Killer who impersonated policeman executed in Oklahoma
The Associated Press
McALESTER, Okla. (August 10, 2000 11:48 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - A former truck driver who snared his victims by impersonating a police officer was put to death Thursday for killing two teens.
George Kent Wallace, 59, was given a lethal dose of drugs at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Wallace pleaded guilty in 1991 in the deaths of William Von Eric Domer, 15, of Fort Smith, Ark., and Mark Anthony McLaughlin, 14, of Van Buren, Ark.
The teens' bodies were discovered almost four years apart - in 1987 and 1990 - in the same pond just across the state line in Oklahoma.
Wallace also confessed to killing two men in North Carolina - Jeffrey Lee Foster in 1976 and Thomas Stewart Reed in 1982.
He was suspected in the death of another boy in Arkansas and had indicated he would meet with authorities about the death of 12-year-old Alonzo Don Cade of Fort Smith, but later decided against it. The boy's body was found in 1990 in a pond.
Wallace was arrested after an 18-year-old supermarket employee managed to escape after being stabbed in the back and arm.
The man, now 28, told police Wallace had said he was a police officer and was arresting him. He said Wallace put him in handcuffs and leg irons, then drove him to a pond and attacked him. He managed to escape by leaping into the car and driving away.
Wallace's execution was the 11th this year in Oklahoma, the most in a year since the state executed 14 men in 1933.
The story can be found HERE.
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
The Associated Press
McALESTER, Okla. (August 10, 2000 11:48 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - A former truck driver who snared his victims by impersonating a police officer was put to death Thursday for killing two teens.
George Kent Wallace, 59, was given a lethal dose of drugs at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Wallace pleaded guilty in 1991 in the deaths of William Von Eric Domer, 15, of Fort Smith, Ark., and Mark Anthony McLaughlin, 14, of Van Buren, Ark.
The teens' bodies were discovered almost four years apart - in 1987 and 1990 - in the same pond just across the state line in Oklahoma.
Wallace also confessed to killing two men in North Carolina - Jeffrey Lee Foster in 1976 and Thomas Stewart Reed in 1982.
He was suspected in the death of another boy in Arkansas and had indicated he would meet with authorities about the death of 12-year-old Alonzo Don Cade of Fort Smith, but later decided against it. The boy's body was found in 1990 in a pond.
Wallace was arrested after an 18-year-old supermarket employee managed to escape after being stabbed in the back and arm.
The man, now 28, told police Wallace had said he was a police officer and was arresting him. He said Wallace put him in handcuffs and leg irons, then drove him to a pond and attacked him. He managed to escape by leaping into the car and driving away.
Wallace's execution was the 11th this year in Oklahoma, the most in a year since the state executed 14 men in 1933.
The story can be found HERE.
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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!