10 Facts About Louis Craine

Louis Craine was convicted for these crimes in 1989, and was sentenced to death.

Louis Craine was born on January 6,1957, in Los Angeles, the third in a family of four children.

Louis Craine left school after finishing and passing the 4th grade, entering into social conflict with the rest of his family.

Louis Craine was arrested on May 29,1987, on charges of killing a 29-year-old prostitute named Carolyn Barney.

Louis Craine was arrested, taken to the police station and subjected to long hours of questioning, during which he confessed to the murder of Barney and two other women: 24-year-old Loretta Perry and Vivian Collins.

Subsequently, Louis Craine was charged with the murder of two more women: 24-year-old Gail Ficklin and 30-year-old Sheila Burton, who were killed on August 15,1985, and November 18,1984, respectively.

Testimony from Louis Craine's relatives included that of his mother, who told the court that he had repeatedly expressed aggressive behavior towards prostitutes and was spotted in a bloodied shirt after one of the murders.

Louis Craine repudiated his earlier testimony, stating that he had been pressured into confessing.

Louis Craine stated that the bloodied shirt in which, according to his relatives, he had committed the murder, did not even belong to him.

The lawyers of the defendant insisted that on the basis of various tests, Louis Craine showed signs of intellectual disability, with a threshold of intelligence coefficient of 69 points, a tendency to exaggeration and high susceptibility to suggestions.