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Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer, white supremacist, and domestic terrorist who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. Franklin was convicted of several murders and received four life sentences, as well as two death sentences.
Jan 26, 2021 · Joseph Paul Franklin and his siblings were raised by their strict mother who reportedly beat them. They had little money. As a teenager, Franklin had obsessive tendencies, particularly over religion. He was a member of the Church of God, headed by televangelist Garner Ted Armstrong, and visited nearly every church in the state he could find.
Jul 9, 2023 · Joseph Paul Franklin Was Executed for Series of Murders. The FBI and its law enforcement partners were closing in on Joseph by 1980. He had remained under the radar due to his skill at living the life of an anonymous drifter and the often vast miles and lack of evidentiary connections between his crimes. Court documents stated his primary source of financial support was multiple bank robberies and paid blood bank donations. However, an observant Kentucky police officer noticed a gun in his ...
Joseph Paul Franklin (April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer. He was convicted of several murders, and given six life sentences, as well as a death sentence. He confessed to the attempted murders of two prominent men: the magazine publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 and Vernon Jordan, Jr., the civil rights activist, in 1980. Both survived their injuries, but Flynt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. ...
Jan 14, 2014 · It was a deadly mix: a mentally troubled man from an abusive, broken home turned radical racist and then serial killer. His name was Joseph Paul Franklin, and he went on a horrific killing spree ...
Nov 20, 2013 · Joseph P. Franklin, a white supremacist who killed at least eight people in a shooting spree from 1977 to 1980 and confessed to being the sniper who wounded the Hustler magazine publisher Larry ...
Nov 20, 2013 · Joseph Franklin was executed for shooting dead a man outside a synagogue in the city of St Louis in 1977. The 63-year-old was convicted of seven other racially motivated murders. He claimed to ...
Nov 18, 2013 · Joseph Paul Franklin is on death row in Missouri. Asked if he has killed 22 people, Franklin says that's "approximately it" Franklin also shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in 1978 in Georgia
Nov 20, 2013 · Joseph Paul Franklin, who was convicted of eight murders, suspected in as many as 20 others and who shot Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in 1978, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri. He also shot ...
Nov 20, 2013 · BONNE TERRE, Mo. – Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri, the state ...
