Robert Buell

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American homicide, a serial rapist and molester, stalker and sexual exhibitionist and finally, a killer of two young girls. His first murder was that of 12-year-old Tina Marie Harmon whom he abducted 10/28/1981 and whose body was found five days later. He scrubbed her to excessive cleanliness, burned her with candles and strangled her. On 7/17/1982, he abducted 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison. Her body was found a week later, 7/23/1982, strangled, sexually attacked, burned with candles and scrubbed clean. Buell was captured but not convicted of murder. He was sentenced to 121 years for 16 counts of rape and abduction using a gun as a weapon. At 21, Buell had enlisted in the navy where he learned to be an electrical engineer. He had an honorable discharge in 1965. He married on 10/20/1962; one daughter was born 2/15/1965. He changed careers, starting as a loan officer and assistant grant specialist on 11/24/1974 in the planning department rehabilitation program at Akron, Ohio. In August 1978, Buell was arrested for public indecency and in October he was convicted of disorderly conduct. After public service, on 1/09/1980, his record was expunged. In August 1981, a stranger fondled a 13-year-old Doylestown girl who identified Buell from a picture file. In October 1981, Harmon disappeared. On 3/23/1982 an Akron woman was abducted at knife-point from a mall, robbed and sexually assaulted. She identified Buell. In July 1982, the second girl was found dead. On 9/30/1982, a 26-year-old women in Barberton was abducted at gunpoint and taken to a field where she was raped and sexually assaulted: she identified Buell. On 3/01/1983, several girls, ages 12 and 13 were approached by a man with a gun; they screamed and ran away; they later identified Buell. The police were informed of Buell's address on 3/08/1983 by an anonymous call in Doylestown but were not able to apprehend him. On 5/10/1983, Jeromesville, a man approached two young girls. A witness took the license plate of the car and it was registered to Buell's ex-wife. On 5/22/1983, a 29-year-old woman was abducted in East Liverpool, held hostage and sexually tormented for three days by Buell at his home address. In June 1983, he began his stalking in Medina (all locations in Ohio) and he was finally picked up by the police. He was executed by lethal injection on 24 September 2002 in Ohio. Link to Wikipedia biography