Historians R Us

This blog is the property of the AP US History class at Pope John XXIII High School in Everett, MA, USA. Here students explore current events in America, while seeking to understand the historical roots of those events. At the same time, students are able to carry on classroom discussions in the cyber world.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Charles Victor Thompson, a 35 year old death row inmate in Texas, made a break for it on Thursday after a a meeting with his attorney. He smuggled plain clothes into his cell after his trial hearing, where he was sentenced to death for the second time. His crime was shooting his ex-girlfriend and her friend in April of 1999. A hitlist of their families and some of the jurors of his case were on was found in his jail cell prior. Thompson was last seen wearing a dark blue shirt, khaki pants and white tennis shoes.

Wynona Donaghy, the mother Thompson's murdered ex-girlfriend, claims, ""He can make people believe he is the most innocent man in the world. He is a threat, not only to himself, but to anybody around him. I believe he'd come after anybody."

However, Thompson's attorney Terry Gaiser says not to worry.

"Mr. Thompson is a charming, articulate, well-spoken young man, and he's very intelligent.."

"He's the kind of guy that makes friends wherever he goes. All his life he's been described as being a charming fellow, so it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't make friends with the deputies."

"I don't believe that Charles is going to kill anybody again... He's dangerous, obviously, if placed in a desperate situation."


A murderer who is charming, articulate, and intelligent who's on death row, aye? Sounds like old Mr. Ted Bundy. Bundy tortured, mutilated, and killed 38 girls and women throughout Utah, Washington state, and Colorado. During his deadly escapades, he served as a suicide hotline volunteer, joined the Seattle Crime Prevention Council, and authored a booklet on rape prevention. When he was finally caught by police, he escaped them twice, until he finally ended up on death row for raping and killing some sorority memebers in Florida. He attempted to escape again, and would have made it if it were not for a random inspection that revealed he sawed through his cell bars. During his prison time, he tried to evade hsi death sentence by claiming he found religion and blaming his violent mind set on pornography. He was eventually executed by the electric chair.

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