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| TLSmustdie |
Posted - 17 June 2003 : 4:36:52 PM
I would like to know his story. Anything anyone has for me I will read.I know he wants to be the most prolifiic serial killer in the world, but he is in prison now and wants his story out.
Steph's mom |
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| celebratelife2 |
Posted - 11 December 2003 : 06:44:19 AM
I knew Tommy for a short time, many years ago. I was only 14 years old at the time. He scared me quite a bit. For many years after he was out of my life, until he was arrested in Texas, I was always weary that Tommy would somehow find me. I assumed if given the opportunity, he would rape me. I never thought nor knew he was a murderer. I now know that I am lucky to be alive. I am truly sorry for the people and the families who were hurt so horribly by Tommy.
---A Survivor |
| sara |
Posted - 08 December 2003 : 3:29:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by TLSmustdie
I would like to know his story. Anything anyone has for me I will read.I know he wants to be the most prolifiic serial killer in the world, but he is in prison now and wants his story out.
Steph's mom
sara |
| TLSmustdie |
Posted - 15 November 2003 : 01:03:08 AM
There is nothing new I know about Tommy. Missouri is still undecided as to what to do. I think they are waiting on Tommy and the state of Texas to reply to the indictment. I was also on the episode of the Oprah show that Krystal was on. She is a very well adjusted, happy teenager. She does not want to be contacted at this time. She is understandably trying to put it all behind her and go on with life. For me, it has been a hard thing to do. I don't think the terror will end for me until he is put to death.
Steph's mom |
| Adzo99 |
Posted - 14 November 2003 : 6:18:42 PM
Hi
I live in Australia and recently came across cases on Sells through a research assignment for school and an episode of the oprah winfrey show which krytal made an appearance on. I feel for anyone over the course of the 20 years Sells commited his crimes where a flourishing life was apparent and am glad to know that he was finnally caught.
Under the horriffic circumstances i praise krystal surles courage to make the difference she did not only in fighting for her own life but to put him behind bars by identifying him and speaking out in court when it must have been increadibly hard to do so.
Im just going to keep this short, i know how touchy a subject this is for the people involved. So i would just like to add that i hope the instant appeal under texan law is denied and he gets what is coming to him, no man/woman that has done what he has done deserves to live period.
If anyone could please email me any developments in the case it would be much appreciated, and or a way of contacting krystal via email or msn messenger etc. i will understand if she does just want to be left alone tho, so thats no problem.
Thankyou
Adam_vg |
| TLSmustdie |
Posted - 03 November 2003 : 12:31:04 PM
I am so sorry for your loss. I wish I could have met Katy. I just recently met Krystal in Chicago. Sells also murdered someone very close to me. Steph was only 13 at the time and my oldest child.I miss her very much. I look into Tommy's life for no other reason than to try and understand him & why he did the things he did. I agree with you.......why put him on a pedastle when he should be 6 foot under!
Steph's mom |
| monica12 |
Posted - 02 November 2003 : 1:16:11 PM
I'm from the quiet, tiny town in which Sells murdered a friend of mine, Katy Harris.
WHY would someone purposely make him a "star"? What gives HIM the right to be a "prolific" killer? He took someone away that we all loved and he made us think twice about our own security. Make him a prolific killer? No! I think they should already put him to death and forget about him. He isn't worth living... |
| shy |
Posted - 18 June 2003 : 10:49:48 AM
.....Tommy Lynn Sells ............ Krystal Surles
In the early morning hours of December 31, 1999, 10-year-old Krystal Surles and her friend Kaylene Harris, 13, were brutally attacked by a knife-wielding intruder, who slashed their throats. Kaylene died, but Krystal walked to a neighbor's house for help, and survived. Despite her injuries, she helped police identify the killer.
Two days after the crime, police arrested a 35-year-old drifter named Tommy Lynn Sells. During questioning, Sells told police that he had committed dozens of murders over the past 20 years. An eighth-grade dropout who often made money as a carnie, he said he had committed his first murder in Hollywood, Calif., in a street fight. Sells said that he had killed people all over the country, from California to West Virginia. Harold Dow reports on a man who for 20 years got away with murder in a big way and the child whose courage put an end to the killings.
I think the magnitude sometimes of what's happened is overwhelming," says Coy Smith, a Texas Ranger who questioned Sells. "To think that an individual could have done some of the things that he's done."
Sells told police that he killed people when they angered him: "I lose it. I lose control of my thoughts, I lose control of my emotions. When you're not in control, bad things happen."
Sells told police that he had never left a witness alive before Surles. Asked why he had been caught, Sells said: "'Cause I left someone alive."
According to Sells, he had a rough upbringing. "I grew up in a crooked family to begin with." Sells mother abandoned him when he was 18 months old. He claims he was sexually abused as a child by a man in the neighborhood. Sells began roaming the country when he was 13.
He served strethes in prison in a variety of states, for a variety of offenses, including assault and auto theft.
On Sept. 12, 2000, Sells was put on trial for killing Kaylene. The charge was first-degree murder, which can warrant the death penalty. The key witness was Krystal, who was then 11.
Sells was not hopeful. Asked about a tattoo on his wrist, the number "13 ½," he said: "Twelve jurors, one judge, and a half-assed chance."
Through a sketch artist, Krystal helped authorities create a profile of her attacker that eventually led to Sells' capture. She also became the star witness in Sells' capital murder trial.
While under arrest for the murder of Kaylene, Sells shocked authorities when he freely admitted that he had been criss-crossing the country for 20 years, murdering men, women and children.
His confession to a multiple murder in Illinois may have closed a 13-year-old case for authorities there. In 1987, Elaine Dardeen, seven months pregnant at the time, and her 3-year-old son, Peter, were found bludgeoned to death in their home.
The shock of the attack caused Elaine to give birth. The newborn girl, who authorities believe was alive at the time, was also clubbed to death.
Elaine's husband, Keith, was found dead in a nearby field, shot in the head.
"How you can kill a 3-year-old and also kill a newborn infant, that just goes beyond explanation," says Detective John Kemp who originally investigated the case.
Sells has admitted to scores of murders. To date, authorities have definitively linked him to 13 homicides, including those of Haley McHone, 13, of Lexington, Ky., and Mary Perez, 9, of San Antonio, Texas. And since this story was first broadcast early in 2001, authorities have linked him to additional cases.
"We don't have an exact number. We're not so naive as to believe we'll ever have an exact number," says Texas Ranger Johnny Allen, one of the investigators of the Kaylene Harris murder. The Rangers have worked closely with authorities in other states, even taking Sells to other locations so he could show police where he buried a body or disposed of a murder weapon.
Sells, in a case supported by the emotional testimony of Krystal Surles, was eventually convicted of capital murder in the Kaylene Harris case. After only two hours of deliberation, the jury returned with a sentence of death.
After the trial, Krystal said the only good thing to come out of her ordeal with Sells is "that he got caught and that no one else will get hurt from him."
Sells ha snow bene move dto Death Row, but Texas has an automatic appeal in capital cases, so it could be years before an execution date is even set.
For investigators, one drawback is a Texas state law that prohibits Death Row inmates from leaving prison. It's no longer possible for Sells to show investigators in other states where all the bodies are buried.
Shy
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