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00:00From serial killers to mass murderers and everything in between, today we go inside some of Texas' most secure prisons
00:08and look at the state's most dangerous men and women who are locked up in brutal prisons.
00:15Welcome to the 33 most dangerous prisoners inside Texas' most secure prisons.
00:22Welcome to the most dangerous prisoners inside Texas.
00:26Don't forget to comment down below and let me know what you think about these prisoners.
00:30Did I miss anything? Are they the most dangerous prisoners?
00:33Let me know in the comments below. I do read every single comment.
00:38Number 33, Holly Elkins.
00:41Holly Ann Elkins was convicted for her role in the 2020 murder of Alyssa Ann Burkett,
00:47who was the ex-girlfriend of Elkins' fiancé Andrew Beard and was shot and stabbed to death in a parking lot.
00:55Evidence presented at trial showed that Elkins and Beard engaged in a months-long campaign of harassment against Burkett before the murder.
01:04This included planting a GPS tracker on her car, making false 911 calls and placing drugs and a gun in her vehicle to try and have her arrested.
01:15Leading up to the murder, Elkins' involvement continued to deepen.
01:19She accompanied Beard to stores where he purchased items used in the crime, such as a black rain suit, dark makeup for a disguise, shotgun shells and a knife.
01:30During the murder itself, Elkins stayed at Beard's home with Burkett's young daughter and later attempted to create a false alibi for Beard by claiming he was with her at the time of the crime.
01:43After a seven-day trial in April 2024, a jury convicted her on all counts.
01:50Elkins' former fiancé, Andrew Beard, had previously pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced to 43 years in federal prison.
02:01She is currently serving this sentence at Federal Medical Center Carswell, a United States federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, for female inmates suffering primarily with special medical and mental health needs.
02:16Number 32, Patrick Crucius.
02:19Patrick Crucius was the perpetrator of the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on August 3rd, 2019, where he killed 23 people and injured 22.
02:34The FBI investigated the event as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime.
02:40Prior to the attack, Crucius, who was 21 years old at the time, posted a manifesto online that expressed white nationalist and anti-immigrant views.
02:52He admitted to police that he had targeted Mexicans.
02:55Crucius was charged with both federal and state crimes.
02:59In 2023, he pleaded guilty to 90 federal charges, including hate crimes and firearms violations, and was sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms in the Louis C. Paulage Unit.
03:14In a separate state case, he pleaded guilty to capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
03:21And on April 21st, 2025, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the state charges, which will be served concurrently.
03:32Number 31, Timothy Wayne Shepard.
03:35Convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Tynesha Stewart, in March 2007, Shepard was 27 years old at the time of the crime,
03:44and he confessed to strangling Stewart after she refused to talk about a new relationship she had started at college.
03:52Following the murder, Shepard dismembered Stewart's body in his bathtub using a jigsaw and other tools.
03:58He then burned her remains on two barbecue grills on his apartment balcony and disposed of them in a dumpster.
04:06In October 2008, Shepard was found guilty of first-degree murder.
04:10He was sentenced to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
04:16He had been held in the Harris County Jail on a $250,000 bond prior to his conviction.
04:23He is currently incarcerated in one of the high-security prisons somewhere in Texas.
04:29Number 30, Afia Siddiqui.
04:31A Pakistani neuroscientist, Siddiqui was convicted in 2010 of attempted murder and assault against U.S. officers and employees.
04:42The charges stemmed from an incident on July 18, 2008, in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she was being held by Afghan police.
04:52According to the U.S. government, while being questioned by a team of U.S. personnel, Siddiqui grabbed a U.S. army officer's rifle and fired it at them.
05:03She was shot in the torso by a warrant officer who returned fire.
05:07She was subsequently transferred to the U.S. to face trial.
05:10In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in prison.
05:14She is currently serving her sentence at the Federal Medical Center Carswell, a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
05:21Number 29, William Lewis Reese.
05:24Convicted of crimes in both Oklahoma and Texas, Reese's known criminal history includes kidnapping and the murder of four young women and girls between the ages of 12 and 20, between 1986 and 1997.
05:39Reese was convicted of two rapes in Oklahoma and sentenced to 25 years in prison, but was released after serving 10 years.
05:47After his release, he committed a series of abductions and murders in 1997.
05:53In 1998, he was convicted of kidnapping a woman who managed to escape and was sentenced to 60 years in prison in Texas.
06:01While serving this sentence, DNA evidence from one of the 1997 murder victims, Tiffany Johnston, linked him to the crime.
06:09In 2016, Reese confessed to the murders of Johnston and three other victims, Laura Smither, Kelly Cox and Jessica Kane, leading authorities to their burial sites.
06:22Reese was sentenced to death in Oklahoma in 2021 for the murder of Tiffany Johnston.
06:26In 2022, he pleaded guilty to the murders of Laura Smither, Kelly Cox and Jessica Kane in Texas, and was given three life sentences.
06:38He is currently incarcerated at the Allen B. Polunsky unit in Livingston, Texas, which houses the state's death row.
06:47Number 28, Kimberly Clark Sainz.
06:50A former licensed vocational nurse, Sainz was convicted of capital murder and aggravated assault for injecting bleach into the dialysis lines of patients at a clinic in Lufkin, Texas.
07:03The crimes occurred in 2008, and she was found guilty of murdering five patients and injuring five others.
07:11The jury sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the capital murder charges and three consecutive 20-year sentences for aggravated assault.
07:23She is currently serving her sentence at the Patrick O'Daniel unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Gatesville, Texas.
07:31Number 27, Kristen Gilbert.
07:34Convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder, and two counts of attempted murder, former nurse Gilbert committed her crimes while working at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts.
07:50She injected patients with lethal doses of epinephrine, a heart stimulant, causing them to go into cardiac arrest.
07:58Prosecutors stated that Gilbert did this to create medical emergencies or codes, so she could respond to them and gain the attention of a security guard she was having an affair with.
08:10Gilbert was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, plus 20 years, and is currently incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth.
08:22Number 26, Christine Paolilla.
08:25Convicted of capital murder for the deaths of four people in Clear Lake City, Texas, on July 18, 2003, Paolilla was a teenager and a student at Clear Lake High School at the time of the murders.
08:40The victims included two of her friends, Rachel Colorautis and Tiffany Rowell, as well as Rowell's boyfriend, Marcus Priscilla, and his cousin, Adelebert Sanchez.
08:52Paolilla, along with her then-boyfriend Christopher Snyder, committed the murders during what was reportedly a plan to steal drugs from the house.
09:02All four victims were shot multiple times, and Colorautis was also struck in the head with the butt of a gun.
09:09Snyder committed suicide before he could be apprehended by police.
09:13As a minor at the time of the offence, Paolilla was not eligible for the death penalty.
09:20She was sentenced to life in prison.
09:22She is currently incarcerated at the Christina Melton Crane Unit in Gatesville, and is eligible for parole in July 2046.
09:31Number 25, Joshua Luke Bagwell.
09:34Joshua Luke Bagwell was convicted of capital murder and conspiracy to commit capital murder in connection with the 1996 death of a 16-year-old cheerleader, Heather Rose Rich, in Montague County, Texas.
09:50He received a life sentence for the capital murder conviction and a 99-year sentence for the conspiracy charge.
09:58In 2002, while being held at the Montague County Jail for a court appearance, Bagwell, along with three other inmates, escaped.
10:07After a 10-day manhunt, he and one of the other escapees surrendered to authorities in Oklahoma after a six-hour hostage standoff.
10:16Bagwell is currently incarcerated at the Caulfield Unit in Tennessee Colony, Texas, serving a life sentence where he will be eligible for parole in November 2036.
10:27Number 24, Dali Lynn Routier.
10:31Charged with the capital murder of her six-year-old son, Devon, who was killed at the same time as that of her five-year-old son, Routier called 911 on June 6th, 1996, stating that an intruder had broken into her home and stabbed her and her two sons.
10:51When police arrived, they found Devon and Damon with multiple stab wounds.
10:56Routier had several knife wounds to her throat and arm.
11:01At her trial, prosecutors argued that Routier had killed her sons and then inflicted the wounds on herself to stage the scene and blame an intruder.
11:11She was sentenced to death.
11:12Dali Routier is currently on death row at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas.
11:20However, doubts have been raised about the conviction after her husband said she was convicted on character assassination.
11:27Number 23, Shannon Richardson.
11:30Richardson was convicted for sending rice in laced letters to President Barack Obama and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in May 2013.
11:43She attempted to blame her estranged husband for the crime before investigators found inconsistencies in her story and learned she had purchased the materials to produce rice in online.
11:55Richardson pleaded guilty to possession of a biological toxin and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
12:02She is incarcerated at FMC Carswell, a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
12:08Number 22, Vicki Dawn Jackson.
12:11A former licensed vocational nurse, Dawn Jackson was convicted of capital murder for killing at least 10 patients at Nocona General Hospital in Nocona, Texas.
12:23Between late 2000 and early 2001, she injected patients with a muscle paralytic drug called mivecurium.
12:32Authorities noted an unusual surge in patient deaths during this period.
12:36Jackson maintained her innocence but pleaded no contest to the charges to avoid a jury trial and to prevent her daughter from having to testify, later sentenced to life in prison.
12:49Vicki Dawn Jackson is currently incarcerated at the Christina Melton Crane Unit in Gatesville, Texas.
12:56Her earliest possible parole date is in 2042.
13:01Number 21, Trey Eric Sesler.
13:03Sesler was convicted of capital murder for killing his parents and older brother in Waller, Texas on March 20th, 2012.
13:12At the time of the murders, Sesler was a YouTuber who went by the alias Mr. Anime.
13:18According to reports, he had a fascination with mass shootings and had planned to carry out a school shooting at Waller High School after killing his family.
13:27He pleaded guilty to the three counts of capital murder and received a sentence of life in prison without parole.
13:35Trey Eric Sesler is currently serving his sentence at the Charles T. Terrell Unit in Rocharan.
13:42Number 20, Jose Cifuentes.
13:45Serial killer.
13:46Cifuentes was convicted of three counts of murder in Dallas, Texas.
13:50His crimes spanned from 1998 to 2003, during which he raped and strangled three women.
13:58Maria de Lourdes Perales, Erica Olivia Hernandez and Veronica Hernandez.
14:06In 2003, he was initially arrested for the murder of Veronica Hernandez, but he posted bail and fled to Mexico.
14:14While he was a fugitive for 16 years, DNA evidence linked him to the two earlier murders.
14:21He was finally apprehended in Mexico in 2019 and extradited back to Texas the following year.
14:30In 2021, Cifuentes pleaded guilty to all three murders and was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences.
14:39He is currently incarcerated at the Clements Unit in Amarillo.
14:43Number 19, David Dowler.
14:46Sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Lisa Chandler in 1988, Dowler poisoned three acquaintances in Odessa, Texas, but was only ever convicted of one murder.
14:58Dowler, a self-proclaimed chemist who had a fascination with poisons, murdered his victims by administering chloroform and cyanide.
15:09He was convicted of murder in the death of Lisa Chandler and received a life sentence, but due to insufficient evidence, he was not charged with the other deaths.
15:20Dowler is currently incarcerated at the Clements Unit in Amarillo where he is serving a life sentence.
15:26Number 18, Yaysa Abdel Saeed.
15:30Egyptian-American Abdel Saeed was convicted of capital murder for the 2008 deaths of his two teenage daughters, Amina and Sarah.
15:40The girls were found shot to death in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas.
15:45Sed went into hiding after the murders and was a fugitive for 12 years, even making it onto the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list.
15:55He was eventually captured in Justin, Texas in 2020.
15:59In 2022, a jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and is currently incarcerated at the McConnell Unit in Beeville.
16:13Number 17, Thomas Bartlett Whittaker.
16:17Convicted of capital murder for the 2003 deaths of his mother and brother in Sugarland, Texas, Bartlett Whittaker, or Bart, as he was more well known,
16:27hired a gunman to kill his entire family to inherit an estate valued at over $1 million.
16:33His mother, Tricia, and his younger brother, Kevin, were killed in the attack, while his father, Kent, survived despite being shot.
16:43Whittaker also faked an injury to appear as a victim.
16:47He was sentenced to death in 2007.
16:49After a long legal process and a strong campaign for clemency, led by his father, who had forgiven him,
16:57Governor Greg Abbott commuted Whittaker's death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
17:04Whittaker is currently incarcerated at the McConnell Unit in Beeville.
17:10Number 16, Robert Leslie Roberson III.
17:13In 2003, Robert Leslie Roberson III brought his daughter to the hospital in 2002, stating that she had fallen from their bed and was unresponsive.
17:24After he death several days later, she was later found to have suffered from shaken baby syndrome.
17:30Yet, Roberson claimed his daughter died of natural or accidental causes.
17:35The prosecution's case relied on this diagnosis to acquire the conviction, however.
17:41Roberson's legal team and other advocates have argued that new medical and scientific evidence proves his innocence.
17:49He was sentenced to death and is currently on death row.
17:53He is incarcerated at the Alan B. Polanski Unit in Livingston.
17:58Number 15, Danish Minhas.
17:59Danish Moadza Minhas was convicted of the murder of his mother, Tabassam Khan, in Houston, Texas.
18:07In November 2009, when he was 17, Minhas and a high school classmate, Nur J. Mohamed, conspired to kill his mother.
18:17Minhas confessed to investigators that he hired Mohamed to carry out the murder because he felt his mother was too strict and controlling.
18:26Mohamed then fatally stabbed Tabassam Khan multiple times.
18:31Minhas initially went to trial for capital murder, but in 2014, he pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for a 50-year prison sentence.
18:41His accomplice, Nur J. Mohamed, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
18:49The current location of Minhas is unknown.
18:51Number 14, Sean Allen Berry.
18:54Sean Allen Berry was convicted of capital murder for his role in the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
19:04With the crime being one of the most shocking that law enforcement had ever witnessed.
19:09Byrd, who was African-American, was chained to the back of Berry's pickup truck by his ankles and dragged for three miles.
19:17Killed after his body struck a culvert.
19:19Berry was tried and convicted along with two other men, Lawrence Brewer and John King.
19:25Unlike Brewer and King, who received the death penalty, Berry was sentenced to life in prison.
19:32He is currently incarcerated at the Ramsey unit in Rocheron, Texas and will be eligible for parole in June 2038.
19:41Number 13, Stephen Hobbs.
19:43A former security guard, Hobbs was convicted of two counts of murder and three counts of sexual assault.
19:49He was also a suspect in the murders of several other women.
19:53Between 2002 and 2010, Hobbs preyed on women in the Houston and Harris County, Texas areas.
20:00The victims were sexually assaulted and two were murdered.
20:03Patricia Ann Pyatt in 2002 and Sarah Annette Sanford in 2010.
20:10In 2022, Hobbs pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
20:17He is currently incarcerated at the Ramsey unit in Rocheron, Texas.
20:21Number 12, William Lewis Reese.
20:24In 1998, Reese was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and sentenced to 60 years in prison for a 1997 abduction in Texas.
20:34Years later, DNA evidence linked him to a 1997 cold case murder in Oklahoma.
20:41His victims, who were young and brunette, were often abducted after he posed as a good Samaritan to help them with car trouble or other issues.
20:49After being charged, Reese confessed to several murders from that same year.
20:54He admitted to killing Laura Smither, Jessica Kane and Kelly Cox in Texas, as well as Tiffany Johnston in Oklahoma.
21:02Reese was sentenced to death in Oklahoma for the murder of Tiffany Johnston.
21:06In Texas, he pleaded guilty to the three murders and received three life sentences.
21:12He is currently incarcerated at the Alan B. Polonski.
21:15Number 11, Juan David Ortiz.
21:19A former U.S. Border Patrol agent, Ortiz was convicted of capital murder for a series of killings in Webb County, Texas, in September 2018.
21:30He murdered four women, Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Aniluera, Giselda Alicia Cantu and Janelle Ortiz.
21:40He also attacked a fifth woman who managed to escape and alert authorities, which led to his capture.
21:47Ortiz confessed to the crimes and reportedly stated that he wanted to clean up the streets.
21:53Ortiz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
21:58He is currently serving his sentence at a prison outside of Houston.
22:02Number 10, Lyle Brummett.
22:05Lyle Richard Brummett was convicted of two counts of murder for crimes committed in Texas between 1975 and 1976.
22:13He, along with an accomplice, strangled two teenage girls, Carol Ann London and Elizabeth Beth Pearson, in 1975.
22:24The following year, he raped and strangled another woman, Diane Kathleen Roberts.
22:29Brummett was apprehended in 1977 and pleaded guilty to two of the murders, for which he received two life sentences.
22:37He is currently incarcerated at the Alan B. Polonsky Unit.
22:42Number 9, Eddie Ray Routh.
22:45Eddie Ray Routh was convicted of capital murder for the 2013 shooting deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.
22:56The murders occurred at a shooting range in Earreth County, Texas.
23:00Kyle and Littlefield had taken Routh to the range to help him.
23:04After the murders, Routh fled in Kyle's truck and was later arrested after a standoff with police.
23:11During his trial, Routh's defence team argued that he was insane at the time of the killings due to a severe mental disease or defect.
23:19However, prosecutors presented evidence that Ruth was a troubled drug user, who knew right from wrong, despite any mental illnesses.
23:28The jury rejected the insanity defence and found Ruth guilty of capital murder.
23:33Since prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, Ruth was automatically sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
23:43He is currently incarcerated at the Ramsey Unit in Rosharan.
23:47Number 8, Howard Paul Guidry.
23:50Howard Paul Guidry was convicted of capital murder for the 1994 death of Farrah Frater in Harris County, Texas.
23:59Prosecutors alleged that he was hired by Farrah Frater's estranged husband, Robert Frater, to act as the gunman in a murder-for-hire plot.
24:09Guidry's first conviction in 1997 was overturned by a federal judge in 2003, who found that his confession was coerced and that hearsay testimony was improperly used at trial.
24:23A higher court affirmed the decision, but instead of being released, Guidry was retried in 2007.
24:31At his second trial, prosecutors presented new evidence, including testimony from witnesses who said Guidry had confessed to them.
24:40The jury again found him guilty of capital murder, and he was sentenced to death.
24:45Howard Paul Guidry is currently on death row at the Alan B. Polanski Unit.
24:51Number 7, Elmer Wayne Henley.
24:54Elmer Wayne Henley was an accomplice to serial killer Dean Call in a series of murders known as the Houston Mass Murders that occurred between 1970 and 1973.
25:07Along with another accomplice, David Brooks, Henley helped call lure and murder at least 28 teenage boys and young men.
25:15The crimes came to light when Henley, at the age of 17, shot and killed Call in self-defence, and then called the police.
25:24He subsequently confessed to his role in the murders and led authorities to multiple grave sites.
25:29Henley was brought to trial in 1974 and was convicted of six counts of murder.
25:35He was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences.
25:38A later appeal was successful, but he was again convicted of six murders in 1979 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
25:47Henley is currently incarcerated at the Telford Unit in Bowie County and has been up for parole multiple times and has been denied on each occasion.
25:57Number 6, David Ray Conley III.
26:00Convicted of capital murder for the 2015 shooting deaths of eight people in Harris County, Texas, the victims included his former partner, Valerie Jackson, her husband, Dwayne Jackson, and six children, some of whom were his own.
26:17Conley broke into their home, held the family hostage, and ultimately shot and killed all eight of them.
26:23During his trial, prosecutors initially sought the death penalty, but later withdrew it after conceding that Conley was considered to have a mental disability.
26:33He was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
26:40David Ray Conley III is currently incarcerated at the WJ Estelle Unit in Huntsville.
26:48Number 5, Jason Thornburg.
26:51Jason Thornburg was convicted of capital murder for the deaths of David Loehras, Lauren Phillips, and Mary Cruz Mathis in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2021.
27:03The three victims' bodies were found in a burning dumpster.
27:06After his arrest, Thornburg confessed to the murders and stated that he believed he was called by God to commit sacrifices.
27:14He also confessed to two other murders, his roommate Mark Jewell in Texas in 2021, and his girlfriend Tanya Begay in Arizona in 2017.
27:26At his trial for the Fort Worth murders, the defence argued that Thornburg was insane at the time of the killings due to a mental illness.
27:34The prosecution, however, argued that he was legally sane and capable of planning his actions.
27:40The jury found him guilty of capital murder, and during the punishment phase of the trial, they sentenced him to death.
27:48Jason Thornburg is currently on death row at the Alan B. Polonski Unit in Livingston.
27:54Number 4, Eric Lyle Williams.
27:56A former Justice of the Peace in Coffman County, Texas, Lyle Williams was convicted of capital murder for the 2013 deaths of District Attorney Mike McClelland and his wife Cynthia.
28:10He was also charged with the murder of First Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, who was killed earlier that year.
28:17Williams' motive was revenge, as McClelland and Hasse had prosecuted him for theft, which resulted in his conviction, removal from office and the loss of his law licence.
28:29Williams' trial was moved to Rockwall County due to extensive media coverage.
28:34During the trial, his wife Kim Williams testified against him, stating that she drove the getaway car in Hasse's murder and helped her husband with the disposal of weapons.
28:45Prosecutors also presented evidence showing that Williams had a collection of guns, police tactical gear and a hit list of targets.
28:55Despite his defence arguing that he was mentally ill, the jury found him guilty of capital murder and sentenced him to death.
29:04Eric Lyle Williams is currently on death row at the Alan B. Polonski Unit.
29:10Number 3, Farian Wardrip.
29:13Farian Edward Wardrip is a serial killer convicted of the sexual assault and murder of five women in Texas between 1984 and 1986.
29:24His first conviction was for the 1986 murder of Tina Kimbrew, for which he received a 35-year prison sentence.
29:33After serving only 11 years, he was paroled in 1997.
29:38In 1999, new DNA evidence linked him to the 1984 murder of Terry Sims and the 1985 murder of Tony Gibbs.
29:49When confronted, Wardrip confessed to these murders as well as two others he had not previously been charged with.
29:56He pleaded guilty to the capital murder of Terry Sims and, at a sentencing phase trial, the state presented evidence of his other crimes.
30:07The jury sentenced him to death.
30:09Wardrip is currently on death row at the Alan B. Polonski Unit, where only the most dangerous prisoners in Texas are held.
30:17Number 2, Janine Jones, a former licensed vocational nurse, was a serial killer who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of up to 60 infants and children under her care in Texas during the 1970s and 1980s.
30:35She became known as the Angel of Death because she would inject her young patients with lethal doses of drugs, such as succinylcholine or digoxin, to cause medical emergencies.
30:48It is believed she did this to then save them and appear as a hero.
30:53In 1984, Jones was convicted of murder for the death of 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan and received a 99-year sentence.
31:02A concurrent 60-year sentence was given for the attempted murder of another child, Rolando Santos.
31:10A Texas law that was in place at the time meant to alleviate prison overcrowding would have allowed her mandatory release in 2018.
31:20To prevent her release, prosecutors in San Antonio brought new murder charges against her in 2017.
31:27In 2020, Jones pleaded guilty to the murder of 11-month-old Joshua Sawyer, who died in 1981 as part of a plea deal.
31:38She was sentenced to life in prison.
31:40She will not be eligible for parole until she is in her late 80s.
31:45She is currently incarcerated at the Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville, Texas.
31:50Number 1, Johnny Avalos.
31:52Known as the San Antonio Strangler, Avalos was a serial killer who pleaded guilty to murdering five females in San Antonio, Texas between 2012 and 2015.
32:04His victims were Vanessa Lopez, Natalie Chavez, Rosemary Perez, Genevieve Ramirez and Celia Lopez.
32:14Avalos would strangle his victims with his hands and sometimes with plastic bags.
32:19Avalos was arrested in April 2015 after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes.
32:27Due to his intellectual disability, prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty.
32:32In 2019, Avalos pleaded guilty to two counts of capital murder and was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole.
32:44He is currently incarcerated at the Preston E. Smith Unit in La Mesa.
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