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    Rudolph Tyner - South Carolina


    Rudolph Tyner


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    On March 18, 1978, in Horry County, Rudolph Tyner, entered a small grocery store and pulled out a sawed-off shotgun. He demanded that the owner and his wife, Bill Moon and Myrtle Moon, give him money from the cash register. They immediately complied. After Tyner got the money, he shot Bill Moon in the chest, killing him. Myrtle Moon began screaming and begging not to be shot. Tyner shot her in the head.

    Tyner was soon apprehended, tried, convicted and sentenced to death for his crime.

    On September 12, 1982, while on death row, Tyner was murdered by explosives hidden in a radio by Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins. His murder was a contract killing paid for by the victims' son, Tony Cimo.

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    March 21, 1985

    Man Who Arranged Slaying of His Parents' Killer Denied Parole


    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A man who arranged the death row slaying of his parents' killer because he doubted the murderer would be executed has lost his first chance at parole by a one-vote margin.

    Tony Cimo, who has been on extended work-release and allowed to live at home, must return to regular work-release status and spend nights at a halfway house after Wednesday's 3-2 vote by the parole board.

    ''I'm disappointed,'' Cimo, a Murrells Inlet bricklayer, said after a hearing at Kirkland Correctional Institution. ''I was hoping to get this behind me.''

    Cimo pleaded guilty in 1983 to conspiring with Donald ''Pee Wee'' Gaskins to kill Rudolph Tyner, who shot Cimo's parents during a 1978 robbery of their Murrells Inlet store.

    In September 1982, Gaskins set off a radio-controlled bomb that killed Tyner, who was on death row at Central Correctional Institution in Columbia.

    Gaskins was given the death penalty for his part in the slaying.

    Cimo, who gained national notoriety for his act of revenge, was given an eight-year sentence but spent only six months in prison before being released to a halfway house.

    In a brief exchange with the parole board, Cimo noted that today is the sixth anniversary of his parents' funeral.

    He said he was driven to arrange the death because ''Rudolph Tyner just point-blank robbed and shot my parents. I just didn't see any end in sight to the appeals.''

    Also attending Tuesday's parole hearing was Solicitor Jim Dunn and state Sen. J.M. ''Bud'' Long, who spoke in Cimo's behalf.

    ''It's time for him to take his rightful place in society,'' Long said. ''This was just one of those things. He snapped.''

    Cimo's respect for South Carolina's court system has improved because the state finally has started executing prisoners, Long said.''The whole picture has changed because there's been an execution in South Carolina. People know the system works.''

    Cimo was haunted by the brutal slaying of his parents and felt let down by the courts, Dunn said. ''I'm of the opinion that the system has greatly contributed to Tony's problem.''

    But parole board member Rhett Jackson of Columbia said he feared Cimo's early parole might be considered an endorsement of vigilantism.

    ''I just wonder what kind of world this would be if everyone took the law into their own hands,'' Jackson said. ''I have a lot of problems with this because of what the community might think.''

    http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Ma...9be842c5b4285f

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    Tony Cimo served three years of his sentences, of which he spent most of his prison time on work release, and was warmly welcomed back home to Horry County.

    In a June 2001 Associated Press report, Tony's sister, Rene, said he had no regrets about having killed Tyner. "He told me over and over, I think constantly of Tyner laughing while Mama and Daddy begged on their knees for their life. I did what I did, and that's it."

    Before his parents' murder, Tony had been involved in a serious boating accident. In June 2001, Cimo died at the age of 52 in his home from an apparent overdose of pain medication.

    This case was featured in the 1986 CBS movie "Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo".

    http://books.google.it/books?id=5fEI...0press&f=false

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