January 9, 1937 - Jesse Sumner
His criminal record stretched across decades, beginning with the murder of a robbery accomplice in 1963 and continuing after his release with a series of killings targeting young women near a university campus. The pattern — violence, parole, violence again — made him a recurring subject in discussions of recidivism and public safety failures of the era.
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Jesse Donald Sumner (January 9, 1937 – December 4, 2005) was an American serial killer and repeat prison escapee who murdered three young women in the vicinity of the Illinois State University from 1972 to 1973, following his parole for the 1963 murder of his accomplice in a robbery. For the latter crimes, he was given multiple 50-to-200 year sentences, which he served until his death in 2005.
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