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[On Saturday, February 11th, 1989, a 22-year-old pregnant woman, Joy Stewart, was last seen leaving the home of Juanita Deaton, the mother of her friend, Chris Deaton, at around noon in West Alexandria, Ohio. Also present was Dennis McGuire, who was hired to clean the house gutters. Deaton last saw Stewart speaking with two unidentified males in a dark-colored car before she left. The following day, on Sunday, February 12th, 1989, Stewart’s body was discovered by two hikers in woods near Bantas Creek in Preble County, Ohio. The autopsy examination revealed that Stewart had been stabbed twice, with one wound located above her left collarbone and another, fatal wound: a four-and-a-half-inch-deep cut in the throat that completely severed her carotid artery and jugular vein. She had been sodomized and vaginally raped before being killed. Sperm samples were recovered from her anus and vagina. The police investigation remained cold until December 1989, when Dennis McGuire, who was jailed at the time on an unrelated offense, leaked critical information about Stewart’s death. Further investigation indicated that McGuire was Stewart’s murderer. In June 1992, a DNA test showed that his sperm matched the samples extracted from Stewart’s body. On Wednesday, December 22nd, 1993, McGuire was finally arrested, and subsequently he was indicted on one count of aggravated murder, with one felony-murder specification for rape, two counts of rape (vaginal and anal), and one count of kidnapping. He was convicted on Thursday, December 8th, 1994, of the charges of aggravated murder, anal rape, and kidnapping and was sentenced to death. McGuire’s death sentence was executed on Thursday, January 16th, 2014, by lethal injection in Ohio.]
Published: Jun 23, 2019
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