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    Pretrial conference set for convicted killer accused in 2 more murders

    NEW ALBANY, Ind. — On Tuesday morning, a pretrial conference is set for a convicted killer accused in the murders of two other women.

    William Clyde Gibson is on death row in Michigan City for killing Christine Whitis.

    That conviction is being appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court, but Floyd County prosecutors want to move forward and try Gibson for the deaths of Stephanie Kirk and Karen Hodella.

    The defense asked those cases be put on hold until the appeal is resolved, but the judge refused.

    Gibson will stand trial in June for Kirk's murder.

    The trial for Hodella's murder is set for October.

    http://www.wlky.com/news/local-news/...#ixzz2tgSHBkqO

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    Convicted Murderer Changes Plea in 2nd Capital Murder Case

    Convicted killer William Clyde Gibson has changed the plea from not guilty to guilty, in his 2nd of 3 capital cases. He now admits to having killed Karen Hodella in October 2002.

    In court, he also sported conspicuous new ink. Already on Indiana's death row for his conviction last year in the murder of his mother's best friend Christine Whitis, Gibson will be formally sentenced next month to the maximum non-death-penalty term in Indiana, 65 years. Gibson has a new tattoo, "Death Row X 3," on the back of his head.

    Henderson says the judge has already acted, ordering he not be given haircuts between now and June, the start of his 3rd case's trial. That's due to the concern that the tattoo could prejudice a jury.Henderson also plans to address with Indiana's Corrections Department just how such a tattoo could be allowed to be done on an inmate on death row. The Department stated in an email it doesn't have a photo of the new tattoo, but if any inmate is found to have gotten a new one while in custody, he gets a conduct violation.

    Penalties for such violations can include loss of privileges including any good time credits. The June trial will be for Gibson's alleged murder of 35-year-old Stephanie Kirk, whose body was found buried in his yard.

    http://www.wibc.com/news/story.aspx?ID=2141760
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    HOW is it possible to get a tattoo in prison???

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    prison tattoo- carbon black obtained by burn any number of object or pencil lead. add a little water. you then need a stylus common use is a paper clip or some other piece of wire sharpened on concrete ( plenty of that in prison) stick the wire in the end of an eraser and oula you have a tattoo kit. most prison tats are rather crude but there seem to be some real artist in the joint.

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    Judge: Murder suspect must cover 'death row' tat

    A judge wants a southern Indiana man to grow out his hair to cover a tattoo saying "Death Row X3" before his remaining capital murder trial.

    Floyd Superior Court Judge Susan Orth issued the order Monday during a pretrial hearing for 56-year-old William Clyde Gibson III. He faces a June trial in connection with the slaying of 35-year-old Stephanie Kirk of Charlestown.

    WDRB-TV reported the tattoo is on the back of Gibson's head.

    Gibson already has been condemned to death for killing a family friend at his home in New Albany, just across the Ohio River from Louisville, Ky. He's also due to be sentenced April 17 to 65 years in prison for his guilty plea in the fatal stabbing of Karen Hodella of Port Orange, Fla., in 2002.

    http://www.theindychannel.com/news/l...-death-row-tat
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    This is the closest representation of William Clyde Gibson's new tattoo.
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    Indiana man gets 65-year sentence in 2002 killing

    A southern Indiana man already facing the death penalty has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for a Florida woman's 2002 slaying.

    A Floyd County judge sentenced 56-year-old William Clyde Gibson III on Thursday for the October 2002 murder of Karen Sue Hodella. Gibson pleaded guilty in March to killing the Port Orange, Fla., woman, whose body was found in early 2003 in Clarksville near the Ohio River.

    Gibson was sentenced to death in November after jurors convicted him of killing his mother's best friend, 75-year-old Christine Whitis, during a 2012 attack in New Albany.

    He's scheduled to stand trial in June in the murder of 35-year-old Stephanie Kirk. The Charlestown woman's remains were found buried in Gibson's backyard days after his arrest in Whitis' death.

    http://www.newsbug.info/news/nationa...6f999a781.html
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    Prosecution, defense argue motions in William Clyde Gibson murder trial

    NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Convicted death row killer Clyde Gibson's final murder trial begins next month.

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    In advance, both sides appeared in court to argue several motions regarding jury selection, what evidence will be allowed in, and Gibson's controversial tattoo.

    Gibson's trial for the murder of Stephanie Kirk begins June 16, with jury selection June 2 in Vanderburg County.

    Those 12 jurors and four alternates will be chosen in Evansville and then brought here for the trial where they will be sequestered.

    Gibson who entered the courtroom Wednesday now has a thick beard.

    He's also been forced to grow his hair out, instead of keeping his head shaved, in order to hide a tattoo he acquired in prison that said "Death Row X 3."

    The judge and both sides were happy with his hair growth.

    It is possible that the jail barber may further dye his hair to hide the tattoo more.

    The victim in this case, Stephanie Kirk, had been missing for months before police found her buried in Gibson's back yard following his arrest for a second murder.

    Kirk's family was in court Wednesday to hear the motions.

    They had no comment as they left the courtroom.

    http://www.wlky.com/news/prosecution...#ixzz32NRKejvy
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    Jury selection in murder trial of convicted killer to begin

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    On Monday, jury selection will get underway in Evansville.

    Both sides will make the nearly two hour trip west to Evansville, Indiana to pick the jury.

    It is a process that's expected to take a week to 10 days.

    Clyde Gibson is accused in this case of killed 35-year-old Stephanie Kirk.

    Kirk's body was found buried in Gibson's back yard in April 2012, more than a month after she went missing.

    Police only made the discovery after Gibson was arrested for a different murder -- his mother's best friend -- 75-year-old Christine Whitis.

    After the Whitis trial, Gibson ended up on death row.

    Gibson now has a thick beard and his head is no longer shaved.

    The judge ordered he grow his hair to cover a new tattoo he got in prison that reads "Death Row x3."

    The Kirk trial is also a death penalty case.

    “Clearly pleading guilty or pleading outright to a charge is always open to a defendant and he could've done that today but he's exercised his right to a jury trial,” said Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson.

    Gibson's trial is set to begin in two weeks, on June 16.

    Gibson confessed to Karen Hodella’s cold case murder after his arrest in April 2012.

    He recently pled guilty in exchange for a 65-year sentence.

    http://www.wlky.com/news/jury-select...#ixzz33U0vpsSI
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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    William Clyde Gibson pleads guilty in third murder

    Twice convicted murderer William Clyde Gibson pleaded guilty to a third murder Tuesday, abruptly ending jury selection for his capital trial in the slaying of Stephanie Kirk.

    The plea came after Gibson, his defense lawyers, prosecutors and Floyd Superior Judge Susan Orth and staff members spent 12 hours Monday in an Evansville courtroom choosing jurors for Gibson’s trial that was supposed to start June 16.

    Instead, Gibson told his lawyers early Tuesday he wanted to plead guilty, waving his right to trial by jury. Orth will hear evidence July 28 before deciding on his penalty and sentence.

    “I was surprised,” Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson said in a phone interview as he was returning from Vanderburgh County. “Why he decided at this point to plead guilty, I can’t say.”

    But “I’m pleased for the family, and I’m pleased for the community that they don’t have to go through a trial,” he said.

    Messages left for Gibson defense lawyer Andrew Adams were not returned Tuesday afternoon.

    If Gibson’s case concludes as expected next month, it would mark the final resolution of three bizarre, disturbing homicides that came to light just over two years ago. It began after police discovered the strangled, mutilated body of 75-year-old Clarksville resident Christine Whitis, a family friend, in Gibson’s garage in 2012.

    They later dug up Gibson’s yard to recover the body of Kirk, 35, a Charlestown woman who disappeared March 25, 2012. Henderson filed death penalty charges in both women’s deaths, and a felony murder charge after Gibson admitted to fatally stabbing Karen Hodella of Port Orange, Fla. in October 2002.

    Like Hodella, Kirk had met Gibson at a tavern. The woman had gone to see a friend, then headed to the Uptown Bar on Vincennes Street in New Albany, where she’d mentioned plans to see a guy she’d met the night before to go motorcycle riding.

    Worried when his daughter didn’t return home, Kirk’s father Tony dialed her cellphone and got no answer. She never was heard from again. Police said Gibson had sexually assaulted and strangled Kirk before burying her body.

    Hodella’s murder was just as violent. He admitted stabbing the beautician multiple times and carrying her body in his pickup before dumping it beside the Ohio River. Hodella’s death had gone unsolved until Gibson confessed after his arrest in April 2012.

    A bizarre twist surfaced two months later, when Gibson wrote to a Courier-Journal reporter from the Floyd County jail, saying he’d accept the death penalty in the slayings because “after all I am guilty.” That prompted the judge to impose a protective order prohibiting the defendant from having contact with law enforcement and the media to prevent him from incriminating himself.

    Gibson was given the death penalty for Whitis’ murder and scheduled for execution Nov. 26, but the date was expected to be set aside based on automatic appeals. This spring, the 56-year-old man was sentenced to 65 years in Hodella’s murder after he agreed to a plea deal.

    Gibson has remained mostly silent during the proceedings, except to say at the Whitis sentencing that he thought getting death was fair — “I deserve what I’m getting. It ain’t no big deal.”

    Henderson said he’s satisfied that seeking death in the two cases was the right thing to do. But ending the prosecutions now “is good for the (Kirk) family and the community.”

    http://www.courier-journal.com/story...urder/9918931/
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