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| Ohio Executes Man Convicted of Killing 11-year-old Girl |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/03/2002 |
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A man convicted of abducting an 11-year-old girl from a park 20 years ago and then raping and strangling her was executed Wednesday for the crime. State and federal courts had turned down Robert Buell's last-minute appeals that were based on objections to the hypnotizing of witnesses at his trial. Buell's execution was the state's fifth in three years. Buell, a former Akron city planner who lived in nearby Clinton, claimed he was innocent and that there was no eyewitness or DNA evidence connecting him to the crime. Prosecutors said fibers on the girl's body that matched fibers taken from carpet in Buell's van. The victim, Krista Harrison, was abducted July 11, 1982, as she collected cans in a park across the street from where she lived in the village of Marshallville. Her body was found six days later. The crime went unsolved for 15 months until a 28-year-old woman, who was abducted at gunpoint and raped and tortured at Buell's home, escaped and ran to a neighbor's house. The details of the assault led to his arrest for Krista's death. Buell pleaded no contest to rape and other charges from the attack on the 28-year-old and the abduction and rape five months earlier of a 29-year-old woman. He was sentenced to 121 years in prison for those crimes. He was later named as the chief suspect in the slayings of two other girls and identified by other victims of sexual assault in northeast Ohio. |
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