From CNN:
PEORIA, Illinois (AP) — A serial killer who prosecutors say burned some of his victims to ash and bits of bone in his backyard pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing eight women.
Under a deal with prosecutors, Larry Bright, 39, escaped a possible death sentence and instead will get life in prison without parole.
Four of his victims’ bodies were found dumped along little-traveled roads around Peoria in 2003 and 2004, and the remains of the others were found in burn pits in the yard at the home he shared with his mother.
The killings and the time it took authorities to connect them and then track down the killer caused an uproar in Peoria’s black community. The victims were black, and several were prostitutes and drug addicts. Bright is white.
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Authorities have refused to discuss a motive but say Bright was fascinated with sex and pornography involving black women.
Bright pleaded guilty Tuesday to seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of drug-induced homicide.
“I think it’s a fair resolution,” defense attorney Jay Elmore said. “This guy is never going to see the light of day, and he knows he should never see the light of day.”
And if Tyrone had done it, (fill-in-the-blank)….
Edit: What I mean is, what if the races had been reversed.
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If Tyrone had done it, what? Probably the same thing would have happened…a real long time to pursue the killer. The murder of black women in the US is not considered a ‘big deal’ no matter what color the killer is.
I should have said “what if the races had been reversed”.
I do believe that if a black man had had a penchant for porn featuring white women and killed a bunch of them, he’d be strapped on that gurney right now.
Rashunda,
I just saw this on the news tonight. I am a black woman, needless to say, and a huminist (feminist) and this takes me to the highest level of pissivity. I agree with you because the victims were black and compounded by the fact they were sex workers or drug addicts their lives and deaths are not valued. Any sex worker or drug addict is discounted and dismissed in the country…don’t intersect that discription with race, class, region, age, past criminal history, mental illness, education….do I need to go on?
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