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C.L.E.U

English III

Tommy Lynn Sells

Group 1, Members:

Pacheco, Jose

Pech, Armando

Peraza, Erce

Rejon, Anjanuette

Sosa, Jiro

Date of Birth: 28.06.1964

Place of Birth: Oakland, California

Mother: Nina Sells

Father: unknown lover

Sister: Tammy Lynn (twins, deceased, spinal meningitis)

Brothers: 5 (2 older and 3 younger)

Ethnicity: Caucasoid

Alias: Coast to Coast or Coast to Coast Killer

Number of Victims: over 70 by his accounts

Date of murders: 1980-1999

Date of Arrest: 2nd January 2000

Presently: Death Row, Allan B. Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas

  • At 7 years of age he was drinking alcohol.
  • At 8 years of age he was exposed to a child molester that used to give him monetary gifts. Tommy used to sleep at his house.
  • At 10 years of age he was using marijuana.
  • At 13 years of age he crept unto his granny´s bed naked. Thereafter he was on his own, drifting, getting high, drunk and getting money (stealing).

At 15 years of age he committed his first murder in 1979. It was a burglary that turned into a fatal shooting at Mississippi.

Since his initial confession he added a story of his first murder where he alleges to have killed a child molester.

Claims killing several men during scuffles.

At 19 years old he burglarized the home of Thomas Gill where he beat his wife and 4 year old child to death (1983).

Served time for a stolen car.

July 1985 when he was 21 years old in Forsyth, Missouri he used a baseball bat to kill Ena Cordt, 35, and her 4 year son. Three days later the bodies were found. His sadism increased.

1987 he choked to death Stephanie Stroh, a 20 year old hitchhiker after which he dropped the body down a hot spring which has not been retrieved since the police has not been able to verify his story.

In 1987 in Illinois he shot a Keith Dardeen to death and severed his penis whilst alive; the victim had invited him for dinner. He also beat to death the victim’s wife, Elaine, and son, Pete, during which the female gave birth to a premature female baby which was also bludgeoned to death. He ended by impaling the bat into her vagina after sexually abusing her.

On the 12th of January 1990 he was arrested for handling stolen goods and public intoxication for which he served a year in prison of a total of 16 months but was released after serving 1 year.

September 1991 he killed Margaret McClain and her daughter Pamela.

Eight months later he raped and stabbed another female victim which survived and reported him.

He plead guilty for malicious wounding and served 4 years of the 10 year term. He was convicted on the 2nd of June 1993 and released on May 1997.

He was diagnosed as a bi-polar and married Nora Price.

October 1999- He strangled Stephanie Mahaney, 13 years of age.

4th April 1998, he raped and stabbed to death a 32 year old woman and her 8 year old daughter.

13th May 1998, he stripped, raped and choked to death Haley Maltose after which he sold her bike for 20 bucks which he used to get drunk. He was arrested for public intoxication and released the following day.

July He kills 14 year old Bobby Lynn Wofford after he raped her, he shot her.

On the 31st of December 1999 in Del Rio, Texas he (35 yrs) stabbed 16 times and slit the throat of Kaylene Harris (13yrs) as she shouted whilst she was abused.

Krystal Sumers also had her throat slit but managed to survive and denounced her attacker.

During the trial a psychologist indicated that Sells had an abnormal electroencephalogram that suggested that the executive part of his brain did not communicate well wit the primitive parts thus he had no means to thwart his aggression.

He quickly confessed about all the murders he had committed in two decades; many of which could not be corroborated.

Tommy Lynn modus operandi was not clearly established until late in his career. Clearly he was a sexual psychopath that stalked, raped women and progressed unto teens. He used knife, guns, bats, blunt objects and even his hands. He followed his adage: dead man tells no tales. With an education of an 8th grader he was able to continue his path of destruction for 20 years largely due to his wandering through the U.S.

Coast to Coast Killer

Nina was married and had a secret lover who was the father of the twins. She was in a stalemate between her husband and lover. When the twins were about 1.5 years, Tammy contracted spinal meningitis and perished. Tommy became sick of the same disease during the funeral services. He survived.

Nina re-lived memories when she saw Tommy, she decided to leave him with family members to preserve her sanity. It began as a temporary measure but became permanent, from family members and unto friends thereafter.

At 17 years old he re-united with his mother and siblings again, but was kicked out when he tried a sexual move on his mother (1981). Attended a psychiatric clinic where diagnostic tests indicated he felt unloved and that he was the cause of problems at home. Therapy for anger management was indicated. He attended 5 sessions only.

Continued to drink, kill and began using heroin.

He settled down at Del Rio with a hispanic woman named Jessica Levrie with four kids that worked at the local diner. The couple had marital problems. February 1998.

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