Monsters Of Death Row by Christopher Berry-Dee & Tony Brown

Author:Christopher Berry-Dee & Tony Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Virgin Books

5. INMATES I–L (IBARRA–LUCAS)

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IBARRA, RAMIRO (TEXAS # 999247), DOB 10.5.1954

A NATIVE OF the unpronounceable Cahlchihuites Zacatecas County, Mexico, Ramiro Ibarra had no previous criminal record when he was convicted of the March 1987 sexual assault and strangulation of sixteen-year-old Maria de la Zuniga at her Waco home.

The teenager was looking after her two nephews at 402 S. 15th Street, when Ibarra, a family acquaintance, attacked her. She was beaten, raped then strangled with an electrical cord, which was still wrapped around her neck when she was found.

When arrested and questioned by police, Ibarra was discovered to have scratches on his face and body. Skin identified as Ibarra’s – taken from under the victim’s fingernails – indicated that the young girl had fought desperately for her life.

Amazingly, Ibarra was released from custody after a judge ruled inadmissible certain prosecution evidence. Nevertheless, changes to laws ruling the presentation of evidence allowed prosecutors to pursue the case nearly ten years later.

Ibarra was living in Bell County, Texas, when he was arrested on 10 October 1996. It is believed that he is responsible for the disappearance of his niece and the sexual molestation of his eight-year-old nephew. In any event, he will not escape the executioner.

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JACKSON, JAMES LEWIS (TEXAS # 999272), DOB 13.6.1959

‘THREE MURDERS BUT FOUR VICTIMS’

At six feet three inches in height and weighing 204 lbs, James Lewis Jackson, a gardener by trade, presented a formidable physical appearance. But this strong man’s world fell to pieces when his wife decided to end their marriage, and he reacted in a lethal manner which resulted in a triple killing.

On 8 April 1997, Jackson was at home with one of his two stepdaughters, Sonceria Messia Mayes. Upset that the girl’s mother planned to divorce him, Jackson asked Sonceria how she felt about the situation. When the girl bluntly replied that she did not care about it one way or the other, Jackson went over the edge and choked her to death.

When the girl’s sister, Ericka, returned home from school, Jackson asked the same question. Despite her telling him that she loved him and wanted him to stay in her life, he throttled the life out of her too. Then, in that bizarre ritualistic manner that is peculiar to those in a state of homicidal denial, he placed both girls’ bodies in their own beds. Their mother met the same dreadful fate when she returned home and spurned his advances and attempts at reconciliation.

It is difficult to view James Jackson as a cold-blooded, ruthless killer, when his almost pathetic attempts at reconciliation were made after having killed his wife’s two daughters. Instead, he emerges as a broken man whose reason has been completely eroded and as one of the few inhabitants of Death Row deserving perhaps to be viewed with a degree of compassion.

JACKSON, LARRY KENNETH (OKLAHOMA # 151781)

Thirty-seven-year-old Larry Jackson fatally stabbed his former girlfriend, Wendy Cade, in 1994, after escaping from a prison work detail for Oklahoma State Industries at the Jim Thorpe Building in the State Capitol complex in Oklahoma City.

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