http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Gary
Gary is alleged to have raped and/or murdered seven elderly woman between 1977-78 in Columbus. Known as the Stocking Strangler, in three of the cases he was convicted of beating, sexually assaulting and strangling the victims, mostly by using stockings. Two of the survivors testified that he strangled them into unconsciousness before raping or, attempting to rape them. The one Georgia survivor positively identified him as her attacker in court, however she had previously positively identified 3 other black men as the attacker and in her initial statement had indicated that it was to dark to even distinguish the race of the attacker.[2] Sometimes Carlton Gary would just attack and kill his victims, as is the case in his strangulation murder of the director of the Education Division of the Columbus Health Department. His standard modus operandi was to rape and murder his victims. Gary's oldest victim was 10 days from her 90th birthday, his youngest supposed victim was 55 years old.
His fingerprints were found at four of the crime scenes. All of his victims were elderly white women who lived alone. He also robbed banks and restaurants in and around Georgia. When, during an attempted robbery of a South Carolina restaurant, a female employee stated that his gun wasn't loaded, he fled the restaurant and was apprehended stuck in a swamp behind it. Gary was indicted for the murders on May 5, 1984[3], convicted on August 26, 1986 and sentenced to death the following day.[4] He is currently on Georgia's death row awaiting a final appeal.
I vividly remember this. I was born in Columbus. I remember sitting with my Nana at krystal while she and a friend dicussed "lady parts being pulled out"
I was 7. My Nana also knew all of these ladies.
I was so freaked.