Deanna's Daydreamer
05-28-2009, 12:40 AM
State Supreme Court sets execution date for Chain of Rocks killer
The day before convicted killer Dennis Skillicorn is scheduled to die by lethal injection for a 1994 killing in Lafayette County, the State Supreme Court hands down another execution date.
This one is for the execution of Reginald Clemons, who was convicted in the 1991 deaths of two women who were stripped, beaten, raped, sodomized, and shoved off
the Chain of Rocks Bridge
http://www.national66.com/photos/047ChainRocksBridge.jpg
into the Mississippi River near St. Louis. He is scheduled to die Wednesday, June 17th.
The women's male cousin was forced to jump off the bridge.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogbelly/1502162510/
He survived. The two women died. The body of one of the women was recovered near Caruthersville while the body of the other woman was never found.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matneym/3208126676/
Clemons was one of four men involved in the attack. One of the others, Marlin Gray, was executed in 2005. His execution was the most recent carried out by the state.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://learfield.typepad.com/deathrow/inmate_clemons.html
Case Facts: The Chain of Rocks Bridge
is a highway bridge over the Mississippi River
http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2489/photos.html?id=62782
that formerly permitted traffic to travel between Illinois and Missouri before authorities closed the bridge to vehicular traffic. Julie and Robin Kerry [2 caucasion females] arranged to take their visiting cousin, [a caucasion male] Thomas Cummins, to the bridge to show him a graffiti poem they had painted there several years earlier. On April 4, 1991, at approximately 11:25 p.m., the two sisters and Cummins went to the bridge.
Earlier that evening, [black male] Reginald Clemons, along with [black males] Marlin Gray, Daniel Winfrey, and Clemons cousin, Antonio Richardson, met at a mutual friend’s home. They drank beer and smoked marijuana. Gray suggested that they go to the Chain of Rocks Bridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Rocks_Bridge
About 11:00p.m., Clemons, Richardson, Gray and Winfrey drove in two separate cars to the bridge. Parking near the Missouri end of the bridge, the foursome went through a hole in the fence, over a pile of rocks blocking the bridge entrance to vehicles, and onto the bridge deck. They attempted to smoke a joint of marijuana, but found the marijuana too wet to light. The group walked back toward their cars. They left behind a long metal flashlight that Richardson brought to the bridge.
The Kerry sisters and Cummins arrived at the bridge sometime after Clemons and his friends. The Kerrys and Cummins made their way onto the bridge deck and walked toward the Illinois end of the bridge. They encountered Clemons and his companions, who were headed back toward the Missouri side. The two groups briefly chatted. One of the Kerry sisters gave Winfrey a cigarette. Gray showed the Kerrys and Cummins how to climb over the bridge railing and come back up through a manhole in the bridge deck. He told Cummins that the manhole was "a good place to be alone, and take your woman." The two groups parted, heading in opposite directions. Cummins and the Kerry sisters stopped to look at the graffiti poem and then continued walking toward Illinois.
In the meantime, Clemons and his friends had returned to the Missouri end of the bridge. As they lingered there, Clemons suggested to his companions, "Let’s rob them." Gray replied "Yeah, I feel like hurting somebody." Richardson suggested they rape the girls. Clemons agreed. The foursome walked back toward the Illinois end of the bridge. As they walked, Winfrey saw Gray talk to Clemons, after which Gray came to Winfrey and handed him a condom. Winfrey put the condom in his pocket and stated that he "wasn’t going to do it." Clemons grabbed Winfrey, pushed him toward the rail of the bridge, and threatened him until Winfrey agreed to "do it."
They caught up with the Kerry sisters and Cummins and ordered Cummins to lay on the ground. They forced the sisters to strip, beat them up, raped and sodomized them, and eventually ordered them into a manhole. On the metal platform under the bridge, Cummins laid down next to Julie and Robin Kerry. They were ordered to get up and go towards the concrete pier below the platform. Julie was pushed off first, then Robin. Cummins was ordered to jump. He did. When he surfaced after his seventy-foot fall, he saw Julie nearby in the water and called for her to swim.
Fighting the current and rough [very cold] water of the Mississippi River, Julie grabbed Cummins, dragging them both below the surface. Cummins broke free. Julie did not reappear. Cummins eventually reached a steep riverbank and came ashore by a wooded area near the Chain of Rocks waterworks. Authorities recovered Julie’s body 300 miles south near Caruthersville, Missouri, about three weeks later.
Robin’s body...... is still missing.
photo of Robin Kerry:
http://www.charleyproject.org/images/k/kerry_robin.jpg
photo of Julie Kerry:
http://www.charleyproject.org/images/k/kerry_sister.jpg
The day before convicted killer Dennis Skillicorn is scheduled to die by lethal injection for a 1994 killing in Lafayette County, the State Supreme Court hands down another execution date.
This one is for the execution of Reginald Clemons, who was convicted in the 1991 deaths of two women who were stripped, beaten, raped, sodomized, and shoved off
the Chain of Rocks Bridge
http://www.national66.com/photos/047ChainRocksBridge.jpg
into the Mississippi River near St. Louis. He is scheduled to die Wednesday, June 17th.
The women's male cousin was forced to jump off the bridge.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frogbelly/1502162510/
He survived. The two women died. The body of one of the women was recovered near Caruthersville while the body of the other woman was never found.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matneym/3208126676/
Clemons was one of four men involved in the attack. One of the others, Marlin Gray, was executed in 2005. His execution was the most recent carried out by the state.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://learfield.typepad.com/deathrow/inmate_clemons.html
Case Facts: The Chain of Rocks Bridge
is a highway bridge over the Mississippi River
http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2489/photos.html?id=62782
that formerly permitted traffic to travel between Illinois and Missouri before authorities closed the bridge to vehicular traffic. Julie and Robin Kerry [2 caucasion females] arranged to take their visiting cousin, [a caucasion male] Thomas Cummins, to the bridge to show him a graffiti poem they had painted there several years earlier. On April 4, 1991, at approximately 11:25 p.m., the two sisters and Cummins went to the bridge.
Earlier that evening, [black male] Reginald Clemons, along with [black males] Marlin Gray, Daniel Winfrey, and Clemons cousin, Antonio Richardson, met at a mutual friend’s home. They drank beer and smoked marijuana. Gray suggested that they go to the Chain of Rocks Bridge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_Rocks_Bridge
About 11:00p.m., Clemons, Richardson, Gray and Winfrey drove in two separate cars to the bridge. Parking near the Missouri end of the bridge, the foursome went through a hole in the fence, over a pile of rocks blocking the bridge entrance to vehicles, and onto the bridge deck. They attempted to smoke a joint of marijuana, but found the marijuana too wet to light. The group walked back toward their cars. They left behind a long metal flashlight that Richardson brought to the bridge.
The Kerry sisters and Cummins arrived at the bridge sometime after Clemons and his friends. The Kerrys and Cummins made their way onto the bridge deck and walked toward the Illinois end of the bridge. They encountered Clemons and his companions, who were headed back toward the Missouri side. The two groups briefly chatted. One of the Kerry sisters gave Winfrey a cigarette. Gray showed the Kerrys and Cummins how to climb over the bridge railing and come back up through a manhole in the bridge deck. He told Cummins that the manhole was "a good place to be alone, and take your woman." The two groups parted, heading in opposite directions. Cummins and the Kerry sisters stopped to look at the graffiti poem and then continued walking toward Illinois.
In the meantime, Clemons and his friends had returned to the Missouri end of the bridge. As they lingered there, Clemons suggested to his companions, "Let’s rob them." Gray replied "Yeah, I feel like hurting somebody." Richardson suggested they rape the girls. Clemons agreed. The foursome walked back toward the Illinois end of the bridge. As they walked, Winfrey saw Gray talk to Clemons, after which Gray came to Winfrey and handed him a condom. Winfrey put the condom in his pocket and stated that he "wasn’t going to do it." Clemons grabbed Winfrey, pushed him toward the rail of the bridge, and threatened him until Winfrey agreed to "do it."
They caught up with the Kerry sisters and Cummins and ordered Cummins to lay on the ground. They forced the sisters to strip, beat them up, raped and sodomized them, and eventually ordered them into a manhole. On the metal platform under the bridge, Cummins laid down next to Julie and Robin Kerry. They were ordered to get up and go towards the concrete pier below the platform. Julie was pushed off first, then Robin. Cummins was ordered to jump. He did. When he surfaced after his seventy-foot fall, he saw Julie nearby in the water and called for her to swim.
Fighting the current and rough [very cold] water of the Mississippi River, Julie grabbed Cummins, dragging them both below the surface. Cummins broke free. Julie did not reappear. Cummins eventually reached a steep riverbank and came ashore by a wooded area near the Chain of Rocks waterworks. Authorities recovered Julie’s body 300 miles south near Caruthersville, Missouri, about three weeks later.
Robin’s body...... is still missing.
photo of Robin Kerry:
http://www.charleyproject.org/images/k/kerry_robin.jpg
photo of Julie Kerry:
http://www.charleyproject.org/images/k/kerry_sister.jpg