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Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 – January 5, 1993) was an American convicted serial killer and sex offender. In 1989, he sexually assaulted and murdered three young boys in Vancouver, Washington. He was arrested later that year after a failed attempt to abduct a six-year-old boy at a movie theatre. Dodd wrote detailed accounts of his murders ...
Jan 5, 2018 · F riday marks 25 years since Washington State hanged admitted child molester Westley Allan Dodd for the kidnapping, rape and murder of three small boys. Though more than two decades have passed,...
May 23, 2022 · On Nov. 13, 1989, 28-year-old Westley Allan Dodd was arrested for trying to kidnap a young boy from a movie theater in Camas, Washington. However, when police brought him in for questioning, they discovered something far more sinister — Dodd had sexually abused and murdered three other boys in recent months.
Mar 23, 2024 · One of America’s most notorious and reviled serial killers, Westley Allan Dodd terrorized the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980’s with a horrifying spree of child abductions, sexual assaults, and murders. His heinous acts shocked the nation and ultimately led to his capture and execution.
Sep 25, 2003 · A Clark County jury convicted Dodd for molesting and stabbing to death 10-year-old William Neer and his brother Cole, age 11, in a Vancouver Park in 1989. Dodd confessed to those crimes and to the strangulation and raping near Vancouver of 4-year-old Lee Isli of Portland.
Jan 5, 2023 · Dodd, 31, was hanged Jan. 5, 1993, at the Washington State Penitentiary — the first person to be executed in Washington in 30 years and the first in the nation to be executed by hanging in...
Aug 30, 2014 · 25 years after he murdered 3 boys, his execution frames discussion of the death penalty's future in Washington. Westley Allan Dodd, 28, is arrested Nov. 13, 1989, after attempting to abduct a...
Jan 3, 1993 · What also helped stop Dodd was his own dark degeneration, a slide into desperation that compelled him to snatch a boy from a crowded theater in Camas in front of witnesses. When caught in 1989,...
Jan 5, 2018 · Friday marks 25 years since Washington State hanged admitted child molester Westley Allan Dodd for the kidnapping, rape and murder of three small boys. Though more than two decades have passed,...
Jan 10, 1993 · The child killer Westley Allan Dodd suffered little pain when he was hanged at the Washington state prison in Walla Walla on Tuesday and died within two or three minutes after plunging seven feet...
