1992 [Texas] murders prove no street is immune -- Ex-clown is set to die in girls' fatal stabbings

The Houston Chronicle ^ | September 23, 2002 | Mike Tolson

[Illbay]

Too bad some of the Westerfield defenders weren't around to give this guy moral support.

[alisasny]

This freak was allowed to walk the streets a free man for 19 months after the girls deaths.

[alisasny]

The families of Kynara Carreiro and Kristin Wiley waited 19 months for the arrest that finally came. His daughter's murder propelled Bob Carreiro into the spotlight, where he remained as a high-profile victims' advocate. He wants to think his visibility had something to do with Mays ' finally coming forward. "I hoped that every time that bastard saw my face on the front page or on the news it rattled his cage," Carreiro said. Kip Wiley, father of Kristin, said, "We felt all along it was him, and I knew it was only a matter of time. We always felt the case would be solved." After the arrest, the families realized that this was not the end of their quest for justice. "You feel like you have crossed the hill," Pat Taylor, Kynara's stepfather, said of May's arrest and confession. "You look back at the 19 months and you realize it's not over. You know you have another 10 years (of appeals)." Kip Wiley, Kristin's father, said he and his wife, Becky, would closely monitor the legal proceedings surrounding Mays' prosecution. Bob Carreiro, Kynara's father, said he and other activists also would keep close tabs on the case. "I've just become so involved with victims' rights groups," Carreiro said. "You can bet we are going to be watching very, very close for any type of antics (by defense attorneys)." Because of his previous false statement to officers and other reasons, Carreiro had believed for some time that Mays was the suspect, and he and his friends had been following him for several months. That, coupled with the constant news coverage, played heavily on Mays' conscience. "I have no doubt that whenever he got to see my face or (pictures of) the girls' faces on TV, it had an immense effect on him," Carreiro said, and that his monitoring of Mays ' moves caused him to confess. "I was told by people in law enforcement that this was laying heavy on his mind," Carreiro said. "I was told this guy was afraid of me." Carreiro said he and his friends followed Mays constantly and passed by his house while riding motorcycles. They followed him to events where he performed as Uh-Oh the Clown, and Carreiro once approached a woman Mays was dating to tell her he believed the man was a suspect in the slaying of two children. The constant watch, Carreiro said, caused Mays to change his appearance several times and to start using his first name of Randy instead of Rex. "There is no way I could just sit back when there is a possibility of this happening again," Carreiro said of his reason for following Mays. "I could never be able to live with myself."

He even continued to be the clown after the children's death....

[gridlock]

Good work by Detective Bob Valerio. It could not have been easy to talk with this man and befriend him, but that is what it took to build the case. I can only imagine the horror.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He should have had the decency to off himself long ago.

[San Jacinto]

Ten years from the crime to the execution. That is a little improvement over the norm. Maybe we are catching up with the backlog. I would like to see it cut down to about six months.

[Illbay]

Sub-humans like this only "off" little children. IMO, they thus compound the outrage.

[Cable225]

Ten years from the crime to the execution. That is a little improvement over the norm. Maybe we are catching up with the backlog. I would like to see it cut down to about six months.

I'd like see it cut down to about six minutes.

[Paleo Conservative]

'Ten years from the crime to the execution. That is a little improvement over the norm. Maybe we are catching up with the backlog. I would like to see it cut down to about six months.'

I'd like see it cut down to about six minutes.

Texas seems to be back on track for carrying out executions. We seem to be executing one or two a week now. We must have closed some more legal loopholes the defense lawyers tried create. What is really needed is for an execution to occur every day Monday through Fridays except holidays, somewhere in the US. At that rate the current backlog in the US could be completely cleared in about 20 years.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Mays, who sometimes entertained children as Uh-Oh the Clown, blamed his actions on a bad day.

I'll bet he has a lot more bad days as he burns in hell forever.

[Bubba_Leroy]

What is really needed is for an execution to occur every day Monday through Fridays except holidays, somewhere in the US.

Also, we need to bring back public hangings in the courthouse square.

[Illbay]

Meek, give 'er a Texas bump.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mays, who sometimes entertained children as Uh-Oh the Clown, blamed his actions on a bad day. Arriving home early, worrying how he would explain his latest job fiasco to his wife, he told police that he went over to the Wiley home next door to complain about loud music coming from Kristin's upstairs bedroom.

Man. Having a bad day is punching the boss or ex-boss, not stabbing two little girls 40 plus times !

One ping coming up....

[MeekOneGOP]

1992 [Texas] murders prove no street is immune --
Ex-clown is set to die in girls' fatal stabbings

Excerpt:

Mays, 42, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday in Huntsville, will forever be defined by his singular act of brutality visited on two young girls in northwest Harris County in 1992.

It was a moment that stunned the city. This was a time before Danielle van Dam or Samantha Runnion or even JonBenet Ramsey -- a time before it was common to associate the names of young girls with horrible incidents of violence.

When Mays finally confessed, 19 months after killing the daughters of two of his neighbors, it was hard to reconcile his words with the natural order of things.

Children playing in their suburban home on a summer day do not have cause for serious worry, especially with an older brother just across the street, a mother three doors down. That's why people moved there. Nobody in the neighborhood could fathom that degree of evil in their midst.

"You're on your own street, and your daughter is playing with a neighbor a few doors down in the middle of the day in July, and she ends up stabbed to death?" said Lyn McClellan, who prosecuted Mays. "You've gotta be kidding me. That just doesn't compute."

Mays helped teach Houston that safety is a myth. On July 20, 1992, hours after being fired from the latest in a string of failed jobs, he stabbed and slashed 7-year-old Kynara Carreiro 23 times, five times in the face. Kristin Wiley, her 10-year-old friend, was stabbed 18 times. Both were stabbed in the eyes. Neither girl was sexually assaulted.

Kynara's father, Robert, has long anticipated the day when Mays has to pay for what he did.

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[maxwell]

hours after being fired from the latest in a string of failed jobs, he stabbed and slashed 7-year-old Kynara Carreiro 23 times, five times in the face. Kristin Wiley, her 10-year-old friend, was stabbed 18 times. Both were stabbed in the eyes.

GAD. Talk about living too close to the edge, bro... Hmmm. Wonder why he got fired. Mebbe the boss saw the writing on the wall?

[MeekOneGOP]

I bet his lawyer is on the phone right now trying to convince SCOTUS that this guy is retarded.

[Illbay]

I wonder: What are grounds for firing a clown? Showing up drunk? Allowing bulbous nose to fall off? Wearing size 22 shoes instead of the regulation size 28?

[Illbay]

Well, they tried it last week, on a guy who had passed his GED, so I wouldn't put anything past 'em.

[moyden]

Every liberal loves a predator. Especially a child-killer.

[MeekOneGOP]

Wonder why he got fired.

Clowning around at the office? < /bad humor >
He was on a roll....losing job after job after job......