Anthony Kirkland, Ohio, USA [1987-2009] (1 Viewer)

[Eat Shit And Die]

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Burned each of his victims' bodies in an attempt to conceal evidence of rape
Number of victims: 5
Date of murders: 1987 / 2006 - 2009
Date of arrest: March 8, 2009
Date of birth: September 13, 1968
Victims profile: Leola Douglas, 27 (his girlfriend) / Casonya Crawford, 15 / Mary Jo Newton, 45 / Kimya Rolison, 14 / Esme Kenny, 13
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Status: Pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1987. Sentenced to 25 years in prison. Served 16 years in prison. Released from prison on September 3, 2003. Sentenced to death on March 31, 2010



Anthony Kirkland (born September 13, 1968) is an American serial killer. Kirkland murdered four females in the Cincinnati area between 2006 and 2009, three of them children, following a 16-year prison term for the 1987 murder of another woman.

In 1987, Kirkland killed his girlfriend Leola Douglas, and set her body on fire. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served 16 years in prison. He was released from parole in 2004.

From December 22, 2006 through March 7, 2009, Kirkland murdered four females, three by strangulation. He had burned each of his victims' bodies in an attempt to conceal evidence of rape. Kirkland was arrested near the scene of the murder of 13-year old Esme Kenny in possession of her watch and iPod.

After being convicted of aggravated murder, gross abuse of a corpse, attempted rape and aggravated robbery, the judge on March 31, 2010 sentenced Kirkland to death.

Victims

• Leola Douglas, 27, murdered May 20, 1987.
• Casonya Crawford, 15, murdered March, 2006.
• Mary Jo Newton, 45, murdered April or May, 2006.
• Kimya Rolison, 14, murdered December 22, 2006.
• Esme Kenny, 13, murdered March 7, 2009

 

[Eat Shit And Die]

A convicted killer accused of killing two teenage girls and two women in the last three years pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he killed Kimya Rolison in Avondale in 2006.

Anthony Kirkland, 40, came into Hamilton County court at 10:20 a.m. His legs were shackled, his arms cuffed in front. Two Hamilton County Sheriff’s office deputies --one more than the normal protocol – stood or sat within inches of Kirkland at all times.

Kirkland said nothing, letting his lawyer Norman Aubin enter the plea to charges of murder and gross abuse of a corpse on his behalf in the death of the 25 year old.

Rolison's death is the fifth tied to Kirkland.

Kirkland was arrested in March in the death of 13-year-old Esme Kenney, who police say was sexually assaulted, kidnapped and strangled while out running near her Winton Hills home. Her death came just eight days after Kirkland was kicked out of an Over-the-Rhine halfway house.

He is also charged in the deaths of Casonya "Sharee" Crawford, 14, and Mary Jo Newton, 45, who were found dead in the spring of 2006.

It's not the first time Kirkland has been accused of similar crimes. At the age of 18, Kirkland beat and choked Leola Douglas of Hyde Park. He then doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire. After serving 16 years of his sentence, he was a free man in 2003.

Kirkland has already pleaded not guilty to all current charges and remains jailed awaiting an October trial.

Immediately after Tuesday's plea, Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr., the defense team - which also includes Will Welsh, and Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier - began discussing issues surrounding Kirkland's trial, scheduled for October.

Ninety-six motions have been filed in the case.

All the motions are considered routine in death penalty cases; such as how many jury challenges the defense gets, motions to preserve evidence and whether Kirkland can wear street clothes rather than a jail uniform during the trial.

Kubicki held off on decisions that are likely to be the two biggest issues at trial: whether the homicide cases can be tried together and whether the jury should hear his statement to police.

The defense is seeking to try each case separately.

Trying the cases together is important to the prosecution, Piepmeier said.

"One issue in getting the death penalty is proving this was more than one murder in a single course of action," Piepmeier said.

As for Kirkland’s statement to police, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has hinted that Kirkland confessed. However, under Ohio law, prosecutors cannot discuss confessions.

The defense is seeking to suppress the statement.

The two sides will return to court Aug. 3.

Hearing signifiant for victim's family

Today's hearing was a significant event for the Rolison family.

For more than two years Garry Rolison would go to bed each night haunted.

Where was his daughter Kimya? Father's Day, birthdays, Christmas - celebrations that called for at least a phone call - would go by without so much as a word.

The absence wasn't in character for the 25-year-old mother who left the West Coast in fall 2006 and promised to return home the next January. Kimya Rolison had good reason to go back home to California: her daughter, whom she left with her father and stepmother, was waiting for her.

Now that daughter turned 6 years old last week, her mother is the latest victim to be tied to the accused serial killer.

He is "one of the most heinous predators I have ever dealt with." said Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.

"It is our sincere hope that this charge can give some peace to the Rolison family, which as you can imagine have gone through hell wondering what happened to their daughter," Deters said.

That peace hasn't come yet.

Police came close to reining him in just a few months before he allegedly killed Rolison.

Police brought him in for questioning after the badly burned bodies of Crawford and Newton were found.

In the end, they let him go.

"He was cunning," Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher told The Enquirer in March.

All the bodies were burned in an effort to destroy evidence, officials say, including Rolison's, the latest victim to surface.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in Esme and Sharee's deaths. Kirkland faces separate life prison terms if convicted of killing Rolison and Newton.

"Kirkland needs to be brought to justice for these hideous acts committed against innocent victims," Deters said.

There could be other victims, Deters said. To date, no concrete information about other cases has surfaced.

Rolison grew up in Southern California. When she was 16, her mother, who had suffered for many years with schizophrenia, died. The two were very close, said Rolison's father, Garry Rolison. When she was still a young adult, she married and followed an older man - a Cincinnati native - to Cincinnati. She was about 21.

Over the next few years, Rolison gave birth to two children. In 2006, she returned home with her youngest child, a daughter. She also had an addiction to crack cocaine, her father said. During her lengthy stay, she and her family looked for apartment in California, a familiar place, close to her father and stepmother, where she could start her life over.

First she would have to get clean and she also wanted to reconnect with her son, who had been placed into foster care.

"We accept the truth," he father said of his daughter's addictions and difficulties through the years. "But my daughter was multidimensional. And part of that means she was really caring and she was one that really loved her children. She was trying to pull her family back together:"

Sometime around October 2006 she left the San Diego area and headed back to Cincinnati, where she entered a six-week rehabilitation program. She called home often. Once the program was over, those calls stopped.

Rolison's bones surfaced a year ago this month when a Labrador retriever dragged a femur out of the woods near Pulte Street. Her remains too were burned.

Police with cadaver dogs tried without success to recover more bones shortly after the find in North Fairmont. The lumbering family dog who made the initial discovery eventually led police to more bones.

Most have been recovered, said Terry Daly, a spokesman for the Hamilton County Coroner's Office.

Deters said information from the suspect tied the bones to Kirkland, though he would not elaborate.

Identification was made just a few weeks ago.

Deters flew to Oceanside, Calif., to break the news the family in person.

It's unclear where and when she met Kirkland, but Deters said the two knew one another. Deters also said Rolison's efforts to stay clean were fleeting and drugs may have brought them together.

Still, "you don't deserve to die the way she died just because you take drugs," Deters said.

Court records show Rolison was arrested twice, once for theft and once for assault stemming from another theft. She got probation in both cases. She was supposed to go to court in January 2007. When she didn't show a warrant was issued for her arrest.

Rolison's father said he used to go to bed each night wondering what happened to his daughter.

He said he thought that at the time he had thought of the worst.

But he was wrong.

"Now not a day will go by without me thinking of Kimya and the horrific thing that happened," Rolison said.

 

[Bloodstone13]

A convicted killer accused of killing two teenage girls and two women in the last three years pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he killed Kimya Rolison in Avondale in 2006.

Anthony Kirkland, 40, came into Hamilton County court at 10:20 a.m. His legs were shackled, his arms cuffed in front. Two Hamilton County Sheriff’s office deputies --one more than the normal protocol – stood or sat within inches of Kirkland at all times.

Kirkland said nothing, letting his lawyer Norman Aubin enter the plea to charges of murder and gross abuse of a corpse on his behalf in the death of the 25 year old.

Rolison's death is the fifth tied to Kirkland.

Kirkland was arrested in March in the death of 13-year-old Esme Kenney, who police say was sexually assaulted, kidnapped and strangled while out running near her Winton Hills home. Her death came just eight days after Kirkland was kicked out of an Over-the-Rhine halfway house.

He is also charged in the deaths of Casonya "Sharee" Crawford, 14, and Mary Jo Newton, 45, who were found dead in the spring of 2006.

It's not the first time Kirkland has been accused of similar crimes. At the age of 18, Kirkland beat and choked Leola Douglas of Hyde Park. He then doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire. After serving 16 years of his sentence, he was a free man in 2003.

Kirkland has already pleaded not guilty to all current charges and remains jailed awaiting an October trial.

Immediately after Tuesday's plea, Judge Charles J. Kubicki Jr., the defense team - which also includes Will Welsh, and Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier - began discussing issues surrounding Kirkland's trial, scheduled for October.

Ninety-six motions have been filed in the case.

All the motions are considered routine in death penalty cases; such as how many jury challenges the defense gets, motions to preserve evidence and whether Kirkland can wear street clothes rather than a jail uniform during the trial.

Kubicki held off on decisions that are likely to be the two biggest issues at trial: whether the homicide cases can be tried together and whether the jury should hear his statement to police.

The defense is seeking to try each case separately.

Trying the cases together is important to the prosecution, Piepmeier said.

"One issue in getting the death penalty is proving this was more than one murder in a single course of action," Piepmeier said.

As for Kirkland’s statement to police, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has hinted that Kirkland confessed. However, under Ohio law, prosecutors cannot discuss confessions.

The defense is seeking to suppress the statement.

The two sides will return to court Aug. 3.

Hearing signifiant for victim's family

Today's hearing was a significant event for the Rolison family.

For more than two years Garry Rolison would go to bed each night haunted.

Where was his daughter Kimya? Father's Day, birthdays, Christmas - celebrations that called for at least a phone call - would go by without so much as a word.

The absence wasn't in character for the 25-year-old mother who left the West Coast in fall 2006 and promised to return home the next January. Kimya Rolison had good reason to go back home to California: her daughter, whom she left with her father and stepmother, was waiting for her.

Now that daughter turned 6 years old last week, her mother is the latest victim to be tied to the accused serial killer.

He is "one of the most heinous predators I have ever dealt with." said Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.

"It is our sincere hope that this charge can give some peace to the Rolison family, which as you can imagine have gone through hell wondering what happened to their daughter," Deters said.

That peace hasn't come yet.

Police came close to reining him in just a few months before he allegedly killed Rolison.

Police brought him in for questioning after the badly burned bodies of Crawford and Newton were found.

In the end, they let him go.

"He was cunning," Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher told The Enquirer in March.

All the bodies were burned in an effort to destroy evidence, officials say, including Rolison's, the latest victim to surface.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in Esme and Sharee's deaths. Kirkland faces separate life prison terms if convicted of killing Rolison and Newton.

"Kirkland needs to be brought to justice for these hideous acts committed against innocent victims," Deters said.

There could be other victims, Deters said. To date, no concrete information about other cases has surfaced.

Rolison grew up in Southern California. When she was 16, her mother, who had suffered for many years with schizophrenia, died. The two were very close, said Rolison's father, Garry Rolison. When she was still a young adult, she married and followed an older man - a Cincinnati native - to Cincinnati. She was about 21.

Over the next few years, Rolison gave birth to two children. In 2006, she returned home with her youngest child, a daughter. She also had an addiction to crack cocaine, her father said. During her lengthy stay, she and her family looked for apartment in California, a familiar place, close to her father and stepmother, where she could start her life over.

First she would have to get clean and she also wanted to reconnect with her son, who had been placed into foster care.

"We accept the truth," he father said of his daughter's addictions and difficulties through the years. "But my daughter was multidimensional. And part of that means she was really caring and she was one that really loved her children. She was trying to pull her family back together:"

Sometime around October 2006 she left the San Diego area and headed back to Cincinnati, where she entered a six-week rehabilitation program. She called home often. Once the program was over, those calls stopped.

Rolison's bones surfaced a year ago this month when a Labrador retriever dragged a femur out of the woods near Pulte Street. Her remains too were burned.

Police with cadaver dogs tried without success to recover more bones shortly after the find in North Fairmont. The lumbering family dog who made the initial discovery eventually led police to more bones.

Most have been recovered, said Terry Daly, a spokesman for the Hamilton County Coroner's Office.

Deters said information from the suspect tied the bones to Kirkland, though he would not elaborate.

Identification was made just a few weeks ago.

Deters flew to Oceanside, Calif., to break the news the family in person.

It's unclear where and when she met Kirkland, but Deters said the two knew one another. Deters also said Rolison's efforts to stay clean were fleeting and drugs may have brought them together.

Still, "you don't deserve to die the way she died just because you take drugs," Deters said.

Court records show Rolison was arrested twice, once for theft and once for assault stemming from another theft. She got probation in both cases. She was supposed to go to court in January 2007. When she didn't show a warrant was issued for her arrest.

Rolison's father said he used to go to bed each night wondering what happened to his daughter.

He said he thought that at the time he had thought of the worst.

But he was wrong.

"Now not a day will go by without me thinking of Kimya and the horrific thing that happened," Rolison said.

Great thread,ESAD, as always, from you If my memory, is correct.........These women were burned, in the trunk of a car.

 

[JizmakDaGusha]

That monkey needs to pay for killin' a white women...

 

[Airbornemama]

Another 5 star thread ESAD! You do NOT disappoint! Great read, this guy was an animal and deserves to have horrible unspeakable things done to him slowly.

 

[Wayne Kerr]

That monkey needs to pay for killin' a white women...

its what they get for being nigger lovers...

 

[MajorWhiteBoy]

Im a little shocked he was freed after the first murder. My blood would boil if one of those girls were someone i cared about.