John Couey

...questions remain about how nearly $400,000 in donations was spent. 'Rock star status' On Feb. 24, 2005, convicted sex offender John Couey slipped into the Homosassa trailer where Jessica, 9, lived with her father and grandparents. Couey...

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...bags, he had a gallows built near his bar and hung an effigy of the suspect, identified by a sign as "child molester John Couey. " Couey got the death sentence in 2007. A month ago, he died of anal cancer. Last year, when Croft heard...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted on child-killer John Evander Couey. Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger also said Thursday that a relative has claimed the body. Couey was awaiting...

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...disputed that in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Man convicted of killing girl dies John Evander Couey, a convicted sex offender awaiting execution for kidnapping, raping and burying...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Killer of Fla. girl, 9, dies in prison John Evander Couey died about a month before a court was to hear his appeal in the Jessica Lunsford murder case. TALLAHASSEE - John Evander Couey, a...

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She was clutching a stuffed dolphin -- a toy won for her at a state fair by her father, and which Couey allowed her to bring with her when she was abducted. "I am not shedding any tears," the girl's grandmother, Ruth Lunsford, said on...

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...thrown out because he did not have a lawyer present. Jail guards and investigators testified he repeatedly admitted details of the slaying but said he hadn't meant to kill the girl. Prosecutors also introduced overwhelming physical evidence,...

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...trailer in Citrus County, where he raped her and buried her alive. A judge in Miami-Dade sentenced him to death in 2007. During his trial, jurors were told how Couey, who was convicted of trying to assault a young girl in Kissimmee in...

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...Jessica from her room, raping her and locking her in a closet before buring her alive. Couey's trial took place in Miami in 2007. When the jury found him guilty, Jessica's father, Mark Lunsford, silently glared at Couey as his eyes glistened...

In this article: Jessica Lunsford, Florida Department of Corrections, Augusta, and Miami, Florida

He received no visitors at Florida State Prison in Raiford while awaiting his execution, Plessinger said. If his body is not claimed, Couey will be buried in the inmate cemetery outside Union Correctional Institution in Raiford. The Florida...

In this article: Jessica Lunsford, Cancer, Terminal illness, Citrus County, and Miami, Florida