The perp.
Posted on 02/07/2009 8:13:03 PM PST by txroadkill
ARLINGTON – Police Detective Tommy Le Noir remembers the alarm that gripped this city in 1996 after two young women were found strangled in the bathtubs of their east Arlington apartment complex.
"There was a lot of fear in the community and in the Police Department," Le Noir said. "The fear is that you don't want this to happen again. At that time there was some incredible panic in those apartment complexes. People moved out in masses. It was just an incredible time."
Tuesday night, almost 13 years after the crimes, the state plans to execute 35-year-old Dale Devon Scheanette for the so-called "bathtub murders" of Wendie Prescott and Christine Vu.
On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles voted unanimously against asking Gov. Rick Perry to commute Scheanette's death sentence.
Fort Worth attorney Richard Alley, who represented Scheanette on appeal, said he has not been his attorney for more than a year.
"I was withdrawn at his request," Alley said this week, adding that Scheanette has since handled his own appeals, which thus far have been unsuccessful. "I was the lawyer on deck. Then he took over from there."
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Normally I post pictures of the victims, but (as I'm sure by design so that you only feel sorry for the rapist not the victims) their pictures seem to be removed from the web.
Wendie Prescott and Christine Vu were both raped, strangled and left to be found naked in their bathtubs. Wendie Prescott was found by her family on Christmas Eve in 1996.
Sorry it took so long ladies, may you both continue to rest in peace and our thoughts and prays are with your families in hopes that this scum bag does not get another last minute stay.
My husband and I were living in Arlington in the late 1990’s and early 2000. One afternoon I came home from work, to find our street swarming with cops and news vans, and a helicopter hovering overhead. Turned out the cops had finally closed in on this guy, and he was living just a few houses down from us. Scared the bejeezus out of me when I found out.
The weird thing was that some time earlier, while living there, I was going to sleep one night when I suddenly “heard” a command to do something really, really awful (not going to be specific since I don’t want to pass on the unpleasantness to anyone else). I remember I sat bolt upright in bed, thinking WTH was that? Where did that come from? Took me a long time to get to sleep that night.
After the Bathtub Murderer was arrested down the street, it suddenly made a weird sort of sense... that maybe I somehow picked up on one of his thoughts. Ugh.
May his victims now rest in peace, and their families find peace and justice at last.
The perp.
Ping a few others here !!!
When he’s gone, the world will be no poorer.
I tried a few search engines, and couldn’t find any photos of them, either.
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