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Saturday, January 5, 2013

POSTER BOY FOR HANGING: PAEDOPHILE SERIAL KILLER, WESTLEY ALLAN DODD (JULY 3, 1961 TO JANUARY 5, 1993)


            Twenty years ago on this day (January 5, 1993), Pedophile Serial Killer, Westley Allan Dodd was executed by hanging in the State of Washington. In my opinion, he should be the poster boy for capital punishment in the case of pedophile murders. I will post information about him from Wikipedia and at the end of it, I will give my comments and other links about him.


Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 – January 5, 1993) was a convicted American serial killer and child molester. He has been called "one of the most evil killers in history". His execution on January 5, 1993, was the first legal hanging (at his own request) in the United States since 1965.

Early life
Westley Allan Dodd was born in Toppenish, Washington, on July 3, 1961. Unlike most serial killers, Dodd claimed he was never abused or neglected. He also reported that he grew up in a wealthy, happy family. However, The Seattle Times reported that Dodd described in a diary written during his imprisonment that his childhood did include pathnogenic experiences including enduring a father that was physically and verbally abusive, witnessing fights between his mother and father, and comporting an attempted suicide by his father.

Criminal history
Dodd began sexually abusing children when he was a teenager; his first victims were his own cousins. All his victims (over 50 in all) were boys below the age of 12, some of them as young as two. Dodd's sexual fantasies became increasingly violent over the years; as a young man, he wrote about wanting to eat the genitals of his victims.

He killed brothers Cole and William Neer (aged 11 and 10, respectively) in Vancouver, Washington in the fall of 1989, and tortured, raped and murdered four-year-old Lee Iseli. In November 1989 he attempted to abduct a six-year-old boy from the Liberty movie theater in Camas, Washington. He was caught when the child's mother's boyfriend chased him down and tackled him.

He was arrested by the Camas police and interviewed by task force detectives. Portland Police Bureau Detective C. W. Jensen and Clark County Detective Dave Trimble obtained Dodd's confession and served the search warrant on his home. The police found a homemade torture rack in his home, as yet unused.

Several books have been written about the case, including: When The Monster Comes Out Of The Closet by Lori Steinhorst, who communicated with Dodd in writing and by phone almost daily for 18 months prior to his execution; Driven to Kill by true crime author Gary C. King; and Dr. Ron Turco's book about his experience during the initial investigation to assist in developing a profile of the killer. 


Arrest and trials
Dodd was sentenced to death in 1990 for molesting and then stabbing to death Cole Neer and his brother William near a Vancouver, Washington park in 1989, as well as for the separate rape and murder of Lee Iseli, aged 4.

Less than four years elapsed between the murders and Dodd's execution. He refused to appeal his case or the capital sentence, stating, "I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone within the prison. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill prison guards if I have to and rape and enjoy every minute of it." While in court he said that, if he escaped from jail, he would immediately go back to "killing and raping kids."

Dodd was executed by hanging at 12:05 a.m. on January 5, 1993 at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. By Washington State law, Dodd had to choose the method of his execution, and state law gave Dodd two options: lethal injection or hanging. Dodd chose hanging, later stating in interviews that he chose that method "because that's the way Lee Iseli [his final victim] died." He also requested that his hanging be televised, but that request was denied. His hanging was the first use of hanging for an execution in the United States since George York and James Latham were hanged by Kansas in 1965.

His execution was witnessed by 12 members of local and regional media, prison officials, and representatives of the families of the three victims. He ate salmon and potatoes for his last meal. His last words, spoken from the second floor of the indoor gallows, were recorded by the media witnesses as:


I was once asked by somebody, I don't remember who, if there was any way sex offenders could be stopped. I said, 'No.' I was wrong. I was wrong when I said there was no hope, no peace. There is hope. There is peace. I found both in the Lord, Jesus Christ. Look to the Lord, and you will find peace.


Dodd was pronounced dead by the prison doctor and his body transported to Seattle for autopsy. The King County Medical Examiner, Dr. Donald Reay, found that Dodd had died quickly and probably with little pain. He was cremated following the autopsy, and his ashes turned over to his family.

Here are some other links about him:

COMMENTS:
         In my opinion, he should be the poster boy for capital punishment in the case of pedophile murders. For murdered children and their families, Dodd should be used as an example of hanging child killers. As I prefer hanging to lethal injection as it is more painful and frightening, I was glad that Dodd did not die a painless death.
             I do not know whether he is truly repentant of his crimes because of what he wrote on his bible (See the photo below). Most of all, he deserved to die whether it was the easy way out or not.



Dodd's bible, with the words 'Satan Lives', (POLICE) Source: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/dodd/confess_5.html
See this video:


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