On this date, March 15, 2000, Darrell Keith Rich A.K.A Young Elk was executed by lethal injection
in California. He was the eighth person put to death by that State since 1976. To
learn more about this serial killer, please go to this blog. Hear from the
victims’ families.
QUOTE 1: "I'm just glad it has
come to this and that it's finally going to be over," the girl's
mother, Sharon Tidwell, said. Annette's stepfather David Tidwell, said, "We're wasting time -- just kill him. He better pray
there's not a life after death -- if there is, he better hide."
QUOTE 2: But the meek fashion in which he met his death had
little effect on the witnesses, most of whom never took their eyes from him
during the procedure. David Tidwell, stepfather of 11-year-old Annette Selix,
whom Rich raped and then threw off a 105-foot bridge, sat stone-faced in one of
the dozen chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the octagonal chamber. As he
watched through the thick glass panels as Rich died, he held tightly onto the
hand of the woman sitting next to him, a rape victim who had survived an attack
by Rich and wanted to see him die for his crimes. "I
can finally live in peace," the woman said later in a statement
read by Nathan Barankin, spokesman for state Attorney General Bill Lockyer. "He won't be there to haunt me anymore."
QUOTE 3: Scott, who witnessed the lethal-injection
execution of Darrell Rich in March 2000 as the Shasta County district attorney,
remembers the event with almost clinical precision.
"I
do not want to minimize or downplay the fact that the man's life was taken that
night," Scott said of the so-called "Hilltop
Rapist," who killed four young women in a 1978 crime spree.
"But
what I observed that evening could not in any way be described as cruel or
unusual punishment. It was a very calm process in which he appeared to go to
sleep. And that was it."
AUTHOR: Family members of Darrell Keith Rich’s victims -
Darrell Keith Rich was executed by lethal injection in California on March 15,
2000.
He deserved it
ReplyDeleteHe chose the cowards way to die. He deserved to get executed in the electric chair. I had been waiting over 25 years to watch him die. But it's in your mind and it pops up now & then. Please, Please keep this between us & don't say nothing to no one.Thank you & I hope you have a goodnight.
DeleteI'm not a family member of a victim. I am one of the survivors.
ReplyDeleteI was Pamela's Moore's foster sister and probably the last one she saw before she ran away from the Petaluma foster home. I came across this blog, while I trying to research her family members. Pamela is with me everyday in my heart and in my thoughts. She and I were so much alike; too damn strong willed for our good. We were free spirited, and running away freed us from those who tried to corral our spirits. I'm sorry Pam, I miss you so much.
ReplyDeleteher name was Patricia ( Moore), not Pamela
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