THE man police have accused of being the "Westside Rapist" yesterday admitted to strangling seven women to death in segxwally-motivated attacks. All of the killings took place in Southern California more than 25 years ago. Six of the slayings to which John Floyd Thomas Jr, 74, pleaded guilty to took place in and around the west side of Los Angeles during the 1970s. The seventh killing was of a woman in Claremont, in San Bernardino County, who was found strangled in her home in 1986. Thomas was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Though the former state insurance claims adjuster copped to seven murders, police believe he is responsible for many more, possibly as many as 30. The first wave of murders ended in around 1978 when Thomas was sent to state prison on a rape charge. He was released in 1983 and moved to Chino, California around the time there were several rapes and killings of women in the area. That spate of murders ended around 1989, just as Thomas took a job in a state workers' compensation agency in Glendale, California. Thomas was tied to two murders when police investigating the notorious "Grim Sleeper" murders collected his DNA in 2008. In an effort to identify the killer, police collected DNA from 92 registered sex offenders in Los Angeles whose DNA was not already in the state's database. Through the DNA testing, Thomas was linked to several killings and was arrested in 2009.
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Posted: at 2-04-2011 07:08 AM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Larrykingomoj at 2-04-2011 06:53 PM (14 years ago) (m)
This is unbeliveble, this Thomas of a man must be a psycho that has been living unidentified.
Posted: at 2-04-2011 06:53 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac