Notorious NJ COP MURDERER Killed by Another Inmate
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Notorious NJ death row inmate killed by another inmate
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Convicted cop killer Robert ``Mudman'' Simon was killed
in prison in a fight with another death row inmate, a spokeswoman said
today.
Simon, a motorcycle gang member who was one of the state's most notorious
prisoners, was pronounced dead after being involved in the fight with
Ambrose Harris, corrections spokeswoman Mary Ellen Bolton said.
Bolton had no further details, including precisely when the fight happened
or how the 48-year-old Simon died. The two were housed in the death row
section of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton.
Both inmates remained on death row pending appeals.
Harris was convicted in February 1996 for the 1992 carjacking, rape and
murder of Kristin Huggins, 22, of Lower Makefield, Pa. Huggins disappeared
while driving to paint a mural in downtown Trenton on Dec. 17, 1992.
Simon was sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing Franklin
Township police officer Ippolito Gonzalez. He later recanted the guilty
plea, saying he had made it to protect a fellow member of his Warlocks
motorcycle gang. The state Supreme Court, however, upheld Simon's death
sentence last month.
Simon was paroled from a Pennsylvania prison 11 weeks before Gonzalez was
killed. He had served 12 1/2 years of a 10- to 20-year sentence for killing
his 19-year-old girlfriend, Beth Smith Dusenberg, after she refused to have
sex with fellow gang members.
The Warlocks terrorized people in the '70s with hundreds of members, and
Simon was particularly feared, former Pennsylvania trooper William Davis
said in 1995.
``He was a sociopath. He showed no remorse,'' Davis said at the time. ``He
didn't care. He was unpredictable. He had a sick sense of humor. He looked
like he belonged in the Viking days. You plunder and kill, and everything's
OK, and the strong survive. He was ill-tempered and dangerous. You didn't
know what he'd do from one day to the next.''
The judge who handled the trial in the death of Ms. Dusenberg, John Lavelle,
said in 1995 that dozens of Warlocks circled the courthouse on their
motorcycles each day and frightened the jurors, possibly leading to the
conviction of only second-degree murder.
``It's the only case where I ever wore a bulletproof vest,'' Lavelle said.
New Jersey has not executed anyone since restoring the death penalty in
1982. The last time the state used the death penalty was in 1963.
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Doug.
Martha
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> Justice is served! Now, if they would all just play follow the leader.
Robert (Mudman) Simon was indeed beaten to death yesterday by Ambrose
Harris. Both men were on death row in Trenton.
Simon was a member of the Warlocks motorcycle gang, who was on parole
after serving time for the murder of his teenage girlfriend. He killed
her when she refused to have sex with the rest of the Warlocks. A state
policeman was killed, and Simon and another Warlock (name escapes me)
were picked up and charged. The other guy was actually supposed to have
been the one who pulled the trigger, but Simon surprised everyone by
confessing to the killing. It was reported that Simon had reason to
believe that his friend would receive the death penalty if convicted,
and he wouldn't. I don't recall why he thought he would not be
executed; maybe it was because he offered his confession. But he was
sentenced to die, and tried many times to recant his confession, all to
no avail.
Ambrose Harris kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 22-year-old
Kristen Huggins, a Bucks County artist who was on her way to paint a
mural in a Trenton health club. She went out early so that she could
get some of the job done before the club opened. She stopped for
cigarettes at a convenience store and was captured on the security
camera, giving police a clue as to her timetable. Harris and a
girlfriend were out ostensibly looking for a car to steal; Huggins had a
new sports car (maybe a Honda? something little and sporty, red, I
think), and when she went out to get into her car, Harris and girlfriend
may already have been in Huggins' car, or they may have overpowered
her--it was very early in the morning, and in winter, so it was still
dark. They drove Huggins to some desolate place, where he sodomized her
(at the trial the girlfriend testified that Huggins begged for mercy,
saying that she was a virgin) and taunted her, finally shooting her in
the back of the head while she knelt in supplication. He buried her,
and her body was not found for weeks.
He was convicted largely on the evidence provided by his girlfriend.
Martha
kkramer
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