Trinity murders
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Date | September 29, 1984 |
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Location | Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
Cause | Homicide by firearm |
Outcome | Solved |
Deaths | 2 |
Convicted | Victor Taylor George Wade |
Verdict | Guilty |
Convictions | Death (Taylor) Life imprisonment (Wade) |
The "Trinity murders" (so named for the high school attended by the victims) occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 29, 1984, when Victor Dewayne Taylor and George Ellis Wade kidnapped and murdered two 17-year-old Trinity High School students, Scott Christopher Nelson and Richard David Stephenson. Taylor was sentenced to death, and Wade was sentenced to life imprisonment.[1]
Murders
On September 29, 1984, Scott Nelson and Richard David Stephenson were headed to a Trinity High School soccer game at Louisville Male High School football stadium on East Burnett Avenue in the
The widely publicized murders led to the suspects when a relative who had been given a Trinity High school jacket reported George Wade to the police. Wade implicated Victor Taylor in the crime, and the personal belongings of the two murdered students were found in the home of Taylor's mother.
Trial
After a change of venue motion due to publicity, the trials of Taylor and Wade were moved to Lexington, Kentucky where Taylor was convicted in 1986 of kidnapping, robbery, sodomy, and murder. Wade had previously testified against Taylor but recanted his testimony, which led to Taylor unsuccessfully appealing his conviction. George Wade was convicted of kidnapping, robbery, and murder. Taylor is on death row at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky, and George Wade is serving a life sentence at the Kentucky State Reformatory in LaGrange Kentucky.
Wade recanted his statement to the police that Taylor was with him when he kidnapped, sodomized, and killed the boys. Wade made this statement more than eleven years after Taylor's conviction.
In popular culture
In 2000, the clothier Benetton ran a controversial advertising campaign titled "We, On Death Row" which featured Victor Taylor and 24 other death row inmates from around the United States.[3]
External links
- Reporting Times
- Rick Halperin - Death Penalty News, 29 January 2000
- ABOLISH Archives, 13 January 2005
- U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 4258, Committee on the Judiciary, September 17, 1998
- Benetton - killer ads
References
- ^ WKYT. "Court rejects new trial in double murder case". Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^ a b "Louisville Magazine - MAR 2012". loumag.epubxp.com. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^ "Sears Pulls Benetton Line". Retrieved 2018-03-24.