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In 1949, Charles Floyd, a voyeur and a necrophile, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. He had a fetish for redheads. Floyd would enter homes of redheads —sometimes stalking them for months— kill them, and then have sex with the dead bodies. On July 10, 1942, he strangled the 20-year-old pregnant wife of William Brown in her Main Street apartment on Tulsa’s north side. After 6 months he killed Clara Stewart and her married daughter, Georgina Green. On May 15, 1945, he bludgeoned Panta Lou Niles in her sleep, after having entered through her open bedroom window. On July 1, 1948, he broke into an apartment and clubbed its female tenant, her 12-year-old daughter, and a teenage girl who was sleeping there. He then went two blocks away and killed Ruth Norton.
In the last case, a witness came forward and offered police a description of Norton’s attacker, including the piece of advice that he “looked like a truck driver.” A survey of local trucking companies revealed that Charles Floyd, a driver known for his obsession with redheads, had quit his job on the morning of July 2. Police broadcast descriptions, leading to his ultimate arrest in Dallas on November 22, 1949. Floyd was able to supply detectives with substantial details of the crime known only to the killer and police.
A lifelong voyeur, Floyd said that voyeurism sometimes failed to satisfy his cravings, and on those occasions he was moved to violence. Panta Niles had been a special target. She was fond of stripping down before an open window. Floyd had watched her for a period of weeks before he killed her.
All of Floyd’s victims were redheads and most had been sexually violated after death. In the case of Panta Niles, he spent the entire night with the corpse, leaving after daylight. Psychiatric testing and the subject’s low IQ saved Floyd from capital punishment. On confession to the string of murders and necrophilic activities, he was sent to a mental institution, where he subsequently died.
[Anil Aggrawal] Necrophilia – Forensic and Medico-legal aspects
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