Facts of the Crime:
On September 18, 2000, Gapen murdered his former wife, 37-year-old Martha Madewell, her boyfriend and former husband, 40-year-old Nathan Marshall, and her daughter, 13-year-old Jesica Young, in Ms. Madewell's Dayton home. Gapen, distraught over the recent dissolution of his marriage to Ms. Madewell, entered the house and bludgeoned each victim with a maul (long-handled hammer with a wedge-shaped head used to split logs). Gapen raped Ms. Madewall and hacked her ten times in the face and head. He hacked Mr. Marshall 18 times in the face, head, neck, chest andabdomen and Jesica 32 times in the face, head, neck and chest. Gapen then left the house with Ms. Madewall's seven-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter. Gapen confessed to police and received the death sentence for the aggravated murder of Jesica. DNA testing proved that the semen found on Ms. Madewall's leg and abdomen belonged to Gapen.
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