Barry Wendell Mosley
Facts of the Crime:
Sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on October 30, 2008 in the murders of Shirley Austin and her 17-year-old daughter, Bessie "Mooney" Carter, in 1999. He killed Adrienne Reed a year later. Mosley also raped Carter, Reed and her then-eight-year-old daughter, who survived the attack and testified against Mosley. In the first crime, Mosley went to Austin's home on West 95th Street in the early morning of April 17, 1999, after a night of drinking. The two were friends. The bodies of Austin, 54, and Mooney were found just after dawn by the teenager's father. Mosley killed Reed, 29, the same night he befriended her at a mini-mart and was invited to her home to watch a Los Angeles Lakers game in June 2000. Reed's young daughter woke up in the middle of the night to find her mother nude on the living room floor and Mosley sitting nearby on a couch. Mosley got angry when the girl asked him to help wake up her mom.
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