Predator of the week

TDC ^ | 7/10/02 | TDC

[moyden]

	Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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Name	TDCJ Number	Date of Birth
Tommy Lynn Sells	999367	6/28/1964
Date Received	Age (when Received)	Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
11/8/2000	36	8
Date of Offense	Age (at the time of Offense)	County
12/31/1999	35	Val Verde
Race	Gender	Hair Color
White	Male	Brown
Height	Weight	Eye Color
5 ft 9 in	195	Hazel
Native County	Native State	Prior Occupation
Alameda	California	barber, mechanic, laborer
Prior Prison Record
Missouri Department of Corrections on a 2 year sentence for felony theft.  Confined 8 months and released on parole on 12/18/1985.  Returned as a parole violator with a new conviction of driving under the influence.  Confined 16 months and discharged.  Wyoming Department of Corrections on a 2 year sentence for vehicle theft.  Confined 16 months and discharged.  Wyoming Department of Corrections on a 2-10 years sentence for malicious wounding.  Released on parole.
Summary of incident
On 12/31/1999, Sells entered a Del Rio residence occupied by a 13 year old white female and a 10 year old white female.  Sells entered the residence with intent to sexually assault the 13 year old.  Sells slashed her throat and stabbed her multiple times, resulting in her death.  Sells then slashed the throat of the 10 year old.  The 10 year old survived the attack.
Co-defendants
None.
Race and Gender of Victim
white female
Photograph of Offender

Last Updated:  June 11, 2001

[moyden]

Every liberal loves a predator, but despises the victims.

Sadly for liberals, one of the little girls lived and testified against the predator. Apparently, the surviving child did not know that Mr. Sells is a victim of capitalism.

Shame on her.

[moyden]

Funny that you never see a liberal holding a candle-light "vigil" for poor little dead girls of the world.

Ah, but the liberals adore those predators.

[fourdeuce82d]

But your suggestion that ANYONE would despise a 13 year old girl because she's a victim, or love this man because of what he did is a disgusting one.

it's not really the suggestion that is disgusting, it is the fact that some academic/ivory towered/intelligentsium somewhere will take up his cause, and plead mitigating circumstances, daddy didn't love hime, etc..

that is disgusting.

[TheBattman]

Exactly! I don't see those liberals giving their time and even their life to saving the poor 10 year old or 13 year old girls, yet - as you stated- they will camp out for 24 hours outside a prison to protest the carrying out of the sentence.

All the liberals want to do is take away our own freedoms and constitutionally guaranteed rights thus enabling these criminals to make even more victims.

[TheBattman]

You mean, other than destroying the 2nd Amendment by passing anti-gun measures which disarm law-abiding citizens?

[fourdeuce82d]

I thought that was your justice system

The part about pleading for mercy for a brutal murderer because his sense of self worth was never validated, thus producing alienation from society & and a concomittant inability to internalize the norms of that society, leading to what was really, if we think about, an extroverted suicide?

Yes, I think that is our justice system. Glad we can agree on something

[AppyPappy]

And why can't these criminals be locked up for life, thus ensuring no more victims?

Ever heard of escape? You can never create an escape proof prison.

[AppyPappy]

Are you telling me that the USA can't build an escape proof prison?? That's too complicated a task for good 'ol American know-how?

If we could, don't you think we would?

[AppyPappy]

We have an escape proof jail in my former hometown. But they don't count accidental releases and they had a dozen of those.

One thing we can do is execute murderers. That would solve the problem.