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Dorothy Williams (December 12, 1954 – December 19, 2020) was an American serial killer who killed three elderly people during robberies in Illinois between 1987 and 1990. A drug addict, Williams used the money she stole during the robberies to buy heroin .
Dorothy Williams, 44, was sentenced in 1991 to die for the 1989 strangling of 97-year-old Mary Harris. She also pleaded guilty to strangling Lonnie Laws in 1987 and stabbing Caesar Zurell in 1988. All 3 were elderly people whom Williams killed after robbing them to buy heroin. Illinois Supreme Court.
Dorothy was serving her life sentence in Logan Correctional Center. She died on December 19th, 2020. She was sixty-six years old. When you think of a serial killer, it’s statistically most likely to be a white male. Dorothy Williams, a black female serial killer, is extremely unusual in that regard.
In imposing the death sentence, Judge Shelvin Singer said 37-year-old Dorothy Williams, the mother of two grown children, employed a scheme to prey on the elderly.
Dorothy Williams, Chicago Serial Killer of Elderly Victims - 1989. On April 18, 1991, at the age of 36, Chicago serial killer Dorothy Williams was sentenced to death for strangling to death frail 99-year old woman Mary Harris. She pleaded guilty to two other murders at a later hearing. In 1987 she had strangled Lonnie Laws, 79, with his own ...
Victims Lonnie Laws, 79 [12/5/1987] Caesar Zuell, 64 [12/6/1988] Mary Harris, 97 [7/25/1989] Find-A-Grave: Lonnie F. Laws Find-A-Grave: Caesar Zuell Find-A-Grave: Mary Harris Woman is convicted of strangling 2nd woman sentenced to death Strangler pleads guilty in 2 other murders State of Illinois v Dorothy Williams 1994 (conviction and sentence affirmed) Murderpedia: Dorothy Williams Movies ...
E88: Dorothy Williams. This week Beth and Wendy discuss Dorothy Williams, a black female serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Chicago Illinois in the 1980’s. We get into the stats and the setting at 10:50. We get into Williams’ early life and the crimes at 30:44.
