He’d been jailed for hiding in a woman’s car – other people came forward with similar unsettling stories. ibid.
David Gore also implicated an accomplice ... his cousin Fred Waterfield. ibid.
Gore showed little remorse throughout the proceedings. ibid.
Guilty on all charges and sentenced to death by electric chair. ibid.
Fred Waterfield ... Received two life sentences ... whose twisted relationship went back many years. ibid.
A Florida inmate who was on death row for nearly three decades was executed this evening by lethal injection, 28 years after the murder of 17-year-old Lynn Elliott, whose failed escape attempt ended a string of rapes and slayings that shook the quiet Florida town of Vero Beach.
David Alan Gore, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. Thursday after receiving an injection at the Florida State Prison.
He issued a final statement detailing his remorse, a sharp contrast to the correspondence he kept with several pen pals over the decades, in which he relished his crimes.
For his last meal, Gore ate fried chicken, French fries, butter pecan ice cream, and a soft drink.
In the statement, he apologised to Ms Elliott’s now-elderly parents, saying he was ‘truly sorry for my part in the death of your daughter.’
He added that he became a different person after becoming a Christian. ‘I do not fear today but truly look forward to spending eternity with Christ.’
He concluded: ‘I just want to say I have had a tremendous amount of remorse and pray you and your family can forgive me. God bless all of y’all.’ Mail online article 13th April 2012, ‘God bless all of y’all: Serial rapist and killer dies of lethal injection (after last meal of fried chicken and butter pecan ice cream)’
In the 1980s the sleepy Florida town of Vero Beach was home to a string of mysterious disappearances. The perpetrators were family who shared a twisted fantasy. Their sights set on snaring human prey. So what was motivating them to murder? And were these killing cousins born to kill? Born to Kill? s6e10: Gore & Waterfield, Really 2017
Later in life, Gore’s repeated rejections would fuel his aggressive pursuit of women. ibid.
Under questioning, David Gore would come forward with further admissions of guilt, confessing to the unsolved murders of the Lings and Judy Kay Daley … Gore went on to reveal two more slayings. ibid.
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Like Capone, John Gotti was a gangsta sent straight from central casting. Mobsters s1e14: The Gambinos: First Family of Crime
In a five-year period he [Gotti] escaped justice three times. ibid.
December 16th 1985 ... Inside the car Castellano and Bilotti had no time to react. The boss of the Gambino crime family lay dead on the sidewalk. John Gotti had orchestrated his own rise to the head of the Gambino crime family. Mobsters s1e21: John Gotti, Biography 2008
The Mob made Gotti an enforcer. ibid.
In his spare time Gotti gambled recklessly. ibid.
By the 1970s the Mafia had opened its books again, and in 1977 John Gotti finally became a member of the Gambino crime family. ibid.
Gotti’s crew faced scrutiny from inside the family. Gambino boss Paul Castellano had a no-tolerance policy to drug dealing ... Gotti ignored the boss. ibid.
A new nickname: the Dapper Don. ibid.
Gambino chose his brother-in-law Paul Castellano. Castellano was now in charge of the largest criminal organisation in the country ... Hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Mobsters s2e7: The Mob’s Greatest Hits
John Gotti was furious that his boss Dellacroce had got passed over. ibid.
Castellano had made a fatal miscalculation by underestimating the wroth of John Gotti. ibid.
John Gotti was convicted of multiple murders including Castellano’s. In 2002 Gotti died in prison of throat cancer. ibid.
John Gotti was the most famous gangsta since Al Capone. He brutally murdered his way to become head of the most powerful crime family in America. Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e4: John Gotti, 2012
The assassination of Paul Castellano was one of the most dramatic hits in Mafia history. ibid.
In 1973 Gotti was given the opportunity to join the most powerful of the five Mafia crime families in New York: the Gambinos. ibid.
Gotti began to nurture a growing hatred for Paul Castellano. ibid.
Gotti attracted attention in a way no other boss had done. ibid.
Gotti was a street mobster and couldn’t shake free from his past. ibid.
Gotti had made a mockery of the court again ... Gotti walked free from court a third time ... The media bestowed on him a new title: the Teflon Don. ibid.
Gravano now broke Mafia law and approached the FBI without his boss’s permission demanding to hear the tapes. ibid.
The Gambinos: In the shadowy world of organised crime the Gambino family stood out. One of five crime families in New York in the 1930s, it ranked at the top with the Genovese family in size and wealth. The Gambinos, A&E 1997
Like Capone, John Gotti was a gangster straight from central casting right down to the way he talked ... It was brutality that got John Gotti to the top of the Gambino crime syndicate in 1985. ibid.
Carlo Gambino put the family on the map during his reign from 1957 to 1976. ibid.
As soon as Castellano stepped from his limousine Gotti’s men gunned him down. ibid.
Gambino family finances were already on the decline as a result of the crackdown on Mob activities in the mid-80s. Gotti’s lack of business sense only made matters worse. Whatever success the Family had was largely due to Gotti’s senior adviser, Salvatore Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano. ibid.
When Gotti and Gravano heard the tapes they knew they were in trouble. Gravano realised he could be implicated in nineteen mob hits. That’s when he did the unthinkable: he ratted on his boss. ibid.