LENDELL HUNTER
In the early 1970's Lendell Hunter shocked Augusta,
Georgia,
a city that has had several serial killings and rapists since 1970, with
a string of violent rapes, for example, Hunter entered a suburban home
of a prominent Augusta couple and found their 31-year-old daughter asleep.
Using a table leg, Hunter smashed the daughter's head several times and
then raped her. The victim lost her vision from this incident, but they
restored her vision after she had brain surgery a year later. Hunter
attacked
and kidnaped another woman and took her from her home at knife point. He
raped her and then for some unknown reason allowed her to go free. In
October
of 1971 Hunter was arrested and charged with fifteen felonies, including
rapes, burglaries, aggravated assaults and kidnaping. In January of 1972
Hunter was given a sentence of three consecutive lives for the rapes and
ninety-five years for the other charges. He was eighteen years old when
he was sent to Alto prison. There his I.Q. was tested and found out that
he had an I.Q. of 114. In December of 1974 Hunter escaped Alto Prison.
In February of 1975 a 78-year-old woman, Mrs. Irene DeQausie was robbed
and beat to death in her home and her 12-year-old grandson was savagely
beaten while he slept. Police found Hunter's fingerprints at the crime
scene and Launched an intensive search. F.B.I. put Hunter on their "Ten
Most Wanted List" in June of 1974. In August of that year Hunter was
arrested in Des Moines, Iowa. In 1983 Hunter was in the news again when
he stabbed two prison guards while being escorted to his shower. Both guards
survived the incident.
OTHER GEORGIA SERIAL KILLERS
John
Williams and Clyde Manning, "The Murder Farm killings"
Junior
Pierce
Carlton
Gary, "The Columbus Stalking Strangler"
William
Hance, "The Forces of Evil Murders"
Wayne
Williams, "The Atlanta Child Murders"
R.L.
Hunter
James
Samuel Walraven, "The Bathtub Murderer"
John
Latham and George York
Paul
John Knowles
Henry
Lucas and Ottis Toole
Janie
Lou Gibbs
Terri
Rachals
Anjette
Lyles
Billy
Sunday Birt
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