11-12-2011, 03:01 PM
re: post #155
For Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters, it was the picture-perfect Florida getaway: sunshine, beaches, Epcot, Sea World, glass-bottom boats.
But when the trio made it to Tampa on the first day of June in 1989, they had trouble finding their hotel on the Courtney Campbell Causeway. A smooth-talking con man named Oba Chandler – who also had Ohio ties – helped by giving them directions.
He also invited them out on a boat ride. So the three met Chandler later that day at the boat ramp on the causeway, just 2.6 miles west of the hotel where they were staying.
Joan, Michelle and Christe Rogers had no clue Chandler was a former convict who had been arrested on a laundry list of charges before.
Chandler forced the three to strip from the waist down. He covered their mouths with duct tape to silence their screams, then tied their ankles together and secured their hands behind their backs with rope. Then he tied rope around each of their necks, attaching the other end to a concrete block.
Then, one by one, he threw them – all three were deathly afraid of the water – overboard.
Alive.
On Tuesday, Chandler is scheduled to die by lethal injection for his crimes.
For Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters, it was the picture-perfect Florida getaway: sunshine, beaches, Epcot, Sea World, glass-bottom boats.
But when the trio made it to Tampa on the first day of June in 1989, they had trouble finding their hotel on the Courtney Campbell Causeway. A smooth-talking con man named Oba Chandler – who also had Ohio ties – helped by giving them directions.
He also invited them out on a boat ride. So the three met Chandler later that day at the boat ramp on the causeway, just 2.6 miles west of the hotel where they were staying.
Joan, Michelle and Christe Rogers had no clue Chandler was a former convict who had been arrested on a laundry list of charges before.
Chandler forced the three to strip from the waist down. He covered their mouths with duct tape to silence their screams, then tied their ankles together and secured their hands behind their backs with rope. Then he tied rope around each of their necks, attaching the other end to a concrete block.
Then, one by one, he threw them – all three were deathly afraid of the water – overboard.
Alive.
On Tuesday, Chandler is scheduled to die by lethal injection for his crimes.