Posted on 01/28/2006 1:03:44 PM PST by Cagey
TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa man convicted in federal court of drugging and raping nine young men was sentenced to the maximum 200 years in prison Friday.
Two of the victims of Steven Lorenzo ended up dead, and he is likely to face murder charges in state court later.
"I hope that he never sees the light of day again," said U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara after the sentencing.
A jury in November found Lorenzo, 46, guilty of slipping the date rape drug, GHB, into the drinks of all nine victims and then sexually torturing them at his home.
Michael Wachholtz and Jason Galehouse, both 26, were killed. The other seven victims all testified about meeting Lorenzo at bars and either losing track of their drinks or having Lorenzo serve them drinks before they lost consciousness.
The men woke up naked and in pain, some remembering bondage or forced sex, and others having almost no memory of what happened.
Lorenzo's attorney argued that the sex acts were consensual.
Prosecutors said Lorenzo teamed up with Scott Schweickert, a Chicago man he met online, to fulfill their ultimate fantasy by killing Wachholtz and Galehouse.
Galehouse was killed and dismembered by Schweickert and Lorenzo on Dec. 19, 2003, after the three engaged in sex, an indictment said. Schweickert told federal agents he and Lorenzo cut up the body, put the pieces in garbage bags and scattered them in trash bins throughout the city.
The next night, Lorenzo and Schweickert allegedly drugged, raped and killed Wachholtz, wrapping him a bed sheet and leaving him in his Jeep, according to the indictment. The vehicle was discovered Jan. 6, 2004.
Investigators found on Lorenzo's computer hundreds of thousands of images, including photographs of Wachholtz's dead body taken at Lorenzo's house hours after he was last seen.
Galehouse's DNA was found in a large pool of blood in the dirt beneath the cobblestone floor of Lorenzo's garage.
Schweickert will face a federal trial later.
Maybe the sadist isn't a masochist. He may hate prison.
I'm sure we can expect to see this article posted on hundreds of pro-sodomite blogs and web-sites within the next 24 hours - you know, to serve as a warning to other gay yutes.
Right?
are you saying i need to read the entire thread before posting a question? thanks, but no thanks... someone else kindly answered me...
No, I'm not saying that at all. But the answer you received is not exactly correct either. The answer to your question is in the article which says the state has not tried this scum for murder yet.
The state has not yet had a murder trial and I expect they will. This sentence is for the federal crime of "administering GHB, a central nervous system depressant, with the intent of committing violence, and one count of conspiring to distribute GHB. ".
Now, you're question has been answered but as I stated to you earlier, it is in the article.
Why does central Florida seem to breed this kind of insanity? This area seems to be an incubator for serial killers.
He'll find lots of his fellow kind where he's going.
American lawyers. Ya gotta love 'em.
-and the murders were.... ????
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An exposed view of the underbelly of the beast. By the way- the sex was normal and consentual (BIG BARF)
Absolutely. Almost every single kind of perversion is now a federally protected civil right, and when something that was once unthinkable is de-criminalized and the stigma is removed, we get more of it.
The last frontier in the sexual revolution are children and with a few baby rapists in the northeast either getting a few days in prison or no time at all, we are rapidly reaching the day when it will be okay and perfectly legal to have sex with children.
Mark my words- that is next and we will see the time when killers of baby rapists are locked up for hate crimes.
One of the murders reminds me of Jeffery Dahmer all over again.
looks like post 43 links to the Arkansas story I was talking about...
Evil breeds evil...
The two perps met and corresponded online=interstate/federal involvement.
I think it's a bit of everything. I think we do have few more sickos, but also it's not as hushed up as it used to be, and information is alot more available. Remember that Ted Bundy ended up getting caught in Florida and no one had any clue who he was, or that the crimes he committed in Florida were very similar to the crimes he committed in Washinton and Utah and Idaho (I think). Also, I think that with the advent of CSI and all te Law and Order shows, and the internet, criminals have a better understanding of how to avoid detection. and if they're caught, they have a better than average chance of getting a slap on the wrist.
The problem of tightening the sentence of rape to life in prison, is that if you don't have the death penalty(or even if you do but don't use it), then you get a rapist who sees that the best thing for him is to kill the victim, then there is no eye-witness, and he's not risking anything.
Indeed...why waste valuable tax money incarcerating this dirtbag? Just send him up to Vermont.
After posting I realized they had not yet been tried for murder.
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