November 6, 1955 - Alton Coleman
Over roughly eight weeks in the summer of 1984, Coleman and his accomplice moved through the Midwest in a spree that crossed six state lines — a geographic range that complicated law enforcement efforts and allowed the violence to continue far longer than it might otherwise have. The scale of the crimes was sufficient to earn him death sentences in three separate states, an uncommon legal outcome that reflected both the breadth of the rampage and the severity of what investigators found in its wake.
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Alton Coleman (November 6, 1955 – April 26, 2002) was an American serial killer who, along with accomplice Debra Brown (born November 11, 1962), committed a crime spree across six states between May and July 1984 that resulted in the deaths of eight people. Coleman, who received death sentences in three states, was executed by the state of Ohio in 2002. Brown was sentenced to death in Illinois and Indiana, but the sentences were later reduced to life imprisonment without parole and 140 years, respectively.
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