September 13, 1958 - Daniel Lee Corwin
Corwin's place in Texas legal history stems not only from his crimes but from what followed them — his case became the first successful prosecution under the state's serial killer statute, a law designed to allow multiple murders across jurisdictions to be tried as a unified pattern of conduct. The convictions were secured after he confessed to three killings committed over a span of months in 1987, crimes that had crossed county lines and complicated earlier investigative efforts. His execution in 1998 closed a case that had quietly reshaped how Texas prosecutes defendants whose violence spans multiple jurisdictions.
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Daniel Lee Corwin (September 13, 1958 – December 7, 1998) was an American serial killer who was sentenced to death and executed for murdering three women across three counties in Texas between February and July 1987. After his conviction for an attempted murder, he was confessed to the previous crimes, for which he was tried, convicted, and eventually executed.
Corwin's case is notable as he is the first person to be tried and successfully convicted under Texas' "serial killer statute".
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