September 10, 1940 - Robert Anthony Buell
Buell's crimes targeted children, and the full extent of his violence only became clear years after his execution, when DNA evidence linked him to a second murder that had gone unsolved for nearly three decades. His case illustrates how the closure offered by conviction and execution can remain incomplete — victims and their families left without answers while the perpetrator is gone.
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Robert Anthony Buell (September 10, 1940 – September 25, 2002) was an American child murderer, serial rapist, and former planning department worker from Akron, Ohio. He was convicted of the July 17, 1982 murder of 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison.
Buell was executed by lethal injection on September 25, 2002. His final meal was a single black unpitted olive. In 2010, eight years after his death, he was found to have also raped and murdered 12-year-old Tina Marie Harmon in 1981.
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