In 2005, Robert posed as a police officer, pulled a young woman over and bound her in his trunk. The woman got away unharmed but Robert was sentenced to 80 years in prison. It was in his escape attempt that he killed 62 year old Ronald Johnson, a corrections officer.
South Dakota is known for beautiful scenery and, typically, for being a very safe place to live . While our state is considered much safer than most of the nation, we have had our fair share of homicides. Do you remember all of these five famous homicides in South Dakota?
Elijah Page. Elijah Page, assisted by two accomplices, was charged with the murder of Chester Poage. The three men abducted and tortured Poage for three hours before murdering him. Although Elijah eventually admitted his guilt and pleaded guilty, he was sentenced to death.
William Raymond Nesbit. William Nesbit, a well-known jewel thief, murdered his partner, Harold Baker, back in 1936 in a gun powder explosion. He was sentenced to life in prison (later commuted to 20 years) and became a trusted inmate.
The courtroom was nearly full for the verdict reading with law enforcement, attorneys, Thornton's family and other court staff. An additional three security officers were brought in to sit behind Long.
In their closing arguments, both the prosecutor and Long's defense attorney focused largely on the testimony of one key witness: Kelsey Rachel Roubideaux, 23, who said she was driving the car in which the shooting occurred, and who has been the only witness to say Long pulled the trigger on Thornton.
Hanson said the state had not met its burden of proving Long's guilt. There was no gun found, no bullets, no DNA attaching Long to the crime scene and no way to prove a cell phone pinged the time around the shooting and near where Thornton's body was found was actually with Long.
On March 30th, 2003, 3 months after his fathers suicide, Robert Anderson committed suicide, he was found hanging in his cell by a sheet tied to the bar. ∼ Classification: Murderer. Characteristics: Kidnapping - Rape - Piper Streyle's body was never found.
Anderson's friend, Walker, was tried seperately, as an accessory to kidnapping and murder, he recieved a 30 year sentence. Robert Anderson was sentenced to death by lethal injection. In December of 2002, while waiting on the Appeal of his conviction, Robert Anderson's father, killed himself, a gunshot wound to his head.
Robert Anderson was a Serial Killer in South Dakota. He bragged how he liked torturing and murdering women. He was a Sexual Sadist and Predator. He was accused of murdering two women, Piper Streyle who was 28 years old, and Larisa Dumansky, she was 29 years old.
Robert Anderson was married twice and had four children. A fellow cellmate of Robert Anderson, Brunner, testified against him for a reduced sentence in his own crimes. His strong testimony led detectives to evidence hidden at Robert Anderson's grandmothers house.
Dwight Ree, for example, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Geu Ayuel in Sioux Falls in 2011. Ree, who was 17 at the time of the murder, was given 25 years in prison. His co-defendant, Jerome Ewing, received 35 years.
Jensen was 14 in 1996, when he and a friend robbed and killed a Pierre cab driver named Michael Hare for $36 in fare as Hare begged for his life.