Ex-con who tied up & stabbed to death FIVE gals in crack-house in 1992,is foung guilty & gets death penalty sentence,in OK
Joe1orbit
Hello,
It's very sad how some MASS murderers just don't get any serious news media
coverage at all. Over in Oklahoma, a fellow named Danny Keith Hooks massacred
FIVE relatively young women, 4 in their 30's and the fifth in her 40's, back in
1992. He committed this massacre all by himself, forcing all 5 gals to strip
naked, tying them up, and then STABBING all 5 women to death! But because this
very impressive mass murder took place in a crack den, and involved black,
poor, drug addicts, Daddy has gotten virtually NO media attention at all,
despite the fact that it is in many ways nearly equivilant in scope to Danny
Rolling's 1990 University of Gainesville student murders. That's how your
pathetic society works: Kill a few upper-middle class university students and
you'll get a ton of news coverage and become famous. Kill 5 poor, young, drug
using gals inside of a crack house, and you'll get no media coverage at all.
Well, I am pleased to provide 40 year old Danny with at least a tiny bit of
international exposure, via this Usenet post. We learn below that a jury did
convict Danny of all five murders, and on Wednesday it imposed a sentence of
legal murder via the death penalty upon Danny. Bummer!
In court on Wednesday, Danny showed no emotion and made no comment as the
verdict was handed down. That is sad. I really think that a killer should at
least TELL their society what RAGE and HATE they feel towards fellow humans,
especially AFTER they have already been found guilty and sentenced to death.
But I respect the absolute True Reality right of all killers to ONLY let their
ACTIONS speak for them, rather than to engage in verbal explanations or
declarations. Actions always do speak louder and with more INTERNAL clarity,
than do words.
However, one day earlier, Danny's MOMMY took the witness stand and BEGGED the
jury to spare her son's life, and Danny did shed a few tears throughout his
Mommy's testimony. What was he crying about? Well, I think it's most likely
that he was crying over his own childhood suffering and the fact that the
innocence and benevolence that he was born with was slowely destroyed, through
the course of his childhood.
We also get the names and aged of Danny's 5 victims. None of them were VERY
young, but all of them were relatively young. In my eyes, it's always more of
an accomplishment, and impacts society more, when a multiple murderer targets
humans who are in the PRIME of their lives, or have the bulk of their lives
ahead of them.
We also get some details on Danny's LONG criminal history, which includes
numerous acts of violence. Prosectors CLEARLY preyed on the emotions of the
jury, bullying and coercing them into delivering a death penalty sentence.
Although they might very well have done so anyway, being loyal and brainwashed
members of your society.
After committing these 5 murders Danny DID manage to successfully flee the
scene. He was ONLY identified as the killer and caught days later, afrer a DNA
match of his blood, on file with police due to his past violent felony
convictions, as made with blood drops found at the massacre scene. Hey, it pays
to be a neat and tidy fellow, at least at your crime scenes, if you wish to get
away with murder.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press new wire, via
the 9/18/98 online edition of The Tulsa World newspaper:
Mass murderer gets death sentence
By AP Wire Service
9/18/98
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- An Oklahoma County jury late Wednesday recommended
execution for the man it convicted of killing five women during a bloody
crack-house massacre in 1992.
The jury returned its verdict against Danny Keith Hooks about 9:10 p.m. Hooks
showed no reaction as the verdict was read and made no statement to the court.
He will be formally sentenced Oct. 26.
There also was no reaction to the verdict in the courtroom, which contained
many relatives of the five victims.
Barbara Stevenson, a relative of one of the victims, later said she was pleased
with the death sentence.
"I am just so happy," she said. "They really brought us some justice."
District Attorney Bob Macy said he, too, was pleased with the verdict.
"He deserved a strong punishment," Macy said. "We feel death was the
appropriate punishment."
Jurors began deliberating at 10:25 a.m. in the penalty phase of Hooks' trial.
Hooks was convicted on five counts of first-degree murder Monday in the
stabbing deaths of five women found bound and nude in an Oklahoma City crack
house May 16, 1992.
If the jurors did not unanimously agree on the death penalty, they could have
recommended life in prison or life without parole.
Defense attorney Irven Box said Hooks' life had value before his addiction to
cocaine and it will have value after.
"There's been a lot of pain in this case. The only thing a death penalty in
this case will do is increase the pain," Box said.
Hooks was found guilty of killing Phyllis Adams, 47, and LaShawn Evans, 30,
both of Spencer; Sandra Thompson, 35, and Carolyn Watson, 37, both of Oklahoma
City; and Fransill Roberts, 34, of Midwest City.
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The following appears courtesy of the 9/16/98 online edition of The Daily
Oklahoman newspaper:
Man's Mother Asks for Mercy in Slaying Trial
09/16/1998
By Nolan Clay
Staff Writer
Convicted mass murderer Danny Keith Hooks wept Tuesday as his mother turned to
jurors and asked them in a trembling voice to spare his life.
"I'll never believe that he committed this as long as I live. I'll never
believe it," Berniece Hooks testified, as her son removed his glasses and wiped
his eyes with a tissue.
Danny Hooks, 40, was found guilty Monday of murdering five women at an Oklahoma
City drug house in 1992. Prosecutors are asking for the death penalty. Jurors
will began deliberations on punishment today.
Stabbed to death were Sandra Thompson, 35; Phyllis Adams, 47; Carolyn Watson,
37; Fransill Roberts, 34; and LaShawn Evans, 30.
Evans' daughter, LaShawnda, 7, quietly colored Disney characters and later
napped beneath a sweater as jurors heard testimony Tuesday. She was 9 months
old when her mother died.
"She doesn't want to talk about it because it hurts," Evans' aunt, Alma Lewis,
testified. "She's aware she should have a mother. ... She cried a lot. She'd
look for her mother to come in the door."
Hooks has been described during the trial as a crack cocaine addict with a
violent temper and a craving for group sex. Prosecutors believe he wanted to
force his victims into an orgy and killed them before daybreak May 16, 1992,
when one or more tried to flee the house at 11315 NE 50.
Jurors heard more Tuesday about Hooks' violent past, including how he stabbed a
man in the heart in California on July 5, 1987, and kidnapped and raped a woman
at knifepoint on Nov. 11, 1987. He pleaded guilty to those three felonies in
May 1988, and was in and out of prison for years, repeatedly violating parole.
His former wife, Shirley Brown, told jurors how he grabbed her by the hair and
slammed her head repeatedly into a wall at their Holdenville home in November
1992. He then choked her. She broke two ribs and cracked a vertebra.
Jurors next heard from relatives of the victims, including Watson's grieving
mother, Barbara Stevenson. She told how Watson's son once said "he didn't like
God because he'd took the only thing he cared about."
She said she cried every night after the murders until learning in 1997 police
had a suspect. "It was the best day of my life," Stevenson said. "I was so glad
to get some peace."
She wept as she testified, bringing two jurors and most of the spectators to
tears. Hooks did not cry then -- a lack of emotion prosecutors are expected to
point to today during closing arguments as proof he has no remorse.
Ten defense witnesses asked jurors for mercy, calling Hooks a good person who
liked to help others. Defense attorney Irven Box suggested Hooks would have
turned out different if not for drugs.
"That's the only thing I can blame," said an older brother, Earl Hooks. "Other
than that, I don't see how this happened."
Danny Hooks was arrested because of a key science-based break -- his DNA was
matched to that in 25 blood drops found in the house. His DNA was on file in
California because of his rape conviction there.
Ironically, Hooks would not have been caught if he hadn't been sent back to
prison for parole violations in November 1992. It was then he was forced to
give a blood sample for California's DNA files, according to testimony Tuesday.
Officials earlier had claimed Hooks left the blood sample before a parole in
1991.
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The following appears courtesy of the 9/18/98 online edition of The Daily
Oklahoman newspaper:
Man Faces Death For Five Slayings
09/18/1998
Admitted cocaine user Danny Keith Hooks now faces execution for fatally
stabbing five women in an Oklahoma City drug house in 1992.
Oklahoma County jurors agreed on his punishment Wednesday night after resolving
an 11-1 deadlock.
"We finally got justice," said one victim's mother, Barbara Stevenson.
Hooks, 40, was found guilty Monday of five counts of first-degree murder. An
appeal is automatic.
Killed May 16, 1992, were Sandra Thompson, 35; Phyllis Adams, 47; Carolyn
Watson, 37; Fransill Roberts, 34; and LaShawn Evans, 30. Tests after their
deaths found evidence of cocaine use.
Prosecutors believe Hooks wanted to force the women into an orgy and killed
them when one or more tried to flee.
Hooks grew up on a farm near Holdenville.
