Ricky Lee Green
| Ricky Lee Green | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 27, 1960 Tarrant County, Texas, United States |
| Died |
October 8, 1997 (aged 36) Walker County, Texas, United States |
| Cause of death | Execution by lethal injection |
| Conviction(s) | Murder |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 - 12 |
Span of crimes | 1985–1986 |
| Country | United States |
| State(s) | Texas |
Ricky Lee Green (born December 27, 1960 in Tarrant County, Texas - October 8, 1997 in Walker County, Texas) was an American serial killer who was executed in 1997.
Crimes
Ricky Green stabbed, castrated and beheaded 16-year-old Jeffrey Davis in April 1985, who was found in a wetland in Fort Worth. In October 1985 he killed 28-year-old dancer Betty Monroe with a knife and hammer, whom he had taken as a hitchhiker in Fort Worth. The following month he also killed 27-year-old Sandra Bailey, whom he had met at a western bar in Fort Worth. In September 1986, he stabbed and castrated 28-year-old Steven Fefferman at his Fort Worth home.[1][2]
In 1989, Green was charged with murdering Fefferman and sentenced to death in 1990.[3] His now divorced wife, Sharon Dollar Green, had contributed extensively to his arrest and conviction. While Green claimed that she was an accomplice in the two murders of women, she claimed that she had been forced to do so by her husband. She was eventually sentenced to 10 years of probation. In November 1991, she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The author Patricia Springer wrote a book in 1994 called "Blood Rush", based on the crimes.[4][5]
Green was executed by lethal injection in the Huntsville Unit in October 1997.
