Dean Phillip Carter
Facts of the Crime:
Carter was sentenced to death on September 9, 1991 for the April 14, 1984 murder of Janette Cullins, 24, who was strangled and stuffed into a closet at her Pacific Beach apartment. A year earlier, on February 6, 1990, he had been sentenced to death in Los Angeles Superior Court for the murders of three women in Los Angeles just days before Cullins was killed. Prosecutors in Alameda County initially charged Carter with an April 1984 Oakland murder as well, but dismissed that case after he was sentenced to death for the others, documents filed with the Supreme Court stated. Carter was also convicted of raping a woman in San Diego 18 days before Janette Cullins was strangled, and of raping another woman. Police found items belonging to each of the murder victims in the car that Carter was driving when he was arrested in Arizona on April 17, 1984, and a bank surveillance video showed him withdrawing money from Janette Cullins' bank account the day her body was found, according to court documents. Additional victims on April 10, 11, 1984: Tok Kim, Susan Knoll, Bonnie Guthrie and Jilliet Mills.
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