Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 - January 5, 1993) was an American serial killer and child abuser. His execution (which he did at his own request) on 5 January 1993, was the first hanging of the law in the United States since 1965.
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Westley Allan Dodd was born in Toppenish, Washington, on July 3, 1961, the oldest of three children Jim and Carol Dodd. Dodd claims he has never been abused or neglected as a child. However, he claims that the words "I love you" were never told to him when he grew up, and he never remembers ever saying it. The Seattle Times reported that Dodd described in a diary written during his imprisonment that he was emotionally and physically abused by his father, that he was often neglected for his siblings, and that he witnessed violent fights between his parents. On July 3, 1976 - Dodd's 15th birthday - his father attempted suicide after a fight with his wife.
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Criminal history
Gender violations
At the age of 13, Dodd began to expose himself to the children in his neighborhood. His father eventually told an Oregon newspaper that he was aware of the boy's behavior, but most chose to look the other way, especially since he was "a well behaved boy who never had a problem with drugs, drinking or smoking." By the time he entered high school, Dodd had advanced to the persecution, beginning with his younger cousins, and then the neighboring children he offered to babysit and the children of a woman whose father was dating. At the age of 15, Dodd was arrested for indecent exposure, but the police let him go with the recommendations of adolescent counseling.
As time passes, he will be arrested several more times, again without any serious action. After several neighboring children moved out of town, he began to persecute unknown children. In August 1981, Dodd tried to kidnap two little girls, but they reported them to the police. No action taken. The following month, he was enlisted in the Navy, and was assigned to a submarine base in Bangor, Washington, where he began abusing the children who lived at the base. Once, Dodd offered some $ 50 boys to come with him to a motel room for a poker strip game. This time, he was arrested. Despite confessing to the police that he planned to persecute the children, he was released, without charges. Shortly after, he was arrested again for exposing himself to a boy and out of the Navy. Dodd spent 19 days in jail and underwent court-ordered counseling. In May 1984, he was arrested for molesting a 10-year-old boy, but received only probation.
Dodd planned his entire life with easy access to the "target", as he referred to the children. She moved to an apartment block that housed families with children, and worked in fast-food restaurants, as charity truck drivers, and other jobs. He repeatedly molested the pre-school children of a neighbor, but she was afraid that pressing charges would be too traumatic for boys.
In 1987, Dodd tried to lure a boy into an empty building, but the boy refused to go with him and instead told the police. Again, Dodd receives minimal punishment for not actually touching the boy or exposing himself. The prosecutor learned of the history of his sexual offenses, and recommended five years in prison, but he spent only 118 days in prison and trial. After leaving the prison, he moved to Vancouver, Washington, and got a job as a shipping officer.
In the early autumn of 1989, Dodd decided that David Douglas Park in Vancouver was a good place to find potential victims. He was arrested several times over the next few years for child molestation, each time serving a short prison term and given the required treatment by the court. All of the victims (more than 50 people) were under 12 years old, some of whom were two years old. Most of them are men.
Dodd's sexual fantasy became increasingly ferocious over the years; as a young man, he wrote about the desire to eat his victim's genitals and perform "experimental surgery" to turn him into a dutiful zombie. A psychiatrist who evaluates Dodd follows one of his convictions saying that he matches the legal criteria for a "sexual psychopath".
Murder
On September 4, 1989, Dodd enthralled two brothers, Cole 11 and 10 and William Neer, to a remote area, where he forced them to undress, tie them to a tree and perform sex acts on both of them. When he finished, he stabbed them repeatedly with a knife and escaped from the scene. The children were soon found in the park. Cole died at the scene, while William died on the way to the hospital.
Not long afterwards, Dodd moved to Portland, Oregon, where he did several unsuccessful attempts to lure children. On October 29, Dodd met Lee Iseli, four, and his nine-year-old brother Justin in a local park. The first played alone on the slide, and Dodd managed to convince the boy to go with him. Justin was back, so Dodd told Lee that he "would drive him back to his home". He managed to take Lee to his apartment in Vancouver unnoticed, and he ordered the boy to undress. Dodd then ties Lee to his bed and punches him, taking photos of abuse. Dodd held Lee up overnight as he continued to persecute him, keeping track of every detail in his diary. The next morning, he strangled Lee to death with a rope and hung his body in the closet, photographing it as a horrible "cup". He would later confess to the police that he had not originally planned to kill the boy, but ultimately decided that it was necessary to prevent him from telling anyone. Dodd stuffed Lee's naked body into a garbage bag and tossed it into a bush near Vancouver Lake. He burned Lee's clothes in the trash except the boy's underwear, which he kept as a souvenir of evil. Three days later, Lee's body was found, which triggered the hunt for the killer. Dodd keeps a low profile and mostly lives in his apartment, writes out future plans for child abduction and also builds a homemade torture rack for the next victim.
Capture
On November 13, Dodd grabbed a 6-year-old boy from a bathroom at the New Liberty Theater in Camas, Washington, but the boy started fighting and cried as Dodd left the theater through the lobby carrying the boy into his arms. Although Dodd tried to calm the boy, the theater employee became suspicious. Once outside, Dodd releases his victim before getting into his car and leaves. The boy's girlfriend came out to the theater lobby and was told that the boy was almost kidnapped. The girlfriend went out of the theater toward where Dodd was last seen. Dodd's car was damaged not far from the theater. In order not to raise Dodd's suspicion and stalling, the boyfriend offered to help him. The boyfriend immediately gets Dodd's head and takes him back to the theater where Camas police are summoned. Camas police contacted a task force investigating Lee Iseli's kidnapping and murder. Dodd was taken to Camas PD Headquarters, where the task force led detectives CW Jensen and Dave Trimble interviewed him for 3 days. Finally, Dodd confessed to the three murders. Jensen and Trimble then served a search warrant at a home in Vancouver where Dodd rented a room.
During the search for Dodd's room, the police found a homemade torture rack, along with newspaper clippings about his crime, a suitcase containing Lee Iseli underwear, a photo album containing photos of Lee Iseli, and various children's photos in an underwear advertisement. They also found Dodd's diary, where he detailed the murders.
Dodd was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Neer and Lee Iseli's brothers, plus kidnapping efforts against other children. He initially pleaded not guilty to all charges, but then changed his defense into guilt.
Experiment
During his trial at Clark County Superior Court, the prosecutor read aloud Dodd's diary, and displayed pictures of Lee Iseli. The defense does not call witnesses, or present any evidence, indicating only that Dodd should be legally insane. The prosecutor asked for the death penalty, and the jury agreed. Dodd will claim that speaking in his own defense is useless, and ultimately, "the system has failed repeatedly". He declares that he wants to die by hanging, and that he is willing to die if "it brings peace to the families of the victims".
Dodd was sentenced to death in 1990 for stabbing to death Cole Neer and his brother William near Vancouver, Washington, the park in 1989, as well as for rape and murder apart from Lee Iseli.
Execution
Less than four years passed between the assassination and execution of Dodd. He refused to appeal his case or the death penalty. He insisted that he could not be controlled and would kill again, declaring in a brief hearing: "I must be executed before I have a chance to escape or kill someone else If I run away I promise I will kill and rape again, and I will enjoy every minute of it. "He also said in several interviews that death would give him relief from the guilt over the murder. During the trial, he wrote a pamphlet on how parents can protect children from child molesters like himself.
With Washington state law, Dodd had to choose one of two methods for his execution: lethal injection, or hanging. He chose hanging, then declared in the interview that he chose the method "because that's the way Lee Iseli [her last victim] died". Dependence is the first use of the method for execution in the United States since George York and James Latham were hanged by Kansas in 1965. His execution was witnessed by 12 members of local and regional media, prison officials, and family representatives of three victims. He ate salmon and potatoes for his last meal. His last words, pronounced from the second floor of the masts in the room, were recorded by media witnesses as:
Dodd was executed at 12:05 am on January 5, 1993 at the Washington Correctional Institution at Walla Walla. He was declared dead by a prison doctor and his body was transported to Seattle for an autopsy. King County Medical Examiner, Donald Reay, discovered that Dodd had died quickly and perhaps with little pain. He was cremated after an autopsy, and his ashes were handed over to his family.
In popular culture
Dodds crime is included in the Netflix 'Real Detective' series. In the episode entitled Detective 'Malice', C.W. Jensen describes his involvement in bringing Dodd to justice and his effect on him personally.
Dodd is the basis for an invisible character, a child killer named "Wayne Dobbs", in the 2002 film Insomnia, starring Al Pacino. He was fictional as a man who killed a boy in a manner similar to Dodd's murder of Lee Iseli. Dodd is also mentioned in the novel Michael Connelly The Concrete Blonde .
Several books have been written about the case, including: When the Monster Out of the Cupboard by Lori Steinhorst, who communicated with Dodd in writing and by telephone almost daily for 18 months prior to his execution; Driven to be Killed by true crime writer Gary C. King; and Dr. Ron Turco about his experience during the initial investigation to help develop the killer profile.
See also
- Sergey Golovkin
References
Further reading
Carol M. Ostrom, Jack Broom, Westley Dodd: The Long and Steady Slides of Dark Desperation , The Seattle Times (1993-01-03), Retrieved in 2007-11- 10External links
- Westley Allan Dodd in the Search of the Mausoleum
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