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Denise Amber Lee’s final 911 calls changed Florida law as her killer was executed Tuesday
Gulf Coast ABC ^ | March 18, 2026 | Peter Busch

Posted on 03/18/2026 1:02:32 PM PDT by TheDon

The man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Denise Amber Lee, a 21-year-old mother of two from North Port, was executed on Tuesday.

At the scheduled execution time of 6 p.m., the curtain went up, and King gave a nearly inaudible statement

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He did not apologize for the murder or seek forgiveness.

The incident happened in 2008 when Lee saved her kids after Michael King, 54, broke into her home and took her.

King then took Lee to his home and raped her before driving her out to a remote area, shooting her and burying her. At one point, Lee was able to get hold of King's cell phone to call 911.

However, despite multiple 911 calls that provided descriptions of King's location, no officers were reportedly sent to help.

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Last week, the Florida Supreme Court denied King's motion for a stay of execution and affirmed his conviction.

"He's going to burn in hell as he should do. That's my feelings," Rick Goff, Denise Amber Lee's father, said in a previous interview with Gulf Coast News. "He's never reached out, you know, to the family. And he still says he never did anything.”

King was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.,m. Tuesday after lethal injection at the Florida State Prison.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: deniseamberlee; florida; michaelking; northport; peterbusch

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

He won't be murdering anyone else.
1 posted on 03/18/2026 1:02:32 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

Next!


2 posted on 03/18/2026 1:03:27 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: TheDon

And now his troubles are over.


3 posted on 03/18/2026 1:05:39 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TheDon

Real victims get zero chances and zero stays.


4 posted on 03/18/2026 1:09:40 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: TheDon

I’ll drink a toast to that


5 posted on 03/18/2026 1:14:14 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: BradyLS

This bum got 18 extra years that he didn’t deserve.


6 posted on 03/18/2026 1:25:52 PM PDT by laconic
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To: TheDon

7 posted on 03/18/2026 1:34:13 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: No name given

But Denise Amber’s family’s troubles last a lifetime.


8 posted on 03/18/2026 1:36:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (…)
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To: TheDon

He was 54 at the time of the murder or the time of his execution?


9 posted on 03/18/2026 1:44:34 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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To: TheDon

It’s disgusting that 18 years to termination is dpwnright speedy by current standards. R.I.P., Denise Amber Lee.

May the raping-murdering coward be unnamed and erased from memory.


10 posted on 03/18/2026 1:45:07 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: TheDon
"...despite multiple 911 calls that provided descriptions of King's location, no officers were reportedly sent to help."

What the heck?

11 posted on 03/18/2026 1:45:19 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes, sadly.


12 posted on 03/18/2026 1:49:40 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Psalm 73

The ENTIRE police department should have been FIRED.
ALL they way up to and including the CHIEF.

Since they ACTED like they had no job they could damned well actually have no job.

RAZE the department and PAVE IT WITH FIRE if that’s how they’re gonna fail the community.


13 posted on 03/18/2026 2:08:21 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: TheDon

To hell with him!


14 posted on 03/18/2026 2:18:31 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Psalm 73
I know from first-hand experience that if a 9-1-1 call is placed and a location determined, law enforcement is sent even if there’s nobody on the line to describe what, if anything is going on.

That’s a hard and fast policy in my jurisdiction anyway.

15 posted on 03/18/2026 2:21:28 PM PDT by daler
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To: TheDon

Executed murderer recidivism rate: 0%.


16 posted on 03/18/2026 2:59:01 PM PDT by alstewartfan (I AM Charlie Kirk. ❤️✝️)
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HELP NEEDED

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371180/posts#comment


17 posted on 03/18/2026 3:13:48 PM PDT by deport
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To: TheDon

America is a better place today.


18 posted on 03/18/2026 3:28:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (My Pronouns are "Y'all" and "All Y'all". )
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To: TheDon

We need to revisit the appeals process.....too many of these vermin are allowed to breathe our oxygen too long


19 posted on 03/18/2026 4:31:04 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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