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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)
