Arrest, Trial, and Sentence
Norris had been telling prison friend Jimmy Dalton all about the murders. Dalton thought the stories were lies until Ledford's body was found. He talked to his lawyer and they went to the Los Angeles Police Department with information about Norris.
At the trial, both Norris and Bittaker were charged with murder, kidnapping, forcible rape, sexual perversion and criminal conspiracy. Bittaker was convicted of rape, torture, kidnapping, and murder on February 17, 1981, and sentenced to death. As of January 2013, Bittaker remains on death row, where he still receives mail; he responds to the letters, signing with his nickname, "Pliers" Bittaker. Norris was also sentenced but was spared execution in return for his testimony against Bittaker. Norris was denied parole in 2009 and will be eligible in another ten years.
Read more about this topic: Lawrence Bittaker And Roy Norris
Famous quotes containing the word sentence:
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)