Black Serial Killer - Count 5 - One victim's arm tore off

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Sometimes the wheels of justice move so slowly they seem to have stopped. CBS 5 Investigates found a multiple murder case in the Bay Area that's dragged on for over two decades.

Marsha Dixon remembers her 13-year-old daughter Talita as "a funny, funny child. She used to make jokes and play games and stuff and just make you laugh," Dixon recalled.

On October 5, 1985, Talita left her home to walk to school by herself for the first time. Her mother says, even then, an unexplainable feeling of sadness overtook her as she waved goodbye to her daughter.

"I guess that was me knowing that was the last time I would see her alive," Dixon said.

Three days later, a jogger found Talita's body near a walking path in the Oakland Hills.

Her killer had raped her, stabbed her repeatedly, broken her neck and ripped an arm from her body.

Police soon found that Talita wasn't the only victim. A serial killer terrorized the community in late 1985, raping and murdering five girls and young women.

But Oakland police were stumped as to the killer's identity until police in nearby Emeryville began investigating a series of rapes against prostitutes.

Those attacks were "vicious", said Emeryville Chief of Police Ken James, who was a sergeant during the time of the investigation.

The killer "was playing a cat and mouse game," James said. "He would give them the opportunity to think they were getting away, and then come back and stab them."

Fortunately for Emeryville police, those prostitutes survived and gave descriptions of their attacker that led police to their suspect, 32-year-old Anthony McKnight. He was an enlisted man at Alameda Naval Air Station.

But James, the Emeryville police sergeant at the time, had a hunch that McKnight might also be Oakland's serial killer. He says he told his lead detective, "Go down to Oakland, sit down in the captain's office, let him know what you have, and don't leave until they recognize that this may be a connection."

Police arrested McKnight. And the killings stopped. But police say they did not have enough evidence to charge him with murder. Instead, he was convicted for the attacks against prostitutes in Emeryville and sentenced to 63 years in prison.

For Marsha Dixon, it seemed there would be no justice for Talita.

No justice, until June 1999. DNA technology, which was new at the time, gave police evidence that they announced tied McKnight to the murders of Talita Dixon and the four other victims.

After 14 years, prosecutors charged him with five counts of murder.

Marsha Dixon said she felt relieved. "When they had the DNA testing to prove that it was him, then I thought we were gonna move forward with the case" she said.

It seemed everybody was ready to go. Prosecutors filed the case and McKnight entered a plea of not guilty.

But that was eight years ago. And still, Anthony McKnight has yet to stand trial for those 1985 killings.

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Nigger's Instinct Told It To Kill

Prosecutor: Man Made 'Cold, Calculated Decision To Kill'

A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that a former Navy-enlisted man from Oakland "made a cold, calculated decision to kill" five young women in gruesome fashion in the East Bay over a four-month span in 1985.

In his closing argument in Anthony McKnight's death penalty trial in Alameda County Superior Court, prosecutor Jim Meehan said McKnight "knew what he was doing" and chose isolated locations, such as parks and industrial areas, to kill his victims.

McKnight, 54, who lived in Oakland and was assigned to the Alameda Naval Air Station, "made a choice" to kill the women and "nothing suggests he acted with a rash impulse," Meehan said.

Meehan said DNA evidence, such as McKnight's semen, ties McKnight to all five alleged victims. He asked jurors to convict McKnight of five counts of murder plus six special circumstances clauses.

The special circumstances are for committing murder during rape and sodomy and for multiple murder.

If jurors convict McKnight of murder with special circumstances, there will be a separate penalty phase at which jurors will choose between recommending the death penalty or life in prison.

McKnight is already serving a 63-year term in state prison because he was convicted in August 1987 of 11 felony counts, including attempted murder, mayhem, kidnapping and forced oral copulation, for attacks on six prostitutes between 1984 and his arrest in January 1986.

After he began serving his prison sentence, authorities used DNA evidence to connect McKnight to additional crimes.

His current trial stems from his indictment on June 24, 1999, that he killed five women between September and December of 1985.

McKnight's alleged victims were Diane Stone, 17, Talita Dixon, 13, Monique Franchone Davis, 18, Beverly Ann Bryant, 24, and Betty Lynn Stuart, 22. All were sexually assaulted before they were killed, Meehan said.

He said they all were viciously stabbed or beaten with blunt objects such as a tire iron.

The incidents took place in secluded locations in Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley and Richmond.

The crimes caused outrage and panic in the East Bay at the time, and a task force of police officers from Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Emeryville and the East Bay Regional Park District was formed to investigate.

McKnight's attorneys, Alex Selvin and Michael Berger, will give their closing arguments later today.

In his opening statement in McKnight's trial in July, Selvin said, "This case is quite complex" because of the number of charges against McKnight and all of the DNA evidence in the case.

Selvin said there will also be issues with the reliability of testimony by the witnesses because the alleged crimes occurred more than 20 years ago.

McKnight testified in his own defense last week and denied ever meeting any of the five women he's accused of killing.
 
Rapist guilty of five murders in 1985; DNA tests crack case

OAKLAND -- A convicted rapist was found guilty today of five counts of first-degree murder for killing three women and two teenage girls during a three-month period in the East Bay in 1985.

Anthony McKnight, a 54-year-old former Navy sailor who is already serving 63 years in prison for raping and trying to murder three women, was also found guilty of special circumstances of murder committed in the course of sodomy and multiple murder.

No one was arrested in their killings until DNA evidence left on the victims' bodies or clothes linked McKnight to the slayings in the late 1990s, Alameda County prosecutors said. Such DNA testing had not been developed when the young women were slain, the prosecutor said.

The penalty phase of McKnight's trial will begin next Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland, after which a jury will determine whether McKnight should be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In his closing argument to jurors, Senior Deputy District Attorney Jim Meehan said, "The killer of these women did not leave their fate to chance. The method of attack was designed, unambiguously, to bring the immediate deaths of the victims. There was nothing half-hearted or unclear about the killer's intent."

One of McKnight's attorneys, Alexander Selvin, has argued that some of the victims worked as prostitutes and that the sexual contact could have been consensual.

McKnight was convicted of killing Betty Stuart, 22; Diane Stone, 17; Talita Dixon, 13; Monique Davis, 18; and Beverly Bryant, 24.

Stuart was found Sept. 22, 1985, at the Aquatic Park in Berkeley, two days after her sister last saw her at their mother's house in West Oakland. Her neck had been slashed.

On Sept. 29, 1985, police found Stone's body near an elementary school in Oakland. Like Stuart, she had been stabbed in the neck.

Nine days later, Dixon's body was found on a trail in Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland hills. The teenager had been stabbed numerous times.

On Dec. 9, 1985, Davis' body was found by a worker behind a Richmond business. She had been killed by blows to the head.

Bryant's body was found Christmas Eve 1985 at an elementary school in the Oakland hills. She also died of head injuries, Meehan said.

All five victims were sexually assaulted before they were killed, the prosecutor said.

During the trial, jurors heard from three former prostitutes who survived after being raped and attacked by McKnight from 1984 to 1986 in Oakland and Emeryville.

McKnight was arrested in January 1986 and later convicted in a separate trial of rape and attempted murder.
 
Prosecutor wants this "animal" put down

Prosecutor: Convicted East Bay Serial Killer Deserves Death Penalty

OAKLAND -- A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that Anthony McKnight "deserves nothing less than the death penalty" for his convictions for murdering five young women in the East Bay over a four-month span in 1985.

In his closing argument in the penalty phase of McKnight's trial in Alameda County Superior Court, prosecutor Jim Meehan said he believes the aggravating evidence in favor of the death penalty far outweighs mitigating evidence in favor of the alternative finding of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Meehan said the aggravating evidence includes the viciousness of the five murders themselves plus evidence that McKnight brutally attacked six other women in incidents he said they wouldn't have survived without medical intervention.

"If it were left up to Anthony McKnight, we could be talking about 11 murders instead of only five," Meehan said.

The prosecutor called McKnight an "animal" and told jurors to "judge a man based on what he does when he thinks no one is watching.

On Sept. 17 the same jurors convicted McKnight, 54, of five counts of first-degree murder as well as five special circumstances murder clauses.

Three of the special circumstances are for committing murder during the course of a rape, one is for committing murder during sodomy and one is for committing multiple murders.

McKnight, a former Navy-enlisted man who lived in Oakland and was assigned to the Alameda Naval Air Station, is already serving a 63-year term in state prison because he was convicted in August 1987 of 11 felony counts, including attempted murder, mayhem, kidnapping and forced oral copulation, for attacks on six prostitutes between 1984 and his arrest in January 1986.

After he began serving his prison sentence, authorities used new DNA analysis techniques to connect McKnight to the murders in his current case, which occurred in secluded locations in Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley and Richmond between September and December of 1985.

McKnight's two defense lawyers will present their closing arguments later today. Jurors will then begin deliberating on whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
 
This repulsive nigger looks like a jellyfish sh*t on its head.

But, seriously, even if the beast were sentenced to death, it's about as probable that the sentence would be carried out in CA as it would be in Noo Yawk.
 
Penalty verdict reached for murders
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OAKLAND, CA -- An Oakland jury has reached a verdict in the penalty phase of a serial murder case that dates back more than 20 years.

54-year-old Anthony McKnight was finally convicted in early September of the murders of five women over a four-month period back in 1985.

The victims were stabbed and their bodies left in remote areas of Alameda County. Authorities used new DNA techniques to connect him to this case. McKnight is already serving a 63-year sentence for attempted murder and other charges for attacks on six prostitutes while he was serving at the Alameda Naval Air Station.

The jury has to decide between life in prison without parole or the death penalty. We'll bring you the verdict as soon as we receive it.
 
'Sociopath' gets death sentence for murders

Nigger sentenced to death for killing women

OAKLAND, CA -- An Oakland man has been sentenced to death for murdering five young women and girls in the East Bay over a four-month span in 1985.

Prosecutor Jim Meehan said Tuesday that Anthony McKnight, 54, is "a sociopath" and said McKnight laughed when Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Horner sentenced him at the conclusion of a daylong hearing on Monday.

Jurors on Sept. 17 convicted McKnight, a former Navy-enlisted man who was assigned to the Alameda Naval Air Station, of five counts of first-degree murder and found him guilty of five special circumstances.

Three of the special circumstances were for committing murder during the course of a rape, one was for committing murder during sodomy and one was for committing multiple murders.

On Oct. 20, at the end of the penalty phase of McKnight's trial, the same jurors recommended the death penalty.

McKnight testified during his trial that he never met any of the women who were killed.

Horner spent nearly an hour listing the reasons why he thinks there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's finding that the aggravating evidence outweighed the mitigating evidence and that the death penalty is the appropriate punishment for McKnight, Meehan said.

Before being convicted of murdering the five women, McKnight was already serving a 63-year term in state prison for his 1987 conviction on 11 felony counts, including attempted murder, mayhem, kidnapping and forced oral copulation, for attacks on six prostitutes between 1984 and his arrest in January 1986.

After he began serving his prison sentence, authorities used new DNA analysis techniques to connect McKnight to the murders in his current case, which occurred in secluded locations in Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley and Richmond between September and December 2005.

The women McKnight was convicted of killing are Diane Stone, 17; Talita Dixon, 13; Monique Franchone Davis, 18; Beverly Ann Bryant, 24; and Betty Lynn Stuart, 22.

Meehan said nine of the women's family members and friends spoke at McKnight's sentencing and said they believe he deserves the death penalty.

Before Horner sentenced McKnight, he denied two motions for a new trial that were filed and argued by McKnight's lawyers.

All death penalty sentencings are automatically reviewed by the California Supreme Court.

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McKnight gets death penalty for East Bay murders

OAKLAND — Anthony McKnight smiled and openly laughed this week as an Alameda County Superior Court judge sentenced the 54-year-old serial killer and rapist to death for killing and raping five women in 1985.
 
After he circled the 9 levels of play in Dante's Inferno his entire life, he's now suffering, rotting in HELL fire while burning alive for eternity.




By Angela Ruggiero | Bay Area News Group

PUBLISHED: October 18, 2019 at 4:07 p.m.

SAN QUENTIN — A convicted serial killer and rapist who murdered five women in the 1980s in the East Bay, has died in prison of unknown causes, the state Department of Corrections announced Friday.
Anthony McKnight, 65, was found unresponsive in his prison cell at San Quentin State Prison around 9:30 p.m. Thursday. He was pronounced dead at 10:09 p.m. He had been on Death Row since his sentencing in November 2008.

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Anthony McKnight, a convicted serial killer and rapist in Alameda County, was found dead in his prison cell on Thursday in San Quentin. No cause of death has been released.
McKnight was linked by DNA to the 1985 murders of five women in Alameda County: Betty Stuart, 22; Diane Stone, 17; Talita Dixon, 13; Monique Davis, 18; and Beverly Bryant, 24.
McKnight was already in prison when investigators linked him to the five murders: He had been serving a 63-year sentence since August 1987 for convictions of attempted first-degree murder, rape, assault with a deadly weapon, oral copulation and kidnapping to commit a sex offense, also committed in Alameda County.
McKnight was enlisted in the Navy at the time of the crimes, assigned to the Alameda Naval Air Station, but living in Oakland.
In a 1987 story in the Oakland Tribune, prosecutor Ken Burr wrote in a letter to the probation department that McKnight was a serial rapist of sex workers.

“And if he had his way the six women who testified against him would never have been found alive,” Burr said at the time.
According to prior media accounts, McKnight openly smiled and laughed when then-Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Horner sentenced him to death in 2008.

According to media archives, the prosecution claimed that McKnight’s rampage began in October 1985, when he kidnapped a woman, slashed her throat, stabbed her in the chest, raped her and then left her for dead in a truck in West Oakland.
Prosecutors said at the time that McKnight also raped and beat another woman in October 1985 at a construction site using a lug wrench. She escaped by hiding in a drainage ditch.
By December, he had stabbed another two women, one who was stabbed 10 times, the other who was slashed across her face. Another woman was raped and choked in January 1986 in Emeryville, and left battered and bloodied in an industrial area.
By 1986, the body of Bryant was found brutally beaten and raped in the courtyard of Howard Elementary School in Oakland. It was then that police investigators from four different agencies realized they were looking for a serial killer.
By the time the woman’s body was found in that four-month span, another four other women had been found dead in similar circumstances, including the body of 13-year-old Talita.
Detectives were able to link McKnight to the murders in 1999 thanks to his DNA profile matching evidence at one of the crime scenes. He was the main suspect in the murders in the 1980s, but investigators had a hard time connecting him to the crimes until DNA technology became available.
His cause of death is pending the results of an autopsy.
PUBLISHED: October 18, 2019 at 4:07 p.m.
 
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