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    Gerald Parker - California Death Row


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    Summary of Offense:

    Serial killer Gerald Parker, dubbed the "Bedroom Basher" for a spree of sex slayings that terrorized Orange County in the 1970s, was sentenced to death on January 21, 1999 after an emotional hearing in which victims' families spoke of their years of anguish and loss. Using new DNA technology and a computer database, prosecutors developed the case against Parker 17 years after he raped and murdered five Orange County women and killed the unborn child of a sixth woman. The surviving victim's husband was later wrongly convicted of the crime.

    Victims:
    Sandra Kay Fry, 17, Anaheim, December 2, 1978
    Kimberly Rawlins, 21, Costa Mesa, April 1, 1979
    Marolyn Carleton, 31, Costa Mesa, September 14, 1979
    Chantel Marie Green, stillborn, Tustin, September 30, 1979
    Debora Jean Kennedy, 24, Tustin, October 7, 1979
    Debra Lynn Senior, 17, Costa Mesa, October 21, 1979

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    Parker's case has been fully briefed on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court since April 18, 2012.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S076169

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    Parker's habeas case has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since March 2, 2015.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....pSUCAgCg%3D%3D

    On March 7, 2017, oral argument will be heard in Parker's direct appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/c...rs/SMAR717.PDF

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    Death penalty is upheld for Orange County serial killer

    By Maura Dolan
    The Los Angeles Times

    The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death penalty for Gerald Parker, known as the “Bedroom Basher” for terrorizing Orange County in the late 1970s in a string of home-invasion rapes and murders.

    Parker was a staff sergeant based in Orange County for the U.S. Marine Corps in 1978 and 1979. During that time, five women in Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Tustin were raped and beaten to death in their apartments.

    A sixth victim, D. Green, survived with brain damage, but her 9-month-old fetus, identified by the court as Chantal Green, was delivered stillborn.

    Green’s husband, Kevin Lee Green, was wrongly convicted of the attack. He was imprisoned from 1980 to 1996, when DNA tests linked the victims to one another and to Parker.

    Parker admitted during a police interrogation to burglarizing all six homes, but claimed he was intoxicated at the time and did not intend to kill the victims, identified by the court as: Sandra Fry, Kimberly Rawlins, Marolyn Carleton, Chantal Green, Debora Kennedy and Debra Senior.

    An Orange County judge sentenced Parker to death in 1999.

    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...605-story.html
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    On February 20, 2018, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Parker's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of California
    Case Numbers: (S076169)
    Decision Date: June 5, 2017
    Rehearing Denied: August 9, 2017

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/17-6923.html

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