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Crist Signs 4th
Death Warrant In 1983 Slaying Of Teen Girl
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The Tampa Tribune
Published: October 3,
2008
TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie
Crist signed an execution warrant Thursday for Wayne Tompkins, sentenced to
die for killing his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter and burying her in a
shallow grave under her home in 1983.
Crist has asked that
Tompkins be executed at 6 p.m. Oct. 28.
It is the fourth such
warrant for the former roofer. He was sentenced to death in 1985 for killing
Lisa DeCarr. A unanimous jury recommended the death penalty. His case has been
through numerous state and federal appeals. The Florida Supreme Court last
upheld the conviction and sentence in May 2007.
DeCarr disappeared from her
east Tampa home in March 1983. Her skeletal remains, her pink bathrobe and
pieces of her jewelry were found under the home three months later.
A friend of DeCarr's
testified at the trial that she entered the home on the morning of the
disappearance and saw DeCarr struggling with Tompkins while Tompkins was on
top of her on a couch trying to remove her clothes.
The friend said the victim
asked her to call police, but instead the friend left, ran into DeCarr's
boyfriend and told him. She then went to school.
Tompkins had a previous conviction in Pasco County for kidnapping and rape.