June 25, 1962 - Anthony Allen Shore
Shore operated in Houston over a span of fourteen years, targeting women and girls in crimes that combined sexual violence with a distinctive and methodical means of killing. His use of an improvised tourniquet device gave investigators a consistent signature that eventually linked his cases together. He confessed to four murders and was executed in Texas in 2018.
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Anthony Allen Shore (June 25, 1962 – January 18, 2018) was an American serial killer and child molester who was responsible for the murders of one woman and three girls. He was active from 1986 to 2000, and became known as the "Tourniquet Killer" because of his use of a ligature with either a toothbrush or bamboo stick to tighten or loosen the ligature. The instrument was similar to a garotte or a twitch, a tool used by farmers to control horses. Shore was sentenced to death in 2004, and executed by lethal injection on January 18, 2018.
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