1. The crimes took place in 1978 and 1979, but Parker was not identified as the killer until 1996.
31 Facts About Gerald Parker
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Gerald Parker confessed to the murders, and was sentenced to death on January 21,1999.
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Gerald Parker was born in 1955 and lived with his family in Phoenix, Arizona.
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In 1963, his mother, Frankie Wagner Gerald Parker, died while giving birth to her 10th child and his father abandoned his family; Gerald Parker was 8 years old.
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Gerald Parker moved in with his grandmother, and during the five months he was there, he was sent to Juvenile Hall for sniffing glue.
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In 1973, Gerald Parker joined the Marine Corps and trained in San Diego and Camp Pendleton.
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Gerald Parker was transferred to North Carolina and Mississippi before arriving in Tustin in September 1975.
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Gerald Parker began using marijuana at age 11, and claimed to use PCP and LSD, as well as speedballs intravenously.
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Gerald Parker reported drinking a case of beer every day for 10 to 11 years.
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On July 19,1979, Parker entered the Costa Mesa apartment of Jane P through an open dining room window.
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On February 2,1980, Aida Demirjian was locking her car in the underground parking garage at her apartment complex when Gerald Parker struck her numerous times with a metal pipe.
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Gerald Parker dragged her several feet, took off her necklace, looked through her purse, and lifted up her skirt.
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Once the witness indicated that Gerald Parker looked like the suspect, Gerald Parker was taken into custody.
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The officer noted that Gerald Parker did not appear to be intoxicated and his demeanor was calm and cooperative.
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Nine months after the attack, on October 2,1980, Gerald Parker was convicted in Los Angeles County Superior Court of robbing Demirjian and inflicting great bodily injury upon her during the commission of the robbery.
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Gerald Parker exited the driver's side of the vehicle, opened the side door, walked around to the back, and proceeded to check the tire.
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Gerald Parker answered no to the last two questions and he drove her to an alley and dropped her off.
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Three days later, an investigator from the Orange County Sheriff's Department contacted military police at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and Gerald Parker was called in for questioning.
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Gerald Parker admitted that if Paula had been older he probably would have killed her.
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On February 13,1984, Gerald Parker beat his roommate, David Feurtadot, while he was sleeping, at the California Correctional Institution.
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On June 1,1984, Gerald Parker was convicted in Kern County Superior Court of assault with a deadly weapon.
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On September 30,1979, Gerald Parker walked through the unlocked front door of 20-year-old nurse Dianna Green's apartment in Tustin.
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Gerald Parker's unborn child, named Chantal Marie Green, was delivered stillborn.
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On October 6,1979, Gerald Parker took a mallet out of a truck near the Tustin apartment of 24-year-old Debora Kennedy.
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Fourteen days later, on October 20,1979, Gerald Parker scoped out the empty apartment of 17-year-old Debra Lynn Senior by pretending to be a jogger.
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Gerald Parker entered through a bathroom window, leaving a palm print of his left hand.
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On June 21,1996, Gerald Parker, who was back in prison on a parole violation, was charged with six murders.
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On November 12,1998, the jury recommended that Gerald Parker be put to death.
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Gerald Parker was ordered to San Quentin State Prison to await execution by lethal injection.
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Gerald Parker is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, awaiting execution.
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In 2017, his lawyers appealed for the nullification of his death sentence and for a new trial, arguing that Gerald Parker was mentally disturbed at the time of the murders, as a result of his being bullied as a child combined with abuse of drugs and alcohol.