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Date apprehended November 20, 1979 Imprisoned at Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (born September 27, 1940) and Roy Lewis Norris (born February 5, 1948) are American and known as the Tool Box Killers, who together committed the, and of five teenage girls over a period of five months in in 1979. Described by as the most disturbing individual upon whom he has ever performed a,: 135 Bittaker was for five murders on March 24, 1981, and is currently on. Norris accepted a whereby he agreed to testify against Bittaker and was sentenced to on May 7, 1980, with possibility of after serving 30 years. He is currently incarcerated.

Bittaker and Norris became known as the Tool Box Killers due to the fact the majority of instruments used to torture and murder their victims were items normally stored inside a household. Contents. Early life Lawrence Bittaker Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker was born in, on September 27, 1940, the unwanted child of a couple who had chosen to not have children.: 84 Upon his birth, Bittaker was placed in an orphanage by his natural mother, but was by Mr.

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George Bittaker as an. Bittaker's adoptive father worked in aircraft factories, which required the family to frequently move around the United States throughout his childhood. At the age of 12, Bittaker first came to the attention of police when he was arrested for shoplifting. Over the following four years, he was arrested on several occasions for shoplifting and petty theft, obtaining a minor criminal record and being brought to the attention of juvenile authorities (Bittaker would later claim these numerous theft-related offenses committed throughout his adolescence had been attempts to compensate for a lack of love from his parents).: 250 Although he is reported to have an of 138, Bittaker considered his schooling to be a tedious experience;: 257 he dropped out of high school in 1957.

By this stage in his adolescence, he and his adoptive parents were living in California. Within a year of leaving school, he had been arrested for auto theft, and evading arrest.: 250 For these offenses, Bittaker was imprisoned at the, where he remained until the age of 18.: 250 Upon his release, Bittaker discovered his adoptive parents had disowned him and had relocated to another state.: 84 Bittaker never saw his adoptive parents again. Roy Norris Roy Lewis Norris was born in, on February 5, 1948.: 74 Norris was conceived out of wedlock; his parents had married to avoid the surrounding illegitimate birth at that time.: 74–77 All of Norris' family lived within a short distance of his parents' home (his grandfather had invested in ).: 74 His father worked in a scrapyard, and his mother was a housewife who is known to have suffered from a drug addiction. Although he occasionally lived with his parents throughout his childhood and adolescence, Norris was repeatedly placed in the care of,: 136 although these placements were always within the state of Colorado. Norris' recollections of his childhood are interspersed with memories of wrongful accusation when he lived with his biological parents, and of by many of the foster families with whom he was placed, with frequent references to his being denied sufficient food or clothing. He also states he was the victim of when in the care of a family, later stating the he holds towards Hispanic people originates from the neglect and abuse he endured as a child when placed in their care.: 136 At the age of 16, Norris, at the time living with his birth parents, visited the home of a female relative in her early twenties and began talking in sexually suggestive terms to her.

In response, this relative ordered him to leave her house. Norris' father was informed of this incident, and threatened to beat his son. In response, Norris stole his father's car and drove into the, where he attempted to commit suicide by injecting pure air into an in his arm.: 76 He was later apprehended as a runaway, and returned to live with his parents.

When he returned home, his parents informed Norris that he and his younger sister were both unwanted children, and that they had intended to divorce when both children reached adolescence. One year later, Norris dropped out of school and joined the. Norris was stationed in between 1965 and 1969 when, aged 21, he was to serve in,: 253 although he did not see active combat during the four months of his deployment. He returned to the United States later the same year.

Throughout his service in Vietnam, Norris experimented with both and. Although he did not become addicted to heroin, he did become a regular user of marijuana.

First offenses Bittaker Within days of his parole from the California Youth Authority, Bittaker was arrested for transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines.: 250 In August 1959, Bittaker was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, to be served in the. He was later transferred to the medical center for federal prisoners in to serve the remainder of this sentence. In 1960, Bittaker was released from prison and soon reverted to crime. Within months of his release, he had been arrested in Los Angeles for robbery and, in May 1961, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. While incarcerated for this robbery, he was diagnosed by a as being a highly character. The psychiatrist also described Bittaker as 'having considerable concealed.' : 251 Bittaker was released on parole in 1963, after serving two years of this sentence.

In October 1964, he was again imprisoned for. In 1966, Bittaker underwent further examinations by two independent psychiatrists, who declared him to be a borderline, highly manipulative individual who was resistant to acknowledging his responsibility for his actions.: 251–252 To one of these psychiatrists, Bittaker explained that his acknowledged criminal activities gave him a feeling of self-importance, although he insisted circumstantial matters decreased his ability to resist committing crimes. Bittaker was prescribed anti-psychotic medication.: 251–252 One year later, in June 1967, he was again released into society. One month after his parole, in July 1967, Bittaker was again arrested and convicted of both theft and of leaving the scene of an accident. He was sentenced to five years, but was released in April 1970.

However, in March 1971, Bittaker was again arrested for burglary. Due to repeated instances of parole violation, in October 1971, he was sentenced to serve between six months and 15 years' imprisonment.: 251 Within three years, Bittaker had again been released from prison. In 1974, Bittaker was arrested for assault with attempt to commit murder. This charge arose from an incident in which he stabbed a young supermarket clerk named Gary Louie following a confrontation in a supermarket parking lot: Louie had observed Bittaker steal a steak from the supermarket in which he (Louie) worked. Upon observing Bittaker's actions, Louie had followed Bittaker into the car park and calmly asked him whether he had forgotten to pay for anything. In response to this question, Bittaker stabbed Louie once in the chest, narrowly missing his heart. Bittaker attempted to flee the scene of the stabbing, but was restrained by two of Louie's fellow employees.

Gary Louie survived the stabbing, and Bittaker was convicted of the lesser charge of assault with a deadly weapon and sent to the in.: 252 Norris In November 1969, Roy Norris was arrested for his first known sexual offenses: he was charged with both rape and assault with.: 253 In the latter incident, he had attempted to force his way into the car of a lone woman. Three months later, in February 1970, Norris attempted to deceive a lone woman into allowing him to enter her home. When the woman refused, he attempted to break into her house; the woman phoned the police, who arrested Norris before he had the opportunity to cause the woman any harm. Less than three months after this offense, Norris was diagnosed by with a severe.: 253 He was given an administrative discharge from the Navy under terms labeled as.: 267 In May 1970, Norris—on bail for his latest offense—attacked a female student whom he had been on the grounds of the campus. Norris repeatedly struck her on the back of the head with a rock until she slumped to her knees, before he repeatedly beat her head against the sidewalk as he knelt upon her lower back.

Shortly thereafter, Norris was charged with assault with a deadly weapon; he was committed to a total of five years' imprisonment at the, where he was classified as a mentally disordered. Norris was released from the Atascadero State Hospital in 1975, with five years', having been declared by doctors as an individual who was of 'no further danger to others'.: 254 Just three months after his release, Norris approached a 27-year-old woman walking home from a restaurant in and offered her a ride on his motorcycle.

When she declined, Norris parked his motorcycle and grabbed the woman's scarf, twisting it around her neck, before informing her he intended to rape her: 254 and dragging her into nearby bushes. Fearing for her life, the woman did not resist the rape. Although the rape was reported to police, they were initially unable to find the perpetrator.

However, one month later, the victim observed Norris' motorcycle and noted the license number, which she immediately gave to police. Norris was arrested for the rape; one year later, he was tried and convicted for this offense: 264 and sent to the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo. While incarcerated at the California Men's Colony, Norris met and befriended Lawrence Bittaker. Acquaintance Bittaker and Norris initially became loosely acquainted in 1977, one year after Norris arrived at San Luis Obispo. Bittaker's initial impression of Norris upon his arrival at the California Men's Colony was that he was a savvy individual, who largely associated with hardened criminals from motorcycle gangs, in addition to dealing in contraband drugs.: 44 The pair gradually became more closely acquainted, and only began talking in friendly terms when Norris taught Bittaker how to construct jewelry.: 44 According to Norris, Bittaker saved him from being attacked by fellow on at least two occasions. Bittaker and Norris murdered and discarded the bodies of four of their victims at this location After unsuccessfully attempting to entice Schaefer into their van with alternate offers of marijuana and a lift home, Bittaker and Norris drove further ahead and parked alongside a driveway.

Norris then exited the vehicle, opened the passenger-side sliding door, and leaned into the van, with his head and shoulders obscured from view behind the door. When Lucinda Schaefer passed the van, Norris exchanged a few words with her before dragging her into the van and closing the door. Using a ruse they would repeat in most of their subsequent murders, Bittaker turned the radio to full volume as Norris bound the victim's arms and legs and her with as Bittaker drove Schaefer to the fire road in the San Gabriel Mountains where, in April, the pair had previously switched the locks.: 257 Despite initially screaming when she was abducted, Lucinda Schaefer quickly regained her composure. In his written account of the night that followed, Bittaker wrote that Lucinda Schaefer 'displayed a magnificent state of self-control and composed acceptance of the conditions of which she had no control. She shed no tears, offered no resistance and expressed no great concern for her safety. I guess she knew what was coming.'

At the fire road, Norris first raped Schaefer after instructing Bittaker to 'go take a walk' and return in one hour. Upon returning to the van, Bittaker similarly raped the girl in Norris' absence. Upon the second occasion in which she was raped by Norris in Bittaker's absence, Schaefer asked him whether they intended to kill her, to which Norris replied, 'No.' In response, Schaefer requested to be allowed time to before she was killed if that was Bittaker and Norris' intention. In their subsequent accounts of the actual murder, Bittaker and Norris have given differing accounts as to who argued over whether they should kill her rather than release her: each stated the other argued that they should kill her.: 259 In any event, Schaefer pleaded for 'only a second, to pray,': 137 before Norris attempted to her.

After approximately 45 seconds, he became disturbed at 'the look in her eyes' and ran to the front of the van, vomiting. Bittaker then manually strangled Schaefer until she collapsed to the ground and began.

He then twisted a around her neck with until Schaefer's convulsions ceased. Lucinda Schaefer was denied her requests to pray before Bittaker and Norris killed her.

Lucinda Schaefer's body was wrapped in a plastic shower curtain and thrown over a steep canyon Bittaker had selected. According to Norris, after Bittaker had thrown Schaefer over the canyon, Bittaker assured him 'the animals would eat her up, so there wouldn't be any left.'

: 258 Andrea Joy Hall Two weeks after the murder of Lucinda Schaefer, on July 8, 1979, Bittaker and Norris encountered 18-year-old Andrea Joy Hall hitchhiking along the.: 258 As the pair slowed the van to offer Hall a lift, another vehicle pulled over and offered Hall a ride, which she accepted. Bittaker and Norris followed this vehicle from a distance until Hall exited the vehicle in Redondo Beach. On this occasion, Norris hid in the back of the van in order to dupe Hall into thinking Bittaker was alone. Inside the van, Bittaker offered Hall a soft drink from the cooler located in the rear of the van. When she retrieved the soft drink, Norris pounced and, after a strenuous fight, subdued Hall by twisting her arm behind her back, causing her to scream in pain.

Norris then gagged Hall with adhesive tape and bound her wrists and ankles. Bittaker and Norris drove Hall to a location in the San Gabriel Mountains beyond where they had taken Lucinda Schaefer. At this location, she was raped twice by Bittaker and once by Norris. On the second occasion in which Bittaker raped Hall, Norris saw what he believed to be vehicle headlights approaching. Upon informing Bittaker, he (Bittaker) clasped his hand over Hall's mouth and dragged her into nearby bushes as Norris drove in an unsuccessful search of the vehicle he had seen. When he returned to the van, the pair drove to a location deeper in the San Gabriel Mountains, where Bittaker forced Hall to walk, naked, up a hill alongside the road, then perform upon him.

Bittaker then ordered Andrea Hall to pose for several pictures. Bittaker and Norris then drove Hall to a third location, where Bittaker again walked Hall up a nearby hill, this time as Norris drove to a nearby store to purchase alcohol. When Norris returned, Bittaker was alone and in possession of two further Polaroid pictures he had taken of Hall; both of which depicted Hall's face in expressions Norris later described as being of 'sheer terror' as she begged for her life to be spared.: 88 Bittaker told Norris that he had informed Hall he intended to kill her and challenged her to give him as many reasons as she could why she should be allowed to live, before thrusting an through her ear into her brain. He then turned her body over and thrust the ice pick into her other ear, stamping upon it until the handle broke. Noting that Andrea Hall was still alive and, Bittaker then manually strangled her to death before throwing her body over a cliff.: 258–259 Jackie Doris Gilliam and Jacqueline Leah Lamp On September 3, Bittaker and Norris observed two girls named Jackie Doris Gilliam and Jacqueline Leah Lamp sitting on a bus stop bench located close to. Lamp and Gilliam had been hitchhiking along the Pacific Coast Highway before Bittaker and Norris observed them as they were resting at the bus stop. Bittaker and Norris offered the girls a ride, which Gilliam and Lamp accepted.

Inside the van, both girls were offered marijuana by Norris, which they accepted.: 259 Shortly after entering the van, both girls realized that Bittaker had steered the van off the Pacific Coast Highway and was driving in the direction of the San Gabriel Mountains. When the girls protested, both Bittaker and Norris attempted to allay the girls' concerns with excuses, which did not deceive either girl. Lamp, aged 13, attempted to open the sliding door, whereupon Norris hit her on the back of the head with a bag filled with lead weights, briefly knocking her, before overpowering 15-year-old Jackie Gilliam. As he began to bind and gag Gilliam, Jacqueline Lamp regained consciousness and again attempted to flee the van, whereupon Norris twisted her arm behind her back and dragged her back into the van. As this struggle ensued, Bittaker—noting the girls' struggle was in full view of potential witnesses—stopped the van, punched Gilliam in the face, and assisted Norris in finishing binding and gagging the two girls. Gilliam and Lamp were driven to the San Gabriel Mountains, where they were held captive for almost two days,: 260 being bound and gagged between repeated instances of sexual and physical abuse. Both men slept in the van alongside their two hostages, with each alternatively acting as a.

On one occasion, Bittaker walked Lamp onto a nearby hill and forced her to pose for pornographic pictures before returning her to the van. Bittaker also informed Norris to take several Polaroid pictures of himself and Gilliam, both nude and clothed. In the first of three instances in which Bittaker raped Gilliam, he also created a of himself raping her, forcing the girl to pretend she was his cousin: 260 and informing Gilliam to feel free to express her pain. (Bittaker later claimed he buried the tape in a cemetery. The tape recording of Gilliam's rape was never found.) Bittaker is also known to have tortured Gilliam by stabbing her breasts with an ice pick and using vise grip pliers to tear off part of one nipple. After almost two days of captivity, Lamp and Gilliam were murdered. At Bittaker's subsequent trial, Norris claimed he had suggested that Gilliam be killed quickly as, unlike Lamp, she had been largely cooperative throughout the period of her captivity, whereupon Bittaker replied, 'No, they only die once anyway.'

Gilliam was struck in each ear with an ice pick, then strangled to death. After Bittaker had murdered Jackie Gilliam, he then forced Jacqueline Leah Lamp out of the van. Upon exiting the sliding door, Bittaker shouted to her: 'You wanted to stay a; now you can die a virgin!' : 232 before Norris struck her upon the head with a. Bittaker then strangled Lamp until he believed she had died; when Lamp opened her eyes,: 260 Norris again bludgeoned her repeatedly as Bittaker strangled her to death. The bodies of Jackie Gilliam and Jacqueline Lamp were thrown over an embankment into the.

Shirley Lynette Ledford Bittaker and Norris abducted their final victim, 16-year-old Shirley Lynette Ledford, on October 31, 1979. Ledford was abducted as she stood outside a gas station;: 252 hitchhiking home from a Halloween party in the suburb of Los Angeles. Investigators believe Ledford accepted a ride home from Bittaker and Norris because she recognized Bittaker, as he is known to have frequented the restaurant in which Ledford held a part-time job as a waitress.: 85 Upon accepting the offer of a lift home and entering the van, Ledford was offered marijuana by Norris, which she refused. Bittaker drove the van to a secluded street, where Norris drew a knife, then bound and gagged Ledford with.: 258 Bittaker then traded places with Norris, who drove in an aimless manner for in excess of an hour as Bittaker remained with Ledford in the back of the van.

After removing the construction tape from the girl's mouth and legs, Bittaker tormented Ledford: initially slapping and mocking her, then beating her with his fists as he repeatedly shouted for her to 'say something', then, as Shirley Ledford began screaming, shouting for her to 'scream louder'. As Ledford continued screaming, Bittaker began asking her as he struck her: 'What's the matter? Don't you like to scream?' : 261 As Shirley Ledford began to cry, she pleaded with Bittaker, saying, 'No, don't touch me.' In response, Bittaker again ordered her to scream as loud as she wished, then began alternately striking her with a hammer, beating her breasts with his fists: 232 and torturing her with pliers both between and throughout instances when he raped and sodomized her. Repeatedly, Ledford can be heard pleading for the abuse to cease and making statements such as, 'Oh no!

: 262 as sounds of Bittaker alternately extracting either the sledgehammer or the pliers from the toolbox can be heard on a tape recorder he had switched on after entering the rear of the van. Norris later described hearing 'screams. Constant screams' emanating from the rear of the van as he drove.

Shortly after Norris switched places with Bittaker, he himself switched on the tape recorder which Bittaker had used to record much of the time he had been in the rear of the van with Ledford. Norris first shouted for Ledford to: 'Go ahead and scream or I'll make you scream.' : 262 In response, Ledford pleaded, 'I'll scream if you stop hitting me,' then emitted several high-pitched screams as Norris encouraged her to continue until he ordered her to stop. Norris then reached for the sledgehammer as Shirley Ledford—seeing him do this—screamed, 'Oh no!' Norris then struck Ledford once upon the left elbow.

In response, she informed Norris he had broken her elbow, before pleading, 'Don't hit me again.' : 262–263 In response, Norris again raised the sledgehammer as Ledford repeatedly screamed, 'No!' Norris then proceeded to strike Ledford 25 consecutive times upon the same elbow with the sledgehammer, before asking her, 'What are you sniveling about?' As Ledford continuously screamed and wept.

After approximately two hours of captivity, Norris killed Ledford by strangling her with a wire coat hanger, which he tightened with pliers. Ledford did not react much to the act of strangulation, although she died with her eyes open.: 89 Bittaker then opted to discard her body on a random lawn in order to view the reaction from the. The pair drove to a randomly selected house in Sunland and discarded Ledford's body in a bed of ivy upon the front lawn.

Shirley Lynette Ledford's body was found by a jogger the following morning. An revealed that, in addition to having been sexually violated, she had died of strangulation after receiving extensive to the face, head, breasts, and left elbow, with her sustaining multiple. Her genitalia and rectum had been torn, caused in part by Bittaker having inserted pliers inside her body.: 233–234 In addition, her left hand bore a and a finger on her right hand had been slashed.: 226. We've all heard women scream in horror films. Still, we know that no-one is really screaming.

Simply because an actress can't produce some sounds that convince us that something vile and heinous is happening. If you ever heard that tape, there is just no possible way that you'd not begin crying and trembling. I doubt you could listen to more than a full sixty seconds of it. Roy Norris, describing his recollections of the audio tape the pair had created of Shirley Ledford's rape and torture. Shirley Lynette Ledford.

The audio recording of her abuse at Bittaker's hands was the most damning evidence presented at his trial The most damning evidence presented at Bittaker's trial was a 17-minute section of the audio tape the pair had created of Shirley Lynette Ledford's abuse and torment. The audio tape, which had been found inside Bittaker's van and which Norris had earlier testified Bittaker had repeatedly played as he drove in the weeks prior to his arrest—adding that Bittaker considered the contents to be 'real funny': 42— was presented in evidence on January 29, with Stephen Kay forewarning the jury: 'For those of you who do not know what hell is like, you will find out.' (Judge Fredericks had earlier denied motions by the defense to omit the tape recording from admission as evidence. ) More than 100 people were present in the courtroom as the tape was played, and many members of both the jury and the audience wept openly upon hearing the contents, with several members of the audience either burying their heads in their hands, daubing tears from their eyes or rushing out of the courtroom before the tape had finished. Bittaker was undisturbed at hearing the contents of the tape—smiling throughout the hearing of the recording. In one of two instances throughout the trial when prosecutor Stephen Kay was reduced to tears,: 267 he walked out of the courtroom during the following the hearing of the recording of Shirley Ledford's rape, abuse and torture.

Weeping openly, Kay stated to the gathered outside the courtroom: 'Everybody who has heard that tape has had it affect their lives. I just picture those girls. How alone they were when they died.'

When questioned by reporters as to whether the audio tape should have been introduced into evidence, given the obvious psychological and emotional trauma caused to many in the courtroom through the contents being broadcast, Kay simply stated: 'You're darn right it the audio tape should have been. The jury needs to know what these guys did.' On February 5, 1981, Bittaker testified on his own behalf.: 234 Bittaker denied any knowledge in the abduction and murder of Lucinda Schaefer, and claimed he had paid Andrea Hall to pose for the Polaroid photographs depicting her found at his Burbank motel after Hall had agreed to his offer of $200 for sex. He then claimed Norris had walked Hall into the San Gabriel Mountains, before returning alone and informing Bittaker he had told Hall to 'find her own way home.' Bittaker had a similar explanation as to the of Jacqueline Lamp and Jackie Gilliam: he claimed Gilliam accepted an offer of money for sex and posing for pictures, and that he had last seen the girls alone with Norris in his GMC van.

With regards to the murder of Shirley Ledford, he claimed she had agreed to theatrically scream for the tape recorder, and that she was not tortured in his presence, but had been left alone with Norris. Bittaker's trial lasted for over three weeks. On February 10, 1981, the prosecution and defense counsels began their.

In the closing argument delivered by the prosecution, Stephen Kay apologized to the jury that he was only asking for the death penalty, adding that he wished the law permitted him to request that the same suffering be inflicted upon Bittaker that he had inflicted upon his victims. Kay then described Bittaker as an 'excuse for a man' as he held aloft pictures of each of the five murdered girls before the jury. Seeking the death penalty for Bittaker, Kay referred to the case as 'one of the most shocking, brutal cases in the history of American crime,' before adding: 'If the death penalty is not appropriate in this case, then when will it ever be?' Defense attorney Albert Garber requested the jury discount the testimony of Roy Norris; arguing in favor of Bittaker's claims that Norris had committed the actual murders, and claiming the testimony of the prosecutors throughout the trial amounted to little more than a 'blood lust,' adding that the prosecution had repeatedly recited the 'gory details' of the murders. Garber harked to the earlier testimony of a psychologist named Michael Maloney, who had testified as to Bittaker's inability to with other people's feelings and emotions in addition to the fact that, with the exception of Bittaker's 1974 stabbing of Gary Louie, all of Bittaker's previous criminal convictions were for nonviolent offenses.

The defense also claimed that insufficient corroborative evidence existed to convict Bittaker. They Bittaker and Norris lack the internal prohibitions, or, that keep most of us from giving full expression to our most, and sometimes violent, impulses.

Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Ronald Markman, reciting conclusions of his analysis of Bittaker and Norris, 1989.: 234 On February 17, 1981, after deliberating for three days, the jury found Bittaker guilty of five counts of first-degree murder, one charge of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, five charges of kidnapping, nine charges of rape, two charges of forcible oral copulation, one charge of sodomy, and three charges of unlawful possession of a firearm. Deliberations as to whether Bittaker should be sentenced to death or life without parole began February 19. The jury deliberated for just 90 minutes before they returned with their verdict: Bittaker was sentenced to death for the five counts of first-degree murder upon which the prosecution had sought this penalty. He as the verdict was delivered. Superior Court Judge Thomas Fredericks then ordered Bittaker to appear in court on March 24 for formal sentencing.

On March 24, in accordance with the recommendation of the jury, Lawrence Bittaker was formally sentenced to death. In the event that the sentence imposed was ever reverted to life imprisonment, Judge Thomas Fredericks imposed an alternate sentence of 199 years, 4 months' imprisonment to take immediate effect.: 234 Imprisonment and appeals.

Aerial view of San Quentin State Prison, where Bittaker remains incarcerated on death row Bittaker his conviction and sentencing, citing the validity of his conviction and procedural errors such as the validity of warrants used to authorize the search of his van and motel room and the dismissal by the judge of a woman initially hired at the stage of jury selection to advise the defense counsel in matters relating to jury views upon the death penalty. Nonetheless, Bittaker's appeal was dismissed on June 22, 1989 with the court ruling that any procedural errors were minor and, in view of the strong evidence against Bittaker, did not affect the overall verdict. An initial execution date for Lawrence Bittaker was set for December 29, 1989. Bittaker appealed this decision, although on June 11, 1990, the upheld the decision that he be executed. A renewed execution date was scheduled for July 23, 1991.

Bittaker again appealed the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that he be executed, and was granted a further stay of execution on July 9, 1991.: 253 As of 2017, Lawrence Bittaker remains incarcerated on death row at San Quentin State Prison. Aftermath. Lawrence Bittaker has granted several death row interviews following his 1981 conviction. To date, he has never expressed any remorse for his crimes, and states the only remorse he feels is for the fact he and Norris were arrested. Despite the fact Bittaker currently considers his life to have been a 'wasted' one, he has also marveled that he and Norris had little in common before their acquaintance at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo in 1977, before adding that they have 'one hell of a lot in common now!'

: 44 In reference to one of the torture and murder implements he and Norris used upon their victims, Bittaker responds to letters he receives with the nickname 'Pliers' Bittaker. Since his incarceration, Bittaker has filed more than 40 over issues as trivial as his being served a broken cookie and crushed sandwiches by the prison cafeteria, which he cited as an example of his being subjected to. Bittaker was declared a in 1993.

As a result of this declaration, he may no longer file without the express permission of an attorney or a judge. Roy Norris remains incarcerated at Donovan State Prison. Since his conviction, he has repeatedly claimed the sole reason he participated in the murders was out of fear of Bittaker.: 135 Norris also claims to have twice contemplated confessing to his and Bittaker's responsibility in the murders to the police; he also claims to have successfully deterred three potential victims from entering Bittaker's van.: 78. Norris claims that although he enjoyed the actual intercourse with the victims, only Bittaker enjoyed the act of torture and murder, stating: 'I didn't enjoy killing—that was Lawrence Bittaker. It was his favorite part:: 135 watching the women struggle to live; knowing he'd soon be taking life away.' (Both investigators and psychologists have stated Norris derived extreme gratification from the domination, abuse and torture inflicted upon his victims; these respective parties have also harked towards Norris's extensive history of physical and sexual violence against women prior to his meeting Bittaker, and his repeated instances of denial of culpability for his actions.: 66).

Roy Norris initially became eligible for parole in 2009. Norris declined to attend the parole hearing, thereby automatically deferring his parole eligibility for another 10 years. He is next eligible for parole in 2019. Stephen Kay, the prosecutor at Bittaker's trial, still considers the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris as being the worst criminal case he has ever prosecuted or encountered, and remains insistent in his belief that Bittaker deserves to be executed more than any other inmate incarcerated on California's death row. In interviews, he has stated that for over two years following the trial of Lawrence Bittaker, his sleep was disturbed by recurring nightmares in which he would be rushing to Bittaker's van to prevent harm coming to the girls, but would 'always get there too late.' . Detective Paul Bynum, the chief investigator of the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris, committed suicide in December 1987.

He was 39 years old. In a ten-page suicide note,: 276 Bynum specifically referred to the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris as haunting him, and of his fear they may be released from prison. The audio tape Bittaker and Norris created of themselves raping and torturing Shirley Lynette Ledford remains in the possession of the. The audio cassette is now used to train and FBI agents to the raw reality of torture and murder. Media Film.

The 2012 The Devil and the Death Penalty focuses upon the murders committed by Bittaker and Norris in addition to issues relating to the death penalty appeals process in California. Prosecutor Stephen Kay is among those interviewed by the director.

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2016 article detailing available to him pertaining to his conviction and California's death penalty appeals process. A documentary detailing the murders committed by Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris and the controversies surrounding the death penalty appeals process in the state of California. This press release includes images relating to the Tool Box Killers case—some of which are actual photographs taken by Bittaker and Norris.