Remorseless Horrors

This episode covers Washington Terrace, Utah, a town of 9,157 people in the north-central part of the state, between Ogden and Salt Lake City. It began in 1942 as a housing project for government workers, and its barracks were later converted into single-family houses. details of the account remain covered until revealed The town is about 62% Mormon, with 78% of residents religious, and has a median household income of $44,000 and a median home cost of about $142,000. James gives property crime as about ten per cent above average and violent crime about twenty per cent above.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it His parents separated while he was a baby and he moved about with his mother, who told him when he was nine that his father was dead, which was not true. He spent most of his formative years in Florida with an abusive stepfather, a Vietnam veteran. At 13 he stabbed the stepfather. During his teens he repeatedly raped his sister Laura and assaulted other young girls, and his parents had him committed to a sex offender programme, where he was diagnosed as a remorseless paedophile. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

On 20 June 1989 he was staying with Laura at an apartment complex in Washington Terrace, having come a few days earlier to tattoo her husband and his half brother. A neighbour had seen him watching eleven-year-old Charla King and a friend in the park. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it At 3.20 pm Charla's mother, Sharon King, came home, turned on a soap opera and found Charla dead on her bed. She was naked, with a telephone cord round her neck, her underwear in her mouth and a nightgown over her head. The autopsy found she had been strangled with the cord and had suffered severe sexual injuries. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

On 25 June police officer Marsha Gathercoal received a tip. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now It was Laura who had called the police. He first denied being in the apartment, then said he had gone in to rob it, found no one home and touched the telephone while looking for money. details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it His attorney Don Red said he admitted being in the apartment as a burglar but had not killed the girl. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed At the penalty phase the prosecution presented his earlier offences, and his half sister Leslie Beale, who testified for him, admitted on cross-examination that he had raped her. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it His father died on 8 October 1990.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now In January 1996 he ate three pizzas with his uncle Gordon Lee, took antacids, prayed with a chaplain and was allowed a cigarette. details of the account remain covered until revealed He was cremated and the ashes went to his uncle. Sharon King waited in a Salt Lake City hotel and said part of her wanted him dead while part of her felt for him. Charla is buried in Brigham City, Box Elder County.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Ronnie Lee Gardner was shot in June 2008, the last, because his case predated the new law. In 2015 legislators introduced bills to bring the firing squad back.