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Nov 12, 2014 · Banks, a Gadsden County man whose family has deep connections to the rural community, shot his wife Cassandra Banks and 10-year-old Melody Cooper in the early morning hours of Sept. 24, 1992.
Chadwick Banks, 43, was scheduled to die at 6pm Thursday at Florida State Prison in Starke for the 1992 slaying of Melody Cooper, who was found on her knees naked from the waist down and her body slumped on her bed at their Gadsden County trailer home. The body of her mother, Cassandra Banks, was found nearby.
Nov 14, 2014 · In 1992, Chadwick Banks was convicted of raping and murdering his 10-year-old stepdaughter Melody Cooper. Banks was also convicted in the killing of his wife and Melody's mother Cassandra Banks ...
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Nov 13, 2014 · Banks, shot his sleeping wife, Cassandra Banks, at their mobile home near Quincy in north Florida in 1992. He was arrested four days later and confessed that he then killed his stepdaughter, Melody Cooper, after sexually assaulting her. Evidence and trial testimony indicated Banks was drinking and shooting pool at a neighborhood bar with his ...
Nov 30, 2017 · Banks was condemned to die for the September 1992 killing of 10-year-old Melody Cooper. Banks also received a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Cassandra Banks, in a community outside the ...
The facts are as follows. Appellant entered Cassandra Banks' trailer with a gun at approximately 2:50 a.m. on September 24, 1992. He shot Cassandra Banks in the head while she was asleep. Ms. Banks died without ever gaining consciousness. Appellant then went to Melody Cooper's bedroom at the other end of the trailer.
Chadwick Banks, the defendant, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, Cassandra Banks, and the murder and sexual battery of his 10-year-old stepdaughter, Melody Cooper. In the early morning hours of 09/24/92, Banks entered his wife’s trailer, proceeded to her bedroom and shot her execution style while she lay sleeping.
