Thread 17921984

Roderick Nunley was the 86th person executed by Missouri since 1976. Along with his partner Michael Taylor, he raped and murdered a 15 year old girl in Raytown in 1989. The two perpetrators were African-American, though not much else is known about their early lives. Nunley, the older of the pair, was born March 10, 1965 and Taylor on January 30, 1967.

Ann Harrison, who was white, was a freshman at Raytown South High. On Wednesday March 22, 1989, her mother Janel called out to her over their home intercom system that it was time to get up for school. Ann replied that she was up and about. From her bedroom, Janel Harrison could hear Ann walking around and water running in the bathroom, followed by the front door slamming shut. Everything as far as she could tell was entirely normal.

While she waited, Taylor and Nunley were cruising around town in a stolen '84 Monte Carlo with a busted right rear taillight. Both were high out of their minds on cocaine. The Monte Carlo had been stolen two days ago and that morning a police officer spotted them and tried to pull them over and cite them for the busted taillight. They ignored him and drove off. The officer did not bother pursuing them since it was only a minor traffic violation. Shortly afterwards, Taylor and Nunley spotted Harrison standing out front by the mailbox waiting for the school bus. She wore a jean jacket decorated with Disney pins she'd gotten from past visits to Disney World with her grandparents.

Taylor got out and asked the teenager for directions. He then ran at Harrison, punched her, and pulled her into the passenger seat of the car. She frantically fought her attackers as they pinned her to the floorboard and sped off. Another girl waiting for the bus saw the blue Chevrolet speeding past her. She glimpsed the driver but didn't see anyone else. A few minutes later the bus driver, Susan Crawford, who'd known Ann since kindergarten, stopped in front of Harrison's house. The driver sounded the horn but she didn't show up. He noticed her school items, her purse, textbooks, and flute case neatly stacked on the sidewalk in front of the mailbox.

Eventually Harrison's mother heard the commotion and came outside to investigate. Assuming Ann was still inside, she called out that it was ok and the bus driver could go; she would drive her to school herself. But after going back inside, she noticed still no sign of her and got increasingly concerned. Janel checked the backyard and didn't find Ann there either. This wasn't like her daughter at all; Ann was a dependable honor roll student who had a part time job at a local supermarket. Next she checked a neighbor's house; perhaps Ann was visiting with her teenage daughter. But that girl had already left for school. Her father however offered to help look for Ann. After a little bit of searching, he reported that he had not seen her either. Finally Janal went to a neighbor's house and called her husband and police.

Meanwhile, Harrison was driven to the home of Nunley's mother on 118th Street. She was in a panicky state and Taylor and Nunley put a blindfold on her and told her she'd better be quiet or else. They stopped at the house, led her inside, and took her to the basement where they took her pants off, tied her hands, and took turns anally raping her. As this was going on, Ann's father Bob was frantically trying to make his way through busy traffic. He finally got to his house a few minutes before police arrived. The initial responding officer assumed Ann had simply run away, but Janel pointed out that she wouldn't have left her purse behind if that was the case. The officer, who was female, agreed that it made little sense for a girl to take off somewhere without her purse. Further, Ann had no obvious reason to want to run away; spring break was starting tomorrow and she hoped to visit her boyfriend in the hospital where he was being treated for medical issues. As it turned out, Ann's uncle was also a Kansas City PD officer and head of the department's helicopter unit. They quickly dispatched a police chopper to scan the neighborhood.

At Nunley's house, he and Taylor were debating what to do with their captive. Taylor had worn a ski mask to conceal his identity and felt confident Ann would not be able to identify him, so he felt safe letting her go. Nunley however protested that she'd seen him. He ordered her into the car trunk. Perhaps sensing danger, Ann begged for mercy and said her parents would pay them ransom. Nunley said he'd take her to a pay phone. They put Ann in the trunk while Nunley went upstairs and collected a pair of kitchen knives.

The search expanded through the neighborhood. Police knocked on doors and asked people if they'd seen anything. One woman said she was off from work that day and had not seen Ann. Another said she heard a scream and squealing tires, but nothing else. The first useful lead came from the girl down the street who reported seeing a blue Monte Carlo. Nunley meanwhile told his partner "Come on, we gotta be in this together." He stabbed the knife into her neck as she struggled against him. Taylor then stabbed her torso. Ann's breathing became steadily more labored until she expired. Still not even knowing their victim's name, they slammed the trunk lid shut.

In the afternoon, Nunley parked the stolen Chevy about a mile from his mother's house and got into another car Taylor had stolen. As Taylor came home to his mother, he looked distraught. She asked him what was wrong. "Only God can help me now," he replied as he slumped off to bed. The Harrisons went on TV and begged their daughter's kidnapper to return her. A few hours later, someone reported an abandoned Monte Carlo. Police ran the license plate and found it was stolen. The owner arrived and noticed that whoever took his car had let the engine overheat. He put antifreeze in it and popped open the trunk, only to find Ann Harrison's body inside...

The Harrisons initially only heard a news bulletin that Ann had been found with no word on her condition, but when a police officer arrived at their house to inform them, they instantly knew from his body language what had happened. Detective Pete Edlund felt confident they would catch Ann's killer; they had collected hair and semen from her. There were wild stories that Ann had been murdered by Satanists, or by an enemy of the Harrisons. Teenagers the family had never heard of were claiming to be Ann's best friend.

By June, three months had passed since the murder and the reward for finding her killers was now $9,000. A tipster informed police about Nunley and Taylor and they were taken in for questioning. Both tried to pin the murder on one another but lab tests would prove it was Taylor's hair and semen; DNA testing was extremely new in 1989 and forensic testing of blood and semen in almost all investigations still relied on the less precise method of testing blood type. However, Taylor had the same blood type as the collected semen while Nunley did not. He confessed and described in graphic detail how they'd stabbed Ann to death.

Both men were convicted of first degree murder, kidnapping, and rape and sentenced to death. Taylor blamed the tragedy on Nunley. He himself had come from a stable, middle class black family who attended weekly church services and he displayed some artistic gifts. That all changed when he hooked up with Nunley, who got him into drugs and numerous thefts and burglaries, landing the two of them in jail several times. Still, Taylor had no history of violence prior to the murder.

Taylor was to be executed in February 2006 but the Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution. Later that year Nunley was accused of attacking a prison staffer at Potosi Correctional Center, stabbing him with a metal shard. His date of execution was set for October 10, 2010 but a judge gave him a stay of execution. Taylor's execution was carried out February 26, 2014 and Nunley's on September 1, 2015.

>>17921990
>>17921987
>>17921984 (OP)
Now you done it, OP. Dis thread gun be good.

>>17921987
She was homely anyway.

>>17921987
>>17921990
I'm not a serial killer so I never understood the reasoning here.

>we need to...kill the rape victim so she doesn't tell on us
>therefore getting us a spot in the electric chair if we get caught
>whereas if we simply let her go there's no guarantee she'd even tell anyone because most rapes go unreported due to the victim's shame

>>17922054
surprisingly most of these kind of people aren't that smart and lack planning skills. i used to think serial killers were supervillain criminal masterminds but most were actually dumb as fuck and only acted on immediate impulses.

she probably called them the N-word

>>17922138
A preventable tragedy.

>>17921984 (OP)
>murder 1
watch the videos yikes
snapped & forensic files

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>>17922054
skin color explains poor reasoning skills

>>17922740
fuck off, /pol/

>>17922751
reality has a /pol/ bias

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>>17922296
>Homosexual Homicides section
>"Homosexual Serial Murderers" gets 13 pages
>"Homophobic Assault and 'Gay-Bashing' Incidents" gets less than one page

>>17921984 (OP)
>her mother Janel called out to her over their home intercom system that it was time to get up for school
their what?

>>17923023
Exactly what it said.

>>17923032
Who tf has an intercom system in their house?

>>17923039
Weird control freak parents.

>>17923039
I remember my uncle had one in their old place back in the mid-2000s. They were usually part of home security and alarm systems, where you'd be able to access a speaker (usually installed in your living room or near the front door) from your home telephone via LAN line

>>17923014
Given that an awful lot of homosexual serial murderers are in fact self-hating gays like Randy Kraft and Herbert Baumeister, it fits.

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>>17923014
what an odd thing to notice
>kek

Blacks are sloppy as fuck criminals and act mostly on impulse with poor planning skills.

>>17921987
Solid 4/10. The braces don't help but she would still be a cave troll even without them.