Ronald Dominique
pleaded guilty to eight slayings and was sentenced to
eight consecutive life terms in prison on Tuesday, narrowly
avoiding the death penalty, according to the
Associated Press. The Blue Bayou serial killer, as he
was named, was suspected of 23 total murders of young men
between 1997 and 2005.
Ronald Dominique
pleaded guilty to eight slayings and was sentenced to
eight consecutive life terms in prison on Tuesday, narrowly
avoiding the death penalty, according to the
Associated Press. The Blue Bayou serial killer, as he
was named, was suspected of 23 total murders of young men
between 1997 and 2005.
"The lives of
eight young men were taken from these families by the
actions of the defendant," Assistant District Attorney Mark
Rhodes said before sentencing. "He knew nothing about
them or their families, and he callously killed the
victims and left a lifetime of pain as their legacy."
To lure his
victims, Dominique would offer money for gay sex or offer
his “wife” for sexual encounters. The
men would enter Dominique’s home and allow the
serial killer to tie them up, whew re he would rape and
eventually murder them. If they refused to being tied up,
Dominique let them walk away.
At the time of
his arrest in 2006, authorities said he confessed to
raping and murdering about two dozen young men in four
Louisiana parishes, according to the AP.
"I told the
families of the victims I was confident we could get a
guilty verdict on all eight counts," Rhodes said.
Dominique, 44,
shackled at the waist and feet, stood hunched over with
his head bowed as state district judge Randy Bethancourt
read the sentences and names of the eight young men he
raped and killed in the quiet bayou country of
Terrebonne parish, according to the AP article.
He might again
face the death penalty, as he has yet to be indicted in
the three other parishes where his victims were found.
(Kandice Day, The Advocate)
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