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    Anthony McKnight - California

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    Facts of the Crime:

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

    Stuart was found September 22, 1985, at 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 September 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 December 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 on 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.

    McKnight was sentenced to death in Alameda County on November 17, 2008.

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    November 17, 2008

    An Alameda County judge has sentenced a former Navy sailor convicted of killing three women and two teenage girls in 1985 to death.

    Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Horner issued the sentence, which a jury had earlier recommended, against 54-year-old Anthony McKnight Monday.

    McKnight was convicted in September of five counts of first-degree murder and five special circumstances, including multiple murder and murder committed in the course of rape and sodomy.

    Horner said the evidence in favor of the death penalty was overwhelming, adding that McKnight "butchered" his victims.

    McKnight is already serving a 63-year sentence on a separate conviction for the rape and attempted murder of three former prostitutes.

    (Source: The Fresno Bee)

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    Counsel was appointed to represent McKnight on direct appeal on June 29, 2011.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...5TICAgCg%3D%3D

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    On March 8, 2017, a prosecution response to McKnight's initial brief was filed.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...5TICAgCg%3D%3D
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    McKnight's direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since September 7, 2018.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...5TICAgCg%3D%3D

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    Convicted Alameda County Serial Killer Dies On San Quentin’s Death Row

    By CBS News

    SAN QUENTIN (CBS SF) – A condemned serial killer who murdered five Alameda County women after brutally beating and raping four of them has been found dead in his cell on San Quentin’s Death Row, prison officials announced Friday.

    A former Navy sailor, 65-year-old Anthony McKnight was already serving a 63-year state prison sentence for attempted murder, rape and kidnapping of three women in 1987 when a series of DNA tests run in 1996 linked him to 1985 murders.

    At the time of the 1985 murders, McKnight was stationed with the Navy on Treasure Island.

    After a nearly two-month-long trial in 2008 he was found guilty of the slayings and sentenced to die for the murders of Betty Stuart, 22; Diane Stone; 17; Talita Dixon, 13; Monique Davis, 18; and Beverly Bryant, 24.
    Prison officials said McKnight was found unresponsive in his cell at 9:30 p.m. Thursday and was pronounced dead at 10:09 p.m. His cause of death is pending the results of an autopsy.

    Since 1978, when California reinstated capital punishment, 82 condemned inmates have died from natural causes, 27 have committed suicide, 13 have been executed in California, one was executed in Missouri, one was executed in Virginia, 14 have died from other causes and two – including McKnight – are pending a cause of death. There are currently 731 offenders on California’s death row.

    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...tin-death-row/
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