Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Racist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, who says he shot Hustler
magazine publisher Larry Flynt and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan,
has confessed to two 1979 slayings he says were racially motivated.
Franklin, who is on death row in Missouri for the murder of a Jewish man
who was killed leaving a synagogue, confessed last week to killing
Mercedes Lynn Masters, 15, and restaurant manager Harold McIver, 27,
DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan said Thursday.
He called Franklin "the most evil individual I have ever come across."
The prosecutor said Franklin, 47, a drifter born in Mobile, Ala., was
motivated by racial hatred in both killings.
In a jailhouse interview, Franklin said he had had a sexual relationship
with Masters, who was white, and killed her after she told him she had
sex with blacks.
McIver, who was black, was gunned down by a sniper after he left the
Doraville Taco Bell where he worked. Franklin told investigators he had
noticed McIver working with young, white women and thought "he was
using his position to hit up" the women.
Flynt was on trial in Gwinnett County on obscenity charges in 1978 when
he and his lawyer were shot by a sniper with a high-powered rifle
outside the courthouse. Flynt was permanently paralyzed.
Jordan was president of the Urban League in 1980 when he was seriously
wounded by a sniper in Fort Wayne, Ind., after a white female staff
member dropped him off at the motel where he was staying.
In 1982, Franklin was aquitted of federal charges of violating Jordan's
civil rights, even though jurors said they were convinced that he shot
Jordan.
Just last month, Franklin pleaded guilty to killing a black man in
Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1978.
The plea was Franklin's seventh murder conviction. He is suspected in at
least 10 other murders in a spree that began in 1977 and ended in 1980,
prosecutors said.
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