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| Man Convicted of Killing College Student is Executed in Ohio |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/24/2003 |
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A man convicted of stabbing and strangling a college student 14 years ago was executed by injection February 12. Richard E. Fox, 47, who had confessed to the killing, was put to death at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in the state's sixth execution since it resumed executions in 1999. Fox's attorneys said last week there were no legal issues left to review. Fox was convicted of killing Leslie Keckler, 18, of Bowling Green, on Sept. 26, 1989, after luring her to a fake job interview. Her body was discovered four days later in a ditch near the northwest Ohio city. The chief of the Ohio Public Defender's death penalty section, Greg Meyers, said he talked to Fox before the execution. 'He talked about how deeply, deeply sorry he was for murdering Leslie Keckler,' Meyers said. Authorities said Fox found Keckler, a student at a community college near Toledo, through an application she filled out at the restaurant where he worked. He set up a fake job allegedly selling restaurant supplies and met her in a hotel lobby. Keckler then got into Fox's car, supposedly to check out businesses where supplies could be sold. In a rural area outside Bowling Green, Fox started making advances. When Keckler fought him and tried to open the car door, he yanked her back, pulled her coat over her head and stabbed her six times in the back, according to court records and police. He then drove to a secluded road where, he told police, he strangled her with a rope 'just to make sure she was dead.' Fox confessed after police confronted him about a report by another woman who said she had escaped a similar ruse months earlier. He was convicted in 1990 of aggravated murder and kidnapping. Fox's attorneys had argued his sentence should have been changed to life in prison because he did not intend to kill Keckler, and that he tricked women only to meet them. |
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