1. Donald Jay Beardslee was an American serial killer who murdered three women.
14 Facts About Donald Beardslee
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Donald Beardslee was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison in 2005.
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Donald Beardslee was sent to Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, a military school, at age 15 and later attended Southwest High School in Saint Louis, where he graduated from in June 1962.
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Donald Beardslee was sentenced to a work farm in Minnesota where he was hit by a falling tree and suffered a head fracture and a days-long coma.
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Donald Beardslee attended the College of San Mateo while on parole.
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Donald Beardslee turned himself in and confessed to the killing.
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Donald Beardslee pleaded guilty to second degree murder, received a 19-year sentence, and served seven years before being released on parole in 1977.
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Four years after leaving prison, while he was still on parole, Donald Beardslee was arrested in California for the April 5,1981, drug-related homicides of 19-year-old Patty Geddling and 23-year-old Stacie Benjamin in Redwood City, California.
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Prosecutors claim a drug deal between the friends of Donald Beardslee's roommate had gone wrong, and a $185 drug debt had gone unpaid.
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The prosecutors noted that Donald Beardslee sent Soria out to get duct tape to bind the victims before they arrived.
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Donald Beardslee and, according to the prosecution, Bill Forrester, both shot Geddling, and later Donald Beardslee slashed Benjamin's throat.
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Soria pleaded no contest to second degree murder in exchange for testimony against Rutherford and Donald Beardslee, and was sentenced to 15 years to life.
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Donald Beardslee was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.
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Donald Beardslee was the first prisoner to be executed in California since Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took office.