Update on accused serial killer William Darrell Lindsey in FL,63 y.o.charged w/SK'ing 6 gals,over past 10 years,trial begins next month
Joe1orbit
I had a very busy day yesterday, and tomorrow, Friday, promises to be even
busier. Luckily I di have 5-7 hours to kick around today, and so will try to
squeeze in 6-8 new TC news posts during the course of the day.
Does the name William Darrell Linsey ring any bells, folks? It certainly
should. William, aged SIXTY-THREE, is an accused serial killer, and I did post
several news items on William and his alleged killings when this case first
broke about 12-15 months ago. Since then, there has been VERY little media
coverage of this case, certainly a lot less than what William deserves, given
his alleged crimes.
Police and detectives say that they believe William serially killed at least
SIX women, all in the state of Florida. Shortly after his arrest, William,
while not DIRECTLY confessing to the murders, offered to show police exactly
where he had dumped the bodies of his victims. The police, always eager to have
killers incriminate themselves, knowing that this is really the only way for
them to easily link a man to unsolved killings, eagerly accepted William's
offer. A FEW dead bodies were indeed found, thanks to the dump site directions
given by William. But NOT all 6. Only four bodies have been found thus far, and
in one of the four, William's defense attorney tells us that an exact cause of
death cannot be determined.
Still, I think it is very likely that William did kill at least the 6 gals
that he has confessed to harvesting, and possibly more. It certainly was a
tactical mistake on William's part, to talk to police and offer to lead them to
the bodies, even if he didn't come right out and SAY: "I killed these women".
Leading them to bodies that were dumped in isolated, swampy areas, is pretty
incriminating in and of itself, especially in a society that consists of
perverse, brainwashed, societally beholden hypocrites who serve as jurors and
ignore the PRESUMPTION of INNOCENCE and the need for GUILT to be proved beyond
a reasonable doubt, prior to rendering a guilty verdict.
William's trial is set to begin next month, December 14th to be exact. We
learn below that a judge has approved the request from prosecutors that a BLOOD
SAMPLE be taken from William, to be compared to evidence found at the crime
scenes. This is obviously not good news for William. I think that the laws that
allow all defendents to not be FORCED to incriminate themselves should serve to
protect a SUSPECT, in a case like this one, from having to provide his
PERSECUTORS with a sample of his blood. This man is not GUILTY of anything. He
is a DEFENDENT, society SAYS that it THINKS he MIGHT be guilty of some crimes.
he should not be forced to "prove his innocence", by having a blood sample
taken against his will. But of course there is no real justice or rationality
in society, so I'm not surprised at all that the judge, a member of society in
good standing, granted this prosecutorial request.
William's lawyer is also trying to get all the statements that William made
to police shortly after his arrest thrown out and ruled inadmissable at trial
because nobody properly informed William of his rights before and during these
police interrogations. It certainly would be helpful to William to get all his
tactically foolish statements thrown out, but once again, I am 99.99999%
certain that we will see the judge proudly subverting the LAW, allowing these
interrogations into evidence, in order to support his prosecutorial "friends",
who are battling against the "demonized" human known as William Darrell
Lindsay.
Perhaps William will get some media attention once the trial begins. He
certainly has been IGNORED by the national media, despite very likely being a
decently prolific serial killer.
In a nice display of prosecutorial fascism, prosecutors say that they WILL
stick with charging Darrell with SIX counts of first degree murder, even though
only FOUR bodies have been found, and only 3 of the bodies have been positively
judged, by a coroner, as having met with foul play as a cause of their deaths.
There is NO solid evidence of ANY kind linking Darrell to the 2 MISSING gals,
and yet he will still be formally charged with having killed them. What an
OUTRAGEOUS example of prosecutorial misconduct and SCORN for justice and truth,
this is.
The six murders are believed to have occured between 1988 and 1995. At age
63, this means that William BEGAN his serial killing career at the age of 53.
Quite late, but certainly very possible. Obviously I think it is also possible
that William killed NUMEROUS other people, for DECADES, prior to this string of
6, and simply has not been credited with those killings because he committed
them in an undetectable fashion and was wise enough to at least keep his mouth
shut about them, following his arrest last year.
Prosecutors are going to seek the legal murder of William, via the death
penalty. Oh well, he has already enjoyed a NICE run, living in freedom for most
of the 62 years of his life, and PERHAPS serially killing DOZENS of humans,
before finally caught last year.
If you would like to view a color facial photo of William, simply point your
web browser to:
http://staugustine.com/stories/oct/971021_lindsey.shtml
If you would like to read an ARCHIVE of 15 or more different news items on
this VERY interesting and little publicized case, dating all the way back to
William's arrest last year, simply go to:
http://staugustine.com/cgi-bin/AT-augustinesearch.cgi?search=Lindsey&sp=sp
And click on the linked articles from there.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Reuters news wire:
Judge Approves Blood Test
11/18/98
Reuters
(SAINT AUGUSTINE) -- A judge in Northeast Florida says prosecutors can take a
blood sample from suspected serial killer William Darrell Lindsey so it can be
compared to crime scene evidence. Lindsey, who is charged with first-degree
murder in the deaths of six North Florida women, talked to detectives last year
and showed them locations where he said bodies could be found. But his public
defender says those statements should be thrown out because Lindsey was not
properly read his rights during those trips. Defense lawyers are also asking
that charges in three of the deaths be dismissed because two of the bodies have
not been found and the cause of death in the third case is unknown.
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The following appears courtesy of the 11/18/98 online edition of The St.
Augustine Record newspaper:
Lindsey: suppress confessions
By BRIAN L. THOMPSON
Staff Writer
11/18/98
The defense for accused serial killer William Darrell Lindsey has asked Circuit
Court Judge Robert Mathis to throw out three of six first-degree murder counts
against him and suppress confessions he gave investigators in March 1997 about
half a dozen local murders.
Mathis is expected to issue a ruling today
Lindsey, 63, was in court Tuesday as Public Defender Douglas Withee argued that
in three of the deaths his client is charged with, there is not enough evidence
for the state to prosecute.
Of the three, the bodies of two women Lindsey allegedly confessed to murdering
ó Doneatha Sneed and Diana Richardson ó have never been found. Without the
bodies, Withee said, the state cannot prove the cause of death or even that the
crimes were committed.
Calling Sneed and Richardson ëëladies of the evening,íí he said it was not
uncommon for them to go missing. As for the third woman ó Lashawna Streeter ó
he said the cause of death is unclear.
But Assistant State Attorney R.J. Larizza said the two women are still missing
and that there is enough circumstantial evidence to go to trial on all counts.
Lindsey is also charged in the deaths of Anita Stevens, Connie Terrell and
Cheryl Lucas.
Many of the victimsí families attended the afternoon hearing.
Withee also asked that Mathis suppress the confessions Lindsey gave St. Johns
County sheriffís detectives in March 1997 after Lindsey agreed to come to
Florida to lead investigators to sites where he said he killed and dumped the
bodies.
Lindsey, a former St. Augustine resident, was arrested in December 1996 in
Asheville, N.C., for the murder of a prostitute. In early 1997, investigators,
tipped off to similarities in unsolved murder cases here, went to North
Carolina to interview him. The murders here occurred between 1988 and 1995.
Withee argued that statements during trips to the suspected crime scenes were
obtained illegally because Lindsey was not continuously advised of his rights.
But Larizza questioned Buncombe County, N.C., Sheriff Bobby Medford and local
investigators who said Lindsey was properly read all of his rights and that he
gave his statements freely.
ëëHe was advised of his rights,íí Larizza argued.
ëëThereís certainly a lot of testimony on him eagerly wanting to come downíí to
Florida to lead police to the victims, he said.
Sheriffís detective Frank Welborn said he was present when Lindsey signed a
form waiving his rights and that the defendant was willing to talk about the
murders.
Outside of court, Withee said he will file another motion to suppress the
confessions in several days, but he would not elaborate on the reason for a
second motion.
Also Tuesday, Mathis agreed to allow the prosecution to draw new blood samples
from Lindsey to be matched with blood found at one of the crime scenes.
Lindsey was indicted on the six murder counts in November 1997. In May, the
State Attorneyís Office filed a motion of its intention to seek the death
penalty.
The case is tentatively scheduled to go to trial Dec. 14.