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Grisly details come out in Crawford murder trial :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State
November 10, 2009
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Criminal Court Reporter
Andre Crawford was adamant when he confessed he brutally raped and murdered 11 women on the South Side when he was arrested in January 2000, an Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney testified Tuesday.
“He said ‘Ma’am, I did these murders. It was me,’” Margaret Wood said Crawford conceded.
Crawford initially admitted his role in only eight of the New City stabbings, strangulations and bludgeonings of drug addicts and prostitutes that took place between 1993 and 1999, the prosecutor said. But, Crawford soon opened up about the other three slayings, Wood said. A 12th victim was allegedly beaten with a two-by-four on Thanksgiving in 1997 but escaped.
While Wood was on the stand, prosecutors played a videotape statement in which Crawford detailed how he pummeled his first victim Patricia Dunn with a six-inch metal vise-grip and raped her because she wanted to get high before having sex.
Crawford, 47, allegedly told authorities he took a walk to “cool off and smoke some crack” before he returned to rape Dunn’s corpse near the abandoned factory in the 1993 incident.
Relatives in Judge Evelyn Clay’s courtroom wept as assistant state’s attorney George Canellis showed grisly pictures of Dunn’s bloody, half-naked body and mangled face. Earlier, siblings, mothers and children of the victims testified how they learned of their loved ones’ deaths.
Crawford is a “cold-blooded killer,” assistant state’s attorney Patrick McGuire said in his opening remarks. Crawford’s attorney, Debra Seaton, insinuated that her client was coerced into confessing.
Crawford was mostly a vagrant but sometimes helped unload newspapers from Sun-Times delivery trucks — a job he got through a temp agency, McGuire said.
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