March 21, 1948 - Jerry McFadden
McFadden's case stands out for both the nature of his crimes and the scale of the institutional response they triggered — a triple murder conviction capped by a jailbreak that mobilized law enforcement across Texas in one of the state's most extensive manhunts. He operated under the self-assigned name "The Animal," a detail that speaks to the deliberate persona he constructed around his violence.
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Gerald "Jerry" Walter McFadden (March 21, 1948 – October 14, 1999), who called himself The Animal, was an American serial killer and sex offender who was convicted of the May 1986 murders of two women and one man in Smith County, Texas. He fled from jail shortly after his arrest, leading to one of the largest man-hunts in Texas history that came to an end in July of that year. He was later sentenced to death and executed in 1999. Years after his execution, he was found to have perpetrated an earlier 1979 murder in Oregon through DNA evidence, and authorities have since speculated he could have committed other killings.
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