Wayne Henry Garrison,40 y.o.OK fellow who serially killed 2 children when he was 13-14 yrs old,will stand trial for 3rd murder,that occured in 1989,kidnapping-dismemberment of 13 y.o.boy
Joe1orbit
The life journey of Wayne Henry Garrison, STILL only aged 40, has certainly
been a unique and fascinating one. It looks like Wayne MAY only have three
harvestees under his belt, but the NATURE and the method with which he has
earned the title of serial child killer, is a UNIQUE one.
Born in Oklahoma, and obviously a victim of SEVERE childhood abuse, Wayne was
only 13 years old, when he STRANGLED his 4 year old make cousin, and dumped the
body underneath a house. He was declared mentally ill and thrown into a loony
bin. Just about one year later, while TEMPORARILY freed from the loony bin on a
'pass' so that he could visit his BRUTALIZING family, still only aged 14, Wayne
SLAUGHTERED victim #2, a 3 year old neighbor boy, and dumped that body DIRECTLY
underneath his MOMMY'S house! Thankfully, the juvenile justice laws were a TINY
bit saner back then, in the 1970's. Still, 14 year old Wayne got a four year
PRISON sentence, I assume it was served at a juvenile prison.
Upon his release, all indications are that Wayne WAS able to control and
inhibit his homicidal rage, for a fair number of years, FIFTEEN in fact. He was
freed in 1977, not arrested again until 1992,in North Carolina, for the
ATTEMPTING kidnapping of a boy. So, he basically got away scot free with the
1989 OK murder, and if only he hadn't BOTCHED this 1992 NC kidnapping attempt,
he might STIOLL be free today, and racking up more victims.
His next murder, after killing #2 at age 14, unless he committed OTHER
harvestings that authorities just haven't been able to link to him, occured in
1989. He KIDNAPPED a 13 year old boy, killed and DISMEMBERED him, also in
Oklahoma. He was NOT immediately arrested for this murder, but eventually got
charged with TRYING to kidnap yet another boy, this time in NC. That boy did
survive and escaped Wayne's clutches, and wayne was sentenced to jail time for
that attempt.
Only when the sentence was OVER, and Wayne just about to be released, did OK
prosecutors decide to put him on trial for the 1989 murder. It does sound as
though their case is FAIRLY weak, and based on circumstantial evidence. The
PROBLEM is, prosecutors will almost certainly be allowed to DEMONIZE Wayne to
the jury, by TELLING them about the 2 murders that occured when Wayne was 13 &
14 years old. That is OUTRAGEOUS! Those murders have NOTHING to do with the
1989 murder that Wayne is charged with now. They are totally SEPARATE and Wayne
has already been "tried" and sentenced for those child murders. How DARE
prosecutors be allowed to bring them up now, for the sole purpose of coercing a
jury into HATING Wayne, when he DESERVES to enjoy an ABSOLUTE presumption of
innocence with regard to the third murder.
Wayne is definately a UNIQUE killer. VERY few enraged societal victims BEGIN
killing at age 13, in "serial" fashion. It's also very interesting that he was
apparently able to REFRAIN from committing any MORE murders, after getting
freed at age 18-19, right up until age 29-30, which was when the third boy got
harvested. Of course it IS possible that Wayne has killed others, and either
the bodies haven't been found, or no linkage has been established to Wayne, for
his other killings. Even though all three KNOWN murders occured in OK, the fact
that the 4th, attempted kidnapping occured in NC, shows that Wayne WAS somewhat
mobile during his life.
The choice of victims is also interesting. Wayne targeted a 4 year old boy at
age 13, a 3 year old boy at age 14, and a 13 year old boy at age 29-30. Always
went after boys, choosing victims 10-16 years younger than he was. He was quite
BRUTAL in his attacks, STRANGLING victim #1, dismembering victim #3, but there
is NO info given to suggest that he overtly RAPED any of his three harvestees.
We see here how UNIQUE every killer, serial or otherwise, truly is. The
"profiling" attempts that law enforcement engages in, are quite RIDICULOUS,
when you look at it from a rational point of view. The profilers have no
RESPECT for the killers they are seeking. They use NARROW-MINDED, bigoted
thinking, to try and JAM serial killers into some tiny category. It's just
ridiculous, because EVERY human being has a UNIQUE mind, capable of limitless
range ogf thought, ideas, and actions. Every societal victim carves a UNIQUE
life path for him/herself, and that is why all of the "traditional" criminal
profiling methods, are essentially USELESS and INVALID, and even serve to HELP
at-large serial predators at times, by sending the bigoted cops off on narrowly
focused, invalid, wild goose chases.
Anyway, the big news is that Wayne has been declared mentally fit to stand
trial for this 1989 murder, and is due in court TODAY for an arraignment
hearing. How the heck can he get a FAIR trial, now that 11 years have passed by
since the murder?? His alibi witnesses might be dead, at the very least, their
MEMORIES cannot be expected to be reliable, 11 years later. The fact that
prosecutors apparently DELAYED charging Wayne with this murder, waited until
the very last MOMENT, until the actual hour of his RELEASE from prison in NC,
makes this type of decade old murder prosecution, all the more unfair.
You can view a facial photo of Wayne, a bit blurry but still showing Wayne to
be a very solidly and widely-built, if not outright overweight fellow, over at:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KJRH/45751.asp
Another photo of Wayne, and a facial pic of his 13 year old 1989 victim, is
at:
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KJRH/45712.asp
Stay Strong, Wayne!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 2/26/00 Associated Press news wire:
Garrison to stand trial in 1989 death
Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A man who admitted killing two children when he was a
juvenile must stand trial in the 1989 dismemberment death of a 13-year-old boy
who was last seen getting into a car with Garrison at an auto body shop.
Tulsa County Special District Judge Todd Singer rejected a defense
attorney’s argument that there was no probable cause to try Wayne Henry
Garrison for first-degree murder. Prosecutors presented 19 witnesses at
Garrison’s preliminary hearing, including the victim’s mother and Garrison’s
former friend.
Earlier this month, Singer ruled that Garrison was mentally competent to
stand trial in the death of Justin Wiles. Justin disappeared June 20, 1989,
after he was last seen getting into Garrison’s car. Parts of his body were
found four days later in Lake Bixhoma and on the lake’s shores in Wagoner
County, authorities said.
Garrison, 40, was arrested on the murder charge in October as he left a
North Carolina prison where he had served a sentence for drugging a boy.
As a juvenile, Garrison admitted to killing two children in Oklahoma. When
he was 13, Garrison was confined to a mental hospital after his 4-year-old
cousin was found strangled under a house.
When he was 14 and on a pass from the hospital, Garrison killed a
3-year-old boy whose body was found under Garrison’s mother’s home. Garrison
pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and was sentenced in 1975 to
four years in prison.
“It took a long time,” Joe Fitzer, Justin’s brother, said Thursday. “It’s
worth the wait.”
An arraignment hearing was scheduled for Monday morning.
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The following appears courtesy of the 2/20/00 online edition of The KJRH-TV,
local tulsa, Oklahoma NBC-TV affiliate station web site:
Former friend of defendant testifies in murder case
By Russell Mills and Tony Lytle, TeamTulsa
TULSA – A former friend of a man charged with murder indicated the accused
murderer “didn’t act right” the week that a young Tulsa boy disappeared.
Richard Wade Collins, a former friend of Wayne Henry Garrison’s,
testified that Garrison was concerned with “being able to account for every
minute of the day for this whole week,” at a preliminary hearing held
Wednesday.
Collins said he never got a straight answer from Garrison as to why that
was necessary.
Tulsa County Special Judge Todd Singer previously denied requests made by
lawyers of a case involving the 1989 dismemberment death of a Tulsa boy.
Lawyers for Wayne Henry Garrison requested that an appeals court delay
his Feb. 23 preliminary hearing and order a district court to appoint a
publicly funded investigator to help defend the murder charge.
Garrison, 40, is charged with the murder of Justin Wiles on Oct. 22.
Wiles, 13, disappeared from his north Tulsa home in June of 1989.
He had been mowing lawns in the neighborhood near the 1000 block of North
Rockford–just a block from Garrison’s home at the time.
Parts of Justin’s body were recovered a few days later at Bixhoma Lake,
near Bixby.
His killer had dismembered him.
Agents of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation took Garrison
into custody just as he was freed from a North Carolina prison.
Garrison was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in 1997 after he pleaded guilty to
two counts of giving prescription painkillers to a minor and one count of
abduction of a minor.
North Carolina authorities have been quoted as saying that they believe
Garrison would have killed his young victim in that case had they not rescued
him in time.
Two young children died at his hands when he was still a teen in Tulsa.
He was confined to a mental institution in 1972 after strangling his
four-year-old cousin and hiding the body under a house.
Prosecutors originally filed a juvenile murder petition against him, but
the charge was later reduced to “a child in need of supervision” and he was
sent to a mental hospital.
Only two years later, while on a pass from that hospital, Garrison killed
again; this time, the victim was a three-year-old boy, also strangled.
Garrison pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in
1975, claiming the boy’s death had been accidental.
He was released in 1977 at the age of 17, and according to his attorney,
stayed out of trouble until his 1992 arrest in North Carolina.
Recently, however, investigators say they’ve turned up enough information
to make a murder charge stick.
Garrison’s Tulsa attorney, Art Fleak claims that Garrison is an innocent
man, who killed the two young children accidentally during horseplay.
Garrison denies killing Wiles, he said, adding that in his estimation
Garrison does not fit the profile of a serial killer.
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