Tommy Lynn Sells (born June 28, 1964) is an
American
serial killer.
Early life
Sells and his twin sister, Tammy Jean, contracted
meningitis when they were 18 months old. While
Sells suffered a high fever, he survived. His sister, however, died
from the inflammation.
Shortly thereafter, Sells was sent to live
with his aunt Bonnie Woodall in Holcomb, Missouri
. He lived with Woodall until he was
five.
When Sells was eight he began spending time with a man from a
neighboring city named Willis Clark, who would later be suspected
of
child molestation.
Sells started traveling in order to find work. Because he was
homeless at the time, he hitched rides, hopped trains and at one
point stole a vehicle. He held several different jobs, often doing
menial labor.
Murders
Sells claims he committed his first murder at age 16.
While
working as a carny in Missouri
during the
summer of 1985 Sells met 29 year old, Ena Cordt. According
to Sells, Cordt invited him to her home where they had consensual
sex. The bodies of Cordt and her four-year-old son were found three
days later.
Sells is suspected as the perpetrator for the following crimes:
- The
murder of Suzanne Korcz in New York
during May
1987
- The November 1987 murder of the Dardeen family in
Illinois.
- Killing a co-worker in Texas
during April
1998.
- The murder of Katy Harris in Texas in 1999. [328089]
Arrests and confessions
Sells has recently claimed to have killed upwards of 70 people,
according to an interview with
Columbia University forensic psychiatrist and personality
expert Dr. Michael H. Stone in
Discovery Channel's
Most Evil.
On
December 31, 1999, in the Guajia Bay subdivision, west of Del Rio, Texas
, Sells fatally stabbed 13-year-old Kaylene 'Katy'
Harris 16 times and slit the throat of 10-year-old Krystal
Surles. Surles survived and received help from her
neighbors. Ultimately, Sells was apprehended using a sketch from
the victim's description.
Tommy Lynn
Sells is currently on death row in
Livingston
, Texas.
References
- Tommy Lynn Sells, serial killer & predator,
travels the U.S. murdering - The Crime library
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