Let us not forget five year old
Audra Ann Reeves who died on this date, June 9, 1992. Her killer, Robert James Anderson was executed by lethal injection on July 20, 2006 in Texas. She would
have been 26 years old if she was alive today. Let us not forget her. We, Victims' Families For The Death Penalty, care for all
murdered victims and their families regardless of race and country. We feel
that child killers must pay with their lives. We do not want them to get
protective custody in prison, we want them dead. We will post a date when the
child killer was executed or when the child was murdered to remember the child.
Audra Ann Reeves
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SOURCE: http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/anderson1034.htm
CASE: On June 9, 1992, neighbors
observed a man pushing a grocery cart with a styrofoam ice chest inside.
Minutes later, one of the neighbors, Lewis Martin, found the ice chest in a
dumpster and discovered that the ice chest contained the body of a
five-year-old girl. Martin called the police, and an officer was dispatched to
look for the suspect. The initial description of the suspect was that of a
white male, about thirty years of age, wearing a black shirt, dark jeans,
tennis shoes, and an orange baseball cap. Within ten minutes after receiving
the dispatch, the officer approached Anderson, who matched the description
except for the shirt. The officer asked Anderson for identification and a
residential address, both of which Anderson provided.
Anderson asked why he had been
stopped, and the officer replied that he was investigating an incident that
occurred a few blocks away. The officer then asked Anderson where he was going
and where he had been. Anderson answered that he had pushed a grocery cart back
to the Homeland store on nearby Western street. At this point, the police
officer asked Anderson not to say anything else and further asked Anderson if
he would be willing to go back to the scene of that incident so that the
witnesses could take a look at him. Anderson agreed to go, but the officer
testified that he would have detained him for that purpose had he refused.
Anderson sat in the back seat of the patrol car and was driven to the
witnesses' location. The witnesses identified Anderson as the individual seen
pushing the grocery cart containing a styrofoam ice chest. At that point,
Anderson was handcuffed, advised of his constitutional rights, and transported
to the Special Crimes Unit.
Upon arrival at the Special Crimes
Unit, physical samples were taken from Anderson with his consent. He was also
interrogated and gave both oral and written confessions, detailing how he
kidnapped, sexually assaulted, choked and gagged, stabbed, beat and drowned the
girl. He said he kidnapped Audra from in front of his home as she returned from
playing with other children at a park. He took her inside and tried to rape
her. He then beat and stabbed her. Anderson told investigators that after the
brutal assault, he stuffed the girl into the cooler, but she tried to crawl
out. He persuaded her to take a bath to clean the blood off her battered body.
He then drowned her.
"It's scary sometimes, you know.
If I was to be found innocent, it would happen again," Anderson wrote. In
2004, Anderson told a federal judge that he wanted to abandon further appeals
and be executed. Anderson said he didn't want to "hurt anybody any
longer" and that he believed God forgave him for abducting, sexually assaulting
and killing Audra Ann Reeves. In his recommendation in 2004 to deny Anderson's
initial federal appeal, US Magistrate Clinton Averitte cited the
"particularly egregious" nature of the crime. "His persistence
in carrying out this assault and murder over a period of at least 45 minutes,
leaving no major part of her body that did not sustain wounds, and undaunted by
a plea for mercy, would support a finding of sufficient aggravation, in and of
itself, to support imposition of the death penalty," Averitte wrote. The
appeal was denied.
QUOTE: Lawson said she will drive to Huntsville this morning to watch Anderson
get his due and hopefully begin to close the trying 14-year wait for justice to
be served. "I'm not a violent person at all, but I
am looking forward to this closure knowing that he is going to die for what he
did," she said. The family has had to endure the trial - during and
after which Lawson said she "couldn't eat or sleep for a while because of
it" - and years of state and federal court appeals, which always jolted
them back to the gruesome details of Audra's death.
Lawson said she always had the nagging worry that as long as Anderson
was alive, other children were in danger. "We had
him, but there was still the possibility that he could escape or what have you,
and if he did this to another child it would have killed us," she
said.
AUTHOR: Grace Lawson is the grandmother of Audra Ann Reeves who was murdered by
Robert James Anderson on June 9, 1992. He was executed by lethal injection in
Texas on July 20, 2006.
Rest in Peace little Angel
ReplyDeleteMy heart. Rest in peace lil sweet girl. Hod bless ur soul. Hope Anderson rots in hell
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