Post by nick on Jan 11, 2017 23:03:43 GMT
Marion Albert Pruett, I post this thread because this man was part of the Federal Witness Protective Program when he killed at least 4 people. He had been moved and pass in the program when he murdered his wife with a hammer and then went on a crime spree killing 3 other people who were just doing their jobs at work. He had a nickname since he was a child, "Mad Dog" and it was a fitting name for him as an adult as well. In 1979, Pruett was given $800, a new name (Charles "Sonny" Pearson) and placed in the federal witness protection program after testifying about a murder in an Atlanta, Georgia federal prison.
While serving time in Georgia for bank robbery, he testified against another inmate in the slaying of his cellmate and was released in 1979 and placed in the protection program. The inmate who was killed was an informant as well, so the federal government decided since Pruett's cell mate testified in another case and had been killed they should do something about it and accepted Pruett into the program and let him out of prison early. In April 1981, his common-law wife Pamela Sue Barker, also known as Michelle Lynn Pearson, was found dead in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. She had been bludgeoned with a ball peen hammer and had been burned. The Sheriff in Sandoval County, New Mexico held him and jail for the murder, Pruett told the Sheriff he had been to prison but when the Sheriff sent the FBI Pruett's fingerprints they came back as "no criminal record." The FBI knew he was in the Witness Program but did not tell the Sheriff, a judge then ordered Pruett to be released from jail and he ran like hell. It was while he was on the run he killed the others. Pruett killed three people in a week long streak of terror that led him to dub himself a "mad-dog killer." Earlier in 1981, Pruett had killed his wife in New Mexico, and a Mississippi bank loan officer. Four days after killing the first convenience store clerk, Pruett killed two other store workers in Colorado.
Marion Albert Pruett (c. 1950 – April 12, 1999) was a serial killer executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. Marion Pruett was sentenced to death for the October 12, 1981, murder of Bobbie Jean Robertson, a convenience store clerk in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was one of at least five people Pruett killed; three of which were killed during that same week.
While serving time in Georgia for bank robbery, he testified against another inmate in the slaying of his cellmate and was released in 1979 and placed in the protection program. The inmate who was killed was an informant as well, so the federal government decided since Pruett's cell mate testified in another case and had been killed they should do something about it and accepted Pruett into the program and let him out of prison early. In April 1981, his common-law wife Pamela Sue Barker, also known as Michelle Lynn Pearson, was found dead in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. She had been bludgeoned with a ball peen hammer and had been burned. The Sheriff in Sandoval County, New Mexico held him and jail for the murder, Pruett told the Sheriff he had been to prison but when the Sheriff sent the FBI Pruett's fingerprints they came back as "no criminal record." The FBI knew he was in the Witness Program but did not tell the Sheriff, a judge then ordered Pruett to be released from jail and he ran like hell. It was while he was on the run he killed the others. Pruett killed three people in a week long streak of terror that led him to dub himself a "mad-dog killer." Earlier in 1981, Pruett had killed his wife in New Mexico, and a Mississippi bank loan officer. Four days after killing the first convenience store clerk, Pruett killed two other store workers in Colorado.
Marion Albert Pruett (c. 1950 – April 12, 1999) was a serial killer executed in Arkansas by lethal injection. Marion Pruett was sentenced to death for the October 12, 1981, murder of Bobbie Jean Robertson, a convenience store clerk in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was one of at least five people Pruett killed; three of which were killed during that same week.