Execution: Ynobe Matthews
David Carson
2004 in Huntsville, Texas for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old
woman.
At 4:50 a.m. on 28 May 2000, the College Station fire department
responded to a fire call at an apartment building. Upon arrival, they
found smoke escaping from a partially opened window coming from one
apartment. The screen on the window had been cut, and the door lock,
which was within reach of the hole in the screen, was unlocked. Upon
entering the apartment, firefighters found the body of a young woman.
She was positioned sitting on the floor, with her back propped against
the side of her bed. She was wearing only a t-shirt and socks. A small
fire was smoldering on her feet. The inside of her legs, all the way
up to her vagina, had been burned. Some paper and other items had been
placed between her legs, apparently as combustibles for the fire.
There were also feces between her legs.
The victim was identified as Carolyn Casey. She died of manual
strangulation. She also had a broken bone in her neck.
Police found a pair of blue panties on Casey's bed. The panties also
contained feces, and the waistband had been torn off. A kitchen knife
was found under the bed. The contents of Casey's purse had been dumped
out, and her keys were missing. Police also observed that the fire
alarm was in the sink. In an apartment dumpster, police found Casey's
keys, as well as some towels which matched other towels that were in
her bathroom.
Casey, 21, was last seen at a party in the apartment complex. Before
she went home feeling ill, she had made a trip with another apartment
resident, Ynobe Matthews, 24, to purchase some alcohol from a nearby
convenience store. When Casey left, Matthews was not at the party.
When Matthews returned to the party later, one of the hosts noticed a
"real foul smell" coming from him.
A neighbor reported hearing a series of loud thuds coming from Casey's
apartment at around 1:30 or 2:00 a.m.
Police interviewed Matthews, who denied any involvement in the murder,
and collected blood, hair, and saliva samples from him. They also
collected the clothing he claimed he was wearing on the night of the
party. The surveillance videotape from the convenience store, however,
showed that he was wearing different clothing. When confronted with
this, Matthews surrendered the clothing he was wearing in the
videotape. Fibers from those clothes were found on Casey's clothing,
her body, and under her fingernails. Fibers from Casey's panties were
found on Matthews's shirt. Scrapings from under Casey's fingernails
also contained Matthews's DNA.
Matthews then told police that he and Casey had been "seeing each
other on and off" and that he was in her apartment on the morning of
her murder. He said that in the course of consensual sex, he ripped
her panties off while they were "messing around." Matthews said that
afterwards, he and Casey began arguing. She took a swing at him, and
he threw her on the bed and choked her to death. He said that he
started the fire between her legs to cover up any evidence of
intercourse. He said that he cut the window screen to give the
appearance of a burglary.
At Matthews's trial, police testified that no one they interviewed
recalled any indication of a romantic relationship between Matthews
and Casey. Also, the medical examiner testified that it is very common
for people to defecate in their undergarments out of extreme fear or
at the time of death.
Matthews had a previous conviction for assault causing bodily injury.
The jury also heard testimony connecting him to the rape and murder of
21-year-old Jamie Hart in 1999, as well as in three other rapes and
two attempted rapes. One of the rape victims testified that Matthews
attempted to strangle her.
A jury convicted Matthews of capital murder in June 2001 and sentenced
him to death. He later pleaded guilty to Hart's rape and murder and
was given a life sentence. In September 2002, Matthews informed the
court of his desire to waive his appeals. In the one appeal that is
mandated by law and cannot be waived, The Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals affirmed his conviction and sentence in July 2003.
"I spent the whole week getting drunk," Matthews told a reporter in an
interview from death row. He added that he had also been on a drug
binge before the murder, "but that's not an excuse."
Matthews declined to make a final statement at his execution. He
mouthed "I love you" several times to relatives who were watching him
through a window. He was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m.
David Carson
(Sources: Texas Attorney General's office, Texas Department of
Criminal Justice, Associated Press, Bryan-College Station Eagle.)
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Mack Twamley
"David Carson" <da...@neosoft.com> wrote in message
news:mgfovvs7rk5n9v6e4...@4ax.com...
> Ynobe Katron Matthews, 36, was executed by lethal injection on January
> 2004 in Huntsville, Texas for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old
> woman.
hey, sometimes even Texas prison officials are capable of doing the right
thing. One less slimeball in the world wasting oxygen! This animal was
especially nasty, according to the evidence.
Harry Krause
> Ynobe Katron Matthews, 36, was executed by lethal injection on January
> 2004 in Huntsville, Texas for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old
> woman.
How exciting.
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
>Ynobe Katron Matthews, 36, was executed by lethal injection on January
>2004 in Huntsville, Texas for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old
>woman.
With a name like Ynobe Katron you just know he was gonna turn out bad.
Hyfler/Rosner
> >With a name like Ynobe Katron you just know he was gonna turn out bad.
>
> it's some other language's equivalent of "Wayne."
>
> David Carson
>
Very funny. Very.
Hoodude
wrote:
>>With a name like Ynobe Katron you just know he was gonna turn out bad.
>Ynobe is "ebony" spelled backwards. As for Katron, I can only guess that
>it's some other language's equivalent of "Wayne."
I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. <grin> on the "Wayne".
Another one I haven't figured out yet is how the name "Erik L."
equates to 'bottom-feeding asshole of the known universe'. Surely it
does; that's a given. But what linguistic alternate universe allows
such bastardization?