Tameka Traylor, right, shown with her sister, Sebrina
said their family struggled to cope with their mother's death.
Facts of the Crime: Convicted and sentenced to death in the September 16, 1991 murders of 27-year-old Melody Flowers and her two-year-old son Patrick Flowers.
The body of 27-year-old Melody Flowers and her two-year-old son Patrick were found in the bathtub of their apartment. Melody had been raped, stabbed, strangled and beaten with a hammer until its handle broke. Her child was stabbed eight times. Sonnier lived two doors away in the same complex. Police knocked on his door found Sonnier with his hand wrapped in a bloody towel. "I didn't hurt her," he told officers. But inside his place they found other bloodstained towels and a blouse identified as belonging to Flowers. DNA evidence also tied him to the slayings. Other testimony showed that Sonnier had been stalking Flowers for months and had to be repeatedly chased away from her place and that he was known to peek through her windows and even hide inside her apartment.
Victims: Melody Flowers and Patrick Flowers
Time of Death: 6:18 pm
Manner of Execution: Lethal Injection
Final Meal: None
Final Words: None
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