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Timothy Wilson Spencer (March 17, 1962 – April 27, 1994), also known as The Southside Strangler, was an American serial killer who committed three rapes and murders in Richmond, Virginia, and one in Arlington, Virginia, in the fall of 1987.
Jul 27, 2015 · On July 11, 1988, Timothy Wilson Spencer went on trial in Arlington for the murder of Susan Tucker. On July 16, after six hours of deliberation, the jury found Spencer guilty of murder. In the next phase of the trial, they imposed the death penalty.
Apr 28, 1994 · Timothy W. Spencer died tonight in Virginia's electric chair, becoming the first person executed in the United States for a conviction based on the DNA-matching technology popularly known as...
May 31, 2022 · From September 1987 to December 1987, 4 women, aged 15 to 44 were attacked, raped, and strangled at the hands of a sadistic killer. There were no witnesses to any of the homicides, and investigators had struggled until a hair found at one scene was tested using early DNA testing methods.
Tim Spencer (1984-1987) aka "the Southside Slayer" was a 35-year old resident of Richmond, Virginia who viciously raped and strangled 7 people, 6 women and 1 man, the man left hanging from an overpass.
Jul 19, 2018 · Spencer, sometimes known as the “South Side Strangler,” was convicted for the brutal rape and murder of Susan Tucker, a 44-year-old Fairlington resident. He would eventually...
Aug 19, 2022 · Timothy Wilson Spencer was convicted at Virginia's Southside Strangler. It was the first case to use DNA to convict a serial killer in the United States.
May 20, 2021 · Timothy Wilson Spencer was identified as the man who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia. With the use of DNA profiling, an innocent man is free...
Dec 16, 2019 · In the late ’80s through the early ’90s, Timothy Wilson Spencer was mainly known to the world as The Southside Strangler. However, it was actually the groundbreaking DNA evidence that was used in connection to this case that makes it such an important and relevant case to this day.
Sep 24, 1989 · In a pair of unanimous rulings Friday, the court concluded that the DNA tests linking Timothy Wilson Spencer to the rape and slaying of two women were scientifically reliable.
