Carlton Gary - Georgia - 12/16/09

[Jeff1857]

Gary's petition to the US Supreme Court was Denied in today's Orders.

[JeffcoCitizen]

Prosecutors object to inmate's bid for DNA tests

February 18, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Prosecutors say efforts of a Georgia inmate who was sentenced to death for strangling three women with their own stockings is trying to further delay the case.

Prosecutors on Friday filed a motion opposing Carlton Gary's request to conduct additional DNA tests on evidence.

District Attorney Julia Slater wrote that the request for more DNA testing is aimed at delaying the case. She says more testing would not produce evidence that would lead to Gary's aquittal.

Gary, known as the Columbus "stocking strangler," was just three hours from execution in December 2009 when the Georgia Supreme Court ordered a judge to determine whether authorities should conduct DNA testing of evidence - testing that wasn't available when he was convicted in 1986.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14060640

[AnneTheBelgian]

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/73fc2e1646c54ebd81bc46bad2d5ad26/GA--Stocking-Strangler/

Georgia death row inmate Gary pushes for more DNA testing he claims will exonerate him

* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 
   
* First Posted: March 14, 2011 - 11:04 am
     
*Last Updated: March 14, 2011 - 11:05 am

COLUMBUS, Ga. — A Georgia inmate sentenced to death or strangling three women with their own stockings says prosecutors are ignoring significant evidence that he may be innocent.

Carlton Gary's attorneys filed a motion Monday seeking additional DNA tests on evidence.

The filing contends that the state's objection to the request is replete with "inconsistent arguments and an inexplicable refusal to deal with or even recognize the significant evidence of innocence" obtained through earlier testing.

Prosecutors have argued Gary is trying to drag out his case.

Gary, known as the Columbus "stocking strangler," was just three hours from being executed in December 2009 when the Georgia Supreme Court ordered a judge to determine whether authorities should conduct DNA testing of evidence — testing that wasn't available when he was convicted in 1986.














Photo : The murderer Carlton Gary








Anne

[JTiscool]

I say just test the damn evidence. It will show he is guilty so what's the harm in doing so?

[Michigal]

I think it should be mandatory now to test dna immediately in all murder cases before it goes to trial, if you don't do it then its your loss. That will keep these animals from using this to stall the system later. Fighting to test and then the testing alone can add years to the appeals process, not to mention using any tiny anomoly later to try another appeal.
Make it law to get it over with before the trials then they can STFU...

[JeffcoCitizen]

This is an older article linking his DNA to a murder in New York in 1975

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DNA Links Georgia Killer to Local 1975 Murder Case

10/22/2007
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - The Onondaga County District Attorney will not file charges against a Georgia prison death row inmate in the 1975 rape and strangulation of a Central New York woman.

Prosecutors linked Carlton Gary to the murder of Marion Fisher through DNA evidence. Gary is the so-called "Stocking Strangler." He was convicted in 1986 of raping and strangling three elderly women in their Columbus, Georgia, homes, in the late 1970s. Gary has asked a federal appeals court for a new trial.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick says he decided to close the books on the New York case after talking to her husband - once a suspect - and family.

Fitzpatrick says there is no reason to prosecute Gary at this point. Fitzpatrick says bringing Gary back to New York just presents him with a chance to escape.

August 23, 2007
Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - DNA may be the only evidence Syracuse Police need to solve a 32-year-old murder case.  Marion Fisher was killed in July of 1975.  The case has never been solved.

We’ve learned two Syracuse Police detectives and an Assistant District Attorney have just returned from a Georgia prison.

They were there interviewing death row inmate Carlton Gary.  Police say Gary’s DNA matched a sample taken from the crime scene.

Deputy Chief Michael Kerwin says, “Mr. Gary's DNA locks him into this homicide.  That’s the only thing I’m sure of."

Syracuse Police say Marion Fisher was at a Nedrow bar that night with her husband.  The two apparently got into an argument and Marion ended up walking home alone.

That was June 27, 1975.  Deputy Chief Michael Kerwin says Marion's husband ended up calling police the next day when his wife never returned home.  The Jamesville Elementary PE teacher's body was found in the bushes along Lafayette Road.

Kerwin says DNA testing wasn't used in crime fighting in the 1970s.  Samples taken from the crime scene have recently been matched with 57-year-old Carlton Gary’s DNA.  In 1986 he was convicted of raping and strangling three women in Georgia.

“Some point in time during the last 24 months, Mr. Gary submitted to a DNA test and then when the centers for forensic science ran our DNA nationally, they advised us of a preliminary hit,” Kerwin says.

He says Marion's husband voluntarily gave police a DNA sample to eliminate himself as a suspect.  Detectives are talking to him and to Carlton Gary.  Kerwin says this DNA may just be the missing piece they've been looking for to put an end this unsolved mystery.

The District Attorney's office says no charges have been filed against Carlton Gary.  He's currently on death row in a Georgia prison.

http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/DNA-Links-Georgia-Killer-to-Local-1975-Murder-Case/-hJVZ-1q7ECe3VOlVbyi2A.cspx


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More about him here
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/carlton_gary/1.html