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Friday, October 26, 2012

JEFFREY LANDRIGAN THE ESCAPEE & RECIDIVIST MURDERER (EXECUTED ON OCTOBER 26, 2010)



On this date, October 26, 2010, a Prison escapee and repeat offender, Jeffrey Landrigan was executed by lethal injection in Arizona. This is another perfect example of letting a dangerous killer be kept alive.





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Summary: Chester Dean Dryer was a 42 year old man who worked in a health club and was known to pick up men and take them home. Dyer called friends to tell them he was having sex with a man named Jeff. He was later found strangled by an electrical cord and stabbed to death in his apartment. A deck of pornographic playing cards were strewn over the bed. Landrigan's shoes matched a footprint left in sugar in Dyer's apartment. He told police that he had beaten Dyer after Dyer made sexual advances, but that another man had done the killing. Landrigan was uncooperative and disruptive during his trial, and at sentencing told the Judge "If you want to give me the death penalty, bring it on, I'm ready."

Landrigan was abandoned by his parents as an infant. His birth father, whom he never met face to face, died on death row in Arkansas. His grandfather was shot to death by police while robbing a drugstore. In 1982, when he was 20, Landrigan lived in Oklahoma and stabbed to death a childhood friend. He was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life, but the conviction was overturned on appeal and Landrigan entered a plea agreement to second-degree murder and a 20-year prison term. In 1989, Landrigan escaped from a minimum security work crew and headed for Arizona. 



ProDeathPenalty.Com : Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan, aka Billy Patrick Wayne Hill, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the fatal stabbing of his best friend, Greg Brown, after they and some friends had smoked marijuana and drank whiskey at a trailer park in Dewey, Oklahoma, on August 24, 1982.

According to testimony presented at trial, Landrigan, accompanied by his wife and son, arrived at the trailer home of Gordon Aiken at about 8 p.m. that evening. Soon after they arrived, Landrigan, his family and Aiken went to purchase a fifth of whiskey. On their way back to the trailer park, the group picked up Landrigan's brother-in-law, Robert Martinez. When they returned to the trailer, Landrigan, Greg Brown, David Detjan and Donna Favier began drinking whiskey and smoking marijuana cigarettes. Landrigan and Greg Brown began calling one another a "punk," and began arguing whether Landrigan could beat the victim in a fight. As Landrigan started to leave, Greg Brown pushed him against the trailer wall, and told Landrigan, "if you want to settle the argument, we can take it outside." Brown went outside, followed by Landrigan.

According to Aiken's testimony, Landrigan was holding a knife behind his back. Aiken testified he rushed to a bedroom to find his rifle. In the meantime, however, Landrigan lunged at Brown and stabbed him in the chest. Aiken returned to the living room with the rifle. Detjan took the rifle, pointed it at Landrigan and told him to "back up or I'm going to blow your head off." Landrigan escaped between two cars as his victim collapsed on the ground. Landrigan ran to the machine shop of Alvin Burns and told Burns that he had "wasted a guy." He later told Washington County Undersheriff Jim Eppler, "Jim, I tried to kill the m____ f____. I don't take that shit off nobody. I cut him twice. I think I cut him twice." Landrigan testified on his own behalf that as the men continued to drink, he could see that what began as friendly teasing was now making the victim angry. Landrigan testified that, as he was leaving, the victim grabbed him by the throat and threatened to "whip my ass." Landrigan said the men went outside. He also testified that he attempted to go back into the trailer, but someone inside pointed the shotgun in his direction. Landrigan jumped at Brown, but did not know he had a knife in his hand when he hit the victim. However, Brown did have a knife as he approached Landrigan, according to Landrigan's testimony.

In 1986, while in custody for Greg Brown's murder, Landrigan repeatedly stabbed another inmate and was subsequently convicted of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Three years later, Landrigan escaped from prison and murdered Chester Dean Dyer in Arizona.

An Arizona jury found Landrigan guilty of theft, second-degree burglary, and felony murder for having caused the victim’s death in the course of a burglary. At sentencing, Landrigan's counsel attempted to present the testimony of Landrigan's ex-wife and birth mother as mitigating evidence. But at Landrigan's request, both women refused to testify. When the trial judge asked why the witnesses refused, Landrigan's counsel responded that "it's at my client's wishes." When counsel tried to explain that Landrigan had worked in a legitimate job to provide for his family, Landrigan interrupted and stated "if I wanted this to be heard, I'd have my wife say it." When counsel characterized Landrigan's first murder as having elements of self-defense, Landrigan interrupted and clarified: "He didn't grab me. I stabbed him." Responding to counsel's statement implying that the prison stabbing involved self-defense because the assaulted inmate knew Landrigan's first murder victim, Landrigan interrupted to clarify that the inmate was not acquainted with his first victim, but just "a guy I got in an argument with. I stabbed him 14 times. It was lucky he lived." At the conclusion of the sentencing hearing, the judge asked Landrigan if he had anything to say. Landrigan made a brief statement that concluded, "I think if you want to give me the death penalty, just bring it right on. I'm ready for it." In later appeals, Landrigan alleged that his lawyers had failed to explore mitigation evidence. 


 

 

1 comment:

  1. I think the whole Landrigan gene pool needs wiped out (LOW-KEY).

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