On this date, 12 April 2012, a Florida
serial killer, David Alan Gore was executed by lethal injection in Florida for
the murders of 6 women. Let us hear from the victims’ families whom justice was
served.
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Lynn Elliott
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Florida Hisang Huang Ling, 48
Ying Hua Ling, 17
Judith Kaye Daley, 35
Angelica Lavallee, 14
Barbara Ann Byer, 14
Lynn Carol Elliott, 17
Cousins David Allan Gore and Fred Waterfield
began abducting and raping women in the 70s. Soon they graduated to murdering
their victims. In February 1981, Gore flashed a badge he had from his job as an
auxiliary sheriff's deputy and tricked 17-year-old Ying Hua Ling into getting
into his car. After driving her to her home, Gore pretended to arrest her
mother, Hisang Huang Ling, 48, and handcuffed her to her daughter. He phone
Waterfield and then drove the women to a citrus orchard. Gore raped both of
them while waiting for his cousin, and when Waterfield arrived, he tied up
Hisang in such a way that when she struggled, her bindings choked her to death.
Waterfield raped and murdered Ying Hua Ling and told Gore to get rid of the
bodies in another orchard nearby.
Five months later, on July 15, 1981, Gore
abducted Judith Kaye Daley after disabling her vehicle and pretending to be a
Good Samaritan. She accepted a ride to a telephone, but once inside, Gore
pulled a gun on Judy and handcuffed her before calling Waterfield. They again
met at the orchard where they raped and murdered Judy Daley. Gore said he fed
the body to the alligators in a nearby swamp.
Gore spent a short time in prison after being
convicted of armed trespass when police found him crouched in the back seat of
a woman's car with a pistol, handcuffs and a police scanner. Two months after
being paroled, the cousins picked up two hitchhikers, Angelica Lavallee and
Barbara Buer. The first were raped and then shot to death. Barbara's body was
dismembered and buried in a shallow grave and Angelica was dumped in a canal.
On May 20, 1983, Gore kidnapped and murdered Angelica Lavallee and Barbara
Byer.
On July 26, 1983, Gore and his cousin Freddy
Waterfield picked up teenagers Lynn Elliott and Regan Martin, who were
hitchhiking to the beach. Soon after, Gore took a gun out of the glove
compartment and handcuffed the two girls while Waterfield drove to Gore’s
parents’ house. Once there, Gore bound each of the girls and placed them in
separate bedrooms. Regan Martin testified that Gore cut off her clothes and
forced her to perform oral sex on him while he threatened to kill her, and that
Gore kept going back and forth between the two rooms. Regan heard Gore tell
Lynn that he would kill her if she did not shut up. At one point when Gore was
out of the room, Regan heard gunshots from outside. Michael Rock, a teenager
riding his bike by Gore's house on the day in question, testified that he saw
Gore and a naked woman (Lynn Elliott) running up the driveway toward the road.
Rock watched as the also naked Gore caught up with Lynn and dragged her back
toward the house. He then saw Gore throw the girl down and shoot her.
When Gore returned he placed Regan in a
closet and then tied her to the rafters in the attic and threatened to kill her
if she tried anything. Michael Rock sped home told his mother, who called 911
and police arrived in time to save Regan from a similar fate. Soon after,
police arrived and found blood dripping from the trunk of the car. The house
was surrounded and Gore surrendered to the police and directed them to Regan in
the attic. Lynn’s nude body was found in the trunk of Gore’s car. Lynn Elliott
had been shot twice, once in the back of the head and once in the jaw.
After Lynn's autopsy, her father Carl Elliott
insisted on seeing his daughter's body. Carl told the police that he wanted
"to see every mark on her, where he drug her in the driveway and all the
skinned-up parts on her knees and elbows, and every damn bullet hole. I want to
see every scrape and every bruise. I want to remember in case I ever get soft
on this thing. 'I want to remember, by God, that's what this bastard did to my
daughter.' It was awful, but I have never regretted doing it.'"
Almost three decades later, Carl is now 81
years old and says that the signing of the death warrant by Governor Rick Scott
was a huge relief, "like a big burden that slid off the shoulders."
Lynn planned to become a hairdresser after she graduated from high school.
Through interviews with Gore and Waterfield, police discovered that five other
women had been killed since February 1981. Gore was sentenced to five
consecutive life terms for the other murders. Waterfield, for his involvement
in the murder of Lynn Elliott, was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment on
one count of manslaughter. Waterfield is also serving two consecutive life
sentences for the murders of Barbara Ann Byer and Angelica LaVallee.
Tim Mccullers planned to
ask Lynn Elliott to marry him on July 26, 1983.
Instead, when he arrived at
her parent's Vero Beach house after he couldn't find her at the beach, he
learned his 17-year-old girlfriend had been tortured, raped and murdered by a
29-year-old man he had gone fishing with - a regular guy who turned out to be a
serial killer.
Today, barring a
last-minute stay from the U.S. Supreme Court, David Alan Gore is to be put to
death for shooting Elliott as she ran naked down his parent's driveway,
desperately trying to escape his demented and murderous grasp. It happens to be
Mccullers 52nd birthday.
"I
don't want anything but him dead for my birthday," said
Mccullers, who still lives in Vero Beach. "It
would be the best birthday present ever."
AUTHOR:
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QUOTE 2: Gore was condemned to death for the rape and murder
of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott, who was hitchhiking to the beach with a friend on
a summer day in 1983 when Gore stopped and picked them up. After assaulting
Elliott repeatedly at the home of his vacationing parents, Gore shot the girl
in the head as she ran down his driveway with her hands tied. A boy riding by
on his bicycle witnessed the killing and called 911. On Thursday evening,
Elliott's father, Carl, sat in the center of the front row of a small
observation room as Gore lay a few feet away, visible through a large window.
Elliott was Gore's final victim. The others were Hsiang Huang Ling, 48, and her
daughter Ying Hua Ling, 17; Judy Kay Daley, 35; Angelica LaVallee, 14, and
Barbara Ann Byer, 14. Gore's cousin and accomplice Fred Waterfield is serving
two consecutive life sentences for his role. Through interviews with Gore and
Waterfield, police discovered that five other women had been killed since
February 1981. Gore was sentenced to five consecutive life terms for the other
murders. Waterfield, for his involvement in the murder of Lynn Elliott, was
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment on one count of manslaughter.
Waterfield is also serving two consecutive life sentences for the murders of
Barbara Ann Byer and Angelica LaVallee.
Not that Mike and Nancy
Byer, whose 14-year-old daughter Barbara Ann was killed by Gore in May 1983,
wanted an apology.
"I want
nothing from that man except to have him out of my life and gone. This does
that," Mike Byer said. "He had no remorse at
all."
AUTHOR:
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Nancy Byer
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3:
Nancy
Byer said Elliott's death was what helped the families of other victims find
their loved ones' bodies. It also stopped Gore from hunting more victims.
"The killing
would have gone on and on," she said after the
execution.
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4:
Watching
were the family and friends of at least four of the women Gore killed.
“It was a long
wait, and I’m so glad I was here and I came for my daughter and all the other
victims,” said victim Barbara Ann Byer’s mother, Nancy Byer, after watching
Gore being pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. “He can’t hurt
anyone else, ever, and it’s over and I’m glad I came.”
AUTHOR: Nancy Byer whose 14-year-old daughter, Barbara Ann Byer was murdered by
serial killer, David Alan Gore. David Alan Gore was executed by lethal
injection in Florida on 12 April 2012.
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