- Ottis Toole -
March 5, 1947 - September 15, 1996)
Ottis (sometimes spelled Otis) was an American criminal. Though
he claimed to be a serial killer and cannibal, and was the suspect
in several unsolved murders, he recanted and restated a number
of confessions. He was perhaps best-known as a suspect in the
murder of Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, host of the television
program America's Most Wanted, and as the reputed partner of
Henry Lee Lucas.
In April 1984, Toole was convicted and sentenced to death for
a 1982 arson incident that killed 64-year-old George Sonnenberg
in Jacksonville, Florida. Later that year, Toole was judged guilty
of the 1983 murder of 19-year-old Tallahassee, Florida, resident
Ada Johnson, and received a second death sentence; on appeal,
however, both sentences were reduced to life in prison. Toole
pleaded guilty to four more murders in 1991 and received four
more life sentences. Toole died in September of 1996 in prison
from cirrhosis of the liver.
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