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Dec 23, 2021 · Taylor, who was 16 at the time of the killings, was originally sentenced to 145 years to life in prison, according to the Ohio Department of Correction website, and while she will meet with the...
Dec 27, 2021 · Updated: Dec 27, 2021 / 12:22 PM EST. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – After being sentenced in 1994 for the Dayton Christmas killings, Laura Taylor, is scheduled for a hearing on Dec. 29. In 1992,...
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In winter 1992, the peaceful, Christmas-decorated town of Dayton, Ohio, was enjoying the last few days before the big holiday. Pop-up shops opened and customers bought presents at their leisure. Lights adorned the Courthouse Square. However, a nightmare awaited the town. Bored and looking for something exciting to do, a group of four teenagers and ...
On Christmas Eve, December 24, the group began their spree. Joseph Wilkerson, a 34-year-old General Motors worker, was the first part of their plan. They thought Wilkerson could be charmed and seduced by Laura and Heather, with the intention of robbing him. The two girls called Wilkerson and told him that they would have sex with him. However, at h...
On Christmas Day, their massacre continued. Their next victim was Richard Maddox, but this time, the target was not random. Maddox was the former boyfriend of Laura Taylor. Taylor tricked Maddox into leaving his parents' house to go for a car ride in Maddox's car. Unknown to Maddox, the others—Keene, Smith, and Matthews—were tailing the group. As t...
The next victim of the Downtown Posse would be murdered the next day, December 26. The group went to the Short-Stop Mini Market, a family-owned shop on West Fifth Street. Laura Taylor walked in first, checking the place out. Behind the counter of the store was Sarah Abraham, a 38-year-old mother of three. Following Taylor, DeMarcus Smith and Marval...
The group had been swapping plates and cars and were now in need of a new one. They went to a Salem Avenue gas station. There, a woman almost became the seventh victim of their spree, but when the group robbed her at gunpoint, she ran, surviving. The four took her Dodge Shadow and swapped license plates with the car they had abandoned. Dayton Polic...
Marvallous Keene, leader of the "Downtown Posse," received the death penalty and was executed by lethal injection on July 21, 2009. It was reportedthat at his execution, when Keene was given a chance for last words, he said: "No, I have no words." All three other members received life sentences. Laura Taylor and Heather Matthews are serving their t...
The Oxygen network aired a documentary about the Dayton Christmas killings: "Six Slays of Christmas." The documentary contains interviews with law enforcement officials who worked the case, as well as Danita Gullette's sister, Rhonda Gullette. Additionally, a 2018 book entitled The Christmas Killingswas written by officials involved in the case, in...
Laura Taylor was a 16-year-old girl who participated in a murder spree with her boyfriend Marvallous Keene and two other teens in Dayton, Ohio, in December 1992. They killed six people and injured two others in three days, using guns and a stolen car.
Dec 21, 2021 · In the early hours of Christmas Eve, Laura Taylor, 16, and her boyfriend, Marvallous Keene, 19, put in play a plan to rob a man Taylor figured would pay them for sex. Taylor called Joseph...
Dec 1, 2023 · In 2021, nearly three decades after the massacre, Laura Taylor had a parole hearing since she was a minor at the time she committed the crimes. Currently serving her time at the Ohio Reformatory for Women at 1479 Collins Avenue, Marysville, alongside Heather Matthews, she is eligible for parole in 2026.
Dec 15, 2017 · Detectives later found out that Maddox was the former boyfriend of Laura Taylor. Jeffrey Wright was also shot that day outside a home on Yuma Place. Despite, 4 bullets, he survived. The posse...
Dec 30, 2018 · Twenty-six years after the murders, Heather Matthews (top left), DeMarcus Smith (r.) and Laura Taylor (bottom left) are still in prison, now in their 40s. Parole is unlikely. The last Christmas...
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