Charles Anthony Boyd
Charles Anthony Boyd, known as The Bathroom Slayer, was an American serial killer who raped and killed three women over a nine-month period from 1986 to 1987 in North Dallas, Texas. He was sentenced to death for the final murder and was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1999.
Early life
A native of Dallas, Boyd was sentenced to five years in prison for sexual assault and burglary. He was later granted early release in November 1985, after serving less than half of his sentence, after which he began working as a janitor at a nearby bank. From July to September 1986, Boyd lived with his brother at his brother's apartment.Murders
Boyd committed his first murder on July 22, 1986, when 37-year-old Tippawan Nakusan, a Thai immigrant who lived in the apartment just upstairs of his and worked as a waitress, was found stabbed and suffocated to death in her bathtub. On September 15, 1986, an apartment cleaning lady chanced upon 22-year-old Lashun Chappell laying dead in her apartment bathroom. She had been fatally stabbed to death.On April 13, 1987, 20-year-old Linda Williams returned home to her apartment from work and found her roommate, 21-year-old Mary Milligan's body stuffed in a bathtub, raped, strangled, and drowned. While investigating police assumed her killer was the same one who killed Naksuwan and Thomas, by that time locals and the media had applied the pseudonym of "The Bathroom Slayings" to the string of murders. While observing the scene of Milligan's murder, it was found that some items had been stolen from the apartment. Milligan's car, a 1982 Cadillac was also reported to be stolen from the complex's parking lot. It was later found abandoned.