Police in MO confirm that AIDS-infected Romeo did pass along the virus to at least 18 sexual partners,aged 15-29
Joe1orbit
Hello,
I have posted several news items in past months concerning the case od
Darnell McGee in Missouri. Darnell is the young fellow who learned in 1992 that
he was HIV-positive, and promptly embarked upon a mission to try and spread his
AIDS to as many human beings as possible, via having unprotected sex with
women. Authorities have confirmed that he engaged in fornication with at least
101 gals, ranging in age from 13 to 29, between 1992, after he was diagnosed,
and January of 1997. Four of the girls were only 13-14 years old, when Darnell
did the deed with them. In January of 1997, Darnell was shot to death on a
street, in a crime that police say was NOT linked in any way to his serial
killing AIDS delivery activities.
I do consider Darnell to have been a genuine serial killer. His victims might
not yet be dead, but it seems undeniable that Darnell WANTED to cause as many
women and girls as possible to die, and deliberately sought to give them a
fatal disease, in serial fashion. Since it is CERTAIN that at the very LEAST, 3
or more people infected with AIDS by Darnell WILL eventually die, he does
qualify as a full-fledged serial killer, in my book.
Below we get some interesting updated details on exactly what Darnell did
accomplish. Health authorities confirm that at LEAST 18 girls and women,
ranging in age from 15 to 29, have indeed been infected with HIV, by Darnell.
But in all likelihood, the figure is significantly higher. And don't forget
that it IS also likely that quite a few of these 101 women were impregnated by
Darnell, and it is quite likely that some of these babies will be HIV-infected
as well. We learn that these 18 infected women have already had SIX children,
all of them apparently fathered by Darnell, but none of the sex have tested
positive for HIV. Interesting. I would have thought that at least one or two
out of the six would have been given the HIV virus. Oh well, at least Darnell,
posthumously, is being recognized as a sexuak romeo with healthy sperm, not to
mention a Daddy to a lot of children.
We also learn that one of the 101 women who had sex with Darnell, then went
on to have sex herself, with 22 OTHER men! Wow, fornication is breaking out all
over the place! No word on whether this promiscuous woman KNEW that she might
be HIV positive, as a result of having had sex with Darnell, as she proceeded
to fornicate with 22 other men, but NONE of the 22 men have tested positive for
HIV.
Police say that the only similar case to this one that they know about, in
the USA, in which a person who KNOWS that he has AIDS deliberately sets out to
try and infect as many fellow humans as possible, via sexual intercourse, is
the Nushawn Williams case in New York. Nushawn, following in Darnell's
footsteps, had sex with at least 28 women, infecting nine of them. I've already
posted several news items on that case, so will not repeat myself here.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press news wire:
Man infected 18 Missouri females with HIV before being slain
February 11, 1998
By Connie Farrow, Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An HIV-infected man who had more than 100 known sex partners
before being slain last year passed on the AIDS-causing virus to 18 Missouri
females, ranging in age from 15 to 29, according to a report released
Wednesday.
Public health officials said it is the largest known documented case of an
HIV-infected individual infecting others.
But they also admitted the report does not tell the whole story.
Citing confidentially laws, Illinois health officials refused to even say
whether they've tested women who had sex with Darnell McGee, even though he
lived in East St. Louis, Ill., and is said to have infected women there.
McGee, 28, was gunned down on a St. Louis street in January 1997.
In April, Missouri health officials said McGee had infected about 30 sex
partners, but those figures were based on initial Illinois numbers.
Dr. Larry Fields, chief health officer for the St. Louis City Department of
Health and Hospitals, expressed frustration about not having more recent
information from Illinois.
"Although the book is closed on McGee in Missouri, I, too, have an interest in
learning the total number of partners infected,'' he said.
Nonetheless, he stressed that the release of Missouri's report reflected more
than just numbers, but real lives.
"The information shared today is more than a story,'' he said. "There is a lot
of pain involved for individuals who are still part of our community.''
McGee, who learned he was HIV positive in 1992, had sex with at least 101
females before his death, including four who were 13 or 14 years old, according
to Missouri's report, which was compiled by city and state investigators.
Investigators say McGee preyed on girls with low self-esteem, making them feel
important with flattery and gifts, and would pick them up in front of schools,
liquor stores and skating rinks.
Out of the 18 who have tested positive, 11 are between 15 and 19; four are
between 20 and 24; and three are between 25 and 29.
Six of the women have given birth, but none of the babies has tested positive.
Officials also said that none of the 22 men who were identified as having sex
with one of the 101 women have tested positive for HIV.
One woman in 1994 and two in 1996 identified McGee as a sex partner after they
tested positive for HIV, but health officials could not find him to talk about
the risks or state laws against knowingly spreading the virus.
Last April, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about McGee's death that
said he had had multiple sex partners while carrying the HIV virus.
"Thirty women came forward within two days of that report,'' said Pamela Rice
Walker of the Missouri Department of Health.
The police investigation into McGee's death, originally thought to be a revenge
killing, also appears to be nearing an end. Montrell Worthy, 24, is awaiting
trial.
At the time of his arrest last summer, Worthy confessed to shooting McGee
during a robbery that netted only a piece of counterfeit crack cocaine. He
later recanted, saying police tricked him.
Health officials said they were aware of only one other case like McGee in the
United States.
In Mayville, N.Y., at least nine woman tested positive for HIV after having sex
with Nushawn Williams. At least one man was infected with HIV through sex with
one of Williams' 28 known sex partners, authorities said last October.
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The following appears courtesy of the 2/12/98 online edition of The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch newspaper:
Law hides number of victims of `Boss Man'
Thursday, February 12, 1998
By John G. Carlton
Post-Dispatch Medical Writer
Kevin McDermott Of The Post-Dispatch Staff Contributed To This Report.
Exactly how many people Darnell "Boss Man" McGee infected with the virus that
causes AIDS may never be publicly known, health officials in St. Louis said
Wednesday.
McGee, an East St. Louis man who authorities say had unprotected sex with more
than 100 women after becoming infected with HIV, spread the disease to 18 women
in Missouri, according to a report released by the state and city health
departments.
But the true number of his victims - thought to be as many as 30 women - may
remain a mystery because restrictive laws in Illinois forbid doctors there to
even confirm they knew he was infected, the officials said.
"The Illinois data we cannot release. I don't have (it)," said Pamela Rice
Walker, director of communicable disease control for the Missouri Health
Department.
"We would like to know the answer to that question," added Dr. Larry E. Fields,
chief health officer of the St. Louis Department of Health and Hospitals.
"That's a question we ask in many areas (of public health). In this case, we
need to know the answer."
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Public Health denied
that his department is investigating the McGee case or compiling a report of
its findings.
Even so, Missouri and St. Louis health officials referred repeatedly to
investigations they said were continuing in Illinois. They said they expect to
receive at least some accounting of the number of victims there.
Last April, shortly after the Post-Dispatch revealed that McGee was suspected
of spreading AIDS to dozens of women, officials said investigations were being
conducted in both states.
To prepare such a report or publicly discuss an investigation involving any
specific AIDS patient would be a felony in Illinois, the spokesman said.
Illinois law does not require doctors to report patients who test positive for
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. And it guarantees anonymity for AIDS patients
- including those who may have knowingly spread the disease.
Public health officials said earlier that they believed at least 30 HIV cases
were linked to McGee. Walker said that some of those may involve Illinois
residents. Sophisticated genetic tests conducted by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention may also have ruled out McGee as the source of
some infections, she speculated.
Officials also originally reported that at least one of McGee's victims had
given birth to an HIV-infected baby. The report released Wednesday finds that
none of the six children born to women McGee infected in Missouri has HIV.
But Walker said the infected baby may have been born in Illinois or that its
infection may have spontaneously cleared up shortly after birth - a rare
occurrence that doctors called "seroreversion."
Even without any victims he may have infected in Illinois, the McGee case
represents one of the world's largest documented HIV clusters ever traced to a
single source, said Dr. Robert H. Hamm, a state health department
epidemiologist.
Of the 18 women he's known to have infected, 11 were between the ages of 15 and
19; four were between 20 to 24; and three were between 25 and 29.
Some of the 101 women known to have had unprotected sex with McGee were as
young as 13, while others over 30.
McGee was shot to death on a St. Louis street in January 1997. Last summer,
police arrested 24-year-old Montrell Worthy, who they say confessed to shooting
McGee during a robbery that netted only a piece of counterfeit crack cocaine.
Worthy has since retracted his confession.
Lo52964
>joe1...@aol.com (Joe1orbit) writes
> I do consider Darnell to have been a genuine serial killer. His victims
>might
>not yet be dead, but it seems undeniable that Darnell WANTED to cause as many
>women and girls as possible to die, and deliberately sought to give them a
>fatal disease, in serial fashion. Since it is CERTAIN that at the very LEAST,
>3
>or more people infected with AIDS by Darnell WILL eventually die, he does
>qualify as a full-fledged serial killer, in my book.
You have a point there. Do we know wheather he wished to cause death, or
just pain? I never heard of a serial killer by reckless disreguard. If
he intended to kill we have a strange kind of random, you can't be sure who
will catch it or who will die, serial poisioner.
" Don't talk to me about justice, it is bad enough to be mixed up with the
law."
LO5 2964
Joe1orbit
joe1...@aol.com (Joe1orbit) writes
>> I do consider Darnell to have been a genuine serial killer. His victims
>>might
>>not yet be dead, but it seems undeniable that Darnell WANTED to cause as
>many
>>women and girls as possible to die, and deliberately sought to give them a
>>fatal disease, in serial fashion. Since it is CERTAIN that at the very
>LEAST,
>>3
>>or more people infected with AIDS by Darnell WILL eventually die, he does
>>qualify as a full-fledged serial killer, in my book.
lo5...@aol.com (Lo52964) Wrote:
> You have a point there.
Hello,
Thanks, I think I do have a good point.
> Do we know wheather he wished to cause death, or
>just pain?
Well, that is a good question. He definately chose to deliberately infect as
many women as he could, with the HIV virus. He knew that the HIV virus
generally develops into full-blown AIDS, which is a fatal disease. But I do not
know, and have not read anything in past articles, which sheds any light as to
whether Darnell specifically relished the thought of these women & girls DYING,
or whether his mindset was more focused upon inflicting pain and suffering upon
them, for many years, prior to their deaths from AIDS.
> I never heard of a serial killer by reckless disreguard. If
>he intended to kill we have a strange kind of random, you can't be sure who
>will catch it or who will die, serial poisioner.
Every serial killer is UNIQUE, as I have stated in the past. Your ongoing
attempts to categorize and place every serial killer into your three so-called
"profiles", is doomed to failure, IMO. You need to recognize and appreciate the
uniqueness of every serial killer, and then work from there, in establishing
behavioral and psychological links between various killers, rather than just
looking at a killer and trying to force him into your three narrow categories.
Take care, JOE