Burn, Judy, Burn by Bette Nunn

Author:Bette Nunn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder, true crime, rape, serial killer, insanity, death penalty, drowning, serial rapist, electric chair, death by electrocution, convicted murderer, 73rd person executed, violent crime, violent crimes against women, violent crime against women, strangulation, multiple murders, unsolved crimes, sexual crimes, sexual psycopath, insanity plea, murder trial, trial by jury
Publisher: Bette Nunn

Sheriff Richard Allen was recalled to the stand.

Again he stated that Judy had been confined in a 6x6 cell since April and had caused no problems. He described Judy as “a normal prisoner.” Allen was the last witness for the day.

January 29, 1980

Today was the day that the jury would listen to every single word. The courtroom would be exceedingly quiet, because today was the day Steven Timothy Judy would take the stand in his own defense.

The first witness called on Tuesday, January 29, was Bob Carr, the defendant’s 34-year-old foster father.

Carr said he met Steve at his own mother’s house in 1970. “He could be as good as he wanted to be, said the witness. “Me and Steve were kinda close—we got along good,” Carr said. There was not a father-son relationship because of the closeness of their ages, but the witness said, “He (Steve) knew who was boss.” Carr said he didn’t spank Steve, because he was too big for that.

The defendant, Steven Judy, was called to the stand by Defense Attorney Harris at 10:20 a.m. Judy started out by saying he’d been a liar all his life, most of which was spent in Indianapolis, where he was born on May 24, 1956.

He recalled his childhood. His mom and dad fought, separated and drank often. He referred to them as alcoholics. He watched his mother try to shoot his father, and his father often beat his mother. He said his dad was arrested 72 times for assault, some of them against his mother, and he was also arrested for rape. He was an escapee from prison, where he was sent for trying to swindle an insurance company, the defendant said.

Judy talked about his parents’ stormy marriage, his mother’s sexual relations with other men and his father’s fights. He talked about the booze kept in the house and of the books with dirty pictures left laying around the house.

Judy said he was breaking into cars at 10 years old and said he ran away many times, sleeping at the home of friends or in the garage. He sampled whiskey at that age and got drunk at home when he was 11. He burglarized a neighbor’s house, shoplifted and became a peeping tom at about age 12.

Judy explained his attacks on young girls when he was 12. He had jumped into a car with one, kissed her and run his hand up her leg. He also stole her wallet. Another he saw walking, threw her down on the ground and felt her breast. He ran by a woman one morning and pulled up her dress as he passed her. These incidents led to him being placed in the Indianapolis Juvenile Center and later the Methodist Children’s Home.

At the Methodist Home, Judy attended Lebanon Junior High School. He said he received no counseling or therapy. He first started smoking marijuana while at the home. He drank booze and made obscene phone calls to housemothers and administrators and ran away after being busted for being in the girls’ section.

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