Suspected Serial Killer is Found Hanged in Jail

St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 7/11/02 | Bill Bryan

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Maury Troy Travis, accused of killing two women and linked by court documents to the deaths of five more, was found dead Monday night in his cell at the St. Louis County jail in Clayton, sources said.

A 10th (victim) was found May 25 when the letter to the Post-Dispatch led police to a skeleton in the West Alton area of St. Charles County."The letter was critical to our case," Hegger said.

[TightSqueeze]

(With all the academics out there wasting tax dollars on "studies," I'd like to see how much tax money such a system would save the US by thinning out the prison population along purely voluntary lines...)

You don’t really think your government would let those newly unoccupied jail cells go empty would you?
No, my naive friend, new laws would be created, and new criminals would be discovered so that these jail cells would never go to waste, remember now prisons are big business for pork barrel politicians, doughnut eating LEOS and crooked lawyers.
Back to the books for you, maybe the academics you so readily scorn might still be able to teach you something.

[George from New England]

Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed. This is simple police work to find these items; no great hacking skills are required.

[SpookBrat]

I think all murderers, rapists and child molesters need to be executed. If the government won't take care of business and protect its citizens, we should not stop criminals from getting the job done.

[exodus]

To: contessa machiaveli
nothing wrong with "extra-judicial" deaths. bring them on

Do you work for the ATF or the FBI? You should. They feel exactly the same way. They decided to do away with those pesky Branch Davidians without bothering the court systems. Let me see if I can remember what the ATF applied the death penalty to 60+ people for. Yes, I rememeber - being accused of having an untaxed machine gun. Certaintly worth the death penalty in any facist police state. 17 by from occupied ga
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The government murdered the Branch Davidians,
ALL of the Davidian weapons were legal.

[buffyt]

If the guy is guilty, I am glad he was caught and that he is dead. But I am getting scared to look things up on my computer. Plus my whole family uses my computer, and my kids are 18, 19, and 21. GOOD Kids but no telling what sites they look up. It is getting to where I would rather go to the local college computer lab to look things up with impunity. And I am a fat lazy boring old housewife! I do want the crooks caught. I want the killers executed or locked up forever. But I don't want the US Gov. looking into everything I do!

[buffyt]

Kiss for a job well done from a fellow commie.

[from occupied ga]

ALL of the Davidian weapons were legal.

I agree - I said that they were given the death penalty for being accused of have untaxed weapons.

[KissOfTheSith]

>You don’t really think your government would let those newly unoccupied jail cells go empty would you?

Well, you've got a point. And, now that the Feds can say that even citizens can be denied due process if they're accused of really, really bad things, (and even Freepers cheer the Feds on! -- see here: 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Not Cooperating, Wolfowitz Says), I imagine prison space soon will be even more at a premium...

-- KotS

[Ratatoskr]

Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed.

That's not what the article implies. They didn't know who he was; they found him by working backwards from Expedia. That's a whole lot different from having a suspect and verifying he'd downloaded a map by looking at his cache.

[exodus]

To: OldFriend
If the guy is guilty, I am glad he was caught and that he is dead. But I am getting scared to look things up on my computer. Plus my whole family uses my computer, and my kids are 18, 19, and 21. GOOD Kids but no telling what sites they look up. It is getting to where I would rather go to the local college computer lab to look things up with impunity. And I am a fat lazy boring old housewife! I do want the crooks caught. I want the killers executed or locked up forever. But I don't want the US Gov. looking into everything I do!
# 25 by buffyt
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You have reason to be concerned.

I believe that the death penalty deters criminals,
but after seeing our government murder innocents,
and frame others for crimes they didn't commit,
I no longer trust a "guilty" verdict to be a valid measure of guilt.

[exodus]

Kiss for a job well done from a fellow commie.
# 26 by buffyt
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Thanks, Comrade.

[exodus]

"ALL of the Davidian weapons were legal. " - exodus
I agree -
I said that they were given the death penalty for being accused of have untaxed weapons.
# 27 by from occupied ga
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I knew your feelings on the Waco murders, from occupied ga.
I just had to speak up again about the corruption of our government.

I still can't believe that government agents killed all those people on national television, and not only got away with it, but got promotions for following their illegal orders.

[exodus]

To: George from New England
Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed.

That's not what the article implies. They didn't know who he was; they found him by working backwards from Expedia . That's a whole lot different from having a suspect and verifying he'd downloaded a map by looking at his cache.
# 29 by Ratatoskr
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Which means that Expedia keeps a record of citizens who use their site,
and what the citizen does on the site,
and provides those records to government agents.

Fine, in this case they caught a killer.
Still, I don't trust this weapon in the hands of corrupt men.

[SauronOfMordor]

nothing wrong with "extra-judicial" deaths. bring them on

Pray that you never find yourself in custody, knowing too many things that would make you "inconvenient" to powerful politicians. Pray hard.

[goldstategop]

And he did it before the bleeding hearts in the abolitionist crowd and the ACLU could intervene. Now that's what I call summary justice!

[SauronOfMordor]

Proving once again that anonymous websurfing is a myth.

Whenever you surf, the web server you connect to will log your IP address, what web page you asked for, and the time. In the map request, you ask for a specific address to print a map for, with that address printed on the map. So all they had to do was scan the logs for who got a map of that address, and trace back who's got that IP address

Most people also aren't aware that your location can be traced by your cell phone, even if you're not in the process of making a call (the phone system needs to keep track of which cell antenna you're closest to, so it can route incoming phone calls to you. Once the cops know approximately where you are, there's equiptment that will let them home in on your particular cell phone)

[tracer]

It is not unheard of for a mentally disturbed suspect to commit suicide upon facing his first or even subsequent periods of incarceration.

Defendants who subsequently -- and posthumously -- were cleared of any offense have died before they could receive treatment for the condition that may have led to their erroneously being booked and held as suspects.

The guy in this case was awaiting trial and under the law was considered innocent until proven otherwise. As for correctly convicted killers......

[Destructor]

"Suspected Serial Killer is Found Hanged in Jail"

I love a happy ending!

[goldstategop]

Don't we all? The irony is more murderers die behind bars of old age than are ever executed.

[DWSUWF]

"...At least they can piss on his grave..."

One should never underestimate the ENORMOUS therapeutic value of this simple, symbolic act...

Especially when you've had the opportunity to promise the SOB that you'd do exactly that to them before they died.

Trust me on this...