedics said they had picked up an Adam Smith at Lee Fayne's house and
had taken him to the hospital for what he said was a cut he received on a
broken mirror. The man had since returned home.
It didn't take long for police to learn Fayne had used the false name of a
neighbor who was in juvenile detention at the time. They arrested Fayne at his
grandmother's house the day of Davis' killing.
Fayne later gave this account of the killing: He said he had been burglarizing
the Davis house, passing items out the window to others, when Faith Davis
confronted him with a knife. He cut his hand grabbing for the knife, then took
it from her and stabbed her repeatedly.
He then went outside and told his two accomplices what had happened. Scared,
they ran off.
Fayne went back inside and sexually assaulted Davis' body. He set the fire to
try to destroy evidence.
A serial killer speaks up
Investigators had a serial killer in custody without knowing it.
East St. Louis police called in the Illinois State Police to work on a
confession, and Fayne took to one officer in particular, Special Agent Joe
Bates.
Bates went about building a case against Fayne in the Faith Davis killing when,
10 days after Fayne's arrest, the match on the bloody thumbprint on Aree Hunt's
leg came through.
Confronted with the evidence, Fayne said he had more to tell.
It was the first time police realized a link between the killings. Bates cut
short a vacation and spent two separate days talking with Fayne in detail about
the murders, collecting five confessions.
Crenshaw says now, "Realistically, he could still be killing if he hadn't cut
his hand."
Families want death penalty
Gloria Flood cannot shake the image of her daughter being led to her death down
a hallway into the locker room at East St. Louis High. Thinking back, she
rambles at times to fill the silence.
"For someone to hang you in a locker like you were nothing," she said from a
darkened living room, just a few feet from a picture of her daughter. In the
picture, Fallon wears a bright floral dress, shows a shy smile and has her arm
around her brother.
"My daughter was just a baby. He just took everything away from her."
Flood, 39, lives in the same house where she was raised and where she raised
Fallon. The East St. Louis School District made a settlement with her over her
daughter's murder. The undisclosed amount is enough that she never has to work
again.
She, like most of the other relatives of Fayne's victims who were interviewed,
want Fayne put to death.
Latondra Dean's mother, Mary Dean, said: "If Fayne gets the death penalty, I
would like to be the one who pulls the cord ending his life."
Aree Hunt's mother, Dessie Whigham, moved away from Parkside not long after he
was killed.
She was unaware that her son's killer had lived just a few blocks from her. In
the absence of a suspect, she trusted no one.
"When I would go places and see people, I would wonder if they had done it,"
she said, in a voice so small it seems to get lost in her throat.
Whigham, who has lost all three of her children to violence, has learned to
deal with tragedy, but her eyes still mist when talking about Aree, her
youngest.
Whigham works in a textile plant in Columbia, Ill., and lives in a small, frame
house in Cahokia. All the pictures of Aree have been put away except one, which
hangs over her bed.
Twice a year, Whigham goes to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, where Aree
is buried. Aree's father, Robert Hunt, is in the armed forces, stationed
elsewhere.
She sat through Fayne's trial for the murder of her son and heard the reading
of Fayne's confession.
Sometimes she feels singled out.
"I feel like I haven't done anything bad in my life," she said, looking into
the distance. "I feel like I was a good mother. It's hard to question the Lord.
Sometimes I feel like I've been cheated."
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Sunday, March 12, 2000
Murderous "recipe" was there for Fayne, his attorney says
By Roy Malone
Of The Post-Dispatch
How did Lorenzo Fayne become a serial sex killer?
"The recipe is there," says his attorney, John O'Gara. "As a child he suffered
physical and sexual abuse and grew up with violence. His stepfather would tie
him to a pole and beat him.
"He was a throwaway child when he was in his mother's womb. His parents showed
him not love, but hatred."
O'Gara, of Belleville, has known Fayne, 28, for more than six years, since he
began defending him as a public defender. O'Gara helped Fayne escape the death
penalty in a trial in 1994 and will try to do the same with an insanity plea in
September, when Fayne is scheduled to be tried in another killing.
O'Gara has seen the horrible pictures of Fayne's victims.
The perpetrator, O'Gara said, came out of a childhood of brutality and neglect,
producing a man with brain damage, an IQ of 68 and a relentless appetite for
violence.
From testimony in the first trial, statements by family members, interviews of
Fayne by psychologists, and reports of investigators and institutions, here is
what is known about Fayne's background:
He was born in 1971 in Milwaukee, the oldest of five children of Juanita Fayne
Smith. When she got pregnant with Lorenzo at age 18, she was already a drug
addict and alcoholic, sometimes drinking to the point of unconsciousness.
Lorenzo's father left the family shortly after Lorenzo's birth. The father was
subsequently treated in a hospital for post-traumatic stress related to his
military service in Vietnam and has no memory of his ex-wife or Lorenzo, an
investigator said.
Juanita Smith worked as a dancer. To discipline Lorenzo, she would beat him
severely on the head. She said she didn't know it was harmful until she was
told so by a social worker, who told her to stop it.
When Lorenzo was 4, Juanita Smith remarried.
Lorenzo's life went from bad to much worse. The man, also an alcoholic, beat
Smith and Lorenzo with his fists, sticks, electric cords or anything else
handy, family members said. Smith would fight back, hitting him once with a
sledgehammer and once stabbing him.
When Lorenzo was 8, and wanted crackers from the refrigerator, his stepfather
choked him until he passed out, relatives said.
A few years later, Lorenzo was raped by a boy five years older, his grandmother
said. His parents saw him bleeding but did not call police. Instead, the
stepfather took Lorenzo to the attic, stripped him naked, tied him to a pole,
and beat him, as punishment for letting himself be raped, according to
Lorenzo's sister, Lawanda, who still recalls his screams.
Lorenzo and his siblings often roamed the streets of Milwaukee, begging for
food and stealing, while their mother was in her drug world.
Often his only escape to normality were his visits to his maternal grandmother,
Nellie Willis, who lived nearby in Milwaukee. When Willis asked what was wrong,
he would cry. She'd take him in for the night and see that he got to school the
next day. "He really needed somebody," she testified at his trial.
A neighbor of the family said: "He badly wanted a mother."
But Willis moved to East St. Louis, where she had a job offer from her cousin.
Fayne told a psychiatrist he first had consensual sex at age 9 and his first
homosexual experience came at 11.
His mother told an interviewer Lorenzo started "acting a little weird" at age
10, and that she sometimes kicked him out of the house.
His criminal record began at age 11, when he was charged with criminal damage
to property. He later committed thefts, robberies and burglaries.
At 13, he was placed in a group home. Just 5 feet and 90 pounds, he was raped
by an older resident within a few days, according to a report. Later, he was
seen having sex with another resident. He was hyperactive and was given
Ritalin, but it didn't help.
From age 13 to 18 he was in and out of group homes, committing a variety of
offenses in the homes and during his releases.
One facility said he would make inappropriate sexual comments in group
situations. At 15, he was charged with robbery and battery in the beating of
another boy, whom he kicked in the face.
Drawn to his grandmother
His mother did not stay in touch with him, but she later told an investigator,
"I love him and I always will."
Lorenzo did stay in touch with his grandmother.
"If I ever turn the age of 18, I'm coming to where you are," he wrote to her.
By Wisconsin law, he had to be released from custody by his 18th birthday, on
April 2, 1989. Fayne headed for East St. Louis and his grandmother and his
aunt.
Three months later he killed Aree Hunt, 6.
Fayne later told a psychiatrist for the state he had an impulse to have sex
with anyone and Aree "was just there."
Early in 1990, Fayne returned to Milwaukee and stole a car. He served 19 months
in prison.
After his release, he returned to East St. Louis, and murdered more children.
Fayne, now in the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Ill., married a woman
from Wisconsin who had contacted him in prison and visits him. He has been
written up for altercations involving other inmates and a guard, his lawyer
said.
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Sunday, March 12, 2000
Even after five victims, Lorenzo Fayne's pattern went unnoticed
A prosecutor's fight to have Lorenzo Fayne executed is putting the spotlight
back on one of the most brutal killers of children ever in the St. Louis area.
Lorenzo Fayne was convicted in 1994 for the murder and sexual assault of
6-year-old Aree Hunt. Fayne has confessed to killing four other children
between 1989 and 1993. Police call him the prime suspect in a sixth murder.
At the time, nobody noticed that a serial killer was at work. The crimes were
lost in a torrent of murder and violent crime that inundated the poor Parkside
neighborhood of Centreville and East St. Louis a decade ago.
Only Fayne's confession made the police, the press and the community aware of
the murder spree.
Fayne is back in the news today because of an ongoing struggle over his life
between St. Clair County state's attorney Robert B. Haida and Fayne's attorney,
John O'Gara.
O'Gara succeeded once in keeping Fayne off death row, in the killing of Aree
Hunt, and pledges to continue that mission. O'Gara says Fayne was insane.
Haida says Fayne's crimes were so despicable and heinous that they demand the
death penalty. Haida has vowed to try Fayne for the four other murders he has
confessed to until a jury orders the death penalty.
The next trial, in the murder of Faith Davis, 17, is scheduled for September.
Meanwhile, Fayne is in the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Ill., serving
the life term he got in the trial in 1994. Throughout the Metro East area, he
has left grieving relatives of those he killed.
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And here is a FOURTH article on the remarkable Lorenzo Fayne serial child
killing case out of Missouri, in which a prosecutor INSANELY explains why he
and his society believe this TORTURED child is the "perfect victim" to be
MURDERED. My last post was so LONG, I didn't have space to include this
article, but it's so PULSATINGLY evil and perverse, that I can't let it pass
by. Unbelievable, that any REPRESENTATIVE of amerikkkan society would have the
AUDACITY to proclaim that this TORTURED child, this child that YOUR amerikkkan
society is 100% Guilty of and responsible for, having CHOSEN to subject to
NOTHING but systematic torture for his entire lifetime, DESERVES to be MURDERED
by the very society that created him, and the very SAME society that this
prosecutor is now EMPLOYED by and serves as an EMPOWERED AGENT of!
Thank you, whore Robert, for proving that you and the society you represent,
are THOUSANDS of times more evil and immoral and deranged and unworthy of life,
than tortured martyr Lorenzo could ever HOPE to be.
We also get brief mention of ANOTHER totally UNKNOWN MO serial killer, fellow
named Girvies Davis, who has tragically ALREADY been been legally murdered, in
1995. Girvies was CONVICTED of four serial killings, and believed to have
committed SEVERAL others, in MO.
Stay Strong, Lorenzo!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 3/12/00 online edition of The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch newspaper:
Sunday, March 12, 2000
Death penalty is tailor-made for Fayne, prosecutor says
By Robert Goodrich
Of The Post-Dispatch
Lorenzo Fayne is exactly the kind of defendant the death penalty was designed
for, says Robert B. Haida, the state's attorney for St. Clair County.
"If anyone does, he certainly fits the qualifications," Haida said.
But John O'Gara, Fayne's defense attorney, says Fayne was insane, unable to
grasp the criminality of his killing.
That argument may have kept Fayne off death row after his trial in 1994. It did
not keep the jury from convicting him of murdering Aree Hunt, 6. (The jury
voted 11-1 for the death penalty; the holdout was reported to have been
sympathetic to Fayne because her pastor's son suffered from a mental disorder.)
Fayne is serving a life sentence with no chance for parole in that murder. He
is charged in four more.
And Haida has vowed to keep trying Fayne until he receives the death penalty.
The next trial is scheduled for September, in the killing of Faith Davis, 17.
It had been scheduled to start last month.
But O'Gara asked for the delay to allow a mitigation specialist to study Fayne.
A new law, effective Jan. 1, authorizes mitigation specialists in certain types
of cases and provides state money for them.
Associate Judge Richard A. Aguirre approved spending up to $5,000.
Haida will personally prosecute Fayne, as he did in the first case, with help
from an assistant, Jim Piper.
If they secure a conviction, they will argue for the death penalty on two
grounds provided by Illinois law:
* Multiple murders (it would be Fayne's second murder conviction).
* Murder committed during another violent crime (rape and home invasion).
Cases draw scrutiny
Haida has been St. Clair County state's attorney for nine years. Before that he
was an assistant U.S. attorney, and an assistant county prosecutor.
He prosecuted two more death penalty cases in addition to Fayne's case in 1994.
Two were before juries, and one was before a judge. He won convictions in all
three, but none resulted in a death sentence.
"I think there are certain crimes that are so despicable, so heinous, that they
call for the ultimate punishment," Haida said.
He said his office gives a murder case careful scrutiny before deciding to seek
the death penalty. Considerations include the degree of brutality, the
background of the defendant and the feelings of the victim's family.
Most of all, his office analyzes how the case compares with other death penalty
cases, Haida said. The aim is fairness between cases, even though each is
different. That's what the Illinois Supreme Court also looks for, Haida said.
It reviews all death penalty cases.
This will be O'Gara's ninth death penalty case. One of his clients won
acquittal. The rest pleaded guilty or were convicted, but none ended up on
death row. Some are serving life in prison.
"On a moral and religious basis, I have a problem with it," O'Gara said,
referring to the death penalty.
There are also practical reasons for doubt, he added, the most obvious being
that the penalty is irreversible. That 13 cases in Illinois have recently been
overturned, leading Gov. George Ryan to order a freeze on the death penalty,
illustrates the problem, O'Gara said.
O'Gara's use of the insanity defense for Fayne means the basic facts of the
crime will not be contested. The law doesn't allow the twin argument that the
accused was insane, but also didn't commit the act.
Fayne's mental state at the time of the killing will be the main dispute.
Haida and O'Gara are graduates of the St. Louis University law school.
O'Gara is Catholic; Haida is a member of the United Church of Christ. Both have
young families.
Catholic leaders oppose the death penalty. Haida said that the national
leadership of the United Church of Christ opposes the death penalty, although
local congregations have a high degree of autonomy.
Six men await execution
Six men are on death row for murders in St. Clair County.
The most recently condemned was Paris Sims, now 26, of East St. Louis. On Sept.
15, 1997, a jury sentenced him to death after convicting him of strangling a
woman and trying to kill her husband -- both 17 -- in a robbery after invading
the couple's mobile home in Belleville.
The most recent execution of a defendant from St. Clair County was that of
Girvies Davis of East St. Louis, a serial killer put to death in 1995 for
murdering an elderly man from Belleville in 1978.
Davis also had been convicted of killing three others and was linked to several
more murders across the Metro East area.