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‘Tool Box Killer’ Who Kidnapped, Raped and Murdered 5 SoCal Teens Has Died [of natural causes] at San Quentin [after 38 years on Death Row]
ktla ^ | 12/16/2019

Posted on 12/16/2019 1:42:53 PM PST by BenLurkin

Lawrence Sigmond Bittaker, 79, was pronounced dead at San Quentin State Prison around 4 p.m. Friday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Marin County coroner will determine the exact cause of death.

Bittaker and his crime partner, 71-year-old Roy Lewis Norris – known together as the “Tool Box Killers” – kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed five teens over a five-month period in 1979.

The two were convicted in the brutal deaths of Lucinda Lynn Schaefer, 16; Andrea Joy Hall, 18; Jacqueline Doris Gilliam, 15; Jacqueline Leah Lamp, 13; and Shirley Lynette Ledford, 16.

Investigators never located the bodies of Schaefer and Hall.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; capitaloffense; deathpenalty; rape; rotinhell; serialkillers; sexualassault
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1 posted on 12/16/2019 1:42:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Those poor girls never got to live another 38 years.


2 posted on 12/16/2019 1:44:17 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

Evil lives far too long on this Earth. Mass murderers, Soros, ...


3 posted on 12/16/2019 1:48:11 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He will however get to live till the end of time, in Hell.


4 posted on 12/16/2019 1:48:59 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: BenLurkin

If you are a lawyer for a convicted killer sentenced to Death Row, you have won a lifetime lottery ticket.

Lifetime as long as the killer stays alive on death row.


5 posted on 12/16/2019 1:49:34 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: BenLurkin

Justice was not served on Earth... but a special place in Hell has been waiting.

So, justice delayed is not justice denied.


6 posted on 12/16/2019 1:51:30 PM PST by Professional
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So, you’re fine with the lives Soros has ruined while alive?


7 posted on 12/16/2019 1:54:32 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
young, innocent girls.....evil always goes after the innocent among us....

this is not justice...its containment maybe.....but no justice.....

8 posted on 12/16/2019 1:54:40 PM PST by cherry
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This man was a monster. Hope he is currently inhabiting the hottest part of hell.


9 posted on 12/16/2019 1:55:57 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: BenLurkin; All

There should have been live executions of the animals right after the trial. Chopping block and a big axe.


10 posted on 12/16/2019 1:56:35 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: CatOwner

Pretty sure one of the young victims begged to be killed during the torture, in order to put an end to it.

These two evil excuses for human beings should have been executed right after the trial. It’s unbelievable they were both allowed to live considering what they did to those young girls.


11 posted on 12/16/2019 1:57:09 PM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Look at it this way - he’s toast.


12 posted on 12/16/2019 1:58:33 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: BenLurkin

Makes me think of Ron Karenga.

Crappy Kwanza.


13 posted on 12/16/2019 1:58:43 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Grampa Dave

It would surprise the general public if they knew how many are alive and well 30-40 years after first walking into death row.


14 posted on 12/16/2019 1:59:56 PM PST by bgill
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To: SkyDancer

WE took care of this SCUM for 38 years in CA. food, shelter, dental, medical this MAKES ME SICK!!!


15 posted on 12/16/2019 2:01:19 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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WE took care of this SCUM for 38 years in CA. food, shelter, dental, medical this MAKES ME SICK!!!

You left, out legal costs which is apparently a lot of money for basically no effort by the lawyers.

Those costs keep on occurring along as the scumbags are breathing.


16 posted on 12/16/2019 2:04:40 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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Well at least he was prevented from killing any more /sarc

What's infuriating is the appeals - one after another after another and the gov against CP.

17 posted on 12/16/2019 2:05:57 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: bgill

It would surprise the general public if they knew how many are alive and well 30-40 years after first walking into death row.

Getting a life sentence in California is the best thing, these animals ever got/get in their rotten life.


18 posted on 12/16/2019 2:08:09 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: Grampa Dave

Yep....The Prison Industrial Complex....lives on.


19 posted on 12/16/2019 2:15:33 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: BenLurkin

isn’t this the ding dong that they discovered a picture of a young man in his tool box as they were going through his stuff after conviction? They couldn’t determine who he was because he didn’t fit any missing persons reports? I seem to remember the tool box was in a secret compartment.


20 posted on 12/16/2019 2:15:57 PM PST by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
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