Steven Timothy Judy was an American mass murderer and suspected serial killer who was convicted of murdering Terry Lee Chasteen and her three children: Misty Ann, Steve, and Mark, on April 28,1979.
23 Facts About Steven Judy
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Steven Judy was executed for the murders on March 9,1981, via electrocution, becoming the first person to be executed in Indiana since 1961.
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Steven Judy was born on May 24,1956, the son of Myrtle and Vernon Judy.
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Steven Judy's father had a history of being arrested for assaulting his mother.
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Steven Judy would push them to the ground and molest them.
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At the trial, Steven Judy initially claimed he had nothing to do with the assault.
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Steven Judy was found guilty and sentenced to six months in a juvenile detention center and was then sent to a mental hospital.
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Once released, Steven Judy was placed into foster care and sent to live with Robert and Mary Carr who were uninformed about Steven Judy's record.
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Steven Judy eventually did and accepted help from Judy, who she thought was just being a Good Samaritan.
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Steven Judy told her that something was wrong with her tire and offered to fix it.
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Once at the Creek, Steven Judy directed the three children to a path, having them walk ahead of him and Chasteen.
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The arrest of Steven Judy triggered an emotional outcry that lasted two years.
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Steven Judy pleaded insanity and confessed to committing the murders.
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The trial ended with Steven Judy being found guilty of the murders of Chasteen and her three children.
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Steven Judy was executed on March 9,1981, at the age of 24, in Michigan City, Indiana in the electric chair.
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Steven Judy requested four cans of beer but they were denied.
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Steven Judy became the first person to be executed in Indiana since Richard Kiefer was executed on June 15,1961.
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Steven Judy told Carr that he had killed more women than he could recall.
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The first murders Steven Judy confessed to were the 1973 slayings of two women in Louisiana, which occurred while he was staying in New Orleans.
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Steven Judy confessed to the November 1978 murder of Linda Unverzagt, a disco dance instructor in Indianapolis.
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In 2002, author Bette Nunn theorized that Steven Judy could have been responsible for the 1977 murder of Ann Harmeier, a 20-year-old student who attended Indiana University.
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However, an Indiana State Police review of jail records showed that Steven Judy was imprisoned in the Marion County Jail on the day Harmeier disappeared.
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Harmeier's mother, who died in 1983, believed Steven Judy murdered her daughter.