Gerald Patrick Lewis,self-confessed serial killer of 4,in AL & GA,awaits murder trials,GA will get first crack to perversely try and legally murder him
Joe1orbit
It's always exciting and pleasurable to get an update on a very little-known
and obscure serial killer. I think that Gerald Patrick Lewis fits that bill,
over in Alabama, even though he is only an ACCUSED and self-confessed serial
killer. 34 year old Gerald is charged with exterminating FOUR humans,
apparently all gals, in serial format, in two different states, AL and GA. He
went after youngish gals, and stabbing seems to be his preferred mode of
murder. He has CONFESSED to all four murders, but still will have to stand
trial. As we learn below, a jurisdictional dispute is underway, as to which
state and county will get to put Gerald on trial first. It looks like GA will
win out, and trial #1 will deal with Gerald's harvesting of a 22 year old gal,
last year.
See, this is one of the DISADVANTAGES of being a WIDE ROAMING serial killer.
The odds are MUCH higher that you will have to stand trial SEPARATELY, numerous
times, on murder charges, in each of the different counties or states where you
committed your murders. On the other hand, if, like Orville Lynn Majors, you
commit ALL your murders in the SAME area, even the same BUILDING, there is a
better chance that you will only face ONE murder trial, charged with ALL of
your murders together. And that INCREASES your chances of getting off scot free
via an acquittal.
No date for the GA trial to begin, has yet been set. Meanwhile, AL has to
wait until after at least one GA trial, before they get a shot at Gerald.
Perversely, GA wins this battle to try Gerald first, in part because the
prosecutor has announced that a legal murder sentence WILL be sought against
Gerald.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 10/13/99 online edition of The Mobile
Register newspaper:
Baldwin trial set for Gerald Patrick Lewis
By GARY McELROY
Staff Reporter
10/13/99
Prosecutors eager to bring self-professed serial killer Gerald Patrick Lewis to
trial in Mobile County will have to wait their turn.
Lewis, 34, of Daphne, has been charged with two slayings in local motels along
with two killings in Georgia.
Tuesday, Lewis had been slated to begin his murder trial in Mobile County
Circuit Court in connection with the 1998 stabbing death of Kathleen Bracken,
32, at the Twilite Motel on U.S. 90.
But Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Jo Beth Murphree said another
case pending against Lewis in Baldwin County will be tried first. Mobile County
Circuit Judge Joseph S. Johnston reset the case, but no date was decided, Ms.
Murphree said.
In the Baldwin County case, Lewis is accused of killing 22-year-old Misty
McGugin of Chickasaw. Ms. McGugin's car was found abandoned at Drifters lounge
on the Causeway in Baldwin County in early 1998.
Following his arrest in connection with the killing of Ms. Bracken, Lewis led
police to Baldwin County Road 66, just east of Daphne, where he said he left
Ms. McGugin's remains. A body was found at the spot he indicated. It was later
identified as that of Ms. McGugin.
"Baldwin County has capital murder charges pending against him," Ms. Murphree
said Tuesday afternoon. "Mobile County does not."
She said Baldwin County authorities will proceed with the capital case first.
Following that trial, he will still face the murder charges in Mobile County,
she said, along with charges in Georgia.
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